Because I’ve got the power to do that, and I don’t need no stinking up or down vote, either.
Also, go fill out the petition to thank Justice Stevens.
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Because I’ve got the power to do that, and I don’t need no stinking up or down vote, either.
Also, go fill out the petition to thank Justice Stevens.
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jl
But John Cole does not have the power to fix strike out hell in the comments.
Because Cole is a weak librul who gave away all his nukes, just like Obama.
I bet Tunch still has his nukes. All of them.
Xecky Gilchrist
Because I’ve got the power to do that, and I don’t need no stinking up or down vote, either.
Blogging would be much easier if it was a dictatorship, and you were the dictator.
Redshirt
Anyone seen Clash of the Titans? Can I get a BJ opinion of it?
demo woman
Because this week has not been depressing enough, I decided to rent Angels in America.
Lurker
@Redshirt:
I have not yet seen it, but several friends who have do not recommend the stereoscopic 3D version. If you see this film, watch the version that does not require 3D glasses.
Doonhamer
Pictures of the hike in Tucson Mountain Park I mentioned here last week.
Mom’s 80th birthday tomorrow. Heading up to visit her and her sister (even older!), my brother and his daughter, who’s flying in from Florida for the occasion. Haven’t seen her in a few years. Should be a good time.
Happy weekend everyone.
kommrade reproductive vigor
I don’t normally follow celebrities but these stories fascinate me.
How the fuck do you blow through that kind of money? Heat the house with a $100 bill-powered furnace?
lamh31
@Redshirt:
I saw Clash. It was okay, nothing much. The guy from Avator and Terminator is very easy on the eyes, but he’s kinda a one trick pony at this point. He’s essentially a poor man’s Russell Crowe, down to the Australian accent. Any producer who’s looking for a Russell Crowe type, but cheaper, then this guy is for you. In fact, if someone does a movie where they need someone to pay Crowe’s younger brother, then this dude is it.
BTW, see it in 2D, 3D is not worth it. The movie was not filmed for 3D, the studio added the 3D aspect afterwards.
MikeJ
@Redshirt: I was never a Harry Hamlin fan. And while I don’t think actresses should be cast aside when they get older, a 50 year old Ursula Andress seemed wrong as Aphrodite.
Unabogie
Hey folks. I know I mostly lurk here, but on occasion I’ve mentioned that my boss had a horrible stroke last Thanksgiving. Since that time, he’s been in a coma, then a breathing machine, and then had a trach in his throat. His arms are not working, so during all this time, we’ve had virtually no concept of how bad his brain has been damaged. I have a friend who is a neurologist who took a look at his scans and told me he’d likely never talk again, since the bleed was big and on the right side of his brain.
Well, this week, they put in what they call a “speaking valve”, and he managed a few words. “Hi mom”. “Ok”.
Then yesterday, his wife spoke with him for about an hour.
Know what? I just got off the phone with the lucky bastard. He’s punchy as shit, but he knows everything he used to know. Bastard still knows the pythagorean theorum.
Thought I’d share.
Keith G
@Redshirt: Watch the old one with Harry Hamlin. He acts his way through the film as if he was a Malibu pool boy just given the script. Nothing wrong with that.
And you get the added bonus of Sir Laurence Olivier chewing up some really fake scenery.
The new one takes itself too seriously. No camp. but no greatness either. It does have a lot of extra combat
that the original didn’t.
lamh31
It’s gotta really stick in the craw of those Bill Clinton/Monica/Gennifer Flowers wing of the Repub/GOP that it looks like they ain’t gonna be finding any Monicas in the Obama’s closet.
Obamas share private moment in public eye
demkat620
Snuggled in bed. Dog curled up next to me. Long day tomorrow of Kids playing soccer.
Gonna just chillax, can’t take anymore upheaval for awhile
This court fight over the Stevens replacement will produce some of the worst stoopid we will see for years.
Incertus (Brian)
National Poetry Month is kicking my ass, y’all, both from the “write a poem a day” project (which you can check out here, if you’re interested), and from the work I’m doing on it for The Rumpus, in addition to my teaching. And the Cubs are killing me so far this season.
lamh31
I’ll admit to being a fan of the original. I was a teenage, and nothing like crappy animotonic special effects, a cute guy and pure campy fun.
Plus, I’ve always been a big Greek Gods fans.
jl
@Unabogie: Nice story. Hope your boss recovers as fully as possible.
MikeJ
The guy who threatened Patty Murray is out now. Night time curfew, no drinking, no firearms, $20k bail.
Unabogie
@jl:
Thanks, me too. He’s only 40 years old and has two small kids. Way too young for this. And a great guy, to boot.
Mark S.
Here’s a funny story involving Stevens:
tt crews
Saw COTT on Monday, 2D. Somehow it managed to be not very exciting despite good ideas, eg, the jinn. My 10 yo loved it. The original is campy but better overall.
The Raven
Political Spectrum, with writers & bloggers.
(I finally got disgusted enough to write this up. Now, the next time someone tells us that Obama is far left, we have an answer.)
Far Right
Grover Norquist
Moderate Right
Eugene Volokh
Center
Josh Marshall
Moderate Left
Jane Hamsher
Far Left
Noam Chomsky
demkat620
@Incertus (Brian): Yeah but my Phils are lookin’ good!
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh31: I heart my POTUS and I heart my FLOTUS. They are adorable.
/Bobotand Mobot
Elisabeth
@lamh31:
How dare the President deprive the American people of the opportunity to see him groping the First Lady. So much for transparency. Impeach the dude already!
mr. whipple
Most Disappointed Obama Supporter. Ever.
jeffreyw
Mmm…chicken
Keith G
Oh…I bake desserts and design and make cool things out of chocolate for my post professional career. This weekend a production company from the Food Channel is showing up to for a two day shoot. The owners are are cloud nine. All I can think about is how my production schedule is gonna get thrown in the ditch. Going in tomorrow at 4 AM so I can get my truffles done.
I’ll keep ya posted on an air date.
Skepticat
@Unabogie: Heck, I barely know the pythagorean theorum. I lost a dear friend to a stroke (at 50) and have another who’s battling back from one (at 45), so this is good to hear. If you get a chance, pick up Julia Garrison’s book Don’t Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back on My Feet You’ll Be Sorry.
lamh31
Funny how even those who cheered her on in NOLA today don’t even think she’s qualified to be President. Sadly, some of them said yet, but I would bet they mean never, but they just don’t want to even admit it to themselves.
But hey reporting is not supposed to be about reality or nothing.
r€nato
For what it’s worth, Confederate Yankee (aka TIDOS Yankee) has updated his dumbass blogpost to essentially say, “I was wrong but liberals still suck, neener neener” and deleted/closed the comments.
Anne Laurie
@Elisabeth:
Yeah, and if they’d shared so much as a peck on the cheek, the Wingnuts Wurlitzer would be all “How DARE these people profane the Real Americans’ sanctuary with their lewd, low-class groping & animalistic urges! Also, since everyone knows married people over the age of 25 can never actually be interested in having sex with each other, what vile secrets are they trying to cover up with this exaggerated display of pseudo-affection?”
Incertus (Brian)
@demkat620: Someone on Twitter suggested I change teams, but even if I wanted to, I can’t. My in-laws are originally from Philly, though they’ve been in south Florida for 40 years now. So the success of the Saints and the lack of championships for the Dolphins cancel each other out. If I switch to the Phillies now, they might run me out of the family.
Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt
Yeah. You can do that. It’s your blog. Even better, you don’t block comments in a thread where people are calling you out for saying something stupid, ala TIDOS Yankee or as I like to call him, Treasonous Bastard.
Kobie
@Unabogie: Great story. Hoping for his full recovery.
I tend to lurk around here as well, not commenting very often. My father was diagnosed last week with cancer after a seizure and subsequent removal of a malignant brain tumor. He starts his treatments in a couple of weeks. Just thought I would share.
Kobie
@r€nato: Confederate Yankee is a fucking moron.
Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt
@r€nato: I do so wish we had gotten screen caps. That whole thread was getting epic in it’s “Goddamn but you are one stupid motherfucker” ouvre.
r€nato
@Kobie:
someday he might mature enough (hey, it happened to Charles Johnson) to realize how long he’s been embarrassing himself publicly. I mean, blogs are the worst thing that ever happened to people who are too stupid to realize how stupid they are.
At that point, he’d be wise just to killfile his entire blog and hope the cached copies disappear someday.
Mark S.
@lamh31:
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a poll phrased like that, but wow, that sounds terrible. Remind me again why people think she’ll ever be a player on the national stage.
Unabogie
@Kobie:
Good luck to you, Kobie. Cancer sucks. I look forward to your sappy post about how everyone underestimated your pops but you.
Hang in there.
Kobie
@r€nato: Charles Johnson was painfully ignorant for a long time, but I hesitate, even when LGF was at its nadir of asshattery, to pigeonhole him as “stupid.”
Confederate Yankee, however, is just dumber than a sack of horse shit.
Martian Buddy
It may have been mentioned already today, but just in case: Sen. Ensign says he feels fine, doesn’t want to go on the cart.
demkat620
@Incertus (Brian): No, no, no, all are welcome children. Cross into the light.
Kobie
@Unabogie: Thanks, man. He’s in good spirits, all things considered, and he’s only 60 and in pretty good health (you know, outside of the cancer). So I’m confident that he’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Still, it’s a pretty sobering diagnosis.
Mark S.
@Kobie:
Best of luck to your dad.
Kobie
@demkat620: NO. Changing teams is not allowed unless your team ceases to exist.
jibeaux
@Unabogie:
Awesome news, even with so-called friends quizzing him on theorems right outta the hospital. I keed, I keed. I love great stories, not enough of ’em.
Linda Featheringill
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Cage house. The kitchen is nice but the rest of it does not look like I could be happy there. I guess I just saved some money. :-)
PurpleGirl
Thanks for the comments on COTT — now I’ll know which version to see. Although the Harryhausen one is thought of as cheesy by many people, the special effects are really quite classic. Ray Harryhausen was a master at creating special effects and stop-motion animation. His Medusa is incredible. (I think Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best features he made.) See
http://www.rayharryhausen.com/index.php
Elisabeth
@Anne Laurie:
Think the wingnuts know that POTUS and FLOTUS have had sex in the White House? (If I lived there I’d have “inaugurated” every room by now.)
Actually, for some reason, it creeps me out thinking about that but for totally different reasons. Kind of like how I know my parents didn’t have sex; I was found somewhere.
Linda Featheringill
@Unabogie:
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Best regards to your boss.
Elisabeth
@Martian Buddy:
The media has spent one tenth of the time covering the Ensign hush money scandal than they have on the love life of a certain athlete who shall remain nameless but is two stroked (oy, the golf terms-as-double-entendres) back at the Masters.
Makes me very sad.
Linda Featheringill
@Keith G: Yes! Let us know when the show will air! I like food shows, anyway, and a connection will just make it even better.
Ed in NJ
@Kobie:
yeah, he’s still referring to Soviet missiles.
demkat620
@PurpleGirl: Loved the original COTT. Ambivalent on this one. May wait till video.
Anybody else see Sherlock Holmes? I enjoyed it.
Linda Featheringill
@Kobie: Oh dear. That sounds serious.
But quality of life is actually more important than quantity of life. You two still have some time to have fun. Good luck to you and to your dad.
Linda Featheringill
@Martian Buddy: Ah. A Monty Python fan. [Holy Grail?]
Mark S.
@Elisabeth:
You bet they’d freak out. They’d tell you that Ronald Reagan never took his coat off when he was in the White House, even to have sex.
Kobie
@Mark S.: There’s a mental image I could have done without.
Redshirt
I saw the orginal COTTS dozens of times. It truly is a classic movie – fun, light, not too deep to be sure, but a blast and I think true to the actual original – Greek drama could be quite primitive with the special effects, for example.
Thanks for all the reviews! I, too, now know what version I will watch: The HBO version.
Elisabeth
@Kobie:
@Mark S.:
Oh I bet they’d go further and say St. Ronnie never had sex in the White House. It’s the people’s house and he was waaaayyyyy too respectful to defile it in such a manner.
(Does make me wonder, though, if the mattresses get changed on a regular basis.)
Kobie
@Elisabeth: I would think that if Ronald Reagan didn’t have sex in the White House, that’s because it probably would have killed him.
Elisabeth
@Kobie:
We know he wouldn’t have remembered it.
Redshirt
@Elisabeth: Well, there you go again…
Martian Buddy
@Elisabeth: Maybe it’s my hazy memory, but I seem to recall the “G-sting” scandal getting a lot more national press.
@Linda Featheringill: Yep. I like to steal from the greats. ;-)
Batocchio
@Unabogie:
That’s really cool! Thanks.
Batocchio
@Kobie:
Good luck to your dad and best wishes.
Cacti
@Elisabeth:
The Nevada Senator has what is referred to as “the complexion for the protection”.
Zuzu's Petals
@lamh31:
Or how about that twit Dennis Miller who actually gloated that “women on the left” prolly hated Sarah Palin because it looked like she and Todd enjoyed good healthy sex. Okay, the good healthy sex part was his own creepy opinion.
tatere
the crickets speak –
trollhattan
For some reason because it was going to be 80 degrees at home I decided it was a nice day to go for a walk in the snow. Saw this Sierra juniper.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2171/4506569929_7f896bf8f5_o.jpg
burnspbesq
@tatere:
Nothing in this world is more painful than having to listen to Greenwald say “I told you so.” However, credit where credit is due: at least this time he admitted that he has not one scintilla of evidence in support of his theory as to why Johnsen’s nomination was scuppered.
And there is a potential happy ending here: Obama could recess-appoint Marty Lederman, which is who Greenwald wants to be when he grows up.
Mnemosyne
@Keith G:
Let us know if Bobby Flay shows up. ;-)