Aaron Neville, “Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye)” (1966)
I’m just not sure you can ever go wrong with this guy. What have you been liking this week?
Open thread: It’s a wonderful surprise to see your shoes and your spirits rise
One of the many joys of being as filthy rich as me is the ability to declare your weekend begun at 10am on a Friday morning, or indeed at about 9.15 on Monday, concepts like “weekday” and “weekend” being essentially arbitrary anyway.
Happy weekend to all. Time for a drink and some music then. First, courtesy of the always lovely Popbitch – Rebecca & Fiona’s Dance, a perky little thing with some lovely female vocals and lots of lovely buzzy beats, that just cries out for a trance remix.
Also The Temper Trap’s Sweet Disposition, by reason of a further viewing of the delightful (500) Days of Summer. I haven’t been able to get Hall and Oates out of my head all week.
You will be pleased to know that preparations for the Convention in August are progressing well. The girls, on the whole, seem to think that Marge and I should just front up at the first Santorum “meet the delegates”, get some other old dear with a hat and a grudge to slip Ricky a shitload of laxatives hidden in a slice of chocolate cake, release Marge’s squirrels into the room and then make a break for it. I think that’s rather unsubtle. We shall see.
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Open Thread: Young Girls Should Run and Hide Instead
Here’s some late 80’s nostalgia that seems relevant to the contraception nostalgia in the GOP.
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Open Thread: Sanctorum, Hierophant to the Republic of Gilead
Another day, another Purity Crusade promise from the GOP’s latest ‘Buzz’ Windrip. Doghouse Riley mocks Santorum’s newest lure to the Talibangelicals:
From Santorum.com:The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws. While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Santorum Administration.
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I proudly support the efforts of the War on Illegal Pornography Coalition that has tirelessly fought to get federal obscenity laws enforced. That coalition is composed of 120 national, state, and local groups, including Morality in Media, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Family Association, Cornerstone Family Council of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Family Institute, Concerned Women for America, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a host of other groups. Together we will prevail.…Really, though, please do tell us how you’re going to shut down internet porn. I guess because you people believe Al Gore invented the thing you think we run it, huh?
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Oh, you’ll appoint a wingnut AG? There’s a news flash. You have some dim awareness that Ed Meese and John Ashcroft were already there? Maybe we should start covering statues now. And Chuck Keating’s still available for Blue Ribbon Commission work.
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Listen, Frothy: porn addiction doesn’t seem to’ve had as deleterious a sexual effect on our young people as Catholic doctrine has. And no matter how porn-addled, few consumers of the stuff can match your own level of kink.
W.I.P. (War on Illegal Pornography)– anybody else old enough to remember the jokes about Gerry Ford’s W.I.N. buttons? Or should that be WIP-Co, which is hardly an improvment?
In defense of us People of Faith (I’m an animist, and yes that is a religion), many of his fellow Catholics aren’t enamoured of Santorum, either:
For all the post-game analysis of whether or not Santorum is now clearly “the real conservative” alternative to Romney… the basic point is being missed. The basic argument is not about being “the real conservative” per se; it’s about being “the real conservative” as “conservative” is defined by a shoeless, Bible-banging, anti-intellectual, woman-hating, sex-maddened Republican base. And, for the moment, that is Santorum in full… His retrograde position on contraception is now fully part of the mainstream debate. He has been rewarded by the people who feel the same way he does, and they happen to be the people who are driving the train at the moment. And he’s doubled down on all the other faith-based nonsense that passes for critical thought in the Republican party. Daring to be stupid is the highest form of courage to the people to whom Santorum is pitching his campaign. And there are a lot of them, and very few of them are sold on Willard Romney…
And Jesuit-trained scholar Garry Wills casts a cold eye on ‘Santorum’s Arrested Development‘:
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Your Late Night Moment of Lily Zen
The backdoor is still open, because the temperature here is still so warm, and despite some lightning/thunder storms, I kept it open so the piglets and fat boy could go as they please. Lily, on the other hand, has decided I have spent entirely too much time chatting with friends, and need to come to bed or the lazyboy when I can give her the petting she needs:
Clearly, I have spent enough time on the computer and need to head to the living room and give sweets some quality lap time. I really can not accurately describe how much I love this dog. All she has to do is look at me and I just melt and do whatever she wants. I know you all talk about “the one dog,” but it is clear this is the one dog for me. God, I love me some Lily.
*** Update ***
It was meant to be. I went for a dog a couple years back, and came home with Lily.
Open Thread
After that Gonzaga beatdown of WVU, I’m trying to think happy thoughts, so I broke out a DVD of a picture I know I have mentioned multiple times, but still adore- Breaking Away.
There are very few movies that will always, always cheer me up, but Breaking Away, Harold and Maude, the Tao of Steve, Weird Science, and Blazing Saddles are on the short list for my movie essentials library.
The Tao of Steve sometimes strikes a little too close to home, but Breaking Away is pure genius the whole way through. “It was dark… All I can tell your for sure is that they all wore Brut after-shave and reeked of Lavoris.” Genius.
Eff you Al Gore
Guess who has his late April allergies more than a month early? I tried to look up the pollen count index but the internet looks all blurry through my swollen eyes.
In other news I hear that this year is the 100th anniversary Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. Better get there fast.
Fox 5 News reported Wednesday the expected peak bloom is happening mid to late March this year, when it normally happens in the first part of April.
As a result, if you would love to take in the beauty of the blossoms this year, you will need to head downtown as early as next week — between Tuesday, March 20, and Friday March 23 — when 70 percent of the blossoms are expected to bloom.
But it snowed somewhere so, you know, Al Gore is fat.
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