Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Amber Handley-Collins: My cat Teddy is pure puurrfection. He looks unworldly, like a magical Disney animal | Amber Handley-Collins
The Guardian has multiple galleries on cats… It is completely impossible to choose among them, but this fellow was one who stood out (he’s in the “cute” gallery). He is, as she says, fantastical.
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]
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"... 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.
it’s always intrigued me, the seemingly stark personality difference in biologically male “felines” versus the, generally, more survival oriented (of necessity, and a long, lonnnnnnnnggggg history? From what I’ve noticed, …. in my tiny bubble), physically smaller, more emotive? (really? ..well, at least without the need for a stimulant in order to emote), wary, cautious, female “felines.” (after well too many rapes by ‘the larger of the species’).
He reminds me of a male bunny on his back, stomach being pleased momentarily.
If that ever changes, ..and I confess to wishing towards it, ………I hope it never changes to the extreme, but to a sort of midway balance …..
Oh my, just went to the corner store to stock up on cigs and brew … good thing I bought some beef jerky to heave on (nothing worse than dry heaves if you feel like heaving!) as a response to having glimpsed, on my way in, a hard copy of the San Jose Murky News, yet another Sly Con Valley Cali HeadLiner!, an Obscene Homage, …an Oath Actually,… to Ronnie Reagan (and, very, very vaguely, .. between the lines, Obombster) :
Analysis: Who is the true heir to Ronald Reagan?
By Steven Harmon
(apples work very well if anyone just had the urge to divest their tummy of its content!)
LOL. Oh that is hilarious :: Great Cat, Great Pic!
I thought he was grrrreat too…
I see the Chicago machine is trying once again with their favorite amputee… I think this is the third try in 8 years…
Politico
ugh I just caught up to the Great Black Hope, the “black friend” of George Zimmerman, Joe Oliver. On the ABC news overnight…
He even refers to Zimmerman as “watch commander” in his penny ante self-appointed job of neighborhood watch.
This thing has completely fallen apart, both sides to battle stations.
and meanwhile, across the BP (et al) fouled pond, …………. poor Davie, turned up the gas too high on his new barby:
The nasty ass shit…. just writes itself:
Yup… the only “wrong” thing poor Fergie did was get caught on film. Not like that sort of thing is not the order of the day.
Well of course she was also divorced and visibly drunk. Did her in….
TSA gets Bruce Schneier booted from House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing
oh what a shame.
And it is certainly the carcinogenic neon red maraschino cherry on top of recent days.
The child def recedes. Fast.
Read more: Seattle Post Intelligencer
is there anything that won’t be commodified?
I’d hate to see the signed dox and see Sharpton has a percentage interest.
I see there was a hot shot PR guy behind the Le Bron James and Heat photo. Not a shock as it looked highly manipulated.
Strauss-Kahn-oodler arrested again.
Jeezis Crifte.
D U D E : Just move into Zucotti Park, man.
And I see he is charged with “aggravated pimping”.
D U D E: Work for the DNC this summer.
My guess is hOllande goes in, things disappear. I don’t know who is going to win…. but from what I read Sarko is getting no bump no surge from Toulouse and Hollande is several pts ahead. Several weeks to go tho…
FWIW there is a new rolling poll out in the French elections, that moves forward of Toulouse… Sarko shows an uptick of .05 and Hollande remains ahead by about 8 pts.
Bonne chance a tous!
May they all drop dead!
Geesh… this thing in FL is falling apart fast.
One thing that has surfaced, via the Orlando Sentinel, is that the Sanford PD DID in fact confiscate Zimmerman’s gun that night and in fact, still have it.
Nobdy seems to know if they took a blood sample or photos of the injuries he claims….
I wouldn’t want to have to pick apart any 16, 17 year old’s life (he had just turned 17), but having painted him as a perfect, more than perfect, angel and used pictures of him that are not exactly the most current, then tried to steamroll, reject, wall off, denounce, whatever came out about him … not the best tactic. Every little thing that surfaces is just drip drip drip.
Best of luck! is about all that can be said.
You cannot make this stuff up… Obama campaign has reduced their hoodie wear from $50 to $40.
LULZ
shameless
it’s hilarious…
Is Sharpton in on that racket as well?
That would be my guesss…. the family atty, Crump, contacted him directly, they know each other. And my ears pricked up a few days ago when I listened to the parents on some segment. They could not sing Sharpton’s praises enough.
Just stumbled onto this website’s jaw[b]s ™ related piece from last week:
As GOP Primaries Numb Your Brain, Congress is Up to More Tricks
The author of the piece unfortunately ends it on what I find to be a delusional note that assumes there are actually a handful of senators with a decent bone in their bodies who will attempt to slay the beast.
assumes there are actually a handful of senators with a decent bone in their bodies
oh that is just plain funny. And insane.
yup, as we speak it awaits Obombster’s bot sig … I didn’t even bother to check the Senate votes, but do know that A. Eshoo/FaceScan/Googleplex,et al, USA, for one, was a chosen Cali House Rep considered safe to sign it, which of course, she did. ….
So fucked we are ……
Nothing but bitches and creeps….
The AFL-CIO leadership is worthless, though. No matter how bad the Dems are, it always goes crawling back to them.
What we need now is an Occupy within the American Labor movement, but I’m not waiting up.
yes … keep breathing… which you are doing anyway…;)
[kiss the kitties]
yep, they are worthless,..we need an occupy everything with any semblence of worth left …shelter, food …
From the party that luvs to luv ya…. and luv u bak 2!
Truly we roll in bullscheisse (via Mike Allen Playbook):
And this sterling addition from the swamps:
I suggest a yellow and black caution sign for the WH, the DNC, Charlotte and all points E, W, S and N:
Caution! Slimeballs forming inside! Proceed, much less vote for same, at own risk!!
Carville is one of those people who makes me sorry that I don’t believe in Hell. The smugness just pours off him and others like him: Haw haw either way I win!$$$!
He needs a groin punch in the worst way, preferably from somebody wearing brass knuckles.
I can’t remember if it was Carville or Begala who pushed Blair up agaisnt a wall and told him, on his first US visit post Monica, to do whatever it took to help save the Clinton pretzeldencia…. (think who ever did it also put his arm across Blair’s neck)
I jsut loved it that a bit of truth slipped out and I forget where I found it. SOme book I think…
And think of all the obnoxious little wannabees he inspired to try and “get in the game,” on DK and its kajillion-and-one knockoffs.
Just for plaguing Blogland with so many of them to this day? Reason enough to make it two groin punches. :p
Carville is a true, toxic swamp lizard, no doubt with a direct sout’ern bloodline to the Newtster …and then there’s his Nasty ass wife too, Mary ™ is it? ….Reading about that Coupling ™, in the late nineties, was my first intro to the DemRat/ReThug Shell Game that is so Historic.
They were both at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. I think his third one.
oh that just reminded me of that fill in DEM surfer lawyer woman who lurves Huntsman, on KGO, waxing eloquent about the BIg Stink Cheese’s Talents and Smarts!!!! ™
(Elton John too, or was that another creepy coupling, etc. (wit Brit Sirs ‘entertaining’ (Michelllle ….my belle …)), concert?)
(Ohhh …well oopsie, ‘they’ don’t call it a Shell Game, ‘they’ call it … the Hedge Funds Game ™ and they’d bet against their first born (and the rest of em too), and mommas’ life, to ‘win’ at it.)
Knew this Evil was brewing, likely at least ever since AT&T was inexplicably allowed to begin re monopolizing (if it ever in fact really stopped, behind closed doors) in 2005, after the 1984 break up (No doubt the NSA et al, fully support the ease of mobile access and land-line shut down also):
An end to phones in every home?
Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:00am EDT
By David Cay Johnston
Honestly I hope I am dead by then.
that makes at least two of us, and then (if I might speak for others near and dear to me) some ………
Don’t we need a: DEM dat support de Man [™, be one! .... And pay what’s due $UZ$!] Date ™ Thread! ™ …here?
It goes on because there is no choice…. and people want to believe in something. That something might work, that someone might do their job… etc.
Big fucking delusion.
Look at the utterly baseless love for any number of pretzels.
Utterly dumb.
well, the insane monetary caste system we humans have bound ourselves with was/is a choice of sorts, but yeah .. I get your point, it’s all much like a snowball rolling down a 20,000 foot high, snow encased mountain at this point, an avalanche.
New…
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After the protest photo from Madrid in the Spanish General Strike I will probably revisit the Guardian galleries on cats… Being catless I miss Teddy, already…
