Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and great herons (Ardea alba) at Birds Island in the Suchitlan Lake, near the town of Suchitoto, El Salvador. The artificial lake, formed by the Cerron Grande dam, is a natural shelter for wildlife | Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images
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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.
May Day march urges immigration reform
we’ll see, I think May 1 is the day Occupy, + the various orgs around here that seem to operate together with Occ, plan to take the GG Bridge.
I’m all for it….
info here:
http://occupysf.org/
G’night hon.
Thanks for that… I see the plan now is to be present at strike lines but to keep the bridge open….
Whatever works!
just bumped into this too: http://occupywallst.org/article/may-day/ with a linked list of actions across the world, massive weinie roasts….
(waves to the NSA, … that was satire, … weeeelllllll that’s something humans do … to ease misery, and make things momentarily feel better than ones overlords have them feeling, …oh nevermind …)
G’night again hon.
I’m not quite sure why they moved the immigration march to Sunday …
well the first is a week day (tomorrow? I think)… but I have no idea if that matters….
Love Who is IOZ’s new post:
My mind immediately went to THIS : likely to become a sadistic and permanent institution: The Mandatory GRADUATION!!!!! Feel UP…..[ RAPE].
( had intended to look up about the insignia: LANDMARK EVENT [Staff] ™ (see the insignia on the Yellow Jackets) …another (Earth Spanning!!!!) Subsidiary/Affiliate/Partner of Securitas[!!!!!!!]? …….( all over Sly Con Valley Cali too) but I’m morose enough ….don’t think I can handle that cesspool right now.)
As to Who is IOZ not mentioning that in his post, my knee jerk was that it might likely have a swat team at his door, given that he presumably lives a mile or so away from where that, soon to be the norm, travesty took place.
London is planning to put not just snipers, which has been done for a long time, but MISSILES on top of buildings, even residences, in London… during the Olympics.
It is one thing to position anti aircraft batteries here and there (bad enough) – and like snipers hardly new…. but positioning missiles on top of homes?
I say cancel the fucking games.
cancel the fucking games.
which, of course, is the least likely scenario … as the powers that be … can’t do without their Gladiator Games …even when they, themselves, can’t get it up, ..or, provide the requisite moisture for a seed to sprout … while they force and legistlate others to sprout seeds which are destined to starve in such a hostile, death absorbed, environment
I suppose the only bleakly optimisitic outcome … will be that if the “UK” and Fwends, …ooooops, create (by worshiping and preparing for) a disasterous outcome, …the majority of the victims …will be those stadium seated spectators, ….. the very very few who can now afford that ticket to the games™, … so many of whom who have willfully turned a blind eye to the misery of their own species ….
The bleakly unfortunate outcome, of course, is that there is a great possibility that such an “event” would be manufactured, whereby the Perps at the top of the “Totem Pole” would be the last ones to be caught dead sitting in any targeted stadium seats.
Of course they have no intention of cancelling the games… I am just glad Chicago lost out to BraZil. Any fool wants it, should have it.
Athens regrets the Olympic games…. but oops too late now! I have no idea if S Africa regrets the FIFA foofoo, but they should.
ETC.
yup, … Moby Dick is alive and well, … albeit: ..the new and iSmart™ly! Impwoved!!!! Progressive!!!!!™ .03 Version!!!!!! ..Vive el botox y Viagra!
I don’t understand what you are saying…
In a nutshell, my meaning was that “the games” are all about a very deformed “male” on steroids concept of having the largest DICK in the realm, though now quite modernized and whitegloved behind the curtain that perpetuates those win all or lose all games.
oh I think it is all about the money, more than anything else.
I think it’s more about Holding Power than anything else, ..of course money and being ‘well hung’ (physically and/or economic asset wize) seem to be a favorite symbolism of Power; and, certainly, having economic power trumps being physically well hung, though it appears to make some bitter.
How Will Media Totally Avoid Useful News Coverage of May Day Protests?
wowowo I had not heard that tidbit….
all kinds of interesting tidbits falling loose.
BTW, I watched Chris Hayes and a bunch of other ‘liberals’ repeatedly dismiss and interrupt an Occupy lawyer on Sunday … she was having none of the “you have to work in the system” crap and it was freaking them out.
But there has to be a system, how else will we get our patronizing approval and pat on the head for fighting the ‘good’ fight?
she was having none of the “you have to work in the system” crap and it was freaking them out.
Everything falls apart when that is rejected.
BTW, I meant to mention but the local CBS affiliate has gone after Granholm and her husband for their cushy jobs at UC Berkeley (300K a year between them and joke courses with few students)…. they just ran it again tonight too…. it’s a long segment, and they talk to several senior, tenured professors at Berkeley in the piece.
they would not let her talk …
here’s some of the video
Such a gambit, SOMEONE has to call the jerks out on that, publically on TV with a smile.
I’m just plain sick and tired of all these fucks maintaining the myth that Democrats are the Friends of Labor. They mention Taft-Hartley, but never talk about how many opportunities the Dems have had to cut it down. They never mention President Fuckface and his cronies letting Card Check die on the vine. They never mention Pelosi the Slimeball being picketed by the workers she routinely exploits and rides herd over. All Democrats do is fuck Labor, pocket its money, and then send tools like Weingarden there out to keep the myth machine going. I assume that she’s well-paid enough to be perfectly okay with this.
The myth of The Friendly Democrat must be preserved. Nobody even gets on the air if they challenge it. (And I’m not on boards like boing boing anymore because I challenged it.)
And Christ. Who gave this putz Hayes a job? He’s got all the dynamism of a bowl of tapioca.
It’s fun watching the Demopologists ’round the table avoid any overt expression of kinship with OWS. Not, I would hope, that OWS wants this. I think that, as with the anti-war movement, schmucks like Nadler figure they just need to sit back and wait. The scared, foolish little people will come crying back to them come November, like always– flinging votes and coins at their richly-clad feet in exchange for some tiny crumb of faux-protection from the mean old GOP.
Wouldn’t it be a scream if the hacks were wrong, for once?
That neatly sums it up….
I am impressed with the iron stomachs of you and everyone else out there who can handle this stuff in doses exceeding 5-10 minutes. I was ready to rip out my ears when that clip was over. (But if I did that, how would my glasses stay up? :p)
Pince nez syle… tres chic… if hard to master!
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oh much better illustration!!
i went completely to text back in the bush administration, because i could no longer handle listening to politicians speak. it did wonders for my blood pressure.
thanks for that smile, I sure I hope they win the lawsuit (won’t hold my breath, sadly).
NYPD Raids Activists’ Homes Before Tomorrow’s Occupy Wall Street Protests
Assholes.
BTW – for anyone who’s interested, here’s a little promo for my upcoming CD release set to the music from the first single off that release…
You were the gal in the Viking helmet, right?
That was our Lebowski fest & our violinist went as Maude… I was the one in the unitard right next to her.
Sweet! (I think I’m your first “like” over there.)
Let me know if you’d like to trade some music for some pictures sometime, L. (Sadly, I don’t think getting to the show is an option right now.)
Anytime. You can reach me at demonkittymusic at gmail.
Done! 8)
Cops are everywhere today. Am thinking of going to the solidarity march tonight, but it already looks like it’s gonna be a war zone.
And god forbid an Occupier smokes a cigarette too…
Schlomo Benito and his cops are out on the prowl, as I call Bloomberg.
You know he’s pushing legislation that could outlaw smoking inside private residences? Quitting was definitely one of the best things I’ve ever done, but sheesh! And here I thought the unspoken purpose of government was to protect property rights…
Areas here have done that… Belmont California banned smoking in a rental unit, some years ago. I don’t think they have managed to pass anything that bans it inside a single family residence…
A couple of years ago my neighbor, who has a Rolls and a VW bug…LOL redid his garage…. part of which was some sort of 3 or 4 day job that almost killed me, my other neighbor went to peek and told me they were laying down a special floor, in layers. Fumes from that were the problem….
The next block over from me there are several homes that were extensively remodeled, one job lasted 14 months. Thank god it was a block half block away.
But cities should have the power to ban cigarettes? In your home?
… and I don’t even smoke.
Speaking of smoking:
Will they photograph him smiling while holding up the body parts of children killed by drones?
Exactly.
Back in the so called toiletting or burning of the Qurans, I sent an email to as many local media outlets as I could saying.
“EVERYONE knows the ethical US approved method of destroying the Quran is hell fire missile.”
(Not that I care, I am for burning any sacred script that is maniacally believed, surrender all known copies to arts/historical museums and be done with it.)
Mamamammamia.
Slob is going to live address the nation from Kabul on the one year anniversary of the bin Laden kill.
And to think we have six fucking months to go.
via USA Today
Apparenlty a line in some speech he gave today was
“Light at the end of the horizon.”
hmm?
Tunnel anyone?
ugh I heard one comparison to Westmoreland who used the “tunnel” version of the phrase, 10 weeks before Tet
I can sum the damned speech up.
“Learn to love the veterans”.
Geesh. Big fat finger shake about war.
it’s about protecting insurance company profits, nothing more
Did anyone else catch the MSN “news” headline about how Bin Laden was plotting to kill President Hopey?
Wow. So timely. We have no answer to the issues raised by MayDay, so here’s some warmed-over Ten Minutes Hate for you stupid proles, plus the usual filler about what some overly made-up scrawny ghoul of a celebrity is wearing/driving/screwing/not eating today.
Christ, Hopey. Just go ahead and have Bin Laden’s remains dug up and reanimate them so you can kill him again live on camera, like the big fucking warrior badass you so long to be. Shit, go ahead and make yourself a whole parade of Zombie Bin Ladens. Put on a camo suit with an enhanced crotch area just like Baby Doc Bush did. Then get on the roof of the White House and pick them off with magic bullets. Shit. Think of how much cheaper that would be than all these drone bombings against all those enemy women and kids. You’d save a ton on fuel AND bullets! Everyone wins!
Actually they are bringing it up again…. now in GE mode…
And HillPill has changed her story YET again… on the hand over mouth image.
So much joy out there. I can’t keep up with you young, vital types.
Hey, mr_xeno just called to tell me that some Occupiers have broken the lock on a foreclosed home one subdivision from here, and let the (human) residents back in. If I have time to take a stroll there later today (still doing the never-ending trawl of all the stupid jobsites, trying to meet my quota without going mad) I’ll let you know what I saw.
Agent 001, report in!
I made it over there just as it was breaking up. Sorry.
But if you scroll down about 1/3rd of the page here, you can see some details on the reverse-eviction, as they’re calling it. 8)
oh I just have too much time. Too few DVDs…
Huge Crowds in New York. Occupy Wall Street Is Back
I think it was a pretty bumpy road out here today….
I walked from 8th St. to City Hall – had to get home after that. I would bet there were about 25K. People were still leaving Union Square by the time I got down to City Hall and hour an a half later. There was someone tackled and arrested by cops for no apparent reason right in front of me & very heavy police presence – another reason I left before it hit the immediate Wall St. area – don’t have time to spend the night in jail…
Quite a few arrests out here, esp Oakland…. and some of the SF plans may have been hijacked. Not exactly a shock…
I just saw on a live stream that a cop car got torched in Oakland, Whoo hoo!
It looked very rough earlier in the day in Oakland… several men wrestled to the street then handcuffed. I think they bound one at the feet, but I may have misconstrued what I saw.
Glad you got out w/ few problems.
I’ve always thought the May Day Osama “Kill” Saga (yet to be told) was deliberately scheduled on International Workers Day to further inflame the favored utter bullshit about ‘loser,’ ‘riff raff,’ Communist!!!! Laborers versus HEROES!!!!! Willing to Sacrifice For Their Country!!!!!!™.
Honestly, I have no idea what Osama has to do with Communists, communists and or workers. He’s just one in a long line of frenemies.
The story, in a decent nation, would be worn the fuck out.
Huh? Didn’t make the point that Osama was being associated with Communists or Laborers, was making the point that the Osama “Kill” might have been made on May Day, which has been historically conflated by the powers that be, with a bunch of loser “communists,” to further denigrate Laborers,..on May Day, by compating them to Heroic Navy Seals!!!!™ ..And certainly wasn’t making the point the Osama “Kill” should be some celebrated annual event.
(sorry, “comparing” vs. “compating)
I just don’t see what Osama / Osama Kill Day or the One Year Celebration by Obama of OKD has to do with all the rest. Loser communists and whoever else… in the line up.
For one thing, even with Occupy protests May 1 has so little significance in the US by now, it just slides by.
It’s the Righties making a fuss and conflating the latest Sloboma campaign slogan (Forward!), as Marxist, Leftischer, commie, Red, Socialist etc.
??? I clearly didn’t use the term “loser communists” as if that was my belief (if that’s what your implying), which is why I used the words “utter bullshit” along with quotation marks, it was quite in agreement with your premise of “Righties making the fuss.”
(if that’s what your implying),
It’s not what I meant.
the TSA, occupying people’s privates:
TSA to My Mother-in-Law: ‘There’s an Anomaly in the Crotch Area’
No, we’ve BEEN crazy … only it’s ‘other’ people who the powers-that-be felt free to abuse up until now. Welcome to the ‘Merika you middle class folks voted for, repeatedly.
And bear in mind the Sikh turban is protected as religious clothing that may only be touched by the [High Holy] wearer…
I realise I am a broken record on this, but it drives me nutty.
And Abdulmuttalab originally began bis trip and changed planes at least once with no valid passport in hand – much less a visa to fly to the USA…
But WE should be manhandled?
And another thing, is there a fucking photo anywhere of some CHILD wrapped in a niqab, a young girl in a burka… being patted down?
I laughed myself silly in 1991 at a report in the NYT about how we were admitting, into the country, people whose passport photos were of them in the Saudi or Afghani style covering. Eyes, barely and nothing else on view.
We had deemed it religious garb not to be disturbed. The upshot was we had no fucking clue who is here…. it struck me as I had just had to removed hair combs that IN NO WAY obscured my face for new passport photos.
Too many very young children have been reported crying and asking what is going on during a pat down.
May Day, 2012 (big photo gallery)
Rejected and controversial New Yorker cover art: exclusive Boing Boing preview gallery
Some of these are awesome.
The ones I have seen I wonder at the rejection… I knew whatshisname, the famous and wonderful ‘Mouses as Nazis’ cartoonist and who provided the first cover after 9/11 as a staff member nto an outside artist AND who was dismissed, that his wife is still there, but until recently I had not known it has been her job for 20 years or so to select the covers…
Art Spiegelman … love his Clinton cover at the link.
That’s the one… I had no idea his wife was the cover editor, and for a long time.
Oh I just saw them, the few that are up… and read that The New Yorker will move into the WTC in 2014
MISTAKE!!
Straight from Whitehouse.gov:
snicker.
Apparnetly it has been a Loyalty Day since 1958 and they all reaffirm it.
[sob]
this country is so fucking nuts
A peach of a country…. and we just keep giving our Franco different faces.
Christ…
AND on this historic Loyalty Day we are all bursting our buttons in……. Pride? Joy? Reverence? (something!, snicker) as his speech was …. h i s t o r i c.
How so you might wonder.
First ever Pretzel national address from the battlefield.
…and we are to …. celebrate? (I guess so!)
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Honestly, is there anything left to say about this country?
hmmm via Mike Allen Playbook at Politico….
HOW MANY AF Ones are there?
I like the sound of “President Buzzkill”
Would the Last Civil Right in America Please Remember to Close the Door on Its Way Out?
But remember: Obama/Romney aren’t extreeeeeeeeeeeme!
Only those who say “Fuck ‘em both” on Election Day are extreeeeeeeeeme!!
keep typing like that, and you won’t hear the drone that gets you!
If it’s coming, can it please hit before Pointless Job Interview #9,327, instead of after?
:p
nope, to enhance your punishment they’ll arrange a very lucrative offer of employment THEN BLAMO!!!
Just for that, you’re inheriting The Sid and Butterscotch the Evil after I bite the big one.
=^..^= =^..^=
Is’t that just the way life works, too oftn?
Oh and….
Please go quietly, at long last.
[sigh]
Radical Centrist Deathwatch
LOL
The Christian horror movie Harmless features a possessed box of porn. No, really.
LOL
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