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Live from New York...It's Saturday Night!
Alright. And "Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer." Love ya, Phil. RIP.— April 27, 2009 12:44 a.m.
Live from New York...It's Saturday Night!
I was going to go with something easy this late, like Toonces the Driving Cat. I don't think Toonces gets enough credit. In my family, it was all about Ackroyd and Curtin's Coneheads, and "I am from France" with my French-Canadian cousins. But I'm gonna go instead with Jim Breuer's Goat Boy. Great physical humor with those hooves. Can't get enough of Goat Boy reporting on scene, with frequent cattle prods to get him out of his little "mehhhhh" ruts. After a few glasses of champers out in the country I've been known to stand on the deck and exchange calls with the local goats. "MMMEEEEEHHHHH." "Meh."— April 27, 2009 12:37 a.m.
Live from New York...It's Saturday Night!
Ok, Josh, I know it's off topic, but give me a minute--geez. You and mike1 are seriously tripping. Wes Anderson has this thing going on with the precocious boarding school, faux-innocent 'big' life question-posing attitude, and admittedly sometimes annoying speech patterns drilled into his characters, so they all sound the same. Yet the film was shot in beautiful, tight little vignettes with attention to detail, like the kid wrapping a gift with the little tartan plaid end of the Scotch tape you always thought was cute. And the "play" he does is hilarious, making fun of all the oldsters out there obsessed with Iwa Jima and Bogart movies. Fun, reflexive stuff. Ah, oh. Right. My fav SNL. Geez. Gimme a minute.— April 27, 2009 12:31 a.m.
Celebrity Idiots -- The Jamie Fox and Hulk Hogan Edition
Hey o. Your weather's sounding not bad at all! We're at around 22C daytime, a little warmer. Goes back and forth. Sorry, I should really remember to explain some of these terms. It's been quite a few years since I taught ESL. I was "popping outside" for a breath of fresh air--meaning, to quickly exit, with the idea of doing so for a short time. You can also "pop out" to the store to pick up a six-pack. I mean, of course, a six-pack of acidophilus-enhanced yogurt.:) How do you feel about moving here? Someone in my family markets for a company of folk working in your field. Do you have an idea where you want to work in the US?— April 26, 2009 11:29 p.m.
From Preps to Pros
I just don't think they should be enrolled and receive a degree without actually learning to think, read and write at the college level.— April 26, 2009 8:26 p.m.
George W. Bush Today
Oh, I should google you in what issue of the NYT, L? So, it's you we have to thank for all the cold calls--you and my man's mother, netting in last minute votes from the great crucial state of Pennsylvania--a tip of the cap to the both of you :) I can imagine the kind of discrimination you might face in court, in such an old boys forum--although being an expert with such cases, they probably didn't mess with you once your mouth opened. In academia it is also an issue, though once I was invited to smoke cigars with the boys in my advisor's office. You have to show you can speak their language, and that you are not that easily rattled. My first day at NYU comp lit a guy known as the jokester of the department said "Oh good, we finally got a pretty girl." His companion sucked his wind back, and just about passed out from embarrassment, but I just laughed because it was nice to run into some easy levity in such a serious place. I like the French attitude about femininity, and though I didn't exactly wear lowcut tops, I also didn't go barefaced and bespectacled, with severe hair and the requisite black turtleneck. On the subject of McCain, I read an old article meant for Rolling Stone in a collection of essays of David Foster Wallace. He describes some known facts about McCain's experience's of bailing out of his plane in a public park and ending up in the 'Hanoi Hilton' with broken ribs, leg or arm, etc. Definitely inspires some respect. If he'd only remained that stoic war hero rather than allow the wheel to spin out "Grandpa Maverick" as antigeekess called him, I'd have more respect.— April 26, 2009 4:58 p.m.
Celebrity Idiots -- The Jamie Fox and Hulk Hogan Edition
The first way you said it was in a sense correct; in general, I should be 'sunnier' :) Yes, we are known as possibly the most temperate city in this country, with one of the mildest climates anywhere. It's a beautiful day out; I'm grading some student work, and in between popping outside to breathe some fresh air and look down the hill at the sparkling bay. You said it wasn't so cold in Ole Peter right now, though, right? So Ovod, what do you do for a living, if you don't mind me asking?— April 26, 2009 4:34 p.m.
Celebrity Idiots -- The Jamie Fox and Hulk Hogan Edition
I don't blame you for not hanging at the mall, Ovod. Scurry in, sidle out, that's my motto. Looks like one of the tourist cruisers parked in our fair bay of SD. I live on the hill right over the bay, and can see them pull in. When I worked at a restaurant in Seaport Village, I had to memorize the names of the destroyers and various military craft, because invariably Hawaiian-shirted old tourists would ask me. Once a gentleman gave me a $20 for reciting the list, which I have now mercifully forgotten. I had an uncle "Peter" or "Pete," so the name is familiar, homey.— April 26, 2009 2:14 p.m.
George W. Bush Today
Yes, my mom is a hottie, and I'm proud of her for a lot of reasons, thanks. Especially for not being Sarah Palin, for then I'd be a ditched preggie hick with no forseeable college future, and an infant named after a snowmobile company. But if Rush Limbaugh was a woman, he's be her...just picture THAT in a bikini. Yeah, after about forty surgeries. Shiver.— April 26, 2009 1:50 p.m.
George W. Bush Today
Because something tells us Obama does believe homosexuals should have the right to marry. Sure, he says it is the domain of the church, but I think he'd like to extend social rights as well as the civil rights--which would make the religious domain argument practically moot--since the most important thing to many people is social acceptance and recognition. Obama was and is being necessarily cautious, for political reasons.— April 26, 2009 1:47 p.m.