I'm not sure there's any reason for me to watch past about the 20-second mark. Likely I could have closed it even at 10 seconds, or not opened it at all, without having deprived myself of any meaningful insight.
It's kind of great that her vblogs have the same twitchy, vain, and insane quality that her site has.
The first time I clicked through, finally, to see what the hell this AtlasShrugs blog was about, I was astonished that such a shitty looking site was getting so much attention. Then..."Surely it's not the tits?" "Oh, shit, it really is about the tits."
If we could get 24 hours from an unfogged meetup without a single comment acknowledging that the meetup took place, that would be odd and worthy of discussion.
(I mean maybe a few months down the road I will fail to get a scintillating bit of inside humor that I would have found hilarious, had I spent 5 minutes watching this video... Nah.)
10: As I think many have noted, the Islamoscary menace goes back a thousand years. Two years invested by a single operative is a mere pittance to them.
I didn't watch it (can't turn on sound right now), but I did skim the first bunch of posts her blog because I couldn't remember just how bad it was. Besides the name-calling and odd use of ALL CAPS and brightly colored text inserted when she's feeling particular vehement, there's this representative sample which proceeds a quote from a misguided (in the sense that it supports John Bolton) op-ed which Sen. Voinovich wrote today:
Remember how RINO Voinovich was against the confirmation of JOHN BOLTON for UN Ambassador to the UN? I can't imagine how one gets elected on that platform. The American people know a great statesman when we hear one. There are so few. So it is no surprise that in the Washingiton Post, Voinovich makes this statement;
Elected on that platform? I'm sure his opponent will mention that he disagreed with the President on that, but if the UN Ambassador is a key issue in Ohio elections, I'll buy a hat to eat. Based on the referent of that sentence, she's calling Voinovich a great statesmen, right? What is she saying isn't a surprise, that Voinovich changed his mind? If it was so expected that he would, and his apostasy didn't keep Bolton out of the U.N., what did he do wrong, not sufficiently love GWB with all his might?
Last week, she announced she would be travelling to Israel to "report" from there. And all I could think was, "Don't you think the people in that part of the world are suffereing enough already?"
Yeah, I got about 10 seconds in and thought, I can't take it any more. I'll probably go back later and watch it out of morbid curiosity, but I hope I don't.
17: Snees, I meant "It really is about the tits" in the more grandiose sense, viz., that the immediate, obvious, but utterly stupid explanation of some weird social phenomenon often, tragically, turns out to be correct, to the disappointment of all of us hoping desperately that there's something more complex going on.
37: Pretty much. I, and the other Unfogged commenters, said hi to the impressive bloggers (Amanda Marcotte! Steve Gilliard! Lindsay Beyerstein! Lots of other people whose blogs I've read!) and then got shy and sat by ourselves.
I did, had a lovely time. Hanging out with Tia and washerdreyer for the second time, and LizardBreath, Idealist, The Modesto Kid, and dagger aleph for the first time. Clownaesthesiologist: did I not get to meet you, or were you introduced to me under a different name?
Scott Lemieux seems like a really decent upstanding fellow, and Lindsay Beyerstein is as charming, funny, and gracious as her blog depicts her.
I got hijacked for a little while by non-blogger acquaintances defending my love of Ben Jonson's self-deprecatory poems and missed at least one pitcher of beer, which seems kind of tragic now.
Scott Lemieux seems like a really decent upstanding fellow, and Lindsay Beyerstein is as charming, funny, and gracious as her blog depicts her.
I realize on re-read that it sounds kind of sexist to describe them in this way, but I'm hoping someone backs me up here, as it's descriptive of their IRL personalities. I think.
And I'll back you up that Scott really is an incredibly nice guy, and pretty extroverted (i.e., easy to talk to) and gracious. I really like him. (Actually I'd describe Weiner the same way.) Lindsay is a wee bit shyer, but not for long I don't think, and she's super smart and yes, also very gracious (she let me stay at her place!), and I really like her too.
52: I saw his post, and just imagined CA was some other person. This clears up many past mysteries, as he still comments as TMK on mine. He knows we're slow learners at ITNSII? It took us a month to learn how to peel a banana.
54: Tia and I were pretty nervous about meeting LB and crashing her party, so T brought her a plant (that got a little smooshed on the train) and I brought a card. We didn't know how to approach her, so I sort of blitzed her. We were a little awkward.
In order to tell you that I've started Tristam Shandy, it will be necessary first to tell you of all the other things I've done in the five years since I purchased the book. It will also be necessary for me to start reading it.
Yay, teo! That thread may have to split off and become multiple, one for each volume.
Ben Wolfson has promised a video explanation of the peeling. I was hoping for "Ben Wolfson Eats a Banana," which would put it in a camp with these, but apparently he doesn't eat it, just peels it.
61: Haven't seen it yet. I think he just peels it and displays it, perhaps to avoid it becoming the most highly fetishized (and linked) "guy eating banana" vid ever.
For me, no. That's what I was hoping would happen. For Ben, yeah, it might be a little weird since everyone knows who he is. I was going to post it with a "ITNSII EXCLUSIVE! MUST CITE ITNSII!!!" but not if he doesn't bite the banana.
There is something uncomfortable about eating a banana when you know you're being watched. I was eating one in the airport yesterday and some creepy guy was watching me. I switched to breaking off chunks with my fingers and eating those, which made me unhappy because my hands probably had airport germs on them.
(And I got catcalled the worst I ever have in my life in San Francisco when I was sightseeing in Telegraph Hill while eating an ice cream cone. I couldn't even finish it, I was so embarrassed.)
Clarification in re 42: Though I often don't post about my travels -- I like to make you think I'm always in Lubbock so I can get maximum sympathy points -- it is OK to disclose that I was there too. And thanks in re 54.
Likewise, although AWB had said you'd be there. Online pictures don't really convey what anyone looks like -- while I recognized your forehead from that shot of you peering over your cat, I'd somehow thought you were shorter. Of course, I'd pictured AWB as a six-foot Nordic blonde along the lines of Brigitte Nielsen, which was also pretty far off.
Dagger Aleph I'd managed to avoid forming any mental image of at all, so was completely surprised by. I do love having voices to put with the text. Anyone I've met I can hear reading their comments.
79: Well, of course now my problem is that I won't be able to stop thinking of you as the American version of my immensely cool Kiwi friend from the Peace Corps. The resemblance was really pretty striking (although I haven't seen her for a decade, so goodness knows what she looks like now.)
It's funny, because last night I had a dream that Max von Sydow was my college calculus professor, and that I failed the class and wangled it into an affair.
Um, sorry, 87 meant "I hadn't noticed, thanks for pointing it out to me." (Becks: Huh? Also, Becks does happen to be one of the Unfoggetarians I have met in my seekrit travels.)
Hair texture and shape of the hairline have to be what Becks is talking about, (and assuming she's working from the cat picture, all that she's seen), but there isn't any actual resemblance.
The AWB comparisons are both reasonable, as movie star comparisons go. I'm not seeing the Isabelle Huppert thing, but that may be because I haven't found an old enough picture of her.
I thought people looked moderately glamorous. Especially w/d, who I remembered from the previous meet-up as being kind of scruffy -- he is one dapper, handsome dude.
42: If I hadn't gotten to this thread hours late, I would've questioned the absence of Weiner from that list.
54: So at one point, fairly late in the party, I'm sitting at a table with Scott and the remaining Unfogged people. Realizing I haven't said hello to Lindsay and the people she was sitting with, I turn around and do my usual (for this kind of get together) "Hi, I'm [name]. I comment on blogs as washerdreyer." Except that I paused between [name] and washerdreyer to shake hands, and when I said "washerdreyer" Lindsay, says (assume paraphrasing throughout), "Oh, I thought you were a woman." To which I respond, "I guess people might associate laundry appliances with women." And she says, "no, it's because you've always seemed like a good feminist." Which is very nice, except that the laundry comment maybe wasn't so good along those lines. That's my story about meeting Lindsay or, alternatively, one about saying stupid things when meeting good-looking women.
110: Thanks. If I look different, it's probably in large part the difference between rolling out of bed for school and actually having to deal clothes, shaving, and other crap for work.
I have been trying to come up with a movie star to which compare LizardBreath so that those who have not met her can get an idea. So far, I have come up with a cross between Dan Blocker and Minnie Driver, but with blue eyes. But maybe others can do better.
104: Hers is higher than mine, but she was always doing the kind of roles I wanted in theater, and doing them so well that I then had to do them in completely different ways so I wouldn't lapse into a BP impression. Oddly, the first thing I saw her in was The Jerk, and I loved her from that moment to this day.
My dad says I look like Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, but I think I look as much like Cate as she looks like Katherine Hepburn, which is to say, not much, except in the 'kind of odd looking' department.
That's the best argument I've ever seen against net neutrality.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 3:16 PM
I ssssssttttttttaaaaaaaabeeeed oooooout my eyes. noiw i caantttyppe.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 3:37 PM
The part in which she mocked the death of civilians . . . there's no predicate for that.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 3:39 PM
I'm not sure there's any reason for me to watch past about the 20-second mark. Likely I could have closed it even at 10 seconds, or not opened it at all, without having deprived myself of any meaningful insight.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:01 PM
It's kind of great that her vblogs have the same twitchy, vain, and insane quality that her site has.
The first time I clicked through, finally, to see what the hell this AtlasShrugs blog was about, I was astonished that such a shitty looking site was getting so much attention. Then..."Surely it's not the tits?" "Oh, shit, it really is about the tits."
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:03 PM
If we could get 24 hours from an unfogged meetup without a single comment acknowledging that the meetup took place, that would be odd and worthy of discussion.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:06 PM
Fuck!
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:06 PM
JM: sorry if you've already said, but how did it go today?
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:06 PM
OK, I watched it. I don't believe it. I think she's an Iranian plant.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:07 PM
8--Excused, and I didn't even have to lie.
9--She's been blogging for at least two years, though, right?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:09 PM
(I mean maybe a few months down the road I will fail to get a scintillating bit of inside humor that I would have found hilarious, had I spent 5 minutes watching this video... Nah.)
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:12 PM
10: As I think many have noted, the Islamoscary menace goes back a thousand years. Two years invested by a single operative is a mere pittance to them.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:12 PM
I didn't watch it (can't turn on sound right now), but I did skim the first bunch of posts her blog because I couldn't remember just how bad it was. Besides the name-calling and odd use of ALL CAPS and brightly colored text inserted when she's feeling particular vehement, there's this representative sample which proceeds a quote from a misguided (in the sense that it supports John Bolton) op-ed which Sen. Voinovich wrote today:
Elected on that platform? I'm sure his opponent will mention that he disagreed with the President on that, but if the UN Ambassador is a key issue in Ohio elections, I'll buy a hat to eat. Based on the referent of that sentence, she's calling Voinovich a great statesmen, right? What is she saying isn't a surprise, that Voinovich changed his mind? If it was so expected that he would, and his apostasy didn't keep Bolton out of the U.N., what did he do wrong, not sufficiently love GWB with all his might?Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:22 PM
She's saying that Bolton is a great statesman, and that it's no surprise that Voinovich eventually realized Bolton's genius.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:25 PM
You people are all anti-Semitic and wish you were Hitler. And JM is jealous.
Is this the one with the giggly little girl mimicking her?
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:29 PM
This is so, so emblematic of our times:
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 4:53 PM
Christ, Labs, thanks for stating the blindingly obvious. It's always about the titties. Or the oil. Or something. I forget which.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 5:28 PM
Is this the one with the giggly little girl mimicking her?
No, it's worse. You get to see her sing and dance in this one.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 6:28 PM
14: It's possible that I was feigning misunderstandings because I think her writing is so disastrous.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 6:29 PM
Last week, she announced she would be travelling to Israel to "report" from there. And all I could think was, "Don't you think the people in that part of the world are suffereing enough already?"
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 6:30 PM
No, it's worse. You get to see her sing and dance in this one.
Cripes. I stopped watching very quickly, and was spared that sight. JM's right--it's gotta be the breasts.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 6:50 PM
Yeah, I got about 10 seconds in and thought, I can't take it any more. I'll probably go back later and watch it out of morbid curiosity, but I hope I don't.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 7:16 PM
17: Snees, I meant "It really is about the tits" in the more grandiose sense, viz., that the immediate, obvious, but utterly stupid explanation of some weird social phenomenon often, tragically, turns out to be correct, to the disappointment of all of us hoping desperately that there's something more complex going on.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 7:41 PM
immediate, obvious, but utterly stupid
What kind of tit-hating misogyny is this? The tits are not to blame for the Chris Muirs of the world.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 7:48 PM
I think B might be Becks-style.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 7:53 PM
Public Service Announcements should be run telling everyone how bad tanning beds are for the skin.
Posted by winna | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 7:56 PM
The hat is made from rice paper which can be bought from most supermarkets.
You know, I completely misread that quote as saying that hats made out of rice paper could be bought at most supermarkets. I was very confused.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 8:12 PM
We only hate the silicone, B.
I am always Becks-style.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 8:27 PM
25: Alas, not. I did have a beer with dinner. But I haven't been drunk in ages.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 8:33 PM
Hey I got really drunk last night with a bunch of other people from this comments section. Nobody seems to be talking about it here but I made a brief mention chez moi. (My 600th post! woo hoo!)
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 8:52 PM
Rats -- forgot to close my link. Fortunately it reads about as well the way it came out.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 8:53 PM
Clownaesthesiologist is a sock puppet. I did not know that.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:01 PM
Huh. Thot it was common knowledge.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:18 PM
My mom and my sister are going to the opera tomorrow. They will be dressing up.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:22 PM
But will they be swearing?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:33 PM
I don't know; they haven't made specific plans to.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:41 PM
you mean Clownaesthesiologist isn't your real name?
So what happened? did the Unfoggedtariat all sit together at one table in the corner and zip up their hoodies when the cameras came around?
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:42 PM
34: Like music to my ears.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 9:46 PM
It's not just the tits. She has great dick-sucking lips.
Posted by Adam Ash | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:01 PM
37: Pretty much. I, and the other Unfogged commenters, said hi to the impressive bloggers (Amanda Marcotte! Steve Gilliard! Lindsay Beyerstein! Lots of other people whose blogs I've read!) and then got shy and sat by ourselves.
Lame, but I had a great deal of fun.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:08 PM
Which Mineshafters showed up?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:15 PM
I did, had a lovely time. Hanging out with Tia and washerdreyer for the second time, and LizardBreath, Idealist, The Modesto Kid, and dagger aleph for the first time. Clownaesthesiologist: did I not get to meet you, or were you introduced to me under a different name?
Scott Lemieux seems like a really decent upstanding fellow, and Lindsay Beyerstein is as charming, funny, and gracious as her blog depicts her.
I got hijacked for a little while by non-blogger acquaintances defending my love of Ben Jonson's self-deprecatory poems and missed at least one pitcher of beer, which seems kind of tragic now.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:40 PM
Scott Lemieux seems like a really decent upstanding fellow, and Lindsay Beyerstein is as charming, funny, and gracious as her blog depicts her.
I realize on re-read that it sounds kind of sexist to describe them in this way, but I'm hoping someone backs me up here, as it's descriptive of their IRL personalities. I think.
Oh God, I have to go soak my head.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:43 PM
Clownaesthesiologist: did I not get to meet you, or were you introduced to me under a different name?
Ouch.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:43 PM
43: I did noticed that you conspicuously avoided mentioning her appearance.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:45 PM
44 - Teo's all scared about his meetup now. We'll remember you, Teo!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:48 PM
Nah, it's just that he posted on his blog about how great it was to meet AWB.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:50 PM
And that she's his favorite blogger.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:51 PM
Is that ModKid's new name?
Shit, dudes, I can't keep up if you're going around changing your damn names all the time.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:52 PM
AWB, check your email.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:53 PM
(please)
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:53 PM
49: Yep.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:55 PM
I did, and responded.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:55 PM
Clown = TMK, silly bear.
And I'll back you up that Scott really is an incredibly nice guy, and pretty extroverted (i.e., easy to talk to) and gracious. I really like him. (Actually I'd describe Weiner the same way.) Lindsay is a wee bit shyer, but not for long I don't think, and she's super smart and yes, also very gracious (she let me stay at her place!), and I really like her too.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:56 PM
52: I saw his post, and just imagined CA was some other person. This clears up many past mysteries, as he still comments as TMK on mine. He knows we're slow learners at ITNSII? It took us a month to learn how to peel a banana.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-20-06 11:58 PM
It took us a month to learn how to peel a banana.
Unsuccessfully, as I recall. By the way, I have also started Tristam Shandy.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:00 AM
54: Tia and I were pretty nervous about meeting LB and crashing her party, so T brought her a plant (that got a little smooshed on the train) and I brought a card. We didn't know how to approach her, so I sort of blitzed her. We were a little awkward.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:01 AM
In order to tell you that I've started Tristam Shandy, it will be necessary first to tell you of all the other things I've done in the five years since I purchased the book. It will also be necessary for me to start reading it.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:04 AM
Yay, teo! That thread may have to split off and become multiple, one for each volume.
Ben Wolfson has promised a video explanation of the peeling. I was hoping for "Ben Wolfson Eats a Banana," which would put it in a camp with these, but apparently he doesn't eat it, just peels it.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:05 AM
58: Metashandean excuses for not having finished it are welcome.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:06 AM
I haven't read any of the thread, since I've only just started. The first three chapters are awesome, though.
(He doesn't eat the banana? What does he do with it?)
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:07 AM
61: Haven't seen it yet. I think he just peels it and displays it, perhaps to avoid it becoming the most highly fetishized (and linked) "guy eating banana" vid ever.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:09 AM
That would be bad?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:10 AM
For me, no. That's what I was hoping would happen. For Ben, yeah, it might be a little weird since everyone knows who he is. I was going to post it with a "ITNSII EXCLUSIVE! MUST CITE ITNSII!!!" but not if he doesn't bite the banana.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:13 AM
There is something uncomfortable about eating a banana when you know you're being watched. I was eating one in the airport yesterday and some creepy guy was watching me. I switched to breaking off chunks with my fingers and eating those, which made me unhappy because my hands probably had airport germs on them.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:16 AM
Something b said upthread reminds me that I may need a place to crash when I'm in NYC. Just fyi.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:17 AM
(And I got catcalled the worst I ever have in my life in San Francisco when I was sightseeing in Telegraph Hill while eating an ice cream cone. I couldn't even finish it, I was so embarrassed.)
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:18 AM
(66 is, of course, addressed to everyone.)
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:19 AM
Teo -- I will be out of town, as I mentioned, but I will help arrange something, if there's anything I can do.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:21 AM
67: Did you go down the steps?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:23 AM
Thanks, AWB. I'm going to try some IRL friends first, but if I can't find anything I may appeal to the Mineshaft.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:24 AM
Teo, I might be able to help out, too. Email me with your dates for more info.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:24 AM
70 - Hmmm...they don't look familiar. I did walk up to Coit Tower.
I should really go to bed now. 'Night all.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:27 AM
I want to say that you'd remember the steps if you'd been on them, but that might be a matter of taste: I just happen to like that area.
Either this blog needs more pacific time zone commenters, or I need to go to sleep earlier.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:53 AM
Clarification in re 42: Though I often don't post about my travels -- I like to make you think I'm always in Lubbock so I can get maximum sympathy points -- it is OK to disclose that I was there too. And thanks in re 54.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 5:53 AM
It was such an unexpected pleasure to see you, Matt. One that caused double and triple takes.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 6:04 AM
49 -- just like to keep people guessin.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 6:19 AM
Likewise, although AWB had said you'd be there. Online pictures don't really convey what anyone looks like -- while I recognized your forehead from that shot of you peering over your cat, I'd somehow thought you were shorter. Of course, I'd pictured AWB as a six-foot Nordic blonde along the lines of Brigitte Nielsen, which was also pretty far off.
Dagger Aleph I'd managed to avoid forming any mental image of at all, so was completely surprised by. I do love having voices to put with the text. Anyone I've met I can hear reading their comments.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 6:19 AM
Of course, I'd pictured AWB as a six-foot Nordic blonde along the lines of Brigitte Nielsen, which was also pretty far off.
sniff.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:22 AM
76/78: Thanks! And right back atcha.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:23 AM
Shoot. I thought about making the trip up to NYC for the meatup but decided I should stay and get work done.
I'm allergic to bananas.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:32 AM
79: Well, of course now my problem is that I won't be able to stop thinking of you as the American version of my immensely cool Kiwi friend from the Peace Corps. The resemblance was really pretty striking (although I haven't seen her for a decade, so goodness knows what she looks like now.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:35 AM
the meatup
ATM
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:37 AM
six-foot Nordic blonde
Represent, yo.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:41 AM
It's funny, because last night I had a dream that Max von Sydow was my college calculus professor, and that I failed the class and wangled it into an affair.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 7:42 AM
80 -- Hey, 'dja notice the CTY-blogging happening on the summer camp thread?
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:02 AM
Ah, no, thanks.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:19 AM
Oh, sorry.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:29 AM
Anyone else think Weiner looks kinda like Bradley Whitford from The West Wing?
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:34 AM
Not a whole lot. More than he looks like Martin Sheen, certainly.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:37 AM
Um, sorry, 87 meant "I hadn't noticed, thanks for pointing it out to me." (Becks: Huh? Also, Becks does happen to be one of the Unfoggetarians I have met in my seekrit travels.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:37 AM
Having looked at pictures of Bradley Whitford, I redouble my "huh?"
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:39 AM
Hair texture and shape of the hairline have to be what Becks is talking about, (and assuming she's working from the cat picture, all that she's seen), but there isn't any actual resemblance.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:41 AM
I think I'm mainly going on hair texture and head shape and not actual features. Then again, I tend to make "huh?" comparisons for people.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:48 AM
Nah, not really Bradley Whitford. But huh? comparisons to movie stars are fun.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:53 AM
I've occasionally heard Tobey Maguire. My huh? comparisons would be Isabelle Huppert for dagger aleph and maybe Natasha Lyonne (non-mug shot) for AWB.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:56 AM
I already said Bernadette Peters for AWB.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 8:58 AM
And therefore no one else can compare her to anyone else ever.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:00 AM
Isabelle Huppert? Hot.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:00 AM
Oh, that's much better.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:00 AM
The AWB comparisons are both reasonable, as movie star comparisons go. I'm not seeing the Isabelle Huppert thing, but that may be because I haven't found an old enough picture of her.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:01 AM
With some eyeshadow, I think Armsmasher would look like Tre Cool from Green Day.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:02 AM
100 to 97. 99: Based on Gabrielle, IH has weirdly huge nipples. This was not part of the comparison.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:02 AM
Bernadette Peters works for AWB's voice, too. Not perfectly, but there's some resemblance.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:03 AM
On further review, I think I have to go with "From certain angles, maybe."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:04 AM
movie star comparisons
I thought The Modesto Kid looked about like Clark Gable.
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Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:07 AM
Based on the da's Flickr pictures, I would have gone with Juliette Binoche or similar.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:07 AM
("eyeshadow" s/b "eyeliner")
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:08 AM
107: Much more so, IMO.
and for 106, I would have thought more Cooper than Gable.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:10 AM
(And actually:)
I thought people looked moderately glamorous. Especially w/d, who I remembered from the previous meet-up as being kind of scruffy -- he is one dapper, handsome dude.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:10 AM
109: Thanks
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:11 AM
Oh wait, did you mean Jackie Cooper?
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:12 AM
42: If I hadn't gotten to this thread hours late, I would've questioned the absence of Weiner from that list.
54: So at one point, fairly late in the party, I'm sitting at a table with Scott and the remaining Unfogged people. Realizing I haven't said hello to Lindsay and the people she was sitting with, I turn around and do my usual (for this kind of get together) "Hi, I'm [name]. I comment on blogs as washerdreyer." Except that I paused between [name] and washerdreyer to shake hands, and when I said "washerdreyer" Lindsay, says (assume paraphrasing throughout), "Oh, I thought you were a woman." To which I respond, "I guess people might associate laundry appliances with women." And she says, "no, it's because you've always seemed like a good feminist." Which is very nice, except that the laundry comment maybe wasn't so good along those lines. That's my story about meeting Lindsay or, alternatively, one about saying stupid things when meeting good-looking women.
110: Thanks. If I look different, it's probably in large part the difference between rolling out of bed for school and actually having to deal clothes, shaving, and other crap for work.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 9:50 AM
"I guess people might associate laundry appliances with women." And she says, "no, it's because you've always seemed like a good feminist."
Too, too funny.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 10:01 AM
I have been trying to come up with a movie star to which compare LizardBreath so that those who have not met her can get an idea. So far, I have come up with a cross between Dan Blocker and Minnie Driver, but with blue eyes. But maybe others can do better.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 10:07 AM
Mmm, young Elizabeth Taylor?
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 10:12 AM
w/d, I put Weiner on the list, but Becks was unsure of Weiner's willingness to be named.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 11:27 AM
104: Hers is higher than mine, but she was always doing the kind of roles I wanted in theater, and doing them so well that I then had to do them in completely different ways so I wouldn't lapse into a BP impression. Oddly, the first thing I saw her in was The Jerk, and I loved her from that moment to this day.
Posted by A White Bear | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 11:33 AM
115: in my mental image, LB looks like Kristen Johnston, but with freckles. Also slightly disheveled, maybe carrying a briefcase.
Posted by emr | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 11:59 AM
slightly disheveled, maybe carrying a briefcase.
Drop the 'slightly', and you're in business.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 12:07 PM
My dad says I look like Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, but I think I look as much like Cate as she looks like Katherine Hepburn, which is to say, not much, except in the 'kind of odd looking' department.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 2:39 PM
Based on the da's Flickr pictures, I would have gone with Juliette Binoche or similar.
Juliette Binoche? So, DA, how you doin'.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-21-06 2:46 PM