After the last few days we've had, maybe we just need a little break from the trauma and the drama. With the likely nomination of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, maybe we just need to regroup and gather our thoughts. And what better way to clear our minds than to ponder... puppies and kittens! So put on some soothing music, take a deep breath, hug your loved ones, clear your mind for awhile, and let the cuteness wrap around you like a warm blanket...
You just can't be mad when there's a kitten in a hat!
Can you use a friend?
Take a deep breath...
Aaaahhh, now wasn't that better?
Oh, wait, one more. This is my impression as to what will happen after the January 20, 2017...
Just kidding...maybe.
Questions or comments are always welcome.
You just can't be mad when there's a kitten in a hat!
Can you use a friend?
Take a deep breath...
Aaaahhh, now wasn't that better?
Oh, wait, one more. This is my impression as to what will happen after the January 20, 2017...
Just kidding...maybe.
Questions or comments are always welcome.
33 comments:
Bev, I moved your article up because I need to head to bed and I wanted to comment. :)
Just remember everyone... no matter what happens, you live in the greatest country on earth with the greatest people. Our country has never looked to politicians to lead us and we do quite well without them. No matter what happens in Washington, be glad you live in this beautiful, amazing country!!
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Andrew - Of course we will survive. We have survived change and social upheaval in past and will survived. We are nation of laws and what's another Civil War between friends, right?
New Ghostbusters trailer is up.
Speaking as a lifelong fan, it's not the clusterf--- I was imagining...
BUT F---ING HELL, are there any new jokes out there? Does every comedy have to sound exactly the f---ing same?!?! With the same f---delivery and the same f---ing irony?!
"BUT F---ING HELL, are there any new jokes out there?"
No.
OT: I know it's a day late, but for those who like irony, just 3 months into his sentence, Jared Fogle has gained 30 pounds through 'stress-eating.' He seems to be taking advantage of prison 'cake days' and buys- and eats- honey buns by the box. Gotta do something when you're at the bottom of the pecking order (pedofiles are always the lowest in prison society) and literally getting slapped around by your fellow inmates. Man, some guys just know how to throw it all away.
Rustbelt, The whole Jared thing shocks me. You wonder how this guy could get away with this for so long.
In terms of prison, I hope it's everything he fears, but from what I've heard from convicts, it's basically like high school without girls.
Scott, I'm ignoring the film. I've reached my limits on recycled culture.
This is not a shot at Trump or anyone else except the liberals at the New York Times.
Check this out. This is their first article on Hitler. In it, they state: "several reliable well-informed sources confirm the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as bait to catch masses of followers." It gets better. Apparently, a prominent politician said that you can't expect the masses to understand politics or government, so you need to use things like anti-Semitism to whip them up.
It's a fascinating glimpse into a time right before things went very wrong.
Yay Hitler!
Rustbelt - apparently chasing young children with your pants down and running from the cops is great cardio. Prison just isn't giving him the same opportunities.
Re: Ghostbusters 3 - what a turd sandwich.
I just realized that if Clinton and Trump are the nominees, we will truly have the choice between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich!!!
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According to HuffPo, Hillary will have to drop out now that the FBI has given her tech guy immunity from prosecution to testify about the home-made server. Therefore Sanders will be the next President.
yey, we are saved.
Andrew - I couldn't believe that article was real, so I had to check. Yep, right from the NYT archives - Nov. 21, 1922. I reads like it was written yesterday.
{{{Repeat after me: "puppies, kittens, tiny horses, puppies, kittens, thiny horses...in with the good air -out with the bad air.}}}
>>Scott, I'm ignoring the film. I've reached my limits on recycled culture.>>
Barely heard the trailer above the din of my Rice Krispies + steady diet of Talking Heads mixed with Sugar this morning.
Why is Kristin Wiig so revered? She's essentially the female version of one-note Michael Cera.
Bev, Isn't that fascinating? It's scary how easy it can be to deny that other people are serious about their claims.
On Hillary, if they granted him immunity, then it's very likely that they have something specific they are after and they can already prove it. That is a really bad sign. Someone needs to wake up Uncle Joe, he may be needed soon.
Eric, I don't get the Wiig appeal either. She's exactly that -- a one note actress.
On, the Ghostbuster women. Yeah, I am kind of tired of the low, crude humor thing. Melissa McCarthy is actually a very talented physical comedian, but she always ends up doing does these really crass, crude, low class kind of characters in the movies that are just unwatchable.
"Bridesmaids" was just so disappointing that these women sunk so low.
Bev -
I agree re: McCarthy. But Paul Feig did such great work on TV (Freaks and Geeks), I'm disheartened to see his film work is just as derivative as everything else. I liked Bridesmaids but not enough to ever see it again. I didn't like The Heat. And the funniest thing in Spy was Jason Statham. That's about it.
There's nothing original or witty about any of it. And I like the actresses - I like Wiig but I love Kate McKinnon (the one who does Hillary on SNL). My friend made a point that, at least in this trailer, the Wiig/McCarthy/McKinnon characters all seemed to have the same traits and the same style of humor, whereas the original guys were so distinctive: "The head, the heart, and the mouth," as Ivan Reitman once said.
Scott,
"The head, the heart, and the mouth," -- That's actually quite profound. I watched the trailer before I read your comment and, without words, I was thinking the same thing, that there was no dynamism between the players.
Good comedic characters are necessarily lopsided. It's not that they have outsized personalities, it's that they have one or a couple outsized personality traits. What I see the likes of Wiig and McCarthy doing constantly is trying to take on all the roles--head, heart, mouth--all at the same time. (Those aren't the only possible roles, of course.) What really turns up the comedy, however, is when those unbalanced personalities are thrust into situations with differently unbalanced personalities. Comedy is tension and release and you can't do that when all the players are essentially the same.
Bev, lately there seems to be this idea that if women just act like rude men, it should be funny; and if it's not, then it must be sexism. That last bit leads female comedians to just keep pushing it and pushing it, no matter how unfunny it is, until they get the laughs that they think they deserve.
I'm no expert in comedy, and the experts routinely struggle to divine "funny" as it is, but I feel comfortable in asserting that there is more to body humor than its mere occurrence.
If you believe in the Judd Apatow method, then the funny comes around the fourth hour when the characters can't stop vomiting or when you smear bodily fluids on people you don't like.
Whoops. That's the secret to his success. Didn't mean to give that away.
Well, the Republican frontrunner bragged about his dick size.
200 years is a decent run for a republic, right?
Before he went on to talk about his dick, Hillary's hope talked about a change in his stance on visas (he explicitly stated he was now in favor of H1Bs). After the debate he quickly reverted back to the oppose column. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
Actually, Kit, this election cycle is beginning to look more and more like a Judd Apatow production.
Bev,
You are right. Though I would add the nihilism of a Seinfeld episode.
"BUT F---ING HELL, are there any new jokes out there? Does every comedy have to sound exactly the f---ing same?!?! With the same f---delivery and the same f---ing irony?!"
Well Scott, I found Deadpool to be refreshingly funny. I don't mean the "cute" kind of funny that maybe gets an occasional smile or chuckle, but LOL crazy funny.
I would've rolled on the the floor laughing but that would be a bit bizarre in a theater, even if I wasn't wearing a skirt. :)
I hope the new Ghostbuster movie is funny, but I gotta say, after watching the trailer, I am not hopeful.
It has just been reported that former First Lady Nancy Reagan has passed away. It is the end of an era. RIP
Scalia and now Nancy. Bad year for conservatives all around.
Kit-I was thinking exacty the same thing.
Nancy Reagan was never a favorite of mine, but I do respect her. RIP
Mr. and Mrs. Reagan are back together. Unfortunate for the world, but I am sure they are happy.
"Just say no to drugs." That was effective. There isn't anyone alive from my generation that doesn't know that line.
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