Eschaton

All the political bloggers are posting, posting, posting about the Plame Affair, but my god! thatAtrios is on fire! (Too many links to link individually)

Welcome to the MrJeff 2000 Experience

What the hell?!?!?

I am this close to calling the whole MRJEFF3000 thing off!

Sack! Pillage! Peacekeep!

"Captain Byambaa Chinzorig is, perhaps not surprisingly, a little touchy about 1258 and all that. When Mongolian forces last came to Iraq, led by the great warrior Prince Hulagu, grandson of Genghis Khan, they sacked Baghdad, killed an estimated 800,000 people, brought to a bloody end the Abbasid caliphate and destroyed a vast array of ornate public buildings and a sophisticated irrigation system. Today, 745 years later, their plans are much more modest. "

trials; tribulations.

Plastic is down again. Damn it all! Damn it all to hell! Don't toy with me like this, Steadman!

ICv2 News - Fantagraphics To Reprint The Complete Peanuts

Word comes, via MetaFilter, that Fantagraphics will be reprinting the entire 50-year run of Peanuts, in 25 volumes. While, sadly, the strips from the eighties and nineties weren't very good, in the early days this comic was pretty darn groundbreaking.

Welcome on Emmanuelle.net

Une amie francophone makes the interesting observation that, in her opinion, "Arnold Schwarzenegger has an accent much less pronounced than today." Her suggestion for the reason? Ah-nold isn't smoking pot any more.

Margaret Cho BLOG

Margaret Cho -- the BLOG. Hooray!

Speaking of Korean chicks, where's your blog, Sueann? Or are you too busy winning fabulous vacations and posing in wedding photos - is that it? Seriously, dude - I've got plenty of vacation time. Take me with you.

Flip Flop Flyin'

A recent MeFi posting tripped a switch in my brain, reminding me of minipops.

I had forgotten what they were called, so I had been aimlessly looking for the site for probably two years (when I remembered to look, of course). Hooray!


Now, off to the museum with you!

Plastic.com has been offline for the past few days. (Don't worry -- it's up now!) Some were scared, but I wasn't worried -- we've been through worse before.

briankiel dot blog: Old-fashioned lock-in at Chiat/Day

It looks like I'm not the only blogstar who survived Thursday. The line at the cafeteria was hell, I tells ya!

Two more Chiat-based blogifiers: Krisr.com and Star-la.com. More as I find 'em.

PS - Ex-temp Mary no longer seems to be blogging at the Payne Pages blogspot site. These days all the Kool Kids have their own domain names.

Shut up! Shut up!

In the vein of last Friday's "Talk Like A Pirate Day," Atrios has brought us "Talk Like Bill O'Reilly Day". Has he ever. The thing is, while we can all talk like pirates until the cows come home, nobody, it seems, can stand to imitate O'Reilly for more than an hour or two.

Fanatical Apathy: Dem Debate Snubs Felber

Missed the Democratic presidential debate t'other day? Don't worry -- Adam Felber breaks it down for you.

703-519-6456

Once again, FOX News shows that they are the classiest fucking news network around.

UPDATE - Okay, they've gone and changed the phone number to one that will get you to CNN. But earlier, they had posted Tucker Carlson's home phone number.

How many Rashomons does it take to change a light bulb?

Hey, Langdon -- lay off the keilbasa, will ya?

Eric Alterman: Altercation#030923

Charlie Pierce doesn't just write great little messages to Eric Alterman's Altercation, this week he's a-fillin' in.

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'Bout damn time.

Fame! I'm gonna live forever!

Being famous does have some advantages, points out Heather Havrilevsky in her article on the Emmys in Salon.

Like when you break up with your fiancé and they make about 15 or 20 cruel jokes about it on the Emmys. Or when your sudden death is teased repeatedly on national TV. That's what it's all about, you know?

Emmyblog!

What has MRJEFF3000 learned from the 2003 Emmys?

1. That Seven of Nine chick is pretty hot, and she's got a nice big rack.

2. That Alicia Silverstone chick is pretty hot, and she's got a nice small rack.

That said, ON TO 2004!

Nobody Died When Clinton Lied

Recently somebody has been posting mysterious signs along the freeways of Southern California, attacking Bush and his cronies' war.

(My favorite? "Dear America / Thanks for all the money / sorry about your kids. / -Halliburton Oil")

Allah Is In The House

You know blogging has hit the big time when the One True God signs up: Allah Is In The House

Global Rich List

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Jessica Lynch Agrees to $1M Book Deal

America's Hero™ Jessica Lynch has, it seems, gotten herself a $1,000,000 book deal. For what? She doesn't remember what happened to her or her unit in Iraq.

I, for one, would like to see a little money headed toward the staff of that hospital in Nassiriya, who protected Private Lynch.

But they're not bestseller material, I guess.

Transblawg: Where IKEA gets the names

Where does IKEA come up with all those product names?

smooch!

There's one thing that hasn't really been pointed out much in all the Britney/Christina/Madonna lesbo smoochathon at the recent MTV awards thingy. Britney is 21. Christina is 22. Madonna is 45.

Heck, if a middle-aged woman can make out with two hot young chicks on national television, there's hope for me after all!

The Accursed Quayle Statue

Former Veep Dan Quayle's life-sized marble bust is about to be dedicated in the US Capitol -- but at what cost? Two of the artists commissioned to produce the sculpture died while working on it. As Paul Harvey might put it, "No...known...connection..."

ABOUT UNDERARM STENCH AND RACIAL EQUALITY (from adage.com)

Good news about American society, as demonstrated through advertising: we are now comfortable with African-Americans to be the butt of the joke.

Not in the old, racist, ha-ha-black-people-are-so-dumb kind of way, but in the new, improved, these-are-some-people-who-just-happen-to-be-black way. Hooray for us!

oops

I don't suppose any of you out there in Blogistan have any idea what I did with my automobile registration sticker, now do you?

ephemera

It was a rather overcast and October-ish Labor Day today. Perfect weather for enjoying the autumnal Norwegian dreamy folkpop of Ephemera. (Download Gift / Saddest Day / Hey (Nanana) ReFraîched chillmix now! You'll be glad you did!)

Eschaton

Wolf Blitzer's Question of the day, 9/1/03: How would you rate President Bush's efforts to fight unemployment?

Good - 2% (336 votes)
Fair - 1% (125 votes)
Poor - 97% - (16486 votes)

(as of this posting)

There's a corpse that's got really big tits!

It looks like Ah-nold has decided not to attend the California recall candidates' debate this week.

Which is a real shame, because if the commentary track on the Conan the Barbarian DVD is any indication, it would've been pretty fucking hilarious:

John Milius: You're totally innocent here. ... You've never had any kind of fight with anybody. ... All you can rely on is animal reaction.

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Oh yeah, that's right. I remember now. That guy was biting me seriously, huh? ... Then I break his arm.

JM: There's nothing, nothing slick about that fight. It's just ...

AS: ... just the pounding him in the head and then breaking his head.

This kind of exchange is common in the Conan commentary; every time Milius attempts to elevate the discussion with comments like "Conan is an intellectual ... a man of deep philosophies," Schwarzenegger pounds it back down again, giving away Conan's ending 10 minutes into the film and repeatedly stating the obvious, as in, "Now we are running," and "Now he's putting [the sword] in the snow." The two leer at every female who comes onscreen, including a limbless, gutted torso about which Schwarzenegger cries, "There's a corpse that's got really big tits!" At one point, the star boasts to his director, "I was getting laid a lot in this movie. It was amazing. ... Remember, she was, like, totally sweating and oiled up, huh?" then adds: "It was a great scene, actually, because it was done really tastefully." Just as Milius' high-minded references predictably zoom over Schwarzenegger's head, Schwarzenegger's sometimes surreally naive line of questioning (he doesn't appear to know what a mill does, what grain is for, or where it comes from, nor does he remember that there was a sequel to Conan and that he starred in it) accidentally draws the viewer into closer scrutiny of the plot's most gaping holes.