Why, if you have a Honda, did you call a place that works on expensive non-Hondas? Is your bangin' stereo system that l33t?
Ogged, I demand a non-disjunctive description of your head unit's problems.
Yes, would it not make more sense to call a place that specializes in Hondas?
Wouldn't it make the most sense to call the place that installed the speakers?
Just put a boombox on the passenger seat like the rest of us do.
Hey is this the State of the Union liveblogging thread?
As god is my maker there shall be no SOTU liveblogging.
I've completely stopped watching Bush on TV. I find my mood is better this way.
"Witness", Ben -- "witness".
What are you guessing the state of the union will be? My guess is "Strong". What do you all think?
"Democrat" majority. Fuck you very much.
Democrat majority. Nice. Can't even say it with them all in the same room.
It takes a secure man to wear a purple tie like Cheney's wearing.
And he's taking credit for getting control of earmarks. Right. He's the one doing that. Twerp.
(And ties always go to the blogger. Heck, I could go into the comments and change the timestamps to make it unambiguous. I'm that evil.)
No, the other guy. This is the Motumbo SOTU, or whatever. An ispiration to George Bush, and to us all.
What are you guessing the state of the union will be? My guess is "Strong". What do you all think?
Wonkette's SOTU drinking game:
Three shots, two rails, shoot your TV and drive through neighbor's living room:
* Bush says state of the union is "wrong."
We can do anything without raising taxes. Except raising taxes- then the evil doers will have won.
I can't believe that any of you are actually listening to that sorry SOB, let alone watching. I can't take more than about a 5-second sound bite without making an obscene gesture at the radio and then changing the station.
If you can watch Bush give a speech, you don't love your country. Soooo...about that stereo. I installed it myself, young Ben, so taking it to the installer won't help, because the installer is stumped, and I called this place because stereo installers don't generally specialize by make of car--this place lists the makes so that I, the customer, know that they do quality work and won't fuck up my (counterfactual) $150,000 automobile. I, the customer, am also supposed to know that it's not for cars like mine, but I'm willing to trespass for the sake of the songs.
The missus just came down and changed the channel. I did not object.
The Country Bears are on Disney. A lousy movie, but better than Bush. If I watch something else, I cannot watch Bush. (A small plus: music by John Hiatt.)
They're gonna explode over at "the corner." Acknowledging global climate change? WTF?
24: You barely like music; seems like a lot of trouble for no reason.
"One question that's surely been settled -- that to win the war on terror, we must take the fight to the enemy" begs a couple of questions and doesn't mean anything. But sounds like it means that we all agree about Iraq.
Soooo...about that stereo. I installed it myself, young Ben, so taking it to the installer won't help, because the installer is stumped
Stereos kind of suck that way because it's pretty much impossible to test this kind of stuff without having a spare receiver and speaker to throw in to try and isolate the problem.
He's just the worst speechgiver ever. Not that his speeches would be good, modulo the idiot.
Modulo the Idiot: good name for a band?
"In 2005, the Iraqi people defied the terrorists and elected a democratic legislature."
In 2006, so did the Americans.
I like Modulo the Idiot.
Speech would be better if purposes -> porpoises.
e.g., "Shia and Sunni extremists are different faces of the same totalitarian threat. But whatever slogans they chant, when they slaughter the innocent, they have the same wicked porpoises."
"Wicked Porpoise" also a good band name.
"The people of Iraq want the truth -- they can't handle the truth!"
I hope Stanley's reading this thread.
Hmm. 39 would invite "Don't give a damn 'bout the bad rep cetaceans."
39: Rather prog-suited, I think.
Okay, we just talked about this. Haven't we been trying to increase the size of the Army by 30K since 2001, and haven't successfully gotten there? So this is just bullshit.
Guns or butter: Star Wars, 92K, whatever else he's going to want for show--guess we're getting guns.
I will forgive him for everything if he says, "I ask you tonight, 'Who wants to sex Mutombo.'"
who wants to sex mutumbo!
Clearly, Julie Aigner-Clark does.
i would have settled for one shot of mutombo wagging his finger at any one of bush's proposals.
Subway dude is cracking me up. Like he's at a concert or something.
Lips? The whole damn face looks shrink-wrapped.
Good call on the subway hero, though. I dig him showin' the love.
also, apologies for misspelling Mutombo's name above...
Subway guy was, in fact, great and deserves the moment soaking up the kudos.
What's the Baby Einstein thing?
watching this on fox is quite something. shep smith is awestruck.
42: TJ, that was awful. Well done.
Where's Adam Sandler when you need him? "The State of the Union is WRONG, bitch."
Well, unless I missed something, he didn't go overboard on Iran. I think we can move the Bush Terror Alert back down to mauve.
Baby Einstein is this series of videos for the entertainment and edification of the pre-verbal set. Classical music and artistic images -- Can't remember precisely having blocked it out these past 4 years, since Sylvia stopped watching them.
We love Subway Guy.
Bush called Belorus "Belorussia"? That's... weird.
No, I know what Baby Einstein is, sorry -- I wondered how it came up in the speech.
My limited exposure to the Baby Einstein videos did not impress me. Closeups on lava lamps juxtaposed with counting in Hebrew that didn't track with the blurps going up, though it seemed like it ought to. Very odd.
Clown&lig;, how's the new job treating you?
He gave Julie Eigner-Clark, creator of Baby Einstein, some kind of recognition for being an American heroine -- I did not catch what recognition it was precisely, but presumably the same kind he gave Motumbo and the subway guy.
66: It's the Decider's new self-improvement project. If he's a good boy and watches carefully, Mr. Cheney will let him have another war.
My sister just came in to tell me that he completely ignored three women in the crowd who offered to shake his hand. Really? Report, those of you watching the teevee.
69(!) -- first day was today, and it was good. I'm trying to figure out how to use ClearCase now.
He gave Julie Eigner-Clark, creator of Baby Einstein, some kind of recognition for being an American heroine
I... gosh.
You do software engineering? I thought you were a lawyer like all the other Manhattanites.
I did not catch what recognition it was precisely, but presumably the same kind he gave Motumbo
The sexual kind.
like all the other Manhattanites
No, no, some of them are graduate students.
And... heeeeeere's Webb!
Ogged, see how much they charge, and then see if it would be as cheap/cheaper to fly me out there and fix your problem, so's I can relax at your sunny local for a bit.
I, of course, skipped the SOTU to watch Veronica Mars.
Disappointing. Season 3 is just letting us down, man.
He talked up the Baby Einstein videos in the SOTU? The insidious plot to make even infants watch tv? The videos based on the educational theory that if you just put a lot of classical music around children, they will get smarter? Bah!
Ok, to be fair, the one time I actually watched a Baby Einstein vid I was enthralled. There was something very soothing about the Wendy Carlos synth-style Mozart. I still stand with the American Academy of Pediatrics: No TV for kids under 18 months.
I assume that Dick Cheney has some financial stake in the sale of Baby Einstein products.
Or just that zoned-out munchkins look like future Republican voters.
Gotta say, I love the Baby Einstein. It's relaxing and pretty.
Jim Webb was scary good, by the way. First time I've seen him on TV.
Not surprisingly, The Corner nimrods see it differently.
Goldberg: Webb's Awful
Derb: Is he wearing a rug?
Meanwhile, Bush was Reaganesque.
Having watched Baby Einstein at apostropher's place, I have to say: wicked trippy. Loved it.
42 was seriously genius, especially given the comment number. Nice, TJ.
I hope Stanley's reading this thread.
Affirmative.
I'm with DaveL and Apo on not being able to listen to Bush's speeches, though I can't take him in any medium. If I'm feeling particularly in control of my faculties, sometimes I can choke down the rage long enough to read a transcript.
I did catch the very beginning on the radio. I could listen to that, partly because, dude! Madame Speaker! and partly because if he hates Pelosi as much as is rumored, that had to have hurt him to say.
Neither I nor anyone in my immediate biological family can bear to look at him on TV. My retired, now-mild-mannered mom says it makes her so angry to see him on the news that she has to look away.
I let Rah filter all of my political news for me because otherwise my spleen would burst.
95 gets it right. For the last 12 months or so I've been listening to the NPR News and instantly slamming down the "OFF" button as soon as he starts talking, and then waiting 2 minutes to hit "ON" again. Call me a stereotype, but I don't get that instant revulsion from any other right-wing newsmakers, even the truly evil ones. They all seem like they at least think they have something interesting to say.
Only 12 months? My radio's taken that kind of pounding for the past six years.
(ATM.)
Further to 73: does it mark me as a weirdo to say I feel comfortable in my body at my new office in a way that I did not at my previous job? Because I am thinking of saying that. It reminds me of coming-out-of-the-closet narratives.
No, I feel somewhat the same way with my job change. I'm still recuperating a bit from a pretty strange and stressful 2006, including the job change at the end, but I sort of feel like I'm slowly becoming human again.
Excellent! I'm glad to hear it.
("Excellent" is the new way of spelling "Kobe".)