Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Jacquille the parrot takes a bath in a tea cup, Costa Rica
[CESAR BADILLA / REX FEATURES]
I know it pushes the “aw” factor well into gag territory, but it is such a silly, sweet picture.
Carry on…………..
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- 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
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... 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.
They’ve actually APOLOGISED to him.
hmmm
Apparently he also said they “died for the American Dream”.
A bit rich…. full of “family” “the Lord” and other crap.
whoops
I’ll never understand why the idea that people are now “with” an supremely powerful bully who killed them is comforting, and if being “with” obscenely violent Sky Daddy is so great, why the hell should we bother to “save lives from being lost in another tragedy?” This is, after all, a “vale of tears” full of nasty, evil creatures tainted by the original sin of a curious bitch who couldn’t do what Sky Daddy told her and her boyfriend not to do. If there is a better world, a paradise full of clouds and cherubs and unlimited cable, shouldn’t we want MORE horrible tragedies, so that more people could be released from this big messy prison to be reborn into a perfect heaven?
Stupid, stupid belief, and yet another sign that religion is a mental illness.
I thought Obby made even less sense than usual. I think it was a conflation of “wow we lost a lot of peasants” and an awkward unispired (where is “touched the face of god” speech writers when you need them?) gloss over the criminality of the mine operators/owners.
But then for me his speeches have always been “thudddd” events.
Yeah, you have to give Peggy Noonan some credit – she wrote some good speeches for Reagan.
But I’ve been underwhelmed by the speeches I’ve heard from Obama. Not only poor clunky writing, but boring delivery. I thought he was supposed to be such a marvelous speaker!
To me, he’s always sounded plastic and smug.
‘Course, I was never impressed with Dean, either.
Obama Billy Graham Meeting: President Visits Evangelist In North Carolina
So will they talk about how horrible the Jews are to keep daddy happy, or about how evil the Muslims are to keep baby boy happy?
Barry is such a pandering piece of shit, yet GBLT people and women are supposed to believe he’ll “take care of them” even though he’s constantly cozying up to religious bigots and misogynists?
I asked one queer blogger I know why anyone with a brain should put up with this sweet-talking abusive shit. Never got an answer.
I guess as long as celebs keep coming out, it’s all good. [rolleyes]
Speaking of Grahams:
I’ll bet you 5 bucks Obamalama is going to issue a private apology to daddy Graham.
Never has so much been said about dropping in on one state. Right before gawd visited NC I read his numbers are in free fall in NC.
Could explain the heavy slobberation for all things NC and Appalachia.
Mary Kay Henry, California Nurse Organizer, Will Be New SEIU Chief
I’ve been following it, as much as someone who knows little to nothing about it can… seems clear she edged out Anna Burger, supposedly Stern’s preferred choice to follow him.
Who knows… if she shakes things up a bit…
if she only moves them away from being so incestuous with the donks it’ll be a plus.
no idea if true or not, but at least in what I read, it seemed that Burger would keep to the idea of being a DC power player and Mary Kay a lot less so.
I do kind of wonder why STern left so suddenly…
may they all bite each other, etc.
Roeder files petition claiming that his rights have been violated
Poor dear didn’t get his hero’s parade, like he expected.
Maybe Ob and Billy can go visit him in jail. Bring him a nice casserole or something.
[rolleyes]
I’m surprised he didn’t whine that he’d have been better treated if he was a Muslim.
forcing me to appear on television without the assistance of counsel or court clothes.”
gah. Only wants to give his jailhouse interviews…
demonstrates heightened disregard for the presumption of my innocence.”
what presumption of innocence… I thought he happily confessed.
Will Goldman Sachs prove greed is God?
Cochise County Militia ready to patrol
There is something really sick and funny about a bunch of white, right-wing yahoos naming themselves after a Native American leader who fought a war to keep people LIKE THEM out of his people’s land.
ain’t it the truth.
Love the pic! Our sun conure Jellybean takes his baths in a small souffle dish that happens to be the right size to fit through his cage door. He’s so cute when he does it. And quite regular in his habits – every day around the same time in the late morning. I have to try to get a photo sometime.
oh please… and let me know when you do!
gnu
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