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Re: Caitie's Goin' to Chicago!

KevinWolf — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:25:35 -0000

Have fun!

Re: Open Thread

KevinWolf — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:34:15 -0000

Liss, you're from the midwest, right? Don't you call it pop rather than soda?

Re: Daily Kitteh

KevinWolf — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:21:06 -0000

Kitty envy over here. I really must get my apartment in order and then get to the local shelter.

Re: This is a real thing in the world.

KevinWolf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:55:13 -0000

I guess it pays to be open to teh Stoopid. You get a laugh out of it, anyway.

Re: Happy Birthday, Iain!!!

KevinWolf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:30 -0000

Have a great day, Iain! Happy Birthday!

Re: Emma Update

KevinWolf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:45:33 -0000

Wonderful, Caitlin!

Re: Made In Iran

KevinWolf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:40:30 -0000

Way to appeal to America's best instincts! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! BARF!

Re: Classic

KevinWolf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:04:51 -0000

A masterpiece of guerrilla cinema. And it mentions pirates. And he jumps into a Christmas tree. Masterpiece, I tell you!

Re: I Know I'm a Humorless Feminist and All...

KevinWolf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:57:21 -0000

That video is cheap. And I mean "cheap" in the lowest possible way. Not funny.

Re: Stupid... Like A Fox!

KevinWolf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:31:33 -0000

A couple of my family members on Facebook took a poll that asked, in all seriousness, "Should the Obama Administration shut down Fox news?" Options given were (1) Yes (2) No (3) It's unconstitutional. What the inspiration for this was, I have no idea.

Now, this poll came out of some FB app called "Political Polls," and for all I know it was meant as a joke; however, it was not received as such by my Fox-watching family (one of whom posted comments about how we have to wake up before it's too late, etc etc).

Actual studies of media have shown Fox viewers to be misinformed and/or uninformed on all major issues -- but these studies don't tend to get covered by Fox. For some reason.

Re: And the Healthcare Reform Disaster Continues...

KevinWolf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:58:29 -0000

lasquires, science has come a very long way since bloodletting. This seems like a straw argument to me.

The scientific method is a damn good way of understanding therapies and probable outcomes -- as such, the scientific method has proven that prayer does not have a measurable, therapeutic value.

Does this mean prayer has no value at all? Not if the person praying thinks it does, I suppose. Let people pray all they want, just don't involve the government or government funds, and don't try to tell me it's as good as medical science.

Re: I Get Discussed in Forums

KevinWolf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:59:46 -0000

Liss, I know you didn't post this to solicit praise, but -- damn, you're amazing.

Re: Question of the Day

KevinWolf — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:57:47 -0000

Spudsy, we had that same skeleton. Hadn't thought of it in some time.

Fears? I guess witches. Definitely the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Also, the album cover of a record my mom played a lot: Dvorak's "The Noon Witch." Cover was a photo of a woman got up in green creepiness -- though she looked a little more sea-weedy than witchy. As a kid it scared the shit out of me. When I saw it again later it was laughable.

Re: More Law & Order Fail

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:41:48 -0000

Even with what I call my L&O addiction, I'm falling behind on these shows and it's because they have been getting more and more stupid. I saw the SVU treatment of Lahti's character and just kind of figured -- okay, as tolerant as I am of this franchise (much more than others are) this is just terrible. It's bad writing, it's the misuse of a really fine actor, and it makes it impossible to ignore the dumbass "character" stuff they've been doing with the regulars because they'd all lose their jobs if they were scrutinized like this DA character was.

The regular Law & Order had a totally unconvincing episode recently in which Jeremy Sisko's cop character falls for a pathological liar woman (the two didn't have any screen chemistry and the affair was completely out of character for the cop). Yeah, I know, the lying woman.

May just be time to pack it in. If the producers of the show won't, I guess I can.

Re: To tutu or not to tutu?

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:03 -0000

Excellent, Misty.

Re: Daily Kitteh

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:12:15 -0000

I love that the caption was exactly what I thought she was thinking! Perfect!

Re: Meet-Up Time!

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:24:54 -0000

Deeky, you can mail it to me. Make sure it's on a nice 8x10 glossy.

Re: Meet-Up Time!

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:18 -0000

I'd so like to go but it can't happen this time. I hope everybody has much fun.

@ Scott Madin: Someday I'll get organized enough to work with other Shakers on a Boston meet up. Or bossy enough to drag everybody up to Salem.

Re: Joe the Plumber Mo Expert

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:26:04 -0000

foughten I, too, think this is just classic.

Having the right to an opinion that is wrong wrong wrongitty wrong means I have the right to call bullshit.

Re: Open Thread

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:28:32 -0000

Head north, Bostonians! I'm about to take a few days off work to enjoy Halloween in Salem, MA -- though I also feel yet another cold coming on, so we'll see how the long weekend goes.

Re: Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:38:21 -0000

While I appreciate the idea of quasi-David Lynch for the teen set, this show was never as funny or just plain fun as Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Pete & Pete. But thanks for the memories!

Re: Today's Edition of "Conniving and Sinister"

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:03:14 -0000

Oh, my. This breaks my heart.

Re: Trigger Warning

KevinWolf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:01:37 -0000

OMFG. I hadn't heard about this at all. Wasn't even on this a.m.'s newscast. I don't even know what to say, that we live in a culture where a group of her peers would think this was something to do. I just can't even think. Damn it.

Re: Radio Shakesville

KevinWolf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:39:56 -0000

Wow, Deeky has a great big happy smile!

Oh, nevermind. That's a pumpkin.

(Thanks for the podcast, Deeky!)

Re: Bea: Good

KevinWolf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:36:41 -0000

This reminds me that I just recently met a cousin of Ms. Arthur's. He recalled seeing her on stage but professed some confusion about how large her fan base was among Teh Gayz. Not to knock the guy, because he was actually very nice if old school, but Bea obviously had no problem at least metaphorically walking in someone else shoes. That obviously made her not only a fine actor but a very genuine person.

Thanks for posting this!