Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Get the look: straw boater, £14.99, by River Island, 020-8991 4904 [Anna Gordon via The Guardian]
just grab a rakish, updated straw boater and run off toward some island sunset. Or sunrise.
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
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"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
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"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
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"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
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on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Child drawings of war in Darfur
Why does this guy hate America?
No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA head
It was definitely time for ElBaradei to go if he was relying on his “gut feeling”.
Amano better get a food taster… kevlar vest, helmet… or there will be a gut transplant scheduled for him
Brrrreaking: Sarah Palin is stepping down by the end of the month
I guess Sully finally got to her.
gah I was just getting my cofee not really awake when ABC of all networks broke in to announce… and all I could think was … don’t go near Sully for days. (I really go there for the “View from your window”, I actually enjoy that a lot).
The rumors will fly, the pregnant bellies photos will be examined…
Maybe she was one of Mark Sanford’s other wimmen.
HA! Because Anchorage and Wasilla are such a good foil for BA Argentina…
CNN is showing her speech which can only be described as the fastest speech ever. She has a good future as an auctioneer if she needs something new to do.
it was bizarre, wasn’t it? Almost word salad.
I don’t think in that realm she can ever catch up to GHWBush.
Truly a past master at a condition.
Rumor has it the Feds are after her for embezzling building supplies from the Wasilla Sports Center for use at her home (when she was mayor).
If true, ‘twould explain the timing.
whoops.
Think Progress has a post up.. I gather many are drawing off a Max Blumenthal piece at Daily Beast.
The thread has her shackled, dragged off, declared a witch and in Leavenworth. Not been watching politics very long, I’d say.
Chris Floyd has a good take down of where we are in the wars… and a hard slam at Salazar. The comment which is a longish letter from a woman inside Iraq is beyond excellent.
BW on the unemployment figures.
helping to run the killing wars from a JAIL CELL.
just a lone wolf, no connection with an organized movement to advance a program of political terrorism. No sirree bob.
But the scary left… tree sitterrs and such… no! We’re the worst of the worst!
I thumbed my nose at a Hummer driver last week.
We all know what that leads to down the road, so to speak.
I am laughing pretty hard at THIS one. A wretched lobbyist and corporate bill signed into law by a judgemental and lecturing fixer.
We are going down in a dirge of “public safety”, “Worship the Baby (fetus)” and racist and foreign wars. Racist domestic wars too.
But be sure not to smoke. As Philip Morris writes the laws.
No surprise.
I am so out of touch… I never realized how much of an information junkie I’ve become. Internet access in Italy has been a nightmare. I didn’t even know about the disaster in Viareggio until mcat emailed me hoping I wasn’t anywhere near the train station. I wasn’t, but I went through it today on the way to cinque terre – that train took out well over a city block. i’m amazed threre were only 13 casualties. Horrible…
Anyhow, so what, like 5 banks failed today in Michigan? And MJ and Farrah died…
Now that Ii have this crappy TV innternet service that I’m paying 5 euro a day for I’ll try to catch up.
And Rome fucking rocks… btw.
Well coastal Italy is a good place to drift off… Rome too…
ENJOY!
I can’t remember if you eat meat.. or I’d say have a bistecca for me too!
Alreaady had many… and lots of marinnated anchovies and mussels… second to last night inn Romme, I went to Trastevere, had a feast of seafood, tomatoes and wine for 20 euro – beest food by far here… Next 2 days I’m on the beach – might even check out the clothing optional one at Corniglia.
i’m fainting.
Nudie beach day. Woohoo!
Video of Walt Disney World’s Obamabot
Not sure how you tell the difference.
Famous prostitute’s gravestone deemed too ’slutty’
So, what does this Sarah Palin thing have to do with Michael Jackson?
She could have waited a few months until the MJ coverage slowed down. Media whore!
She’s had a very expensive run. From the laundry list of ethics complaints:
Maybe Obamalama has her tapped for the next czarina opening. hehe
I am sure there’d be a niche for her…
You betcha!
is there an Ambassador to Russia yet?
From the So…whose bright idea was this? file: Pakistani PM Seeks US Aid for Massive Border Wall
they are building walls all over. the saudis have one going too….
Tonight’s NOW was partly on what they call “Obama’s Wall”. Moving right along, with land seizure and the whole 40 yards. You don’t sign away your land, they condemn it and simply seize it with a declared sum “paid” to you. Happening to a woman who spoke directly to Obama when he was in her town in Feb of 2008 and asked him to reconsider the wall. Just as in palestine, it runs thru her back yard.
She voted for him. Guess she looked into his eyes and saw his soul. Or some crap.
Or he looked into her eyes and saw her wallet.
Pakistanis Reject U.S. “Aid” Flights, As Lawsuit is Filed Against U.S. Drone Attacks
Check out the updates. So typical.
Anti-tax Tea Party plans rallies nationwide on Fourth
CNN spent a bunch of time on them, of course:
A love the way they’ve backward-named their little “movement” …
Today’s Moment of Cognitive Dissonance – brought to you by Barack Obama:
Now why does that sound familiar?
Oh yeah…
Coming soon to YouTube: Leave the Blue Dogs Alone!!!.
“We shouldn’t be focusing resources on each other…”
Oh, go fuck yourself, Hopeman. There’s no “each other.” There’s the people who shovel shit onto a plate month after month and call it “recovery.” Then there’s the people like me, who get scolded roundly by your friends over our disinclination to eat any of it. Stop pretending that there’s some kind of fellowship between the two groups. There isn’t.
Anyway what do you care, Asshole? You know that come 2012, all you’ll have to do is whine a little about the nasty evil right-wingers (or have your big shills do it) and allllll the wayward sheep will come back to you, post-haste.
well I think that is the plan… keep all who wish to stay or return in 2012 and pick up as many center right, conservatives, fundies and other whack jobs as he can diddle during these years.
Cheesecake?
I had my chance at yesterday’s bbq, but I got lured away by the homemade carrot cake. These are the kinda’ problems you wanna’ have. Not the other kind. :/
I make wicked carrot cake. It’s a recipe handed down from my sister’s MIL – a Ukrainian baba.
Republican State Senator: We Allow Gays To Exist
Wait til he finds out that I’m the one allowing him to exist.
This Week: Biden. Roundtable with Liz Cheney, Matthew Dowd, Cynthia Tucker, George Will.
Face the Nation: Adm. Mike Mullen, Sens. Grassley, Schumer.
Fox News Sunday: Mullen, Rep. Boehner. Roundtable with Alaska Lt. Gov. Parnell, Huckabee, Rove.
State of the Union: Colin Powell, Mullen, Jordan’s Queen Noor.
Meet the Press: Preempted by Wimbledon
Meet the Press: Preempted by Wimbledon
Oh schucks. Mullen just about had a grand slam there.
I caught the first few mins of whatever this threadbare (it really is) extravaganza is on the Capital mess of a frontage… and all I can say is Aretha is making the case for lip synching. Voice is shot. Or she can’t be bothered. Both probably.
My 4th of July post.
What does that have to do with Michael Jackson?
Michael who?
touché
hmm i dropped in on the FP of the NYT… and they have unearthed (I don’t remember running into it before, but may have missed it) a three pager Ob wrote when at Columbia, March 1983, published in the Sundial.
The last graphs are kind of interesting, I am trying to remember what reason (if any) would have made him refer to Europe as a powder keg set to explode – in ‘83.
It’s a quick read.
The No Nukes movement was pretty active in 1983, and Reagan began pushing Star Wars. I remember the Soviets responding to that in very threatening ways, there were lots of reports of widespread proliferation.
The powder keg feeling was being driven by the US gov’t, IIRC.
The powder keg feeling was being driven by the US gov’t, IIRC.
No wonder I didn’t see it (Europe) as a “powder keg set to blow” then. I remember Reagan and his Star Wars obviously… and the games and threats that went on…
yup, WE were the powder keg.
Tonite’s winner of the Totally Clueless HuffPo Mouthpiece award goes to Erik Sean Nelson.
LOL … Palin is threatening to sue a bunch of bloggers and the media.
Bonus this morning, watching Tony Blankley from the Moonie Times praising her as the best intuitive politician in the Republican party.
Today’s “religion makes some people stupid” moment: Author Asks: If Every Man Could Have Gay Sex, Why Would He Need Women?
I knew it! That’s why mr_xeno has more hair care products than I do! AND more pairs of shoes! [grumble grumble] I should never have stopped watching Oprah’s show… :/
Joe Biden: Israel Can Bomb Iran, We Can’t Stop Them
The country in this whole thing that apparently DOESN’T have sovereign rights is Iran, signed treaties, international law and national borders not withstanding.
Ob has said the same thing in the past few weeks, in one of his several sit down, one on one interviews. Forget who with. Israel is a sovereign nation and can operate as needed for her personal security. Who are we after all but just the FUCKING BILL PAYER.
Biden also said something to the effect that they had no idea how bad the economy is.
I jsut came across the report on that.. I kept dozing off during the Biden part and totally missed the roundtable. Or whatever the gaggle of goo goo is called.
His economic team was told by EVERYONE with half a brain their projections were off. IMO they knew perfectly well they were being ridiculous. But Goolsbee last week maintained on FOX everyone agreed with their projections. hardly. As I recall, NO ONE did.
We are so fucking screwed.
There start to b trickles, even on “hopelessly tied to the machine” KGO that there are NO JOBS in this Stumble Bill. Tho I heard Laughing Sal, Christine Romer, just two days ago prattle the “1900 construction jobs” line.
it may get very cold out there, BW review of unemployment numbers pointed out that white collar job loss is accelerating, fast. White collar, imo, has never given a damn when “old industry” or blue collar, or manufacturing jobs went…
So fucked.
Another thing the BW delineated.. the bar to what the government calls full employment or prohibits a job falling into “underemployed”… 33 hours a week is full employment. So if you are furloughed by the many states, even one day a week, you will not swell the numbers of “un and under employed”. (At least as I, befuddled civilian, reads it)
We are moving to three days furlough per month for some state jobs… but at that rate they won’t swell the numbers.
Tricky!
lies, damned lies and statistics.
I saw that story/video earlier.
The country in this whole thing that apparently DOESN’T have sovereign rights is Iran, signed treaties, international law and national borders not withstanding.
Exactly.
But the so-called progressives will tell you just how HUGE Obamalama’s influence is on Netanyahu. Really – they will.
Biden’s Dicta
I never go to that site… Did she push Ob in the GE and the primaries?
Sure seems unhappy now.
Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist and respects Richard Dawkins
Well he’s off! To Russia for three days.. and Rome, the Vatican, the earthquake area (L’Aquila?) for some economic sludge fest and Ghana.
The article in Politico about the supposed WHY he is not giving some big speech in Ghana is hilarious. I remember Bill’s speech to a sea of black faces (a vision I am sure Obama handlers want badly, “see! he can keep them down!”)… in ‘98 but I had forgotten (or never knew) that as he was lightly mauled in the surging, over exuberant (let’s be kind) mass of human flesh, his aides feared transmission of HIV or some other disease.
Cute.
‘Rationing’ Health Care: What Does It Mean?
ugh. I think the ultimate in “rationing” is the dumping of charity or Medic-Aid / Medi-Cal patients to any old corner on skid row… sometimes with an IV still in their arm. Once on a gurney. Several times in a wheel chair. All of which has been captured on security cameras in the greater LA area. Or deaths on cameras in ER waiting rooms, caught several times…
Hard to beat that rationing. Other than obvious death from lack of care, early intervention care when people fear seeking care due to cost, loss of coverage when ill and making too much for government subsidised care. Etc. It goes on and on and on and on and on..
new thread…
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