From the NYT obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss: The accepted view held that primitive societies were intellectually unimaginative and temperamentally irrational, basing their approaches to life and religion on the satisfaction of urgent needs for food, clothing and shelter. Mr. Lévi-Strauss rescued his subjects from this limited perspective… he found among them a dogged quest not …
Open Thread: FTFY
A small TV happy for me, and John Cole: TV Squad reports that TNT has secured the rights to Southland, primarily the rights to the seven episodes from last season and the six episodes that NBC made but refused to air: If you want more episodes, the solution is pretty simple. Show up in droves …
Open Thread: Happy Birthday, Zevon
He’s eight years old today, and has been living with us for the last three. When the Spousal Unit picked him up from the nice breed-rescue foster family in Pennsylvania, they told him [name redacted] was the “perfect” Papillon — good-looking, not noisy, reliably housebroken, used to leashes & crates, friendly with cats and other …
Open Thread: FTFY
I really wish Steve Gilliard were here to share his opinions on the Hoffman Surge in NY-23. There is a war between the native NYCers and the appleknockers cowhumpers upstaters with at least 200 years of history behind it, and the Ankh Morpork Big Apple team has all the good snarksters. I am not superstitious …
Open Thread – Thursday Weekend Menu
A note from Bad Horse’s Filly: So it’s Friday and I totally forgot to send you the link for last night’s menu. It is one of my favorite recipes, Garlic, Garlic Chicken… I forgot yesterday was Thursday until I saw on my own blog this morning that it posted. On the board tonight: (1) Garlic, …
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Early Morning Open Thread
Just finished the latest additions to the Lexicon, section I – P. I think we need more quotes being mean to Liberals. Also, I didn’t include Lucky Duckies, or John Stewart’s brilliant Leave It There (We’re Gonna Have to… ), or McNaughton, It’s A … the first because I’m not sure it’s necessary, and the …
Open Thread: Besobaru Edition (FTFY)
Fuck the fucking Yankees. If they win tonight, I’ll have to re-run “Prince of Darkness”. P.S. If Steve Gilliard were still blogging, I think he would say Sullivan hates Sarah Palin ‘cuz Levi Johnston never brung Andy a taco…