Weekend Open Thread

The 89-year-old Mrs. America Pageant? (4.00 / 2)

How many 89-year-olds compete in it?

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by: elwood @ Sat Jun 26, 2010 at 20:17:16 PM CDT

more than a decade ago n/t (0.00 / 0)

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Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sat Jun 26, 2010 at 22:13:20 PM CDT

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I am glad my grandmother is not here to see this (0.00 / 0)

We don't get HBO but "Hung" on HBO includes my my cousin Rebecca in the cast.She went from playing the Jonas brother's mommy on their Disney show to full frontal on this.The Jonas boys were seen blushing and changing the channel.She plays Lenore...

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews...
Hung has been a sleeper hit for HBO, and as the second season is being readied to premiere this summer, the network is releasing The Complete First Season on DVD so viewers can get caught up. The imminently likable Thomas Jane (The Mist) stars as Drecker, and as the main focus of the show, Jane makes this well-endowed underdog a strange kind of hero, one worth rooting for.

The essential plot is that Ray starts taking business-minded motivational classes to try to drum up some inspiration about how to score the green he needs. At the seminars, he runs into a former one-night stand, a poet named Tanya (Jane Adams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) who used to come speak to Ray's history class. They once again fall into the sack together, and when Ray is on his way out the door following the deed, Tanya makes an off-hand comment that the only good thing about him is his penis. This gets Ray thinking, and the next thing you know, he's Googling ways to make money with his member. Eventually, Tanya comes on board as his pimp, rebranding Ray as a "happiness consultant" and marketing him to lonely ladies with disposable income.

Unsurprisingly, there is a learning curve to the hustler business. Getting customers is one of the biggest obstacles. Tanya knows a personal shopper and lifestyle coach who hooks them up with a couple of early takers, though Lenore is a piece of work that tears through everything like a tornado. She insists on sampling Ray before recommending him, and their night, which is also Ray's first job, goes in some strange directions. Lenore is played by Rebecca Creskoff, and she turns in the kind of performance that transforms a supporting role into an essential, must-watch component. By the end of The Complete First Season, Lenore is becoming a much more active player, a villainous partner to the hippy-dippy Tanya.

Gives 'personal shopper' a newer, more intimate meaning.

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Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sat Jun 26, 2010 at 22:22:20 PM CDT

Remember the conservative recipe for access to power: (0.00 / 0)

1) depress the serious electorate

2) tantalize the press to get free attention with "sexual" scandal

3) distract the non-serious electorate with non-issues and unrealistic threats

4) amuse the groupies and fans

V) undermine the integrity of the election process

6) make the opposition play dirty

7) generate popular disgust with the process of governing

If universal suffrage can't be deep-sixed, other strategies to discourage, depress and deprive the people of power must be employed.  Democratic outrage is putty in their hands.

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by: hannah @ Sun Jun 27, 2010 at 05:02:40 AM CDT

Some stuff the press missed in the recent Rolling Stone article (4.00 / 1)

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by: Mike Caulfield @ Sun Jun 27, 2010 at 07:20:58 AM CDT

Is Ayotte really planning to run as a victim? (0.00 / 0)

I was reading the Granite Status linked to Friday and saw the whole thing about the police force in the commercial.

Obviously it's a reply ad, so great. Whatever. But what I was noticing the tone as described:

In the ad, an announcer says, "For his very first ad, Paul Hodes launches a false attack.'Officer Tim Patterson then says, "Kelly Ayotte was a tough attorney general."

Merrill then says, "For someone with Kelly's outstanding record of openness, transparency, integrity, these kinds of claims just don't wash.

Officer Nathan Boudreau of then says, "I think people are trying to score cheap political points."

I don't have cable, so I don't see this stuff. But is Ayotte really planning to run as a victim? Has she found her issue at last?  

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by: Mike Caulfield @ Sun Jun 27, 2010 at 07:39:21 AM CDT

Hitting the GOP primary demographic. (0.00 / 0)

Tongue-tied damsel in distress?  Uniformed and/or patriarchal males leaping to her defense?  That's a pretty good recipe for pushing the buttons of the brainstem-only electorate.

"Kelly Ayotte: Defend Girl with vote, take Girl home!"

You've come a long way, indeed, baby.

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by: Tim C. @ Mon Jun 28, 2010 at 13:01:41 PM CDT

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