Paris to Talibunny: Flash the Flesh

A little more thigh and showing off the chesticles will make folks forget about the US American economy (and the world economy) going straight into the shitter.

I didn’t realize that masturbation was the ultimate political trickle down effect.

@ManchuCandidate: ask Byron York about that one.

Wow, so many stories today, so little time tonight. On a total side note, OMG, I fucking LURVE my boyfriend Jon Stewart. He did the “my friends” counter that I tried to track with a pad of paper in a hotel room, he noticed PsychoGeezer wandering around stage, and nailing Palin for her insane Naziesque crowd frenzy.

@SanFranLefty: John Oliver’s analysis of the Stupid Vote earlier was pretty dead-on.

@SanFranLefty: @rptrcub:
jon stewart is the true love of my life, but i’ll share him with you lefty.
i met him decades ago hanging around seedy nyc comedy clubs before he got noticed. he really is that smart and funny and cute in person.

i caught the show the night before when he was ranting about congress taking 2 days off for rosh hashana:

“hey! wall street is sure open, and there are a lot more jews there than in congress! and i’m here! and i can guarantee there are more jews at the daily show! we’re here! what? they can’t vote without feinstein? my rabbi doesn’t have the balls to take 2 days off for rosh hashana!”

he was sceaming, and so was i. lerve lerve lerve that man, it’s the only place i can stand to get my news at this point. and here.

@rptrcub: That had me falling out of my chair. I wanted to stay up and catch last night’s show but was way too tired.

@Mistress Cynica: I’m just glad “fucktard” has now make it into the TV lexicon.

You had to post that picture, didn’t you? I mean, you just had to do it. When I was sitting here innocently thinking about musical theatre and made the mistake of checking in at Stinque (BTW let me repeat how much I like that name and motto. Excellent) and now I have to draw the blinds and lie in a darkened room. I like looking at near-naked ladiez as much as the next gay man but really! This is like Lyndie Englund’s (sp? you know who I mean. The bitch who posed for all the pictures in Abu Graib) idea of fun. Just suppose for a moment that this ‘ticket’ wins in Nov (if I can deal with it you can. So quit screaming and tearing your clothes off right now. BTW, what a lot of parentheses in this post) this is the image of the vice-president of the United States of America that will go round the world. I imagine it will be particularly popular in the United Arab Emirates, say, or China. Where it will do much to convince the holders of the national debt that our credit is good.

@baked: I was laughing so hard during Jon’s Jewish holidays rant that I thought I cracked a rib. I’ve watched that clip multiple times on his website – I highly recommend it the next time you need a laugh.

@rptrcub: That was the funniest thing ever in the history of the universe. Douchenozzles.

Here’s John at a charity event this week:

“[Sarah Palin] is like Jodie Foster in the movie ‘Nell,’ ” Stewart continued. “They just found her, and she was speaking her own special language.

“Have you noticed how [Palin’s] rallies have begun to take on the characteristics of the last days of the Weimar Republic? In Florida, she asked ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ Hey, lady, we just met YOU five f-ing weeks ago.”

This is what they used to call “a meeting of the minds”, advice from one intellectual equal to the other…

@Prommie: At least during the Weimar Republic Germany produced Marlene Dietrich, Garbo, Brecht, George Grosz, Kurt Weill, Hesse, Isherwood (yes I know he wasn’t German but he was part of that Berlin scene), Einstein, philosophers, sociologists, and umpteen people whose works contributed to human knowledge.

In the W. Republic, we’ve produced Paris Hilton and a cavalcade of douchebags with a bunch of sludge considered pop music, all wrapped up into a bag of cultural bankruptcy worse than any conservative in Deutschland could imagine or rail against during the 1920s.

@rptrcub: There’s a Max Ernst show down the street from me.

@rptrcub:

But we have “The Office”, “Heros”, and Rob Zombie! Doesn’t that count for something?

@rptrcub: Yes, but, dearest, there are many, many men and women of great talent and ability working right now in the States.

(Pause while I get on the soapbox, clear my throat and scrape dog-hair off my straightjacket)

I know some fiercely talented people who are creating beautiful work right here, right now. One small example; plays produced here are produced all over the world. The same is not true in reverse. And it’s even more true with musicals. I think the same is true in science, literature and other fields that matter. The fact that they’re not famous is neither here nor there. Isherwood wasn’t at the time, neither was Brecht. Weill fled Germany and did much of his best work in the States. The real stuff takes talent and time to create and enjoy. It doesn’t lend itself to advertising. An example might be American Psycho, a novel I admire greatly. It could perhaps be the work that will define the Reagan years. And will be read long after no one knows who was president when it was written. P Hilton is notorious. She is the public whore who reminds us all what the rules are. So she fulfills a social function. And she sells stuff. Besides which, one may not like aspects of current American pop music but it nevertheless rules the world.

I’d suggest that we try to hold onto what we love about the States and not be deflected by the appalling social and political climate of the last 8 years.