It’s time to start living in the more recent past. My favorite Wilco song: p align=”center” class=”asset asset-video” style=”display: block; margin: 0pt auto;”> Continue reading Saturday Night Music: Can’t Stand It
In honor of Puck: Who was your first childhood pet? I didn’t have any animals growing up. Mostly because my parents were responsible and knew that you get a kid a pet, you’re really getting yourself a pet because 9 times out of 10 Mom and Dad end up walking and feeding it. Dad had fish, though, so I pretended his little red-tailed shark was my pet. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
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It’s a sign of being a ferret owner that upon getting a diagnosis of adrenal cancer, your main reaction is relief. Ah, a treatable, well-known ferret illness that can be lived with for years while the ferret is mostly unaware of it, or at least unaware enough to spend all day chasing his brothers around the dining room in smaller and smaller concentric circles until one of them gives up and tackles him. Trouble is, those years go by too fast. Tonight Puck, who’s been going steadily downhill in the past month as the treatments he’s been on began failing … Continue reading Goodbye Puckbug, Puckaroo, Pucker, PuckPuck
It’s time to continue the Seventies UK power pop theme in the wake of last evening’s latter day version ofAll The Way From Memphis. The original 10CC lineup was short-lived but absolutely brilliant. They wrote and performed some of the cleverest and catchiest rock songs ever.Life Is A Minestrone is a hoot, featuring some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Cole Porter including a line that at one time I used as my email sig file: “I’m just a gourmet in a skid row diner, a fitting menu for a dillettante.” Here are the boys lipsinking onTop Of The … Continue reading Life Is A Minestrone
Oh, gosh darn bummer: WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan drew opposition Friday from Republican leaderMitchMcConnell and two other GOP senators, raising the prospect of a confirmation largely along party lines. Wow, that sucks. If only half of Democrats and half of Republicans would vote for her exactly so that we could achieve … something, because she’s only REALLY on the court if both sides hate her! I know this because of my learnings. In other news, Lindsey is an enormous pussy, something that in a just world would annoy Republicans as much as it annoysthe Democrats he occasionally … Continue reading This Win Tastes Like Win, But Lacks Win Sauce
Check out the MST3K Riff Trax guys and their Bacon Cam. I couldn’t make this up if wanted to… Let’s see Tweety pull off something this cool. —– Continue reading BACON! BACON! BACON! LIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER!
Doc suggested this bozo for this week’s booby prize and after checking it out I decided he was right. Unfortunately, I’m a bit late to the dance because I’ve been very busy but this sort of malaka always deserves a bit of virtual ass kicking. The inelegantly named Steve Blow’s job is as a columnist for the Dallas Morning News. I did a bit of reading of his back catalog and his stuff is usually just dull, duller, dulles and not very controversial. This time, however, he hit a nerve and indulged in some egregious malakatude. Here’s the offending, as … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Steve Blow
Here’s the third installment of the Betsy saga. I’ll be done and on to less self-indulgent stuff next week, I swear to God. This is a lot like Harry Potter books: start with one idea and each subsequent installment gets bigger and bigger. Here’s thefirst andsecond part of the series. As per last week, if you feel I’m personally the cause of all the dead birds in the Gulf, the global war for oil and the reason why we don’t have hyper-buses that run on positive feelings, feel free to skip this or use “planet-killing vehicle of extinction and death … Continue reading Betsy (Part III)
In a futile attempt to live like grown-ups, we purchased a thing to store all the ferret toys in so they won’t be strewed all over the dining room all the time. It basically doubles as an ottoman, or a stool or something, it’s hollow, etc. Bucky and Riot, natch, have repurposed it as a nesting box. The other night I was tearing the dining room apart looking for the little fuckers in every towel, tube, hammock and other place they like to stash themselves, to no avail, when I heard this rustling coming from the cube: I give up. … Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging
Della may be a tomboy but she likes to have a nice handbag to lean on… Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Della Street Accessorizes
Tonight’s song is a rollicking tune featuring two rock legends with white boy fros, Ian Hunter and Brian May: p align=”center” class=”asset asset-video” style=”display: block; margin: 0pt auto;”> Continue reading Thursday Night Music: All The Way From Memphis
They’re busy boys in Minnesota. At this year’s Gay Pride festivities the Log Cabin Republicans handed out these condoms whilst parading: a href=”http://blogofneworleans.com/blog/2010/06/30/gay-republican-condoms/” target=”_blank”>Via Kevin Allman of the Gambit Tabloid Blog. Continue reading Republican Rubbers
I was okay (well, not okay, but it’s not anything I haven’t heard before, and man, it’s almost the holiday weekend and I’m tired) withKathleen Parker’s latest shitpile of justification for why she sucks, ie women talk too much and Obama talks too much therefore he has a vagina, until she got tothis: Obama is a chatterbox who makes Alan Alda look like Genghis Khan. OH NO SHE DID NOT JUST CALL ALAN ALDA A PUSSY. Hawkeye Pierce was my first TV crush. I think I was like seven. I blame my entire teenage years of perving on dudes old … Continue reading Back Up Off Hawkeye, Bish
Quite some time ago a friend of mine nicknamed me Shecky because of my passion for one-liners and puns. The name was dormant for awhile until I started blogging and it came back. I’m not sure what I’ll think of Elena Kagan when she becomes a Supreme but she’s been terrific at her confirmation hearings and, most importantly, funny. Here’s a highlight reel from ABC News: p align=”center” class=”asset asset-video” style=”margin: 0pt auto; display: block;”>http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt.swf Continue reading Justice Shecky?
FromAlbum3 …turn out to be, well, pretty rank. Continue reading Ranking Republiclown Judiciary Committee Members…
It’s always nice when Goopers form a circular firing squad: blockquote> On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough made a damning accusation against House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), with whom he used to work in the House of Representatives. Scarborough said that the rap on Boehner amongst people who know him best is that he’s lazy: SCARBOROUGH: I hear it on the Hill, I’m sure you hear it on the Hill all the time, it’s not reported butso many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world. After 5 o’clock, 6 … Continue reading Lazy Bones