Allahpundit toasts, “Here’s to a showdown at next year’s Oscars between “Movie Title” and that Matt Damon opus about how the neocons lied us into war so that they could grab Saddam’s oil.”
Monthly Archives: March 2010
How to be a TV reporter
and this: These parodies both made the rounds awhile back and I regretted not featuring them, partly because they are so true and partly because I was a newspaper reporter for the Harford Democrat from 1980 to 1982. Newspaper reporters envy local TV reporters their salaries and glamor, but do not respect them because their …
Wolverines!
Help me out here — is that stuff like spackle, or what? Also, I gather the co-eds are free to do as they please — you know, after they get all sweaty from the pillow fights in their baby doll nighties.
Iowahawk spots top Democrats in circular firing squad
Check out Iowahawk’s brilliant take on the intra-party war top Democrats are now waging via their proxies in the press and see if, like me, it reminds you of the song from the musical Chicago, “They Both Reached for the Gun” — and, um, just to be clear, I mean the puppet master aspect of …
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Alert Ace and pack the pudding
Just in time! The Moron Meetup is March 20 and you’ll need your license to participate in the Hobo Hunt.
He is risen — Keyboard Cat, that is
Rejoice! Keyboard Cat is risen — well, there’s a new orange tabby of Buddha-like serenity playing keyboards and drum and even tossing in some wicked dance moves. Brenna Ehrlich of Mashable has the story. The dear, departed Fatso, the original Keyboard Cat, is famous for the “Play him off, Keyboard Cat” YouTube videos adapted from …
UPDATED — Berkeley Tie-Dye and other heirloom tomato secrets
UPDATED 3/17/2010 — scroll down for the additional material. The seeds I ordered from Bradley Gates of Wild Boar Farms for some of the amazing and delicious varieties of open-pollinated tomatoes that he developed arrived today! I know I called them “heirloom tomatoes” in the headline, and in 45 or so years they will be. …
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Did Dan Rather tell Chris Matthews Obama couldn't sell watermelons?
What Dan Rather said to Chris Matthews this morning on MSNBC about the current state of Obama’s persuasive powers is, “But he couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him a state trooper to flag down the traffic.” There’s no racial monopoly on who sells or buys watermelons. Rather made no allusions to race. So — …
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'Is incense not a sin?'
Go, granny, go!
You gotta LOVE this woman! Ruth Flowers attended a disco party and saw that it was filled with “energy and joy,” as she puts it. So she decided to become a DJ and NOW is rocking the discos in PARIS FREAKING FRANCE! And don’t you go there about her being 69 — she was a …