Pajiba Love 09/11/08

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Pajiba Love | September 11, 2008 | Comments (52)

What do you think Jessica Alba is shilling for, here? Torture porn? Duct tape? Voter registration services? Revlon?? (WIMB)

Still not convinced the apocalypse is nigh? And not the fun, sexy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer type of apocalypse, either. (Via DEM) (The Independent)

Even Shannen Doherty knows a sinking ship when she sees it. (Celebitchy)

You guys feel like doing me a really silly favor? Vote for my sister’s dog Ruby (4th from the bottom) in this calendar contest. If she wins, the shelter they got her from will get a donation… Plus, you know, Ruby will be a superstar. Spanks a lot! (WellPetUSA)

Nothing ruins a nice, leisurely drive like spilling your beer on your lap. (QuizLaw)

I think the murdertank may have met its match. Meet Captain Killdozer. (criminals-who-were-certified-super-villains.html">Cracked)

I used to love the “Animaniacs” when I was in high school. Since Jeremy was probably like six when it aired, slightly less embarrassing for him to admit. (NotesOnBarNapkins)

Trent Reznor just lost cool points! Hee hee! (Agent Bedhead)

Jessica Simpson classes up daytime TV with a little T&A. Emphasis on the A. (Yeeeah!)

Cover Songs: Stealing or Improving the Great? One of my personal favorites is the Lemonheads “Mrs. Robinson” but apparently Paul Simon didn’t agree. (TMITM)

Dan saw/met the lovely and talented Kasey Chambers. (SlowlyGoingBald)

Maybe bats are equipped with sonar, carry rabies and SARS, and their poop is toxic… But don’t you think they’re also kinda cute? (Animal Review)

Aww, now this is kind of cool to hear: Elizabeth Smart isn’t totally screwed up after being abducted and brainwashed. (Jezebel)

Honest to God, I wish a day would go by that I wouldn’t be obligated to post something about Sarah “Governor Peggy fucking Hill” Palin. Anyway, since we can’t strap an M-80 to the real one, here is the next best thing. (YBNBY)

And one last note on Palin… You’ll never guess who her biggest fan is! Actually, I don’t know who her biggest fan is either, but it’s definitely not Matt Damon:

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Posted by: Brian at September 11, 2008 12:20 PM

I blame Sarah Palin on reality television.

Seriously, hear me out: we, as a culture, have gotten accustomed to being entertained by the antics of people "just like us". Game shows have been dumbed down so that anyone with an IQ over 50 stands a chance of winning, and the people they find for these shows are generally not the best and brightest anyway. Now there's this attitude that it's 'elitist' to be smart or capable or to aspire to something better than the person next to you. Sarah Palin appears to people with her folksy mannerisms and "aw, shucks, I just ended up governor of Alaska! Isn't that crazy!" persona. She refuses to acknowledge her own achievements or even QUESTION whether those achievements merit the position she's currently in and so does the reality-drunk populus. They're "rooting" for her to "win" the campaign because she's the most relatable "player" without realizing the implications that could have for the future.

I swear I'm done. That's all I'm going to say on the subject unless a direct request is made.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at September 11, 2008 12:29 PM

What sucks is that we only get to vote for one of those animals. Now I'm wondering if I have room for a third dog because that golden at the Chicago shelter was downright adorable and that is a kill shelter. Sigh.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 11, 2008 12:34 PM

The Damon video still works, if that's what you mean.

I like the Boo Radleys' dubby "The Queen Is Dead" a lot from the tribute cover of the entire album ("The Smiths Are Dead, Long Live The Smiths" I think it's called?)

Then you've got Nick Cave's "Tower Of Song" of course, as well as most of the rest of "I'm Your Fan" (and most of the Bad Seeds' "Kicking Against The Pricks" album).

Posted by: Jay at September 11, 2008 12:45 PM

Genny, you are spot on about the Palin phenomenon! I've had much the same thought(s) without having connected the dots back to that bane of modern society, reality TV. I'm stunned by the notion that she could appeal to anyone beyond the brain-dead, numerous though they may be in their own right. I've been chalking it up to her "you too could be Vice President" manner -- as if anyone should really WANT the hockey mom next door anywhere on the White House grounds!

Posted by: Che Grovera at September 11, 2008 12:49 PM

If you combine the Animaniacs post with the supervillians post, you get my favorite - Pinky and the Brain. At least it was my favorite until the current administration made the concept of that show a reality.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at September 11, 2008 12:57 PM

I may be falling for yet another subtle Stacey joke, but the Trent Reznor Blue Screen of Death (aka BSOD) is planned. NIN has done glimpses of the BSOD for at least a few shows now.

Posted by: branded at September 11, 2008 1:05 PM

Now there's this attitude that it's 'elitist' to be smart or capable or to aspire to something better than the person next to you.

Genny (also Rusty), for this statement alone, I love you. It's that whole "everybody's special" mentality. I hate it.

Conversely, I love bats!! They are awesome. When I was a kid we had a clothesline stretched across our yard, and if you shoot clothespins up into the air at dusk, you can watch the bats in action diving them. That was before I was old enough to realize that was probably a bit mean, but it was still pretty neat.

Oh, also? Re-creating the Big Bang? Yikes. I'm a little nervous about this.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 11, 2008 1:07 PM

Next time some idiot "everyman" who wants to vote one of these "just like us" morons into office I feel like telling him/her:

Next time you are out having and brew with you and your fat loser friends or, are shopping at your local Wal-Mart, look around you ...You see any presidents there?

Yeah, thought so.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 1:09 PM

Should read:

*Next time you are out having a brew with your fat loser friends

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 1:10 PM

I think Arianna Huffington hit the nail on the head with her Sarah Palin: Trojan Moose editorial.

Posted by: Cindy at September 11, 2008 1:11 PM

Genny,

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Also, since you live so close to Cuba, can we count on your expertise on the matter when the nation needs it?

Posted by: Max at September 11, 2008 1:16 PM

To be fair to the LHC, the chances of it ending the world are quite a bit less than the chances of you sontaneously combusting the next time you shave.

Posted by: the_wakeful at September 11, 2008 1:20 PM

Reznor shot is liekly a shot from one of his video montages that he often uses during his concerts. I am fairly certain that he is a Mac guy because of the video/audio capabilities that they have as compared to pc.

Just saying.

Posted by: Melody at September 11, 2008 1:22 PM

That can happen!?

...I'm never shaving again.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 11, 2008 1:26 PM

Someone should really introduce Sarah Palin to the Anvil Song. I nominate Genny. She'd enjoy it the most.

And for the record Stace, I think i was like, eight years old. It's a shame kids these days are denied the right to see cartoon animals being crushed by anvils.

Posted by: Jeremy at September 11, 2008 1:28 PM

I think Arianna Huffington hit the nail on the head

Except for the phrase "Tina Fey glasses".

Ya know......lately, I feel like I'm having to repeat myself until I finally realize I'm basically arguing with a troll. I mean, I've gotten so angry lately that I've gone all the way to being bemused. It's a healthier state to be in. A dry, dirty martini of rage and you can arch your eyebrow instead of screaming. And that works for politics just fine. On the "yeah, but she's hot" front I'm not yet fully self-actualized and still fiery. I've been fighting this Tina Fey tag for two weeks now. And then Arianna Huffington describes those deal-killing "So Lenscrafters I don't know where to begin" rimless pieces of schmutz as something Tina would actually wear? Even that Palin doll doesn't have 'em on!

I thought it had reached a peak when I saw a clip from a morning show (well, the first few seconds that I could stand) saying that these very rimless things had become a big trend, and I thought "this must be what it was like for women who hated the Rachel Shag!" Now Arianna makes the direct, heinous, callous and untrue connection.

I'm having trouble breathing.

Posted by: Jay at September 11, 2008 1:37 PM

Thank you to Jeremy, Max, Anna, and Che. Politics is unfortunately something that I'm both drawn to and something that makes me want to pull my hair out piece by piece while rocking back and forth in a closet. Right now I'm closer to the second than the first. I'm considering doing an extended post on my view of this election season at my blog, but so far I can't get past three sentences before the lambs start screaming. Still, it's on my mind.

Unless the LHC takes care of the whole thing for me. There's a certain appeal to that.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at September 11, 2008 1:39 PM

But don't you think even with the glasses off there's a bit of a resemblance?

Meanwhile, here we are getting caught up in the b.s. again. President McPalin here we come.

Posted by: Cindy at September 11, 2008 1:42 PM

Jay,
I felt the exact same way. The editorial was going well until that closing sentence.

Posted by: Sofía at September 11, 2008 1:43 PM

But don't you think even with the glasses off there's a bit of a resemblance?

All I see is Joyce Meyer....and an Atreides I want to kill!

I mean, uh, no. I'd just be sad but would have to admit it if it were true. As it is I'm just offended.

But hey, it's the day for bullshit! Campaign holiday!

Oh and watch Chris Matthews' interrogation of what the "lipstick" ad means on the MSNBC site. I just love that guy sometimes.

Posted by: Jay at September 11, 2008 1:48 PM

Now there's this attitude that it's 'elitist' to be smart or capable or to aspire to something better than the person next to you.
I just read a passage in a P.D. James book in which a character bemoans "the assault on excellence by renaming it as elitism." I immediately thought about getting that tattooed somewhere on my body. Like my forehead.

Posted by: gelis at September 11, 2008 1:49 PM

I'm watching/listening to CM right now. Meanwhile, the people who think Obama meant Palin are people who never heard or don't understand the saying "lipstick on a pig".

Posted by: Cindy at September 11, 2008 2:03 PM

I'm reminded of the Simpsons... when Sideshow Bob challenged Mayor Quimby's re-election, the mayor ran TV ads that finished "If you were running for mayor, he'd vote for you!"

Posted by: jeem at September 11, 2008 2:10 PM

I guess Pajiba is what happens when Wakko, Yakko, and Dot hit 'bankrupt' on The Wheel Of Morality. I'm pretty sure Wakko pulled Godtopus out of that hole in the Hamlet clip. Oh, and I'll trade oral sex for the complete DVD set of Animaniacs. Any takers?

Posted by: Kris at September 11, 2008 2:31 PM

FUCK IT -- This is Pajiba love, and since I don't know what love is anymore and maybe never did, I've decided to return to my whoring ways.

Yeah, that's right, BarbadoSlim -- I'm a fucking political blog WHORE and everybody here KNOWS IT!

Call a Spade a Bloody Shovel: My latest treatise on the presidential campaign.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at September 11, 2008 3:34 PM

Fuckit, if McCain/Palin win because people would rather drink beer with them, then I think those same people should have to choose their doctor on the same basis.
"Who cares if you just paralyzed half my body because you sliced the wrong nerve during surgery, as long as the drinks after are on you!"

Posted by: loganlikesmaryanne at September 11, 2008 3:39 PM

i have a spiro t. agnew shirt.

that's all. i just wanted to point it out.

Posted by: bionic bunny at September 11, 2008 4:09 PM

I was watching Animaniacs in my 20s. At the bar I worked at. Not with drunk customers... the staff. That show rocked.

Who is this Sarah Palin person you keep talking about?

Posted by: megbon at September 11, 2008 4:10 PM

Posted by: loganlikesmaryanne at September 11, 2008 3:39 PM

Is that a Babysitter's Club reference?! I think I just had a heart attack of happiness.

Posted by: Julie at September 11, 2008 4:25 PM

Fuck. Matt Damon is hot.

Posted by: Kristen at September 11, 2008 4:29 PM

3:39: Am I alone in far preferring the company of Obama/Biden for beer consumption?

Posted by: samantha t at September 11, 2008 4:50 PM

Ya know, that pit bull joke wasn't even original. I heard it as the difference between a woman with PMS and a pit bull years ago. I am not impressed by Palin.

Posted by: rlr260 at September 11, 2008 5:39 PM

In America you not only have to be a: moron, you have to proclaim it, LOUDLY, with pride.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 5:52 PM

No Animaniacs clip retrospective is complete without the Nations of the World song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc

Posted by: Lauren at September 11, 2008 6:17 PM

Notes from Barbado's pad:

*Buy Jem Box Set

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 1:29 PM

In America you not only have to be a: moron, you have to proclaim it, LOUDLY, with pride.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 5:52 PM

Run that first one by me again, Slim?

I kid, I kid...traitor.

Posted by: Che Grovera at September 11, 2008 6:19 PM

Notes from Barbado's pad:

*Buy Jem Box Set

=---------------------------------------------

I stand by it, and hey you wanna crap on Jem around these parts do so at your own risk pal...or should I say ..comrade, Vladimir.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 6:27 PM

Oh, and we are TOTALLY gonna assassinate your ass, thread jockey.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 6:29 PM

Genny (also Rusty), you nailed it. Washington Post ran an article yesterday about a bunch of married working mothers in Fairfax County (one owned a flower shop) doing their hair up a la Palin, and wearing her rimless glasses. They said "she is one of us".

That made me want to hurl. Are they seriously deluded enough to think one of _them_, say a flower shop owner, could become president of US? After all, Palin is one of "them", and she is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Because really, being a president can't be that hard, right? Doesn't Bush have advisors and stuff to do the hard stuff like "thinking" for him? All he has to do is decide (eenie, meenie...).

If I weren't affected by decisions made by these morons, I would just point and laugh as they (very) slowly realize how they have royally screwed themselves. Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury.

Posted by: True_Blue at September 11, 2008 6:53 PM

Good point you made Miss Maryscott.

True_Blue, Palin didn't do so well with figuring out her own town's hockey rink.

Posted by: Cindy at September 11, 2008 7:40 PM

You mean like those "Don't Blame Me: I Voted For Bush" bumper stickers back in 93?

Does anyone know what they actually meant? I've never figured it out. I'd spend hours and days just stumped. "Did something bad happen?"

Roger Ebert also wrote an editorial on "The American Idol candidate" today. And in surprising news, Charlie Gibson is looking dubious.

Posted by: Jay at September 11, 2008 7:45 PM

It means they're fucking idiots.

Posted by: Cindy at September 11, 2008 8:01 PM

Animaniacs is awesome!

Wheel of morality spin spin spin...

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at September 11, 2008 8:03 PM

God,the embarassing lipstick thing. That disrespectful comment was appalling and incredibly degrading. They may think they're being funny with their little jabs, but all they're doing is making themselves look bad and those they're insulting (and yes, it is very insulting,)worse. Rottweilers are very attractive animals, and it'll take more than lipstick to make one look like the Palinator.

Now more than ever do I wish I were fucking Matt Damon.

Posted by: Erin S at September 11, 2008 8:09 PM

Well, I voted for Ruby. (She is winning by a landslide, btw.) But why must I be such a huge sap and get all misty-eyed wishing each shelter could win?

Posted by: HJ at September 11, 2008 8:44 PM

Genny--

Thank you!

You perfectly summed up what I have been thinking about this whole Palin debacle. America has adopted a reality television mindset and we're now seeing the frightening implications of it.

Posted by: Jill at September 11, 2008 11:08 PM

They said "she is one of us".

Posted by: True Blue

That's exactly how our president got elected. Single mother raising her kids. A spontaneous lady with a contagious laugh. First female secretary of defense in the history of our country. Just another struggling woman in a country of struggling women.

Then one day, they take a picture of her in a tank and everyone thinks she's a hero. A couple of months later her name starts sounding as a possible candidate for the presidency. "Chile is a conservative, Catholic country; they'll never vote for an atheist single mother." She took 54% of the votes.

Publicity is a very dangerous weapon. All it takes is a picture of you in a tank - or in Palin's case, being an attractive mother - and next thing you know you're a candidate for presidency.

Don't underestimate the media. People hardly ever read anymore and instead of trying to figure out what they want they let some talking head in the TV tell them what they need. Celebrities are suddenly role models and there's this incredibly dumb belief that "I can be anything I want to be." Sure, it sounds nice, but not anyone can be president. Obviously they *can* be (ex: W.), but that doesn't mean they're gonna be competent at their job.

I just hope Americans see the big picture before voting. They can't possibly think the current administration is doing a swell job. They just can't.

Posted by: Sofía at September 11, 2008 11:59 PM

Um, guys. I think many of you (in your probable ignorance) are being a little insulting towards 'hockey mums'. They are not thieves, rapists or kiddy-fiddlers, merely women who choose the difficult task of staying home and caring for their children. It does not mean that they are not educated, talented individuals in their own right.

That being said, I don't think one should be running the country.

Posted by: hosebeast at September 12, 2008 6:10 AM

Jay - exactly! Don't blame you...for prosperity? For a national (if truncated) dialogue about gay rights?

Posted by: samantha t at September 12, 2008 6:32 AM

I love how at the beginning of the video under Matt Damon's name they have "Actor" in really large font as if saying, look, this guy is an ACTOR, why the hell do we care what an ACTOR says about politics.

Posted by: Ryan at September 12, 2008 7:52 AM

Re - Cover songs. Today is the 5th anniversary of the Man In Black. So I am offering up his cover of NIN's Hurt.

How can anyone listen to this and NOT get a lump in the throat?

Posted by: amanda at September 12, 2008 10:07 AM

How can anyone listen to this and NOT get a lump in the throat?

When the scrawny little rockabilly hipster puts on a croak for the karaoke version, and instead of a lump it's "......again?"

If you're going to stick with one theme when you sing at your local bar, do it with someone you can effectively impersonate. Your audience will be ever so grateful.

Posted by: Jay at September 12, 2008 10:16 AM

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