Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
[Ed. Note: Those of you who live and die in our famed commentariat might have noticed that we've been absent our Monday comment roundup for the last two weeks. Don't worry -- we still love you, and your contributions have been splendid, as usual. That said, we're doing a little retooling -- Sunday afternoons will now be the home of the new streamlined What's That You Say? If there was ever a feature that we'd expect feedback in the comments on, well, this would be it -- so have at it.]
Howdy everyone -- do excuse our truancy during these last couple of weeks. We were busy voting, waiting in line for newspapers, and not wearing jeans.
This week's Comment of the Week goes to timtheviking2, who echoed many other commenter reactions after Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency:
Last night was, and I don't say this lightly, one of the most moving experiences of my life. I thought spontaneous mass celebrations like that only happened in other countries--when the Berlin Wall fell, or when apartheid ended. We just haven't had seismic change like that in this country--at least, not in the 26 years I've been on the planet. Honking my horn and slapping high fives with total strangers last night, I felt proud to be an American and proud to be in this city. I can't wait to bring my son down for the inauguration. He stood in line for the polls with his grandmother and told everyone they had to vote for Obama because his dad said so.
I'm really feeling this--I think my snark may be broken.
Our lucky recipient of the Avatar Award for Achievement in the Field of Avatars is TheCounter. Help me, Wolf Blitzer, you're my only hope. (Come on, like we could have picked anything else.)
Username of the Week this Sunday is awarded to NotTheRedBaron, who continues a long tradition of Simpsons references in these awards...oh wait, that was the Beer Baron. Well, congratulations for being the first Tori Amos reference to win. I guess.
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"my snark may be broken"? Amen to that.
streamlined ain't the half of it. i'd call it emaciated.
I believe the term is "eviscerated." No, strike that. "Vivisected" is what I'm looking for, with a robotic frame inside the corpse, turning it into an animatronic puppet for use in a Survival Research Laboratories performance piece. Yes, I'd definitely be up for watching that, instead of this flaccid dong of a "feature" hanging in an obscene arc and spraying pee in three different directions.
I haven't been this pissed since they moved Buffy to Friday nights.
I think what Monkey is trying to convey here is "where the hell is the Wonderful World of Monkeyrotica"?
Where is the Magical World of Monkeyrotica? It's in the hearts and minds of every freethinking American who's ever stayed in a relationship just for the breakup sex. It's in the restaurant bathrooms, peeing on the rims out of spite. It's shaking its head at what they're charging for tapas and giving slowdriving old people the finger. It's right in front of you when your back is turned. It's on the menu, on the table, it's the knife, and it's the waiter.
It's every where you want to be, chanting the mantra, "In every day, in every way, I'm getting bitter and bitter."
Can you keep Monkey's Magical World? Pleeze? It's a lot of work to keep up with his brilliant quipstering. I've been counting on Aaron to masterfully distill all our commentariat down to the tasty essences.
One single comment is barely a droplet on the tongue.