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Posted by joem on Aug 13, 2006 9:01 pm

52 comments, latest by floranista at 12:20 am 8/14

#1 joem at 9:05 pm on Aug 13, 2006

{From Hot Air via TOP™}

It killed me to cut the part where Mike Wallace told him how good he looked. Fair use, as I’ve often said, is a stern mistress.

I also deliberately cut the part that’s available in the sidebar at CBS (see update below). Watch that first — the stuff about “cultural exchage” and living side by side in peace with other nations is precious — then come back, open a beer and take a drink whenever he repeats a left-wing talking point. When he mentions the 45 million Americans without health care, read this and finish the bottle.

My favorite moment comes when he accuses Bush of exploiting a monopoly on energy resources to threaten other nations


And I'm out of beer :(

#2 evariste at 9:18 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Good God man, go out and get some.

#3 joem at 9:23 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Everything's closed here.
I'll have to make do with Woodford Reserve.

#4 evariste at 9:24 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Such a nakba. L'chaim, joem, and zorkie too, if you're out there :-)

#5 joem at 9:24 pm on Aug 13, 2006

L'chaim, my friend.

#6 joem at 9:43 pm on Aug 13, 2006

So, where is zorkie? (Last post: 08/12/06 10:42 pm - that's around 23 hours. )

Secret mission..? New game? Or just working and lurking?

#7 evariste at 9:48 pm on Aug 13, 2006

LOL! The Fall issue of Vanity Fair arrived. I hear it's as thick as a phone book. She's been reading all the ads; she finished them this morning. Now she's reading the articles :-)

#8 evariste at 9:51 pm on Aug 13, 2006

The arrival of Vanity Fair every month is always an event with zorkie :-)

#9 evariste at 9:51 pm on Aug 13, 2006

But this is the best issue all year, so it's doubly-so.

#10 zorkmidden at 9:52 pm on Aug 13, 2006

And now thanks to Dominick Dunne, I can tell you all the dish about the Spelling household. They threw this huge party for Prince Charles, and they didn't let anyone in the house, they had the party in tents, in the yard. And they made everyone use portapotties.

Anyway. Hello bloggie.

#11 evariste at 9:53 pm on Aug 13, 2006

LMAO!

Hi zorkie :-)

#12 zorkmidden at 9:54 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#8 evariste
The arrival of Vanity Fair every month is always an event with zorkie :-)
:-D

#13 zorkmidden at 9:54 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Hi darlings :-)

#14 evariste at 9:54 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Hello my sweet :-) Are you drinking anything yet?

#15 zorkmidden at 9:56 pm on Aug 13, 2006

No, not yet, I didn't want to interrupt my serious reading. What should I drink?

#16 joem at 9:57 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Hiya zorkeleh!

Ma nishma?

#17 zorkmidden at 9:58 pm on Aug 13, 2006

joem, a very lazy sunday is what's happening :-) It's lovely and I should do it more often.

#18 evariste at 9:58 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#15 zorkmidden
No, not yet, I didn't want to interrupt my serious reading. What should I drink?

A beer. Wine will make you sleepy, and tomorrow you might not have as much time to finish reading VF.

#19 zorkmidden at 10:00 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Aww...

#20 Franco CBI at 10:00 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#15 zorkmidden
No, not yet, I didn't want to interrupt my serious reading. What should I drink?

You should drink gin, the firey local liquor of England.


#21 zorkmidden at 10:01 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Next thing you'll tell me I gotta find posts for tomorrow...

#22 evariste at 10:02 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Damn it. joem, I lost my G3 Live in Concert CD (source of this) and I can't find the mp3s either. I bet they were on the old laptop that I got rid of. I'm listening to Strange Beautiful Music instead. I wonder where I put the damn thing.

#23 evariste at 10:04 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#21 zorkmidden
Next thing you'll tell me I gotta find posts for tomorrow...

Nah, relax. The posts you're going to find for tomorrow have already been in the hippo tonight.

#24 zorkmidden at 10:04 pm on Aug 13, 2006

I don't have any gin but I would love some cognac but that will knock me out :-)

#25 evariste at 10:05 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#20 Franco CBI


You should drink gin, the firey local liquor of England.



Er, I guess I hadn't noticed that trend. Maybe travel writers tend to be lightweight drinkers?

#26 evariste at 10:05 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#24 zorkmidden
I don't have any gin but I would love some cognac but that will knock me out :-)

Beer, woman. Beer.

#27 zorkmidden at 10:05 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#23 evariste

Nah, relax. The posts you're going to find for tomorrow have already been in the hippo tonight.

Thanks! And thanks you little hippo!

#28 Franco CBI at 10:06 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Or at least that they're not used to drinking liquor straight.

#29 zorkmidden at 10:06 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#26 evariste

Beer, woman. Beer.

Let's compromise and drink wine! Whaddaya say?

#30 joem at 10:07 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Back on good terms with the hippo?
Just wait till you get beaten to the punch tomorrow..

;-)

#31 evariste at 10:07 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#29 zorkmidden

Let's compromise and drink wine! Whaddaya say?

All right, but you'll have to wait for me to join you, I'm already in the middle of a beer :-)

#32 zorkmidden at 10:09 pm on Aug 13, 2006

I'll wait and drink in a bit then, catching up with bloggie :-)

#33 zorkmidden at 10:11 pm on Aug 13, 2006

joem, I'm very behind on the news and it's a good thing, it looks like.

#34 joem at 10:13 pm on Aug 13, 2006

It's good to take a break from the news every now and then.

There's nothing ever really new, anyway.

#35 joem at 10:13 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#22 evariste
Damn it. joem, I lost my G3 Live in Concert CD (source of this) and I can't find the mp3s either. I bet they were on the old laptop that I got rid of. I'm listening to Strange Beautiful Music instead. I wonder where I put the damn thing.

So, I take it you're a big Satriani fan. :-)

#36 evariste at 10:13 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#32 zorkmidden
I'll wait and drink in a bit then, catching up with bloggie :-)

Catch up with bloggie? Impossible. Bloggie is like a stream. When you pick a spot to dip your hand in it and taste it, so you can say "THIS is what Bloggie tastes like", unbeknownst to you, a few feet upstream, a hippo has just pooped in the water and changed the flavor of it again.

#37 zorkmidden at 10:14 pm on Aug 13, 2006

ev, LMAO!!

#38 evariste at 10:15 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#35 joem

So, I take it you're a big Satriani fan. :-)

Yes :-) Everything I've listened to, I've loved.

#39 evariste at 10:21 pm on Aug 13, 2006

BTW, joem, do you like to rip your CDs to mp3 for listening while on the computer? I always used Chris Myden's "Uberized" method (Exact Audio Copy + Lame encoder/alt-preset-standard) on Windows, but now that I'm using a Mac I just let iTunes rip them to aac files. I can't really tell the difference on my speakers anyway, but supposedly audiophiles with sticks in their butts endorse the eac/lame/alt-preset-standard combination as indistinguishable from CD so I was ripping to that based on the idea that I might one day own speakers good enough that I could tell the difference.

#40 evariste at 10:24 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Sorry, here's a link. For people who put an alarming amount of thought into ripping their CDs onto their computer.

#41 joem at 10:26 pm on Aug 13, 2006

I never bothered with the audiophile stuff for my computer - the sound's just not that great anyway. I've been using MusicMatch for a few years now. I recently used Windows Media to burn some mp3's (I think it was for the Majestic Void) disc - which is probably why the naming convention was so weird).

#42 evariste at 10:28 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Fashizzle. Like I said, I don't even bother trying to figure out a way to do something equivalent on the Mac, and I can't tell the difference.

#43 joem at 10:30 pm on Aug 13, 2006

I should get me a Mac one of these days.

#44 evariste at 10:32 pm on Aug 13, 2006

They're surprisingly inexpensive nowadays.

#45 evariste at 10:47 pm on Aug 13, 2006

zorkie, did you ever catch up to bloggie?

#46 joem at 10:49 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Lost in the bloggie-sphere, no doubt..

I've got to get to bed.

Layla tov, my friends.

#47 evariste at 10:50 pm on Aug 13, 2006

Layla tov, joem!

#48 zorkmidden at 11:03 pm on Aug 13, 2006

ev, still running! I think I see bloggie around the next curve! Just a few more huff... puff... just a few more miles and I'll be caught up!

Layla tov, joem!

#49 zorkmidden at 11:04 pm on Aug 13, 2006

L'chaim evaristako mou.

#50 evariste at 11:06 pm on Aug 13, 2006

LMAO! L'chaim zorkopoula mou :-D

#51 kianb at 11:36 pm on Aug 13, 2006

#52 floranista at 12:20 am on Aug 14, 2006

kian, lol!

When I first read ev's #2, I thought to myself "Wow, I can't believe Ahmadetc. discussed "not getting any" on 60 minutes!".

Then I realized it was in response to joem's lack of beer.

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