Vote for whoever will have the best TV show after being mayor.
This is what I'm saying! It's like an election AND American Idol all wrapped up in one ludicrous (not Ludicris) package!
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Sep 08, 2005 8:44:09 am PDT #5501 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
sarameg - Sep 08, 2005 8:46:02 am PDT #5502 of 10002
OK, now I just have to hope for no baseball. Or football. Whatever it is that seems to be taking over local broadcast.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2005 8:49:05 am PDT #5503 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm totally voting for Ludacris now.
DavidS - Sep 08, 2005 9:00:34 am PDT #5504 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I could do just the inner planets with the Sun being 25cm across and still fit Mars in the yard. The Earth would be about 2 mm across. Small, but doable.
I think you should just nail Pluto onto a neighboring house down the block.
I'm totally voting for Ludacris now.
Like you needed an excuse.
New rule: Anybody who uses the phrase "blame game" gets punched in the head instantly by the nearest reporter.
erikaj - Sep 08, 2005 9:03:43 am PDT #5505 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Dang, Hec, another reason to be sad about mainstream media's failure to embrace me.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 08, 2005 9:04:33 am PDT #5506 of 10002
What is even happening?
Dang, Hec, another reason to be sad about mainstream media's failure to embrace me.Honey, you don't want them to embrace you. You know where they've been.
DavidS - Sep 08, 2005 9:05:20 am PDT #5507 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Honey, you don't want them to embrace you. You know where they've been.
I think she just wants to punch the Bush administration in the head, one politico at a time.
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2005 9:06:59 am PDT #5508 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
New rule: Anybody who uses the phrase "blame game" gets punched in the head instantly by the nearest reporter.
I can't figure it out - is this sound-bite an especially egregious talking point, or am I just suffering from Republican talking point sound-bite fatigue?
Because it really pisses me off that they're using this in an attempt to deflect all criticism of the administration's (and FEMA's) response.
"When people don't want to play the 'blame game' ... they're to blame." - Jon Stewart.
askye - Sep 08, 2005 9:07:52 am PDT #5509 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I have a MI-5 quesiton. I'm sure the answer is "tom quinn is the world's worst spy" or "Handwave!" or both.
I just finished watching the episode with ASH (great episode) and Tom tells Ellie and Maisey that he's not Matthew, but really Tom, the spy. Maisey happily tells her Mum that they can call him Tom now.
Do they actually switch to call him Tom out places like the restaurant or is this just glossed over? I'm trying to figure out why Tom would say to call him Tom and not continue being called Matthew since he's been introduced to Ellie's friends that way.
Nutty - Sep 08, 2005 9:08:56 am PDT #5510 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I like that the reporter persists in trying to get a yes/no answer, in that excerpt. It just makes the press guy look more and more like a complete idiot.
We need to see whole long 10-minute excerpts of this on the evening news. Preferably, with a picture-in-picture window with closeups of what the Superdome looks like on the inside. Ted Koppel, I am counting on you!!
In other news, I read David Brooks's op-ed piece today, against my own wisdom. How do people with that poor a grasp of rhetoric get to be editorialists?? And why don't republican apparatchiks read recent history? (He's proposing that poor people not be allowed back into New Orleans, ever, and that they be forcibly "integrated" into middle-class housing tracts in other cities/states, to "teach them" how not to be poor. Not only does it all come off as coded racism, it's also a blurry photocopy of early Great Society programs, which were miserable failures.)