Althouse wants us all to get the hell out of her yard. (By Gavin.)
Miz Althouse regrets she's unable to blog today, Madam.
Miz Althouse regrets she's unable to blog today.
She is sorry to be delayed,
But last night into the Beaujolais she strayed, Madam.
Miz Althouse regrets she's unable to blog today.
When she woke up and found her couch-cushions drenched in sick, Madam,
She ran to the guest bathroom but only got half the way,
Before a grape-colored wave of spew
Dyed her toast-colored hall-runners blue, Madam.
Miz Althouse regrets she's unable to blog today.
When she made it to class a half an hour late, Madam,
With her blouse inside-out and her hair plastered to her face,
Before her students and all the world,
She leaned over the waste-basket and hurled, Madam.
Miz Althouse regrets she's unable to blog today.
(With apologies to Cole Porter and David Ehrenstein.)
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Trex redux!
Oh, dear.
Oh damn, no zed!
Gawd, is she wasted or what?!
LoudounLib @ 4
You have to watch the video.
TRex @ 5
I did, on the last thread – but this screen shot is priceless!
Ann Althouse hates you because you voted for Sanjaya.
Dang TRex! Ah din’t know you wuz a poet!
conniptionfit @
8
I was a songwriter way before I got started on this blogging thing, mi amigo!
Oh David E. is going to howl!
{{{{ Dave Ehrenstein}}}} What a lyric!
TRex @ 9
That’s Amiga to you!
“I can’t pretend to know or remember every fact that may be of relevance,” he warned at the start — and he wasn’t kidding. He used the phrase “I don’t remember” a memorable 122 times.
It may have been a tactical effort to limit his risk of perjury, but Sampson displayed the recall of a man who recently fell off a ladder.
Judiciary Heariny today – Kyle Sampson, Gonzolez’ Chief of Staff
I know…too much information…
Eureka Springs @
10
I thought of him the whole time.
As I said in the last thread, Late Nite FDL – and now, Late Late Nite FDL – was just what I needed after a crap day at work. Thanks y’all, from the bottom of my overstressed heart :-)
Trex, watching that video is almost as painful as watching Pammie rattle on. I’d hate to try to watch any TV show with her. My only regret is that I’m not sure she’s worth three days of your time, or mine! On that note, I’m off to bed. Say goodnight, folks.
I watched this on tbogg earlier, but I never noticed the finger. Huh.
ReneND @ 18
*pssst!*
It’s Photoshop!
(We’ve secretly replaced this blog post with Folger’s crystals. Let’s see if anyone notices!)
spewwww, it tastes like sanka!
Seriously, why on earth would any sane public person think that this was appropriate material to send thru the toobz? WHAT was she thinking?? Is this one of those things, like calling old boyfriends on the phone that one should never do when drinking? I’m sure Miss Manners would frown.
Drunk dial = drunk vlog?
*pssst!*
Never mind me, I wonder if SHE will notice.
Ah! Well worth staying up for! I’m soaking in it!
Hey LoudounLib! Are those dogwoods in bloom yet?
conniptionfit @
21
Actually, I think she fainted. Let her get some air everybody, back up, back up.
Can I get some water, here?
conniptionfit @ 21
Here downunder one of the mobile phone providers was offering a service to prevent drunken dialing. When heading off to the pub you gave them a list of numbers (old lovers, your boss etc) that would be blocked until the next morning. Probably a good idea. Wonder if any ISPs have the same service…
Conniptionfit – almost! We do have some Bradford pears starting to bloom now!
TRex @ 26
Why, are you thirsty?
Hi LoudounLib – you should be asleep and I should be working. The lure of the Lake..
Alicia @ 24
Just watch out for waxy yellow build-up. That little itch could be telling you something.
LoudounLib @ 28
Yesterday I had dozens of beautiful daffodils in bloom. This morning I awoke to 6 g.damn inches of stinkin’ snow!
Petedownunder, you are so right – I’m technically off for this weekend, but I’m working overtime on Friday starting at 11 AM – so I must say good night for now!
In bloom in my yard today
forsythia
hyacinth
tulips
red bud
lilac
single and double narcisus
japonica
a couple types of wild flowers
coming soon..wisteria, iris and dogwood
but why photoshop the pic so she is flicking people off?
ugh.
someone is getting a lot of quid for their quo. no need to make it worse by messing with the image.
i’ll add: we’ll never get anywhere acting like that.
Well puppies (and especially theropod) you have conciderably lightened my load tonight, so I’m off to slumberland. Thanks for all the fish…
oh, and bleeding hearts are blooming now
TRex @ 31
But just look at that shine! I can see myself!!!
Goodnight everyone – and thanks to TRex for a double dose of Late Nite :-)
petedownunder @
27
Here in the U.S., we’re religiously into “fee for service.” So, how much per temporarily blocked number?
Eureka Springs @ 34
ok, ONE last comment before bed: pphththth!
(razberry noise)
…he only drinks half a cup when I make coffee… *sob*
Shouldn’t she be flashing her boobies?
Eureka Springs @
37
I’ll say.
Time to eat. Back in a bit.
Wigwam @ 40
Here in the U.S., we’re religiously into “fee for service.” So, how much per temporarily blocked number?
I don’t drink so I’ve never tried to find out. Sorry.
Roket @ 42
I, for one, would prefer otherwise.
OK, not to be too obtuse, but what are the chances that any of her students have not seen this vblog yet? And just how long will it be until she realizes they have? (Hint: when she hears it being played back on somebody’s laptop during class.)
Kristine @ 46
And, how soon will one of them spill the beans to her dean?
Hi folks!
score one for country life…
when you get a really nice pair of speakers delivered in the morning just before you go to work and then work all day and half the night and finally get home…
and want to open your new speaks all the way up and bask in the blast of sound…
no one calls the police!!
I am currently enjoying the sensation of having bass push my heart muscles around.
JBL L3s, welcome to my house!
Althouse is Atlas Juggs without the jugs…
Kristine, You mean this AA is a teacher? (I don’t download videos on dial up)
I’ll bet they edited out the good stuff. I can picture her now: “D’jjju know tha’I ha’ent hass-uh, had sss-sex…’n six muns? D’you know that? Huh? Well, ‘m not telling you! S’there.”
Patrick! So whats on the turntable? I am a klipsch fan myself.
Alicia @ 52
Now that’s a goddamn riot.
I met that person in a bar one night. I’d just as soon we never speak of it again.
Eureka Springs @ 50
University of Wisconsin School of Law, IIRC. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Wigwam @
48
To be honest, I think that’s why she’s been esp. batshit crazy lately. Her performance on her blog has somehow affected her “professional” life.
My main theory is after her little “try out” at the Times, they passed, and made some comment about the blog. And/or her department head gave her a shitty review and mentioned it.
In any case, she’s best-known now as an internet joke, and it is so well-deserved.
Holy guacamole… she would be thrown out of Arkansas in a NY second.
Eureka Springs @ 53
Millie Jackson – ‘Caught Up’
1974 and recorded at MUSCLE SHOALS! (That’s Mecca for ’70s soul addicts like me.)
Just before I was listening to a compilation of music for celebrations from all over the world. African plains songs to celebrate the passage to adulthood for women, songs to celebrate the birth of a child from Tunsia, that sort of thing. So gorgeous hearing new textures on these speakers.
TRex knows this album… we used to listen to it all the time when we lived together. WHat could be happier?
Kristine @ 47
Maybe one of her students will find FDL and tell the tale. They simply can’t have much respect for her. Professor. Sad.
Sheesh
The asylum HAS REALLY been taken over by the inmates
Now I am scared
“…playin with matches in a pool of gasoline…” – Swamp Mama Johnson
Ahh new speakers and old records.. absolute paradise on a spring night in the country.
patrick rex @ 48
If it don’t provoke diarrhea, it ain’t real base.
awww. I feel bad for her.
It was fun at first to beat her down, but she’s a bit tragic I think.
I reserve the right to change my mind if she offers more dickishness, but I vote to let her try and get her life together in peace.
Please tell me that video has been archived somewhere safe…
Videos get pulled down from YouTube pretty regularly, so I sure hope somene has ripped that to their own hard drive!
Eureka Springs @ 61
Yeah. Life’s good out here- the peaches have just dropped their blossoms and the cherry trees still have a few white flowers on them.
The garden is about half planted. And the only people annoyed that David Hood’s bass lines are snaking out across the fields and into the woods are the dogs.
patrick rex @ 65
Sounds like heaven.
Isn’t it vidallia season about now?
I.
Am.
Totally.
Shitfaced.
And watching Idol because it’s the intellectual, nonpartisan thing to do. Bitches.
Now where da boobies at?
Gad! Wingnuttia really is imploding… not a dog gone moment too soon…
If AA is a teacher, I wonder if much of her behavior is a cry for help or just more meds?
Kristine @
47
Althouse in mid-sentence: “uh, uh, uh [oh, fuck, I did do that, didn’t I?]… uh. Pay attention to me there. [oh, fuck, I said that, didn’t I?] I mean pay attention up here. [oh, fuck.] Class dismissed.”
OMG! I read earlier this week that she did this, but I thought it was a joke. Who the hell would think so much of themselves they would believe people would watch them watching tv????
It’s like an online “TV Party.” If you know that particular Black Flag song, you know how much I’ve insulted this Althouse creature.
Primordial Ooze @ 63
How do you do that? I had downloaded something called TubeMe but couldn’t figure out how to work it.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloa…..ption.html
UrbanPirate
Hey, it ain’t bad. Gonna have to go to bed eventually. I have work again before too long.
Eureka Springs @ 67
I have NO idea. I usually plant some onions at about the same time I plant everything else, and they do ok. I wonder if I should be planting them earlier. It never occurred to me…
Wow.. Folks used to send me vidalias right about this time of year. It was like pre peach excitement for them.
The Ozarks are 90 percent rock.. I need a few truckloads of top soil for more garden space.
Wow, just…wow. I can’t personally think of a better way to let the world know you are serious about politics than vlogging drunk commentary about american idol. I really thought she would segue into something else, but nope, just a big train wreck. Yikes!
montag @ 70
I’m sure this is starting to make the rounds among the faculty as well. Probably making for some awkward moments in the staff lounge, eh?
No one, and I mean no one, say American Idol Drunk Controversy to Althouse. Unless you have brought a mop.
and a poncho.
I’d bring a cattle prod, myself.
kelven >
Does seem so doesn`t it ?
way too late according to my calendar of important events
Hope “We the people…” don`t get any on us
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
I think I would want that cattle prod on tthe end of the mop.
Wouldn`t want to get too close, might “catch” something.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
Just finished reading the comments at Siun’s thread from earlier. Her most important thread yet.
Lets hope not. From the comments I would think your April 20th estimate may be horribly possible.
Eureka Springs @ 76
Here’s a really top notch topsoil recipe:
one truckload of horse manure and wood shavings (also known as “stable muckings”)
One half truckload of sand and one half truckload of clay.
You can get the sand from the same place that has river rocks for landscaping, I have found, and the clay you can steal when they scrape off building sites to pour concrete.
Stable muckings, folks who have horses just give away.
Get the stable muckings first, put them in a pile in a corner of the yard. Turn them with a shovel every few days. They will start to furiously compost and steam as it breaks down. Let it do this for a month or more. Keep turning the pile until it stops being warm.
Mix clay and sand in once the muckings pile stops steaming. Spread that and plant in it. You’ll do FINE with that!
Oh man, thats a fine blend. I live about 250 yards from river sand. Horse is key! Clay is in my base with the rock. Don’t know If I have heard of wood shavings intentionally for garden soil but thats bountiful around here (have to be sure no cedar is in the mix).
thanks patrick (will save that recipe)
Eureka Springs @ 87
The wood shavings break down when the poop composts. It all just turns into black humus. The sand makes drainage possible and the clay allows it to hold moisture.
You should have seen the 35 pound watermelon I grew last year!
Kristine @
47
OK, everyone here realizes “Professor” Althouse posted this video at her own blog, right? And rather proudly, I might add.
So if her students (and faculty and booking agents and prospective employers and…) know she has a blog, they’ve seen this video.
Eureka Springs @ 85
Between her essay and the comments, the legal ambiguities at the mouth of that waterway were clearly demonstrated. But the northwest shore of the Gulf is only one of many dangerous areas, where the Iranians, Americans, Brits and other nations who live there would like to see some honest negotiations on borders and settlements of longstanding disputes which are causing the ambiguities. Piling on more disputes isn’t helpful.
People are asking the Iran question more openly, but they aren’t asking the questions they need to about probable use of nuclear devices by our side.
Reminds me of BB Kings album cover.. Indianola Mississippi Seeds..)
Ed*ard Teller @ 84
I skipped the comments but the article was spot on. I keep wondering just how credulous our news people can be and then they go and do something even dumber. That thing with the EFPs that turned out (not too shockingly) to be homemade knockoffs was another example of this.
Senator Webb was trying to do something about Iran with the Senate.. I lost contact with all other news due to the hearing..
Got the red wine, got the slow jams, got the sexy dress..
now she just needs some candles, her Rabbit vibrator, and the tingles she gets when a low Tennessee drawl talks about the second amendment and nanotechnology
Hey, Indeed!
The next time ann.alt.house vlogs drunk, I want to see her flashing her “gravitatas”. Rightie law profs gone wild!
Or maybe not, now that I think about it.
As you were.
P.S. I’m an admirer of mad photoshop sk1llz, but in this case I have to agree with some of the earlier posters – AA’s public abasement in that video is complete unto itself, and doesn’t really need any pixel doctoring. You can bet your ass, or gravitatas, or whatever else, that this photo will be offered as further proof of the “incivility” of the rabid lambs of left blogistan. Man the fainting couches!
Cujo359 @ 92
We left enough ammo and better at hundreds of unguarded dumps and depots around Iraq when we went searching for the girls with the flowers. Most sites stayed unguarded or even unvisited until after people had carted away everything that wasn’t nailed down. It was enough to fuel an insurgency in Iraq for 20 years.
I also have to add, something about her nonverbal facial language really creeps me out. Those little tics or whatever come across to me as extremely hostile, like “I dare you to confront me, c’mon, c’mon,” and I do not get along well with people who present that way. TRex, if you were cold to her but did not actively cross the line to rude, then I salute you – I think that’s exactly the correct response.
I wonder what Pach or one of our other shrink-skilled people would have to say about this, other than the obvious observation that everything about her is a trainwreck.
What the hell was that? How boring! Running commentary of American Idol? OMG!
You can’t even SEE Ann’s BREASTS!
Ed*ard Teller @ 96
I doubt the Iraqis had EFPs in their inventory. It’s possible, but seems unlikely given that they’re a fairly new type of munition and very few countries would have sold them weapons in the last few years.
Nevertheless, I’m told that you can make those things fairly readily if you have a good supply of explosives, copper, and some metal tube. The military’s contention was that this wasn’t possible, since someone had to work out the optimal shape of the charge, blah, blah. Of course, just about any engineer who’s worked in a manufacturing process can probably tell you that it’s much easier to make a knockoff than it is to design something in the first place. That’s why there are patents.
Anyway, none of the required materials are in short supply in Iraq, nor is there any shortage of unemployed engineers, technicians, and craftsmen.
a commenter at TPM Muckraker, writing about Abu G and his aggregator, said:
These guys make heckuva job brownie look good. We’re doomed…
OK, I got the video off Youtube.
6.7 MB of pure MPEG-4 squick.
(Mac OS X, found a large, recent cache file in Users/[me]/Library/Caches/Firefox/…, dragged it to the desktop, renamed it aa.flv, converted to mp4 video with iSquint)
Check out here for a few useful tips for Mac/Win video ripping/conversion…
I think Ann’s kinda cute, but I’m weird that way. Said the same shit about Rep. Bachmann…
Picked up this link at Tbogg, in case you need to see more drinkin’ Althouse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGaba–MPk
Man, I could do a lot worse. Don’t ask.
In 1977, I met and was writing songs with Libby Titus. Go Google her, if you don’t know.
She had a solo album out, on which she sang “Miss Otis Regrets…”
The point being . . . I got nothing.
Is this a recent video? Maybe we were to harsh to her last night….Nah!
Slow news night huh?
Eureka Springs @
80
A Mexican real poncho. Not a Sears poncho.
raven @ 105
Not in Iraq.
Here, probably everyone is burned out on the amnesia overload of the right wing. It gets sort of wearing, counting all those “I can’t recall”s….
Paging Terry Olson and other San Diego FirePups.
I plan on hitting Harni’s (sp?) Sushi today 3-30 for raw decadence. Time is flexible. Anyone care to rap?
SOOOOO much to talk and laugh and rejoice about.
xoxo
‘Morning, all!
Mornin’.
Good morning, pups. It’s Thomas Friedman alone in the NYT today, writing about how only the bad guys make news in the Middle East today:
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
I’m working at home this morning, so I slept in a bit. The coffee and tea are ready, and there are fresh biscuits with honey or the jam of your choice. (There’s also some bacon for those of you who crave a bacon biscuit…)
Mornin’ all!
Thanks for the rude awakening TRex! I opened FDL and there was a trashy woman watching a trashy show making trashy comments. Where do these people come from… They should wash their mouths out with Tidy Bowl.
I am so glad I am an unrepentant 60s Liberal. I do not remember having the airwaves filled with with garbage mouths and I do remember the streets filled with angry protesters, where are they now? watching trashy TV I guess!
Cujo359 @
99
I recommend this article by Alexander Cockburn (from the Feb. 16 LA Times). It’s entitled “In Iraq, anyone can make a bomb,” and the bombs he’s talking about are EFPs:
Iran broadcasts sailor’s confession
Mornin’
did y’all catch this last night ?
Conyers Comm. agrees to speak w/ 8 DOJ – in private but on the record
raw story
Morning!
Do we get rid of Abu today? I have my fingers crossed and a nice plate of rice crispy treats!
With Joe Liebermench and John McCain talking about pleasant strolls through the cherry-blossomed streets of bagdad, I keep thinking chlorine bombs and EFP’s.
If the war didnt dake 4 years longer than promised the insurgents and sectarians wouldnt have had time to develop these devices. Ruuuuummmmmsfeld!
The Iran/Uk issue will go away quietly. Blair is out in like 3 months and he’s not going to let anything screw that up. This is all puff and bluster.
Marion in Savannah @
111
Thomas Friedman blithers more profoundly than anyone else on earth:
PETA: FDA should expand pet food recall…
smapdi @
117
It may be bluff and bluster on Blair’s part. But Bush and Cheney are another matter. We’re working on hedging them in, but they still have some power to toss the whole thing and make it all go pear shaped before we get a chance to get them fully contained. THAT’s what worries me.
I can only hope that Blair gets a spine for this. And that our Congress walks the walk, like it’s been talking the talk in the hearings as of late.
and in case y’all missed it -
Jon Stewart’s intro to the Rove/Correspondents Dinner danse macabre -
Maybe the saudi royal family can keep it’s thumb on the Dick n Chimpy show for a while. Anyway there is no way that bush can possibly squeeze any more props behind him during press breifings.
I can almost hear Ella singing it. Almost.
New thread upstairs…
Marion in Savannah @
111
Any gravy around? Luv that southron biscuits and gravy. :})
(I EPU’d this to the next thread) pls disregard :)
The death of American culture:
Drinking Beaujolais while viewing American Idol.
Why is her name all over the blogs this week?
I have no idea who she is, but she seems like a bitch, and taking up far too much print!
Take her off!!!!!
dave™� @
50
I’m looking for Word Salad Pam to try and one-up her by making out with John Bolton on-camera. Oh, wait…
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
(Ann’s ready for her encore):
“Whatever happened to fair dealing
And pure ethics
And nice manners?
Why is it everyone now is a pain in the ass?
Whatever happened to class?
Whatever happened to “Please may I ?”
And “Yes thank you”
And “How charming?”
Now every son of a bitch
Is a snake in the grass
Whatever happened to class?
Oh, there ain’t no gentlemen to open up the doors,
There ain’t no ladies now there’s only pigs and whores
And even kids’ll knock you down so’s they can pass
Nobody’s got no class!!!
Whatever happened to old values
And fine morals
And good breeding?
Now no-one even says oops
When they’re passing their gas
Whatever happened to class?
Oh, There ain’t no gentlemen that’s fit for any ews,
And any girl will touch your privates for a douse
And even kids’ll kick your shins and give ya sas
Nobody’s got no class!
All you read about today is rape and theft
Jesus Christ, ain’t there no decency left?
Nobody’s got no class!
Every guy is a snot
Every girl is a twat
Holy shit
Holy shit
What a shame
What a shame
What became of class?”
Mr.Otis, aka TREX:
Absolutely Brilliant.
And Creative!
And It works!
You still got it.
Bravo!!!!
TRex @
19
“is it live, or is it MammoRex?”
David @ 131:
**mwah!!**
As to the video, well, I think TRex captured perfectly how absolutely embarrassing that must be for her – that was uncomfortable to watch! What a sad, pathetic bit of tape. I’ve actually seen vlogging that didn’t look so precious or self-conscious, but this is making me reconsider the entire genre. Maybe it’s just a bad idea.
I’m sure the disdain is well deserved, but doctoring the photo so as to make it appear she’s flipping off the viewer is not only overkill but disingenuous. In fact, it’s bullshit.
It would seem Miz Althouse has given you plenty of ammo, how about just sticking with the truth?
I’m sure the disdain is well deserved, but doctoring the photo so as to make it appear she’s flipping off the viewer is not only overkill but disingenuous. In fact, it’s bullshit.
Just like that one of Karl Rove being dragged off by the cops. People might think it’s real!!!
Seriously: In the future, a watermark saying ‘Teh Sadly’ in a picture means that it was manufactured by the Sadly, No! elves in their enchanted hollow tree.
For what it’s worth I think the use of the doctored photo crosses the line of decency.
For what it’s worth I think the use of the doctored photo crosses the line of decency.
That line seems to move as though it were fixed with wheels.