the choir

10/20/08

Photos of October Day

Dan W. writes from Florida, "I took the Jesus photo today. I thought if was helpful that the person who painted their semi clarified exactly who the Jesus being quoted was. At first glance I thought it was my grocer, Jesus Ramerez because he is always saying stuff like that. The Jesus I know is Manuel's son, though."

Washington, DC 93% unpatriotic

Coolidge Colts

Friday night Chez and I met up with Mr. Waterman and the other math teachers for Coolidge High School's homecoming game beatdown of Wilson. Here is the scene at halftime.

Archeologists aren't romantics

Edward found his first piece of prehistoric pottery last week.

Hating on fruit

From Cg of New York, moving to Seattle any minute now.

In Order To Avoid Problems

After climbing Old Rag, we all all stopped at a bad Vietnamese restaurant in a Vietnamese shopping center in Virginia. I've never seen a sign in a public restroom directing you to put it ALL in the trash.

Marlz is in Reno, armed with an iPhone

"From Reno with luv."

"Nevada voters in a nutshell."

Animals and other things we ate

A big moth.

Duck egg and kale breakfast.

Arctic char, pumpkin and whiskey. Char is a very good fish to eat. It's abundant, low in contaminants, tastes somewhere between a salmon and a trout, and is very high in omega-3s. Delicious. Roadkill pumpkin is also widely available in my area, and it's full of antioxidants.

Olive's new headshot

Jessica says, "The professor has a picture for you!"

Why telephones hear

I thought you guys should read this important story.

Thanks for looking at pictures. For "reading" you should look at the posts over at Ambrose Manor, particularly the one about moonshine and the one about Vegetate.

We will close with a note from Kentucky Neil.

PS. Petmatch solved.

10/16/08

Pet Match

Look what I made for you. Go ahead, move it around. You can even move this around. Isn't dragging stuff fun? Do I love you or what? Please direct your inevitable complaints elsewhere, and for your politics check here and here.

10/15/08

Night and the City

When I was but a wee bairn in my first year at Ohio State, I took a Women and Film class. The prof was a spiky-haired horn-rimmed glasses-wearing owl who also was my frequent customer at the mall food court sub shop. Every weekened she and her girlfriend would step up in their rainbow ring necklaces and order meatball subs. They consistently made fun of my vegetarianism and most especially the KILL YOUR TELEVISION bumper sticker on my '80 Jetta. I thought they were great, and in her class I was introduced to film noir. Sudden Fear and Mildred Pierce are why I love #1 Mom Joan Crawford. Beginning Friday night and going through Election Day at the AFI in Silver Spring is the Noir City DC festival. Check out their schedule of eleven films. And Stephen Hunter wrote it up in today's Post: Naked Noir: Setting the Mood for a Festival of Films From the Gritty Genre of Mugs in Homburgs.

I know I'm a homer, but the brand new fall menu at Vegetate is mmmm.....gooood. I'm just gonna post this customer review dug up yesterday to help persuade you of its awesomeness.

Relatedly, the dame will be appearing on "Emeril Green" on Thursday November 13 at 8:00pm. Episode Title: Vegetarian Paradise. Hee.

My mom and stepdad are getting acclimated to Uganda. They spent their anniversary playing Rummy in their buggy apartment. Here is some more news, which I'll keep posting until mom gets her blog going again.

Extra. Extra. Read All About It.

• I can't stop checking 538, and yesterday they reported from my hometown: On the Road: Columbus, Ohio . There are really interesting updates on there every day.
• I can't stop checking Wonkette. Yesterday they gave the heads up on little Buckley: Christopher Buckley Quits National Review, Scorns Them All.
  
  Wonkette also learned us what ACORN is: "As we learned in the Bible yesterday, ACORN is a terrible terrorist organization that is trying to help 'poor people' (terrorists) and also wants to 'register voters' (fly planes into the World Trade Center)."
  
  
• Cool phlog: PaulKatcher.com
• Funny trouble at my tattoo shop: Ex-Council Member Brazil Charged in Tattoo Shop Fight
• Marlz sent this important piece on diversity from Huffington Post: monkey n' tiger

Primate Smart Contest

10/14/08

Secret Conservative Code Words

In my lifetime, villanizing taxes has been the provenance of conservatives, from read my lips to that dust for brains maroon of a VP candidate telling us that paying taxes is "unpatriotic." But I've never understood why Republicans bitch about taxes, considering the enormous percentage of our money which goes to pay for the wars they love so much. I mean, sure, we don't need to educate our populace, and we don't need roads or power or grandma's retirement which she's just gambling and boozing away anyway, and heaven forfend the arts, but what about your beloved body armor? What about your F-22 Raptor, Future Combat Systems, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, V-22 Osprey, Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, and Space-Based Infrared System? You think Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin just grow warcrafts on trees?

Even I understand that you can't keep approving spending without raising taxes. The other option is borrowing, and the US is now ten trillion dollars in debt, mostly to Japan and China. How is that conservative or patriotic? But don't listen to me, listen to this NYT Op-Ed piece Deb D. sent me this morning, excerpted below.

And now for some original content, care of Brian Hussein Minter.

Berkeley Marlz says, "Someone actually grew shrubs like this!"

Join us tomorrow when we return to our regular programming of cute animal pictures.

10/13/08

Incendiary rhetoric + race-baiting = today's GOP

With malice toward none, with charity for all; Lincoln would not be proud. If you don't live a few miles from the Lincoln Memorial, and you'd like to be reminded how far we've sunk in terms of expectations of ourselves and our leaders, here you go!

• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1865
• The Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

Today's an exciting day. It's Dave's birthday. And my mom dropped in to say hello at ye olde watering hole.

For Dave's birthday we did a few things Dave likes. First, we climbed Old Rag, much like we did last year, but this time with less ice, and more people. We also went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, where the peasants are honest enough to return your wallet to ye olde Lost-And-Found when you've dropped it on the floor of ye olde Port-A-John.

Old Rag pics, mostly boring

I learned it is not apparent to everyone that this is a slideshow. Please advance through the photos using the pointing fingers. Thank you.

Swinger State Txt Report from embedded correspondent Bova: "Worried about the ppls of Ohio. My office is across from McCain deadquarters, and i keep seeing these fat, poor ppl with primer grey cars picking up his yard signs. Way to REALLY vote against your interests, mouthbreather!"

Tina Fey responds to my post: "We're gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I'm done. I can't do that for four years. And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth."

10/10/08

Now with less hoopla

My mom now officially lives in Uganda. Yesterday she texted that she saw some police beat up a kid, and this morning she sent a five-page email detailing what's to be done with all the shit they didn't have time to deal with.

Poor mom. And poor sister Jesse who has 8,000 things to do.

1. Crazy Old Lady Ranting: I hate when people say they're going to move to Canada if we don't win the election. Why the hell do people say that? For one, no you're not. For two, why Canada? Why not go somewhere warm? And Canada doesn't want you, anyway. For three and most seriously, you can't just drop out of the democracy when things don't go your way. Rule by the governed! The Great Experiment! With great freedom comes great responsibilty. Nothing's perfect, when the going gets tough, and all that stuff. If Nazis are taking away your neighbors in the night, yes, that's a good reason to leave. Otherwise, quit yr whining. And another thing: don't think it's ok not to vote because "politicians are all the same." When someone gives you that tired old shit point them to this.

2. Chef Chez finally shares her recipe for sustainably harvested Cream of Tiger Soup. Bonus: yes you can see a picture of me eating it at Ambrose Manor: The War on Lunch.

3. Satanic Messiah News from Brian:

dear mountain goats fans,

there is a new mountain goats EP available on the internet
at this website: http://satanicmessiah.com/

it costs whatever you want
just like radiohead
but with less hoopla

love...
brian

10/9/08

Maybe you just can't make a living on complete thoughts anymore.

Friendimals Bark, Purr

1. Gen. Anxiety: strings together whole sentences on the decline of the alt-weekly and culture as we knew it, at Whisper Pants: gathering moss. "While you're at it, get off my lawn!"

2. Jimi: Hey, if the old-timer wants journalism jobs, they apparently fall off trees in Cairo: Bold Moves, Hamburger (Hotdog).

3. Jaime/Chez: What, you don't know from duck eggs? Then edify your fowl self with this pictorial cooking lesson a la chez, at Ambrose Manor. The easiest teach-in she ever didn't know she was giving.

4. Neil: "Hey stranger, what are you doing? Boris says hi, and wishes to comment on the current economic downturn."

5. Brian: It pains me to see Ohioans depicted this way, but, if they're gonna act scary stupid, so be it.

Subject: breathtaking ignorance

"i've recently learned that you can see tv on the computer."

VIDEO: The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio

6. Marlz sends a pretty good and damning Rolling Stone piece on McCain: Make-Believe Maverick: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty. "Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. 'McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man,' Dramesi says today. 'But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in.'"

7. Kangsta: let's close with an oldie-but-funnie, Lines/Lioness, at the criminally neglected 99 Sense.

10/8/08

The Fluister Broek

I finally got around to checking my 401k balance, and this is what it says:

Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 10/07/2008 is -37.5%.

That's good, right?

Now I don't feel so bad about contributing so little.

Deffototes points out that it could've been worse: Morality Play Tuesday. "About five years ago, mired in debt and without the ability to secure even the most undesirable credit card, a Realtor friend of a friend told me I should buy a condo. 'You're throwing your money down the toilet,' she said of my rent."

The moral of both stories is, lucky we hadn't quite gotten around to living beyond our means like REAL grownups.

The living room agrees: the debate is boring.

1. you can see the lips move but you can't hear them

Announcing the cameltoe that will put me out of business:

A new internet concern by dusty ruffles, bullet, snus, madrigal, tortillera, Gen. Anxiety, Drrrty Pillows, and Kale. And maybe me, if they'll have me when I get laid off from this gig.

2. Chronic Listering

Speaking of pants, Kittenpants has been busy repressing herself: Please Hold For Your Listing

3. THAT ONE

She also made this:

4. Kampala Traffic Report

My mom and stepdad now officially live in Uganda. My mom has reported via text message that "the apartment is kinda cute," and:

5. I’m 82 and have been called much worse by much better.

Both Deb D. and Stockyard Queen pointed this one out: Margaret and Helen: Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting... An excerpt from this awesome blog:

10/7/08

Hotdish

At 11:56pm I received a text from my mom and stepdad: "Landed in snootyville! not much battery left." So I'm pretty sure they spent their layover in Amsterdam smoking hash and watching live sex shows.

A few things before we get started:

• Human Evolution Over, The Independent, by way of The Daily Beast. "That’s the claim of British professor Steve Jones, who says human civilization has undermined the three components of evolution—natural selection, mutation, and random change."
• Underblog Q&As his Roomie/Wife on her conversion from motophobia to everyday bitch seat: Interview: View From the Passenger's Seat.
• From Brian: "this clip is pretty awesome."
  
  
  SNL Tina Fey Palin Debate Sudekis Spoof Parody
  

At 11:56pm I was at Atomic Billiards watching Jake play a pool tournament. As Jaime explained, the other guy hit first but then Jake went and got all the balls in. You'd think after so many years a billiards wife her jargon would be a little better. More at Ambrose Manor.

Earlier that day, Portland friend Tess sent photos of her son Oscar's first haircut. He is two:

Then Sarah sent the pictures posted by their wedding photographer, who was a cool guy and got some beautiful shots. Here are a sampling of photos I did not touch up in Photoshop to cover the photographer's watermarks:

Rebongz and Barksdale.

Suze.

I don't know what Rebecca's talking about when she says, "this one is SO unfair. that's when i was dancing w baby alana, but the photog totally cropped her out and i just look insane."

Now get back to work.

10/6/08

Eating New York

My mom and stepdad are on a plane, moving to Uganda this morning. My sisters were up all night (and weekend/week/month/summer) helping them, and what was I doing? Playing in New York City.

Our good friend Bongz finally achieved a respectable age, so Dave, Chez and I drove the Van up to celebrate. Celebrating in New York means: meeting at a neighborhood bar; sleeping in someone's living room; coordinating brunch; walking, shopping, and eating around the city. Repeat.

Question: are Generations X and Y particularly susceptible to "cute?" Stop by your local hipster craft fair and count the items embroidered, silkscreened and bedazzled with owls.

Exhibit A: Williamsburg ice cream shop.

Exhibit B: Williamsburg coffee shop.

So many good signs. Here you can get Latin-style bugs and poop. Actually, I just learned that something called "negligible senescence" exists, and that lobsters may have it. Which means, when you eat a lobster, you are eating something that theoretically could have lived forever, "barring injury, disease, capture, etc." What do you think of that?

On Saturday morning, I followed Chez and Annie across the Williamsburg Bridge.

I can't walk across bridges (or think about them, or drive over them) without recalling this article I read in the New Yorker a few years ago: Jumpers: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge. “Survivors often regret their decision in midair, if not before...[Ken] Baldwin was twenty-eight and severely depressed on the August day in 1985 when he told his wife not to expect him home till late. 'I wanted to disappear,' he said. 'So the Golden Gate was the spot. I’d heard that the water just sweeps you under.' On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over. 'I still see my hands coming off the railing,' he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, 'I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.'”

(Timeout from photo essay for a 2-second thing that willl make you laugh at the misfortune of those who deserve it: Well If 'Famous Person' Said So, Then Maybe We Should Reconsider, Wonkette, from Miriam.)

Brooklyn signs are in Yiddish.

Combination Octopus-ghost hits cute jackpot.

Obligatory brunch photos. This is Taco Chulo, which is yum. The day before we'd eaten at Egg. The night before, Chez and I had hit Two Boots Pizza on the way to the bar, and Snack Dragon Taco Shack on the way home from the bar, because it's her job to keep abreast of food trends and I've decided to just go ahead and get fat now.

Mealtime discussion revolved overwhelmingly around intestinal parasites, body pH, Kombucha mothers, Bluetooth urinal etiquette, fermenting and drinking one's own urine, and the alleged existence of breathatarians. Michael and I, being the table elders, reminded everyone that there was once a world without cellphones. Then it was time to walk again.

Sadness is No Questions.

Aw.

This guy reads.

And Dewar's makes you drunk.

The end.

PS. My cat and my girl get some love at Ambrose Manor.

10/3/08

"I can see the moon from my house. Does that make me an astronaut?"

Our favorite itinerants (and Emerson House alumni) Jaime & Jacob pulled up last night and parked their house, Ambrose Manor, in the backyard. They invited us in for tea.

Waving their Obama sticker proudly, through states red and blue. Ed, Dave, Jake and Chris get cozy.

If you know Jaime and Jacob, you know that the first thing they wanted in DC was Vace Pizza.

Can you find three ladies, waiting for pizza?

The we settled in for an evening of wonkiness.

Dan is actually working. In foreground, Chez's apple crisp.

Jessica is 27 months pregnant. She is so freakin' cute. And I am a maniac.

1. Heck's Pundirty

8:57 AM bob: i often feel, w debates, that i'm watching a different one from the professionals who are tasked with punditing it
me: me too
i thought i saw one thing, and everyone else saw someone folksy who was connecting with people
bob: yes.
does anyone in the entire united states, except for, you know, people in coen bros movies, say the word 'darn'?
if she really wanted to impress me, she would have solved a murder. while pregnant.
me: haha
bob: biden's use of repetition is formidable. that guy was a joy to watch
me: i think i love him
bob: yes
it made me feel confident about when they assassinate the black guy
she, on the other hand, was terrifying
me: she doesnt make me laugh. she makes me scared.
bob: yes. laughing at her is too easy. it's like throwing beer cans at the retards. imagining her as veep? sheeit.

2. Roundup

As per usual, Wonkette liveblogged the debate: Liveblogging the Palin-Biden Debate, Part I, Liveblogging The Weirdest Debate In History, Part II, and Liveblogging Sarah Palin Reading Her Dumb Notes, Part III.

Also from Bob: Child O'Reilly Remarkably Similar To Real O'Reilly, at Gawker. "It's no surprise that Fox News shouting head Bill O'Reilly, with his frequent temper tantrums and one-note commentary, can be accurately impersonated by a child. What is startling is that a kid could do it so well."

3. An Important Message from Kittenpants

From: Darci
Subject: every cup counts!

Don't forget to vote in the 2nd most important election - the 7-Election!
Now at 7-Eleven you can cast your vote when you buy coffee in either a blue Obama cup or a red McCain cup.

The cups were designed by Amanda Pounds (hooray!) and all the surrounding copy in store and on the website was written by yours truly. So really, you're voting for us (me).

The past 2 elections have been predicted successfully by the 7-Election. So make sure you vote, for voodoo's sake.

See the website here

See us on the news and on Videogum.com here

10/2/08

shit-filled compliment sandwich

John McCain condescended to speak to the Washington Blade yesterday, as Jeanni said, "oh yeah and if you wanna get fired up: McCain's gay Q&A: 'I hope gay and lesbian Americans will give full consideration to supporting me'...the first time a repub presidential candidate has ever agreed to an interview with a gay publication. it's pretty crazy; he tries to sound all inclusive and shit but totally reveals himself to be even more of a dangerous (and hypocritical) assclown."

From: Coach
Subject: shit-filled compliment sandwich

man this made me think about yr sister's work. what a fucking douche-hole! something about his "compliment sandwich" approach makes it all the much more infuriating:

Blade: Regarding adoption by same-sex couples, you have been quoted as saying you don't believe it's appropriate. Can you elaborate?

McCain: I hope my comments are not misinterpreted. I respect the hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian people who are doing their best to raise the children they have adopted. As someone who adopted a child, Cindy and I know better than most couples the amazing satisfaction that comes from providing love to an unwanted child. I believe a child is best raised by a mother and father because of the unique contributions that they make together to the development of a child.

At the end of the day, this isn't an issue the president deals with. I'm a federalist, and this is an issue reserved to the states in our system of government.

...

Me: i read that Q&A. how Log Cabin Republicans exist is beyond me.

Coach: it's weird, but i can kinda understand why rich white gay dudes would feel like they didn't need any sort of social welfare or equal rights. like they can just buy up that shit and live in some retarded bubble on fire island.

You are the one to like me

Remember the one where Roseanne and Dan find David's weed and they smoke it with Jackie in the bathroom? Great rerun. Here is a repeat of the note one of my housemates found last year. It's hanging in the kitchen and Chez has been singing it, so now I've got an earworm that goes something like this:

YouTuberisms

This morning Bob sent me this nifty package of great ads as determined by admen: The Most Memorable Advertisements Madison Avenue Ever Sold, New York Magazine. I followed that into a black hole of weird videos....

• First McDonalds Commercial
• very creepy, disturbing children's cartoon, banned from TV

Unrelatedly....

• Stockard Queen says, "AFL-CIO Trumka on Obama and racism. It made me cry." AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
• Roseanne: A Stash From The Past

In my new format I feel like I can just toss up any old junk. Like SP's Facebook. It's liberating when you stop caring.

10/1/08

Math is hard

Yesterday's post was founded on shaky analogies and lazy logic, but was ultimately undermined by bad math (I realized, as I drove my new used minivan to the DC Inspection Station via Georgia Avenue, the longest possible shortest distance between two points). Against the spread, one may expect to win something like -.20¢ to +.20¢ on the dollar, but straight up (moneyline) on a game with a big spread you'd stand to win considerably more. Hence the gamble. Do I like the bailout? Hell if I know. I don't own anything and I don't owe on anything and I know from experience that I can live on lettuce and Milwaukee's Best if necessary. I just like seeing the Holy Free Marketeers cry.

Homeland Security Threat Advisory: Ridiculous

Philadelphia police detonated a "suspicious package" at the ballpark, which was actually some hot dogs wrapped in duct tape. The terrorist was Phillies mascot Philly Phanatic. You can't make that shit up. But you can illustrate it with some quick'n'dirty Photoshopping.

By the way, I first tried image-Googling "hot dogs duct tape" and found: Duct Tape Condoms.

Campaign Subconscious Update:

Rebongaz texted me this morning, "I had a dream that i disowned my parents bc they went into politics and disavowed gay rights for the sake of votes."

Palin Detritus Keeps Washing Up On Shore Like So Many Plastic Diapers, Six-Pack Rings, Old Fashioned Pop-Tops, Blowing Out Your Flip Flops

• Debate Training - Biden learns what makes girls cry, at 23/6, from Shauna
• Sarah Palin Disney Trailer, at CollegeHumor, from Deb D.
• As Caribou Barbie, at CollegeOTR, from Coach.

Neil says, "Awesome bunch o' art. stay fly till you die, ok?"

50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland, at WellMedicated.

My Cousins Party With Famous Criminals

My cousin Susan and her family are living in the Philippines currently, and sent some photos along of the baby they recently adopted. This photo was captioned, "Can you figure out who the middle man is? there will be a prize for the correct response." Hint: "He is currently on house arrest but made it to the birthday party we were attending."

Gay Panic News

Some human garbage confessed to killing the gay guy outside BeBar. Even though there were four men attacking two, the murderer is going to claim self-defense, using the old "gay panic" argument. I wish he were from Virginia so we could fry his ass.

In other extremely annoying news, School Board Changes Yearbook Policy After Lesbian Photos Published. What is the death knell of student publications (and the First Amendment)? When your principal is granted the power to review and line veto your work before publication. Clovis Municipal School District: you are all pussies, and not in a good way.

Man, I'm happier when I don't read the news.

9/30/08

The corporate monkeys got in a fight

My sister gave me $20 to run to the store to buy cat food, but instead I met my bookie at the bar, and because I look rich, he let me wager my sister's twenty and twenty more that the Kansas City Chiefs would beat the Carolina Panthers straight up next week, even though they're 11-point dogs. It's a high risk bet and my odds suck, but if I win I'll make $25 on my $20. If I lose, I'll go back and ask my sister to loan me forty, because if the bookie breaks my legs I won't be able to run errands for my sister and I won't be able use her money to make myself money, and without money to lend back to my sister with interest, I'll go broke, my sister will run out of cat food, and everyone I owe money too will also go broke. A bookie wouldn't break my legs for $40, but the thing is I made approximately 20,000 bets like that. Unfortunately, my sister's out of money, so I guess I'll just ask my buddy to print up some more money for her to loan to me, which he'll do, because now I owe my buddy money, too.

• Privatize profit and socialize loss

A year ago Constance "CC" Cupcakes and Bolen sent these scans along from a party with the remark, "Look, JM! Inspired by your drawing game." It's an example of the unwhimsically-named "Sentence-Picture Game" or "Picture-Sentence Game," wherein each person round a table begins with a sheet of paper, writes a sentence at the top, passes it to the left, where that person draws a picture of the sentence then folds the paper down to cover the drawing above, passes it to the left where that person writes a sentence describing the drawing, folds the paper down over the drawing, and passes to the left again, and around it goes until the paper reaches the original sentence-writer, and everyone marvels either at how well we were able to interpret each other and make ourselves understood, or how terribly.

My friends Danar and Jack introduced me to the game, but I can't remember when. "Sentence-Picture Game" is recommended for groups of people who only own paper and pens, and enjoy drawring, or writing one sentence at a time. For a wine pairing, I would recommend "plenty." For surefire excellence, I would recommend Brian.

Also a year ago, I met my girl. I nominate her for excellence in infrequent food-blogging. I predict both our baby blogs will fatten up once we get on the road, ala AMBROSE MANOR. You may go there now and enjoy pictures like these of Jacob engaged in manly pursuits.

9/27/08

Barber Shop

John McCain and Barack Obama somehow ended up at the same barbershop.

As they sit there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word is spoken. The barbers were even afraid to start a conversation, for fear it would turn to politics.

As the barbers finished their shaves, the one who had McCain in his chair reached for the after-shave. McCain was quick to stop him, saying “No thanks. My wife Cindy will smell that and think I've been in a whorehouse.”

The second barber turned to Obama and said, “How about you?”

Obama replied, “Go ahead. Michelle doesn't know what the inside of a whorehouse smells like.”

Joke from Deb D., poster from Marlz. Scariness by incomprehensibly irresponsible GOP nomination, one old dude heartbeat away...

9/26/08

My Coffee, My Self

Hey peeps. Welcome to my moratorium on Palin-wailin. Thanks for your suggestions for naming my sister's friend Nathalia's Tampa-area coffee shop. No word yet on what they went with, but here were your suggestions:

Underblog: Black Like My Wimmen?

Stockyard Queen: Coffee, Tea, or Me?

sherman: Kitten's Coffee & Tea?

Underblog: Coffee, Tea, or Kittens?

bovabova: how about 'hot and black'?

bovabova: I know, call it 'Batdorf and Bronson'

bovabova: how about 'Hot Vajava'

bovabova: 'Nat's Coffee n' Cats'?

bovabova: 'Nathalia's Coffee Cafe and Tiny Teeehouse and Lesbo Yum-Yum'?

coach: how about "Grounds for Divorce"?

RT: Beanie Weenie's

RT: Gator Alley Mud Shop

RT: Gudong Grounds

RT: Sleepy Flamingo Coffee Hut

RT: Cigar City Caffinteria

eva odlan: 'spot on

RT: Cigar City Roasters

RT: Hurricane Riders: A Coffee Experience

RT: Fat Dog Coffee Shop

eva odlan: bean here-doughnut

RT: Tail Twister Coffee and Tea

eva odlan: cafe of the bay

RT: Mockingbird Mud

RT: The Nest

RT: The Pelican Perch

RT: Spoonbill Sippers Coffee Shop

bobbay: how about my coffee my self

sallypants: Jave the Hut

sallypants: oops. i meant, "Jave the Hut"

sallypants: my computer can't spell

Underblog: I Am Woman, Hear Me Pour

Underblog: When a Manatee Loves a Woman

Jesse: Jaunita's Jacked Up Saloon

Jesse: The Vajava Monologues?

sherman: Tampa Area Coffee Shop

me: Area Coffee Shop

Sarah Silverman: The Great Schlep

Sarah Silverman wants Jews to gets their butts down to Florida for The Great Schlep, from Mart and Marlz.

Tonight on Friday Night Fights

Wonkette's debate drinkin' game, c/o Coach. Shauna's got the camo-High Life to get this hunt started right.

<3 SLyon

9/25/08

Name That Coffee Shop. Do Not Use the Word "Java."

My sister's friend Nathalia bought a Tampa-area coffee shop. She and her group have UNTIL 1:00PM TODAY to name it, or else they will have to use the existing name, which I think is Local Tea and Coffee Company. Send your ideas to me: katspank@gmail.com, or use the zonkboard, lower left. But hurry.

This is Nathalia, playing for one of her biggest fans. Ha!

In the same conversation last night, Jesse told me she had found some kittens. Here's Nathalia holding one after a disgusting flea bath, even though "she's not that into [flea-infested kittens]."

Aw, man.

Jaime and Jacob are sightblogging their hearts out at Ambrose Manor. See?

And go catch up with Deffo's tattoo:

9/23/08

1122 - Concordat of Worms.

Today's Specials:

1. Yesterday Rebongaz popped up to alert me of the breaking bit of news that McCain's Chief of Staff, Mark Buse, was about to be outted. It makes me cranky and tired to have to defend outing public figures, so I'll make it quick: there's nothing wrong with being gay. Pointing out that someone is gay is not the same as pointing out that someone cheats on their taxes or kicks puppies, so what's the big deal? If people have a problem with it, it's their problem, and if you are helping to get someone elected who is running on an anti-gay platform, well, fuck you dude. I sort of liked Gawker's take, so here: McCain Shock: Has Gay Employee

2. Lindsay Lohan finally came out about her relationship with Samantha Ronson, or as special SamLo correspondent Shauna said, "well, stopped obfuscating at least." Lindsay Lohan Confirms Romantic Relationship with Samantha Ronson

• Ronson pre-Lohan: Samantha Ronson - Pull My Hair Out
• Audio of radio interview , from Mess at Defamer.

3. On my recent trip to Boston, friends Dana and Jack showed me the ways of Wii Fit and this site for the obsessed, FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right. Recommended for we people who just want to know if we're winning.

Electioneering

• The 10 Most Talked-About Election '08 Viral Videos, Deb D.
• Gina Gershon Parodies Sarah Palin , Marlz.
• Anti-Palin Pics, Biggest Rally in Alaskan History, C. Cupcakes/Deb D.

9/22/08

first day of fall, equinox, one hell of a year gone by

i'm finally home and i haven't had time to do anything yet, but, i think we're all tired of looking at the same old stuff.

my new camera takes crazy pictures.

super close-up mode let's you play that What Are You Looking At? game.

this mode makes the countryside and my tongue green, and gives me a mullet.

this setting reveals that chez has been wearing these jeans for several days.

here, jill barely looks high.

happy mode conceals misery of 8th hour of drive home.

so glad to be home. come hang out on my porch while there's still some porch season left.

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