Is that your kitty?

Went to see “Super 8” yesterday. It was a bit uneven—one plot line totally worked while the other faltered here and there.

But by god did they ever manage to package and serve up a slice of America circa 1979. It was worth seeing for the time capsule-angle alone.

Well, this really frosts my mug:

Is that your kitty?

Yup. That there is Gus, a rescue cat who, in his enthusiasm to greet me, fell off his perch in his run at the cattery where we went to see him, and won my heart by immediately clambering back onto it again for more. I think you could say he fell on his feet.

That sucks, Donnah. I never drink Miller/Coors products anyway (since they taste like tepid water in which a yellow crayon has been soaked), so I can’t boycott them further.

My oldest son loves small brewery beers. I take his recommendations from time to time and he hasn’t let me down yet. My current fave is Pere Jaques, a dark Belgian style ale.

This legislation represents everything wrong with the Republican party. They want a free market but not if it threatens their biggest corporations. They want less government intervention, except when they are bowing down to their myriad lobbies. They want to make it easier for small businesses to succeed, except they don’t.

The big, obvious shit doesn’t faze me anymore, but stuff like this, where it’s so devious and really affects small businesses, pisses me right the hell off.

Re Gus, has he been getting his dieting tips from Tunch? ;-)

Gah!  How dare any Repub-thug come between a beer drinker and a good craft brew?  It’s time to sweep the bum outta office!

Unless I missed something, it doesn’t look like Weiner said anything gross to the girl. The fact that he was bantering with a teenage kid seems kinda skeevy now that we know he was tweeting peen pics to adults too, but just by themselves, his comments seem innocent enough.

But by god did they ever manage to package and serve up a slice of America circa 1979.

Seconded. I’m about a year younger than J.J. Abrams, and I assume the kids in it are supposed to be about his age, and my hometown was not so different from Lillian, Ohio. It was a major nostalgia trip for me, too.

@Betty, even if we didn’t know what we did, it disturbs me as a parent of a teenage girl that a 46-year-old man was having private conversations of an intimate (albeit maybe not sexual) nature with a 17-year-old girl. Also we don’t know the whole story and that second-to-last line totally skeeved me out.

Aw, Gus looks like my kitty Babs! (Don’t have Flickr or whatever the kids use.) I got Babs and her “brother,” Sonny, from a shelter seven years ago today. Thought about renaming them “Mitch and Mickey” after A Mighty Wind (also indicative of their personalities—she’s totally chill, he’s a basket case), but their original monikers stuck.

And I’m creeped out by the Weiner tweets, too. I don’t see anything that suggests it’s at the Mark Foley level—yet—but still, it’s piss-poor judgment to say the least.

Gusssssss!  Who’s a gooooood boy?  Guuuuuussssssssssssss!  Give him some skritches for me, YAFB.

@J, yeah, no.  Didn’t like it.  Same line that struck you struck me.  Damn it.  Looks like I will have to do another update to my Weiner roast.

@J: Yes, there is no explaining Weiner’s thunderous stupidity and recklessness on Twitter. He had no way of knowing the age of some of the women he was dealing with, and he should have taken that into account. He should have taken a lot of things into account, but there is no evidence he sought out underage girls deliberately.

Since Breitbart took that lack of judgement on Weiner’s part and transmuted it into calling Weiner a pedophile, I just am naturally resistant to getting more upset over an exchange where nothing untoward actually happened.

How dare any Repub-thug come between a beer drinker and a good craft brew?

Republicans don’t drink good beer.  Good beer is a sign of elitism.

@Mrs. Polly, sounds like he knew this young woman was still in high school, since she said she had heard him speak during a high school trip. (Maybe I had read this elsewhere.) The bigger is WTF was he doing flirting (and worse) with all of these women? Apparently telling someone “that was a great speech” is code for “won’t you please send me a picture of your erect penis.”

And in breaking news, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has called for Weiner’s resignation. (Btw, while I deplore Weiner’s behavior, if he didn’t break any laws, I think it’s up to his constituents to decide if they want him in or out, of office, that is.)

Your favorite bipolar blogger is at it again:  in a blog discussion on Tracy Morgan, the unlovely and talentless madamaB claims that “wimminz” haz it wurs than gays:

“Yes, I’m sorry, but everything is wimminz’ fault. Gays are WAY the hell down on the list.

“I don’t see any celebrities making videos about “It Gets Better” for female victims of rape, or violence. I don’t see those videos for girls who are sex slaves to abusive pimps at the age of 13. I don’t see any damn videos for women who are not able to care for their own bodies because some Christian Taliban f*cktards hate their mommies.

“I think things ARE getting better for gays, while they are getting worse and worse and worse for women.

“Wimminz are now, and forever, UNCOOL.”