May 13, 2005
Pelosi's Pinko Pump Found!
So Nancy Pelosi
lost her shoe running out of the Capitol. It always sucks to lose a shoe, but luckily for the San Francisco congresswoman,
hers was found!
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I heard Pelosi makes squirrels go nuts.....
http://squirreltralala.ytmnd.com/
.....or was it grow nuts instead? Heh.
PS: I made that one myself! Marvel at its glory!
Posted by: reagan80 at May 14, 2005 07:06 AM (hlMFQ)
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Heh, I got a place for that shoe. Ahhh, nevermind, SanFranNan, she'd probably like it.
Posted by: Casca at May 14, 2005 07:34 AM (qBTBH)
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Does this mean finals are over and you are back to the Imelda Marcos mentality?
Posted by: shelly at May 15, 2005 03:28 AM (pO1tP)
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May 12, 2005
Useless Bugle Boy Blogging
If he can't blow a note unless the bass and guitars are with him, i ask you, what good is he?
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A boy, boogie woogie or not, is useless if he blows ANYTHING. That's strictly a chick gig.
Posted by: Casca at May 12, 2005 08:00 PM (qBTBH)
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helloooo - where's the link to my blog?? hrmph! (that pizza stone thing looks good - where a good place to buy one?) - nikita
Posted by: nikita demosthenes at May 12, 2005 10:42 PM (pN2Hf)
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well hopefully he's got a good day job
Posted by: Scof at May 12, 2005 11:46 PM (OHbSQ)
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.. hmm... but when he DOES play.. he makes the Company jump... I suppose that's something...
Posted by: Eric at May 13, 2005 05:53 AM (YlwMq)
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Nikita, try
Amazon. I'm beginning to think if you can't find it at Amazon, you can't find it.
Posted by: Victor at May 13, 2005 09:03 AM (L3qPK)
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Overheard On Renee and Kenny's Wedding Night?
Hellooo Mummy!*
Seriously i wish them luck.
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* If you haven't seen Bridget Jones' Diary, move along.
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First you put up a vague joke and get upset when not everyone gets it (or, in my case, doesn't get it in the way you wanted me to get it). Then you put up a vague joke that you know some people won't get, and unilateraly decide not to explain it to those of us going, "Huh?" All I can say to that is...
...figured out the rules to Fantasy Baseball yet?
Posted by: Victor at May 13, 2005 09:06 AM (L3qPK)
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it had to short an sweet they only had a few hours before they had to get back to earth ,,oh well only in show biz ,,,,,,
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Just Curious
i'm perplexed.
How can Voinovich justify his opposition to Bolton by saying Bolton lacks "common decency" on the one hand -- then say he's met Bolton, likes Bolton, and that he believes Bolton is a "decent" man?
Just curious.
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in what regard are you perplexed, annie?
the guy has shit for brains.
Posted by: louielouie at May 12, 2005 12:39 PM (i7mWl)
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Ahh to be a politician. Wish I could talk out of my ass and say two different things and not get fired!
Posted by: Joe From Jersey at May 12, 2005 01:28 PM (dO3Ek)
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Voinovich is a joke - an embarrassment to Ohio.
This is one of two things:
1) The politician trick(perfected by Clinton) of agreeing with both sides of an issue, or
2) An addiction to the spotlight - at the cost of principles.
Voinovich is a laughingstock.
Posted by: gcotharn at May 12, 2005 02:44 PM (OxYc+)
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Voinovich is this year's Jim Jeffords... an inconsequential politician who figured out a way to make it look like he can make a difference.
Posted by: ken at May 12, 2005 03:45 PM (xD5ND)
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Well, as certainly the only reader of this blog who has spent time with the Senator, I'll say this. I was thinking about his motivations during my hour long bike ride today. Voino is a master of triangulation, downstate R's with northeastern conservative union thug D's are his formula in OH. He's unbeatable in a general, and damned hard to knock out in a primary. His ambition knows no bounds, and this is the beginning of his play for '08. This is his only shot, and he knows it. He's trying to out-McCain, McCain. The tricky thing is that he IS an honest to goodness social conservative... I think. Fiscally, he spent like a drunken sailor as Gov. Thank God Senators have a shitty trackrecord running for Prez.
Posted by: Casca at May 12, 2005 08:08 PM (qBTBH)
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Him running for prez? I won't vote for anybody with no backbone, This list includes Bush I (second term), Pataki... He should just forget being president and try being a man.
Posted by: Mark at May 13, 2005 05:43 AM (nQAo8)
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Old trick--insult man's principles, but not the man. Voinovich is a sloppy politician--most guys are careful not to use the same word when you use its opposite.
Reminds me of the company that fired their lawyer because the lawyer explained he was "too busy" to make sure he was spelling the client's name correctly.
Posted by: Victor at May 13, 2005 09:08 AM (L3qPK)
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George is an old political whore, and he knows who his customers are. Amongst the Bob Dole wing of the party, I'm sure that he's a darling.
Posted by: Casca at May 13, 2005 01:59 PM (qBTBH)
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Social conservative and fiscal liberal?! Worst of both worlds. Voinovich can take that "triangle-a-tion" right up the backside.
Posted by: gcotharn at May 14, 2005 11:03 AM (3Bn47)
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Well, at least he showed his opportunistic demogogue bona fides by correcting himself on two different occassions unlike the moonbat Dan Blather.
"Oh, I think you can lie about any of a number of things and still be an honest man."
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 14, 2005 02:52 PM (CjwZm)
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Things happen when you come up against a sitting President and try to match wills with him. Especially one of your party.
One has to assume that Karl Rove and George had a "come to Jesus" conversation, and George came back just enough to allow him to keep some dignity and still let this go forward.
He can vote against him on the florr, they don't care. Bush was not about to take a loss from a Senator standing for re-election.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to know what Karl said.
Boy Genius does not play softball.
Posted by: shelly at May 14, 2005 09:17 PM (pO1tP)
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This senator is keeping America free
Rove's come to Jesus meetings with BUSH BABY scare the hell out of me...the BUSH BABY"s family and friends are destroying America as we know it.....Bill Frist for Anti-Christ in '08!
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May 11, 2005
Wednesday Is Poetry Day: Ginsberg
[Dreadfully sorry about the tardiness thing. Finals you know.]
A Ginsberg poem has been overdue for quite some time. Here's one that references Ken Kesey: beat author, champion wrestler, CIA guinea pig, author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and a man who arguably inspired today's rave scene with his Electric Kool Aid Acid Tests of the mid-sixties, which in turn launched the careers of Tom Wolfe and The Grateful Dead.
Here's how his friend, Allen Ginsberg, described one of Kesey's infamous get-togethers in 1965:
First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels
Cool black night thru redwoods
cars parked outside in shade
behind the gate, stars dim above
the ravine, a fire burning by the side
porch and a few tired souls hunched over
in black leather jackets. In the huge
wooden house, a yellow chandelier
at 3 A.M. the blast of loudspeakers
hi-fi Rolling Stones Ray Charles Beatles
Jumping Joe Jackson and twenty youths
dancing to the vibration thru the floor,
a little weed in the bathroom, girls in scarlet
tights, one muscular smooth skinned man
sweating dancing for hours, beer cans
bent littering the yard, a hanged man
sculpture dangling from a high creek branch,
children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks.
And 4 police cars parked outside the painted
gate, red lights revolving in the leaves.
If you look, Kesey's name seems to pop up everywhere. The Who and The Beatles wrote songs about his antics. Hunter S. Thompson introduced him to the Hells Angels, who became regular fixtures at Kesey's parties in the hills west of Palo Alto. (That is, until September 1966, when several of them beat him up pretty badly.) Timothy Leary and Jack Kerouac met him, but were unimpressed. Neal Cassady and Robert Pirsig were close friends. Kesey was like the Kevin Bacon of the beat and hippie countercultures.
More poetry: Steve celebrates his new OS with a little Blake.
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Posted by: Casca at May 11, 2005 11:28 PM (qBTBH)
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Yay! Poetry! Gonna be hard to top last week's submission...but Ginsberg doesn't begin to come close.
Fact is, I prefer the sound of cats mating to Ginsberg.
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Yay! How 'bout some old Ferlinghetti?!
(And I do mean
old. The guy hasn't written a poem about anything other than writing poetry for decades.)
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 12, 2005 06:35 PM (wi7Y0)
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Only a very occasional visitor to thy blog but I was surprised to see some Ginsberg amidst your usually pretty conservative postings. Not that I'm complaining. It's cool that you dig Ginsberg. Unless the post was meant to be ironic... but I'm pretty sure that irony is considered anti-Republican, isn't it? So that's probably not the case. Unless only anti-Republican irony is considered anti-Republican... it's all so confusing....
Ginsberg wrote a lot of crap but what makes him a good poet - in my own media-saturated opinion - are lines like "bent littering the yard" and "red lights revolving in the leaves".
Good stuff.
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Thanks for visiting. i hope you become more than
occasional. You might find that i'm not always as
conservative as i seem at first glance. But
anyways, i think Ginsberg is sometimes good and
sometimes great and often tiresome, too. On balance, i like him a lot. My favorite beat poet is O'Hara, though. i'm almost never disappointed with him.
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May 10, 2005
Status Update
i have two more finals to go. My best and worst subjects, torts and property, respectively. i can't believe the first year is almost over. This year has flown by.
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Of the first year subjects: loved torts, loved con law, loved crim law, loved civ pro, didn't mind property, hated contracts. Grades roughly reflective of these feelings, too. Good luck, Annie! Just two more years of exams until...you get to take the bar. ;-)
Posted by: Dave J at May 10, 2005 08:04 AM (kLLbt)
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.. best of luck, Annika... knock'em dead..
Posted by: Eric at May 10, 2005 08:10 AM (YlwMq)
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Indeed, knock em dead, break a leg, all those other violent terms of encouragement...
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Posted by: Wayne at May 10, 2005 08:49 AM (7I7f5)
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If you think Property law is bad in law school, wait until the Bar exam. It goes from Mothra to Godzilla.
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Posted by: Trevor at May 10, 2005 10:34 AM (RwZxT)
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Property was my most hated subject...that is until third year when I had the horror of coming into contact with a little thing called Administrative Law.
Posted by: ginger at May 10, 2005 07:05 PM (jK/kA)
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Scare to death.
Work to death.
Bore to death.
Tolja!
Posted by: shelly at May 10, 2005 09:23 PM (pO1tP)
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Good luck - it was just yesterday that I took my first year exams. Now I am grading them!
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good luck and congrats, love. how're the ants in the pants? you started drinking on weeknights yet?
Posted by: candy girl at May 11, 2005 04:43 PM (W8R91)
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OK Vic, let me chip in:
There once was a bitch from Nantucket.
Who, when duty called, wouldn't suck it.
She was fine with some lube,
And had fabulous boobs,
But the splooge ended up in a bucket.
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May 07, 2005
Now We're Talkin' Real Pizza
My previous attempts at homemade pizza dough didn't turn out good at all. The bottom was never crispy enough, and the toppings made the top soggy. Boboli was a reasonable alternative, but it's not real pizza. So i was on the lookout for a better way.
Here's what came out of the oven tonight.
The secret is the pizza stone. i can't emphasize enough how essential this kitchen item is. Stick it in the oven first and preheat that bastard up to 500°, then sprinkle some cornmeal on it and slide the pizza on top. Then turn the heat down to 425° and cook for 18 minutes.
That's mozarella, sun-dried tomato, pepperoni, mushroom, pineapple and crushed red pepper.
Perfecto. Bellisimo. Molto buono. Grazie T.S.!
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I haven't eaten anything (or anyone) all day. Now I'm hungry.
Great pizza, A.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at May 08, 2005 01:34 AM (1PcL3)
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A moment on the lips; forever on the hips.
Posted by: shelly at May 08, 2005 04:03 AM (pO1tP)
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I made calzones last night. My first attempt a couple of weeks ago were too thick with the dough, but last night they were very very good.
Posted by: Ted at May 08, 2005 06:09 AM (+OVgL)
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Mmmmmm...fantastico.
With one exception: you Californians and your taste for pineapple on pizza, which CPK spread to the rest of the country, is one thing I will NEVER understand.
Posted by: Dave J at May 08, 2005 06:43 AM (CYpG7)
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looks sooo good, I'am a cajun and i was wondering if anyone of you ever taseted a crawfish, shrimp, and andouille sausage pizza? Its great.
Posted by: Kyle at May 08, 2005 07:25 AM (7Re84)
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Ahhhh, beautiful! Subtract the crushed red pepper and add jalapeños and that's my standard pie and a vision of pizza perfection. Pizza stones are indeed the way to go -- I own two so I don't have to split my dough recipe. I also do a whole wheat crust and a cornmeal crust, which adds a really nice crunch when you want it. Do you go sauceless, or have you found a good sauce? That's the one thing I still haven't found a satisfactory recipe for that doesn't take all day to make. What's your solution?
Posted by: Todd at May 08, 2005 07:34 AM (rywVr)
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God knows, there is the satisfaction of creation, but isn't there someone within delivery distance who can do this at a reasonable economy of scale?
Kyle, if we could get andouille in California, we'd be eating gumbo.
Finally, a suggestion, Annie, why don't you get together with Todd? You both seem to be channeling your sexual frustrations into food. Me? I've been cleaning house all weekend.
Posted by: Casca at May 08, 2005 08:11 AM (qBTBH)
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Try making the dough in a bread machine, it comes out great. ;-)
Posted by: JD at May 08, 2005 08:25 AM (J+Gcr)
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I'm glad I ate before I saw those pictures. I'd have to make a pizza right away otherwise, and it looks like I'm better off waitng until I get my own pizza stone. Thanks for posting the results, you've convinced me that I need one.
Posted by: Trevor at May 08, 2005 09:16 AM (COhUH)
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I'm still trying to figure out how I got through law school without even one pizza stone.
Clearly it is about to become a standard utensil for entering first year law students.
Posted by: shelly at May 09, 2005 05:56 AM (pO1tP)
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"Perfetto"
Pineapple on pizza?
Posted by: Mark at May 09, 2005 01:35 PM (Vg0tt)
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Yeah, what Kyle said. You can keep your pineapple. Load that thing up with crawfish and shrimp. Now THAT's a pizza. Dang. Now I'm hungry for Pizza Shak... Opelousas, Louisiana. Where it's at.
Of course, now that I live in New York, it's my duty to make some sort of assinine comment about Chicago pizza not being the real thing and California pizza being ... well, kind of like a kindergarten kid's drawing.
But I won't do that. Pie is pie. We can like them all, right?
Posted by: ken at May 09, 2005 01:57 PM (xD5ND)
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mmmmm. I have yet to get a stone, myself, and I've been meaning to for years! The best I've come up with is baking the pizza on a flat metal sheet for about 5 minutes until it's firm enough to be slid directly on the rack for the next 5-10 minutes at 475-500 degrees. It's not bad, but it's not great either.
And my usual toppings are pepperoni (the 1 1/2 inch diameter ones, not the big flat pre-sliced jobbers) and sliced cherry peppers. Yowsah!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 09, 2005 06:42 PM (GLq2P)
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Todd, how's about sharing your crust recipe? I make mine in the bread machine, and I'm interested in the cornmeal version.
Posted by: Ted at May 10, 2005 03:40 AM (blNMI)
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I've got one of those stones too, and I love it dearly, but holy cow is that ever a good looking pie. Better than anything I've made I think.
I've had a version of the above-described Cajun pie. There's a chain out here (in NC) that makes it. "The Original Italian Pie" is the name of the place. It was pretty good, but I think there is more potential in those toppings than was captured by the one I've had.
Posted by: Christiana Ellis at May 10, 2005 05:36 AM (vHnJp)
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Wow. That pizza looks awesome. And now I think I need a pizza stone immediately.
(For the record, pineapple has been one of my favorite pizza toppings ever since I was a kid growing up in Colorado. Yum. I actually had some last night.)
Posted by: lorie at May 10, 2005 06:17 AM (PPPwU)
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Three years in New Orleans (just sooooooo conducive to serious law school study, of course), so definitely add my endorsement to cajun pizza. And to the hilarious genius of Louisiana English: e.g., everywhere else in the world it's marinara sauce, but there it's "red gravy."
Posted by: Dave J at May 10, 2005 08:09 AM (kLLbt)
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I remember when my friend Sid came back from college in Ohio. He couldn't stop ranting about the weird toppings out there. Ham, tuna, candy corn, you name it.
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Things You Find On eBay
This is pretty funny.
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So THAT's where you make your REAL money!
Posted by: Casca at May 07, 2005 02:08 PM (qBTBH)
Posted by: JD at May 08, 2005 08:28 AM (J+Gcr)
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I once bought a tu-tu for a rat on eBay.
I'm serious.
Posted by: Victor at May 08, 2005 06:56 PM (Sx8zO)
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Did it help the experience?
Posted by: Casca at May 08, 2005 08:17 PM (qBTBH)
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I just hope the artist isn't inspired to re-enact scenes from the Michael Jackson trial.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at May 10, 2005 05:14 PM (FPdMX)
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May 05, 2005
Aircraft Humour
This may be apocryphal, but it's funny.
The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- and didn't land."
Thanks to Shelly for that one.
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Posted by: Ted at May 05, 2005 08:47 AM (blNMI)
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In the early days of Beatlemania, when John Lennon's image was still being protected (i.e. before the summer of 1966), he is reputed to have said, "It's good to fly Lufthansa to London. All the pilots know the way."
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That story may be apocryphal, but I have it on very good authority that a similar exchange really did take place during a post-war visit by an American(?) to the Krupp Works. I'll try to remember to ask the guy who knows
the guy, and get you the full account.
My boss, whose grandfather was in the Luftwaffe ground forces (a signal troop) in the East during WWII, tells a similar story regarding his mother's visit to Russia many years later. Apparently, a tour guide asked whether anyone had been to Russia before, or knew anyone who had. I consider that one apocryphal, though; my boss's stories have been known to change over time, always in ways that make them either more amusing, or more flattering to him.
Posted by: Matt at May 05, 2005 08:27 PM (SQrDV)
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There is a similar story of a NATO meeting of high ranking officers and a German General was complaining to the group and asking why everyone always insisted on speaking English.
A British Admiral then remarked dryly "Because you lost the bloody war".
Posted by: shelly at May 05, 2005 10:02 PM (pO1tP)
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It's a testament to our occupation strategy that we were able to turn 12 generations of Prussian military tradition into a bunch of weaklings in 50 years.
Posted by: Jason O. at May 06, 2005 12:55 PM (2CAKL)
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---While of course retaining the engineering/technical competence for BMWs and Audis, et al.
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Paula Hits The Road With The Hot Tub Friends... Again
This time she's on a mission.
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So just who is the other broad in the car? And who's the guy they run over this time?
Posted by: Victor at May 05, 2005 04:54 AM (L3qPK)
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Supposed to be Corey Clark?
Who's the dude in the back seat picking his nose?
Posted by: shelly at May 05, 2005 06:35 AM (pO1tP)
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*sigh*
check the photoshopaholic rubric for the backstory on the hot tub friends.
That's Paige Davis and Marv Albert in the back seat. And Corey Clark is correct.
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Posted by: Victor at May 05, 2005 08:14 AM (L3qPK)
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i wonder if Frank J ever has days like this.
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Posted by: d-rod at May 05, 2005 10:02 AM (CSRmO)
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Notice that even THIS set of folks won't let Michael Jackson in the car with them.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at May 05, 2005 12:58 PM (FPdMX)
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Now we know how Kelly won
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Posted by: Casca at May 05, 2005 03:39 PM (qBTBH)
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Yeah, I forgot. The rug fooled me.
And, I couldn't see the girdle.
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May 04, 2005
Silly Texas Bill Update
Back in March i alerted you to
the silly Texas bill that seeks to outlaw suggestive cheerleading routines. As a former high school cheerleader this is an issue close to my own heart, although i will admit the routines have gotten racier in the ten years since i used to shake it on the track. But i'm still a libertarian on this issue.
i'm sure there's a heck of a lot more urgent problems that they could be worrying about in Texas than sexed-up cheerleaders or even this lowlife? Both are symptoms of bad parenting - a failure to teach kids the meaning of "respect" - but not a reason for the state to crack down on freedom of expression.
The committee's revised bill was weakened somewhat, removing the former draconian punishment of suspending the team for the rest of the school year and the punitive reduction in the offending school district's funding.
Instead, the revised bill gives the school district the authority to "take appropriate action against the performance group and the group's sponsor, as determined by the district." Pretty vague, but of course the whole law is hopelessly vague, in my opinion.
Speaking against the bill at the March 29th hearing were two ACLU representatives (see trolls? i can agree with the ACLU sometimes), including eighteen year old high school senior Margeaux Goodfleisch (that's got to be a stage name, right?), who made this quite reasonable point:
I agree that sexually suggestive performances are inappropriate for school events and school-sponsored competitions, but exactly what is a sexually suggestive performance? It could be someoneÂ’s opinion that any time a group of young, attractive girls dance, itÂ’s sexually suggestive. If you put on paper those moves we specifically cannot do, we would be more than happy to comply.
Well, you had to know that the legislature wasn't going to do that. Too much work and too easy to get around. A law like this has to be written vaguely or not at all. And the vagueness is what makes it so ridiculous.
Texas House Bill 1476 was voted out of committee by a vote of six to nothing, with three committee members absent. Today the Texas House of Representatives approved the bill by a vote of 85-55 with three present but not voting. Next, it goes to the Texas Senate for consideration.
See also: Grits For Breakfast with props for Margeaux.
Yet more: Blogger Jason Plotkin was apparently in the chamber for the debate and recorded these fun snippets:
What was funny is how they also had the song 'shake, shake, shake, shake, shake your booty' in the background at one point, I'm assuming, someone in the gallery played it.
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'This is a ridiculous bill. I don't know how it got to the floor,' said Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston in a Chronicle article. 'We don't have any business mandating anything. We are spending time on "2-3-4, we can't shake it anymore." It's an embarrassment.'
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Rep. Carter Casteel, R-New Braunfels, who agree legislators should not be legislating morality or telling people what to do, but she voted for the bill.
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'When I was 15, anything a cheerleader did was interesting to me. When I was 17, I knew better' said [Rep. Rene Oliveria (D-Brownsville)]. Oliveria brought up how President George W. Bush, Governor Rick Perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson were cheerleaders and we should recognize them to vote no.
i should "revise and extend" my previous comment regarding the Democrats legislating morality with this bill. Despite being introduced by a Democrat, it appears that on the floor quite a few Dems were on the right side of this one.
Finally, In The Pink Texas gives us a timely warning about what happens to cheerleaders gone bad. And Frank J makes the connection between terrorism and slutty cheerleaders... sort of.
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You know what worries me? George Carlin is now going to feel compelled to fly to Texas, put on a cheerleader outfit, and shake suggestively.
And I really don't want to see George Carlin's pom poms.
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Actually, I think we shouid let them shake as much as they want to, but just make them wear bhurkas.
Have the Taliban moved to Texas? Maybe that's where Osama Bin Laden is hiding?
Posted by: shelly at May 06, 2005 03:23 AM (pO1tP)
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Ya know, I just disagree with all of you about this. From Annie's post:
"... the revised bill gives the school district the authority to 'take appropriate action against the performance group and the group's sponsor, as determined by the district.'"
In today's legal climate, WHAT is wrong with a state legislature strengthening school districts' authority to "take appropriate action"? NOTHING is wrong with it, that's what. The legislature has apparently left the judgment call to the individual local school districts - which is where it belongs.
You guys are knee-jerk reacting over a bill which, once it got debated and worked over and whittled down and approved by the legislature, looks like it came out good and reasonable.
Now, on your next 25 knee jerk reaction issues - I'll be right there with you!
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Psst, Wanna Buy Some Pee?
Some sick entrepeneur
dug Brittany's pregnancy test out of a dumpster and sold it for 5 grr!
'It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine,' Golden Palace spokesman Drew Black told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Golden Palace says it purchased the test from Ottawa radio station Hot 89.9, which insists the test was retrieved from the trash outside Spears' Los Angeles hotel room months ago. The station didn't leak news of the test until Spears and husband Kevin Federline revealed her pregnancy to the public last month.
Student loan funds are running low, so i was toying with the idea of putting up some blog ads for extra money, but fuck that. There's easier money to be had!
i am now in the pee business. Any sickos wanna buy a tube of annie-urine, the bidding starts at five hundred a jar!
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As sick as that is, at least they aren't selling a stool sample.
Posted by: Micah at May 04, 2005 06:45 PM (v/oTo)
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Don't laugh too loudly, Annie.
Back when he was in the army, my brother made extra cash by selling his urine. He didn't do drugs, so he sold his clean urine to the potheads when "that time" of the month rolled around and it was time to pee all that you can pee!
--HH
Posted by: Go 4 TLI (formerly HH in Hollywood) at May 04, 2005 09:57 PM (faCTk)
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Oh shit. There goes that idea.
Posted by: annika at May 04, 2005 10:23 PM (EOuHu)
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strange.
i was in a graden store and they had wolf urnine and coyete urnine for sale.
I can give you the name of the place if you are intrested.
Posted by: cube at May 05, 2005 06:37 AM (nyNr0)
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did they have any bear
ursine by any chance?
Posted by: annika at May 05, 2005 07:50 AM (zuRc4)
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What a great investment opportunity!
Posted by: Mark at May 05, 2005 10:50 AM (Hk4wN)
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How much for the golden shower? Would you be interested in a trade?
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Idiots Shouldn't Breed
So Cameran Diaz and Ashton
Kutcher Timberlake are finally
getting married?! Well, i sure hope they don't breed.
And i'd like to get in on the divorce pool, too. i'll pick sixteen months.
While their eventual breakup is a metaphysical certainty, i'm still waiting for Cameren to recant her ridiculously ugly prediction, made on the Ofrah show last year, that if women didn't vote (i.e. if Bush won) rape would become legal in the United States.
Well, as far as i am aware, the Rape Legalization Act has yet to be introduced into either house of Congress, despite the Republican majorities and the religious theocracy i keep hearing about. Oh, and i'm still waiting for Cher's prediction to come true. You know the one where we Republicans are supposed to round up all her gay friends and exile them to some remote state somewhere.
Still waiting. Idiots.
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Rape legalization? Gay exile? That's outrageous!
That's like Charlton Heston saying the government's going to take our guns away!
Actors...
Posted by: Preston at May 04, 2005 02:47 PM (wkfsI)
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i would go for the part about rounding up cher and exiling her someplace like......kishnev.
Posted by: louielouie at May 04, 2005 03:00 PM (i7mWl)
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Can we exile all of Hollywood to, say, Antartica?
Posted by: Mark at May 04, 2005 03:05 PM (Hk4wN)
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Um, the Rape Legalization Act was passed a long time ago. It was codified as the 16th Amendment.
Seriously though, implausible rationalizations abound on both sides. if Bush is elected rape will be legal. That contrasts nicely with "if drugs are legalized we'll have 12 year olds hooked on crack" (newsflash - 12 year olds can get most drugs easier than I can). Occassionally both sides will adopt the same idiotic argument (like "let's declare schools gun free zones to make our kids safe" which results in making murderers more safe, not kids).
It does seem the celebreties that lean left of Stalin are more prone to make such statements, but I'm wondering if that's due to the frequency of leftleaning celebreties making such statements, or the press using anything they can to further their goals.
(note: an abreviation of celebreties tripped your comment blocker. It seems mine does the same thing with sociali (ahem) st. lol)
Posted by: Publicola at May 04, 2005 03:11 PM (DQj8i)
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Maybe I missed it, but I've never heard a Republican celebrity threaten to leave the country if a liberal were elected. "If Michael Dukakis is elected President, I'm moving to Austria."???
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at May 04, 2005 05:13 PM (bGyIu)
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Ya know Pubes, you always lose me at the gratuitous generalization that really doesn't work if any thought is applied. I've never heard ANY conservative say such a thing about crack. In fact, WFB the Godfather of conservatism, has been advocating legalization for over thirty years.
The left is unequivically the home of the overwhelming majority of nutballs in this culture. You are dismissed.
Posted by: Casca at May 04, 2005 05:16 PM (qBTBH)
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Casca,
I've heard many republicans & a few conservatives make similar arguments (12 year olds on crack), most recently Hugh Hewitt about two days ago. But thanks fo sharing your anecdotal misconceptions.
What may be tripping you up though is that the left's criticisms of the right are usually assinine, whereas the right's criticisms of the left are usually fairly accurate. It's the right's criticisms of the right that seems (to me at least) give occassion to implausible arguments. & since the press has no interests in one right sided argument over another, perhaps this explains the lack of coverage. Hence the left get all the attention for saying idiotic things while the right goes unnoticed.
I could be mistaken, but that seems plausible from what I've observed.
Oh, another recent one: Bush calling the Minuteman Project a group of vigilantes. Course the left has made similar arguments but we're talking about the right being at times just as bad as the left.
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As for rounding up the gays, well, it's a new department under Immigration and they're not well funded. I think the van is scheduled to get to Hollywood sometime in April of 2077.
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"Maybe I missed it, but I've never heard a Republican celebrity threaten to leave the country if a liberal were elected."
Where would they go for their low-tax, bill of rights-free paradise? Russia? Kazakhstan?
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Like I said... bored stiff by the second sentence.
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Wednesday Is Poetry Day
This 1992 poem by Jo Shapcott makes me want to open my refrigerator and apologize.
Vegetable Love
I´d like to say the fridge
was clean, but look at the rusty
streaks down the back wall
and the dusty brown pools
underneath the salad crisper.
And this is where I´ve lived
the past two weeks, since I was pulled
from the vegetable garden.
I´m wild for him: I want to stay crunchy
enough to madden his hard palate and his tongue,
every sensitive part inside his mouth.
But almost hour by hour now, it seems,
I can feel my outer leaves losing resistance,
as oxygen leaks in, water leaks out
and the same tendency creeps further
and further towards my heart.
Down here there´s not much action,
just me and another, even limper, lettuce
and half an onion. The door opens so many,
so many times a day, but he never opens
the salad drawer where I´m curled in a corner.
There´s an awful lot of meat. Strange cuts:
whole limbs with their grubby hair,
wings and thighs of large birds,
claws and beaks. New juice
gathers pungency as it rolls down
through the smelly strata of the refrigerator,
and drips on to our fading heads.
The thermostat is kept as low as it will go,
and when the weather changes
for the worse, what´s nearest
to the bottom of the fridge starts to freeze.
Three times we´ve had cold snaps,
and I´ve felt the terrifying pain
as ice crystals formed at my fringes.
Insulation isn´t everything in here:
you´ve got to relax into the cold,
let it in at every pore. It´s proper
for food preservation. But I heat up
again at the thought of him,
at the thought of mixing into one juice
with his saliva, of passing down his throat
and being ingested with the rest
into his body cells where I´ll learn
by osmosis another lovely version
of curl, then shrivel, then open again to desire.
More food poetry: Kevin posted something about the beguiling food-like substance, Nutella. With pictures
here.
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Great site! And great poem as well. Now I"m starving!
Posted by: J. Mark English at May 04, 2005 12:26 PM (owsgv)
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Food, sex, and death-- the intermingling of eros and thanatos.
Gotta love it.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at May 04, 2005 02:02 PM (1PcL3)
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Sheesh, false advertising! I thought this was going to be about cucumbers and cantelopes!!
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May 03, 2005
She Was Gonna Do What They Said Cain't Be Done
There's a lot we don't know about that runaway bride from Atlanta. More will come out in the next few weeks, and i'll bet you, say $80,000, that her little trip involved a dude in a black Trans-Am. The clue is right there in the song:
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarkana.
And we'll bring it back no matter what it takes.
"Atlanta." See? Coincidence? i think not.
She was westbound and down. Seriously, i'm tellin' you there was a dude involved that we haven't heard about yet.
More: "US, Italy Disagree On Runaway Bride"
Update: i was right.
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Excellent, Annika. Do you think there will be a sequel?
Posted by: Jake at May 03, 2005 07:50 AM (r/5D/)
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love those polls... heee.... dan, im the old style undies... thx for the funs...heee
Posted by: maizzy at May 03, 2005 08:07 AM (oyEGD)
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snicker... perhaps it had something to do with the next line:
loaded up and truckin'
Does it make me a hick that I didn't even have to look up the lyrics?
Posted by: Trevor at May 03, 2005 10:31 AM (RwZxT)
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"Give me a diablo sandwich and a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick, I'm in a god-damn hurry."
-Sherriff Buford T. Justice
Posted by: Jason O. at May 03, 2005 11:08 AM (2CAKL)
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Damn you are smart, Annie. I've been saying the same thing for days.
I figure that she went to tell an old beau goodbye and they ended up in Las Vegas, in his car. I'm betting no bus, hell, the station is in the next town over!
When she came to and thought about what she'd done, she beat it out of Vegas and caught a bus to wherever, turned out to be New Mexico or somewhere.
So, I'm with you, Annie. If this guy marries her, he should have his head examined.
And, in any event, he should request that she have a GYN examination immediately and give him the results.
Posted by: shelly at May 03, 2005 02:49 PM (pO1tP)
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Nah, she's not Sally Field. She's Bunny the porn star in The Big Lebowski:
"I know, I know, they're gonna kill that pooooor woman. You said it yourself dude. The slut kidnapped herself!"
C'mon, where was Bunny spreading it? If only she'd have cut her toe off and mailed it home.
Cue the Squirrel Nut Zippers version of Viva Las Vegas.
Posted by: Casca at May 03, 2005 03:53 PM (cdv3B)
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"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" apparently didn't apply to her.
As Louis Prima would sing "Shouldn't a gone to the airport". (or, was that Sam Butera?)
Posted by: shelly at May 03, 2005 11:33 PM (pO1tP)
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Ha ha Shelly, i love that song.
Posted by: annie at May 04, 2005 07:19 AM (wpCT0)
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Someday I will tell about my law school days and a weekend in Vegas with Keely, Louis and Sam.
If I could find the old Playboy magazine where they did the photo spread, I'd frame it, since I was in it.
It was sometime in the late 50's or early 60's.
What a wild time. I loved that group.
Posted by: shelly at May 04, 2005 01:32 PM (pO1tP)
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That's why you need a blog Shelly!
My Dad taught me to love Louis Prima. He has the original LP's of
The Wildest and
Call of the Wildest. Keely Smith had one of my favorite jazz voices of all. Terrible actress, though. Did you ever see that movie she did with Louis? She was deer in the headlights awful.
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RUNAWAY BRIDE
"Less than a week after it began, the latest media fad is slowly fading away. The satellite trucks in Duluth, Georgia have long packed up and left, and John Mason and Jennifer Wilbanks' 15 minutes of fame is about to run out. He'll be left to deal with the crazy woman he's about to marry, when he should really just set her things on the porch and run like hell."
- Talk show host Neal Boortz
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Undies Quiz
Well, that was a very revealing quiz, i think.
Via Inter Alia.
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That's what I got too!! Makes sense bc that's what I wear mostly any more anyway.
Posted by: ginger at May 03, 2005 03:15 AM (jK/kA)
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By reading your blog, I thought you were cute, friendly, and approachable with a spunky, feisty side.
Now I find out that it is not you, it is your panties.
I am devastated.
Posted by: Jake at May 03, 2005 05:32 AM (r/5D/)
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lol, my panties are not that approachable either!
Posted by: annika at May 03, 2005 07:17 AM (CngUF)
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More importantly, what kind of skidmarks does one find?
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May 02, 2005
Don't Panic
This weekend, i re-rented
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the cheesy 1981 BBC version that i used to rave about. i won't be doing that anymore. It does not hold up to a second viewing.
The fact is, i only saw it once before, many years ago, when a friend let me borrow the videotape. i was really blazed at the time. i seemed to remember thinking the low budget special effects (none) were much funnier than they actually are.
The BBC version, in fact, is pretty sucky. Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect seem gay. The chick who plays Trillian is simply annoying and unpleasant to watch, as is Zaphod Beeblebrox, who can't decide what accent to use. i wanted to strangle Marvin the depressed robot by the end of the three hours.
Zaphod Beeblebrox's extra head is comical. It moves on its own, but it looks worse than a papier mache replica. It's really bad.
i did like the little interludes when the narrator read from the Guide. These are illustrated with typical 80's videogame style graphics that seem to still work for me. The narrator delivers the funny lines with perfect deadpan timing. All the scenes on the Vogon spaceship were well done and funny too. The Vogon captain's poetry was classic.
i also detected a slight British high-brow anti-Americanism, which i hadn't noticed the first time i saw it. i'm more sensisitive to these things now. For instance, a couple of the characters spoke in caricatures of American dialects. Some guards talked like they were from Brooklyn, and Trillian sounded like a gum chewing waitress. And when Ford and Zaphod sing a death song in one of the later episodes, the melody is the Star Spangled Banner. Why is it that the Brits all know our national anthem?
That's something that has always bothered me about the British intelligentsia. They love us, yet they hate us. They act superior, yet we give them an inferiority complex. They're obsessed with us. It's kind of pathetic.
Anyways, i don't recommend the old BBC version, except to Dr. Who fans, who are all desensitized to bad sci-fi effects already.
i'm a big fan of the book, and i do plan on seeing the newest feature version. i think Douglas Adams is a modern day Swift.
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Hey baby, want a ride in my Tardis?
Posted by: Casca at May 02, 2005 10:52 PM (cdv3B)
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figures you'd be a fan.
;-)
Posted by: annie at May 02, 2005 10:56 PM (MYvJ3)
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The new movie's MUCH better than the BBC version was. Of course, that probably in part the company I was with, and yes, I was a little drunk but hardly to the point that my taste in such things would've been so thoroughly degraded.
"Why is it that the Brits all know our national anthem?"
Perhaps because Francis Scott Key set his words to the tune of a British drinking song? I don't remember the title, and I wouldn't expect most modern Brits to know the song at all, so it's not a very good explanation.
Posted by: Dave J at May 03, 2005 05:37 AM (kLLbt)
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when i was in London, some dude actually whistled the song in a derisive manner to a group of us.
Posted by: annika at May 03, 2005 06:46 AM (j6dQX)
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The melody of the "Star Spangled Banner" was an old English drinking song. Perhaps, that explains it. Or maybe its the same reason that I know 'O Canada'...
http://www.colonialmusic.org/Resource/Anacreon.htm
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May 01, 2005
Right Wing News Favorite Columnists
Right Wing News has a new poll of bloggers' favorite columnists. i participated, and my list included:
Ann Coulter
Charles Krauthammer
Dick Morris
John Podhoretz
Victor Davis Hanson
Jonah Goldberg
Peggy Noonan
Rich Lowry
The winner was Mark Steyn, deservedly, even though i forgot to put him on my list.
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Ya fricken Communist! Where's William F. Buckley on that list!!?
Posted by: Casca at May 02, 2005 03:20 PM (cdv3B)
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That you didn't include Michelle Malkin is to your very great credit.
Posted by: Hugo at May 02, 2005 04:53 PM (Qst0d)
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buckley made John's list. And Michelle's on my blogroll, because i think of her more as a blogger now than a columnist.
Posted by: annie at May 02, 2005 05:35 PM (RdkzS)
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Compliment withdrawn, Annie. ;-)
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Posted by: mh at May 02, 2005 07:03 PM (8jS3Z)
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Annie:
I am sorry to say this, but you are spending too much time at law school or something else.
You've lost the cutting edge.
Take two weeks off, catch up with your studies and come back and excite us a little.
Sorry, but we all care about you and if I didn't, I would just let it go.
Come back with an intense look at the Frist Nuclear Option, or the DeLay inquiry, or the First Lady's comedy.
Leave the torts, TARM and res ipsa loquitor behind.
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Ranking Buckley 20th in that crowd would be like ranking Ty Cobb 20th on the list of all-time greats at Cooperstown. The rest of those people wouldn't even be there without him. Each of them made their game.
Posted by: Casca at May 02, 2005 10:34 PM (cdv3B)
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i did have a filibuster post in the queue, but
Tigerhawk stole my thunder. i found it via Instapundit. He says:
"If you are going to filibuster, then you should have to filibuster. Filibusters should come at some personal and political cost. We should abolish the candy-ass filibusters of modern times, and require that if debate is not closed it must therefore happen.
The prospect of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton or Ted Kennedy bloviating for hours on C-SPAN would deter filibusters except when the stakes are dire, if for no other reason than the risk that long debate would create a huge amount of fodder for negative advertising. If Frist were to enact the "reform" of the filibuster instead of its repeal, he would sieze the high ground. He could take the position that the Republicans are merely rolling back the "worst excesses" of the long period of Democratic majority in the Congress, and that filibusters will still be possible if Senators are willing to lay it all on the line."
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Not to troll blatantly for readers, but I've posted on Frist (lazy, idiot is the general theme) and Social Security recently.
As for the collumnists, I can't begin to understand what Morris is doing up there. He is not a conservative, he is an opportunist. He is also frequently wrong by 180 degrees in his predictions.
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