Dangerfield!

Holy shit

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:34:58 -0700

My thoughts exactly. Ann ain’t no Republican, that’s for damn sure. Also: is Anderson Cooper just being a fabulous bitch tonight or what? After some Republican lady waxed fannish about how Sarah Palin’s “Read my lipstick” quote represented how a woman could maintain her femininity and still “throw a punch with a french manicure”, the Coops commented that she might have to re-christen it an “american manicure” b/c the Repubs had problem with Obama’s efforts to maintain relations with the EU. Moments earlier, he speculated that a giant balloon that descended upon their broadcast booth might be headed for hi hawkish co-caster Wolf Blitzer because he was a member of the “elite media”. Oh Andy.

karion:

They are playing Barracuda, by Heart? Listen, buddy. I know Heart and holy shit, are they going to be pissed off beyond reason. Hey Ann, I know a kickass IP attorney.

Open Letter To Matthew Weiner & The Staff Of Mad Men

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:25:16 -0700

cameronr:

mollylambert:

You should never use anachronistic music.

You’re better than that.

Using modern music takes us out of the show. Mad Men excels at demonstrating the perverseness of the culture using real artifacts from the time. No later indie rock or punk song will ever be as subversive or weird as ACTUAL MUSIC FROM 1962 which sounds so weird and alien and uncool to us.

Using “Lollipops And Roses” to close the episode the other week was brilliant. Not only did it stick in my head for days, I only now just learned that it won a Grammy.

“Lollipops and Roses” (1962, Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance)

See? Stuff like that is brilliant. So much more brilliant than a Decemberists song that takes me out of the narrative and into some dorm room from the past. There was one episode last season that ended with “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and it was SO WRONG because we all know that album came out in 1963 and it was only still 1960.

Again, it just opened a gap in the fantasy world that annoys me because I am nitpicky and will sit around thinking about things like this. You’re better than that. Stick to accurate songs of the period. Those songs are just SO FUCKING WEIRD.

Also Mad Men has been reminding me of Twin Peaks a little bit. Not just because of the creepiness of “oldies station” culture. All these long ambiguous takes that could mean LITERALLY ANYTHING. Not that I’m complaining. It’s great. Those are just my notes. CARRY ON.

Watching it now. That just bugged the shit out of me.

elainecorden: well, yeah, that kinda annoyed me too. It definitely jarred me.

did i post this horrible version of a beautiful song already? I...

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:55:00 -0700

did i post this horrible version of a beautiful song already? I feel like I did I just can’t recall. Sometimes I wonder howlong I could go without talking to a single soul. it’s either 24 hours or 24 years. Anyways, pretty song.

I had a sister Sally, who is younger than I am
She had so many suitors, she had to deny them
But as for my own self, you know I haven't any
And if you know my heart, I'd be thankful for any


         Come a landsman, a pinsman, a tinker or a tailer,
         Fiddler, or a dancer, ploughboy or a sailor,
         Gentleman, a poor man, a fool or a witty,
         Don't let me die an old maid, but take me out of pity.

Oh, I had a sister Susan, was ugly and misshapen,
    Before she was sixteen years old she was taken,
    Before she was eighteen, a son and a daughter,
    Here am I, six and forty, and nary an offer.

Come a landsman, a pinsman, a tinker or a tailer,
         Fiddler, or a dancer, ploughboy or a sailor,
         Gentleman, a poor man, a fool or a witty,
         Don't let me die an old maid, but take me out of pity.


    Oh, I never will be scolding, I never will be jealous,
    My husband shall have money to go to the alehouse,
    While he's there a-spending, well, I'll be home a-saving,
    And I'll leave it to the world if I am worth having.

Irony gonna break my tv

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:31:00 -0700

Guiliani just used air scare quotes during his GOP speech.

He *is* a scare quote. Human scare quote. What a horrible, awful man.

pootee: blwe.JPG

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:42:29 -0700

pootee:

blwe.JPG

Morning political debate, txt style

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:29:35 -0700

rc: Obama is a member of the council on foreign relations, of which Cheney was once president. It's all punch and judy. The last 8 years was a looting. The money is in Dubai, future world capital.

elaine: :-(

oh wait, guys

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:15:49 -0700

CNN just gaves us the goods

“She enjoys hunting and fishing and her favourite meal is moose stew”

Phew.

No Google!

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:09:58 -0700

This is a *terrible* idea!

amilniazi:

Recover Deleted Emails - Undelete-All.com - We show you how to get your deleted emails

Get back emails I deleted? No. That’s like waking up the next morning and having to look at all the ridiculous text messages you sent the night before. I reject the cock of undeleted electronic information.

And

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:10 -0700

Betty Friedan, Roe n’ Wade, Anne Coulter’s got it made

9/11, 5 kids, pickin’up the feminists

down’s child, son at war, governor at 44

virgin mary, gop, intact smiling family

holy war! no gays! drill for oil yes way!

lady veep! we’re like sheep! america is bleepin bleeped!

( we didn’t start the firee…..)

Hand over the keys, Billy Joel. You’re too drunk to drive and your country needs you.

amilniazi:

No, listen - she’s a polite, good christian woman with 5 kids (one has down’s syndrome, hello abortion issue) and her eldest son is serving in iraq - HE FUCKING ENLISTED ON 9/11.

This woman is untouchable.

elainecorden:

she just said “nuke-u-lur”

fuck. me.

"18 million cracks in the glass ceiling"

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:47:00 -0700

Oh man, I can’t take this. puppet for subverting the feminist agenda? check. I am SO MAD. And then they play Sammy Hagar-era Van Halen. I once saw that man autograph a woman’s fake boob, and then bite it.

verdict= total bullshit.

And

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:42:17 -0700

she just said “nuke-u-lur”

fuck. me.

GOP veep pick

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:39:42 -0700

“I was just your average hockey mom in alaska.”

Holy left field crazy not-gonna-work veep pick for the GOP. Her voice is like the teenager off the Simpsons. I really hope second wavers who were behind Hillary are so stupid as to be blinded to the fact that Kathleen Palin is rabidly pro-life, anti gay rights, and grossy underqualified to play as anything other that a womb-having accessory to McCain’s (and by extenstion, Karl Rove’s) bullshit agenda.

I guess Hillary said no?

All cynicism aside

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:42:57 -0700

the Obama acceptance ceremony at the stadium is pretty amazing. When granddaughter Eisenhower was speaking I finally understood what the fuck Americans are so proud of.

America is kind of like the Rolling Stones: It’s been pretty crap as long as I’ve been alive. But yeah, I kinda get it now.

*drinks koolaid, lights firework, clubs baby seal*

elainecorden: I have nothing to add to this except that I would move to Toronto in a heartbeat if I...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:29:00 -0700

elainecorden: I have nothing to add to this except that I would move to Toronto in a heartbeat if I a) didn’t have to do it alone b) didn’t have an irrational phobia of homelessness and finding an apartment

amilniazi:

You guys forgot:

3a.)Making lots of money

And also : Grow up.

cameronr:

Typical Canadian Career Path:
1.) Hating Toronto

1a.) Hating Vancouver more
2.) Moving to Toronto
3.) Wishing you could move back to Vancouver
4.) Staying in Toronto
5.) Hating Toronto

This just in!!!!!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:14:42 -0700

Quit calling champagne “champers”.

Vancouver Is Awesome

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:00 -0700

Vancouver Is Awesome:

elainecorden

Thank god. What a welcome antidote to all the bitching about how there’s too many hipsters, or not enough hipsters, or just the right amount of regular hipsters but not enough who are half man, half horse*, or how the hassling of the Biltmore is “AN ATTACK ON ALL OF US™” or , you know, just general “my beard hurts” type whining from people who don’t want to build anything.**

Vancouver is awesome. Well done, group of bloggers who I sadly don’t know!!

*nb: if you are over 23 and concerned about this, I am pointing at you and laughing.

**I am also aware that I am bitching about bitching. Hate the game, don’t hate the playa!***

***hhhhhwhhhite people!!!!

blownspeakers:

for real

cameronr:

Favorite New Website

Rick Danko is the ultimate hot skid. Any other hot skid is just...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:33:48 -0700

Rick Danko is the ultimate hot skid. Any other hot skid is just like, chasing the dragon of Rick Danko foxiness.

"yes, they will be turned off for Monday Sept. 1"

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:29:52 -0700

“yes, they will be turned off for Monday Sept. 1”

- Daisy Chin, Supervisor at the Vancouver Parks & Rec, in regards to the sprinklers in Victory Square Park. (via cameronr)

davidlook: don’t mess with tradition.

elainecorden: sure they will.

STEAK CLUB PHOTOS

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:05:53 -0700

STEAK CLUB PHOTOS: by Natsumi Akatsuka

the end of days

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:32:46 -0700

chuckmore:

urg:

this is the first time in my life I’m actually happy with something Chris Matthews said. Like, proud of him. Like, sitting here saying to the screen, “Way to go, Chris, way to go!”

Shit, the world must be coming to an end.

elainecorden:that blonde woman on the left is a disgusting human being.