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I’m giving Uma Thurman best dressed for her gown and hair, but someone should tell her that heroin-chic makeup in so 90’s.
I didn’t see her. What was she wearing?
Ductape Fatwa could do a much better job of describing it. She was wearing a lovely champagne colored dress that hugged her gorgeous body…but tons of severe-looking black eyeliner.
I didn’t like her dress last night. It looked like something she borrowed from Nicole Kidman, who I think finally got a stylist. She looked very nice. But Uma, in addition to having been playing in Salma’s eye makeup, was just too washed out in that blush pink. I am not a fan of that color anyway. If you are going to wear pink, take a tip from Dolly Parton and be honest about it. Dolly looked fabulous, a credit to drag queens everywhere.
It was pink? It looked like melon saran wrap. I think Uma is one of the most beautiful women on the planet… or has the ability to be so – yet last night she looked like a barbie doll that had an accident in the microwave.
I only wathced the last part of the Oscars. I got to see
Best Actress, Actor, Cinematograhper,
Screenwriter, Adaptation and Best movie
I missed best Foreign flick, though.
Hooray for Crash!
Hooray that there are movies that I that want to actually see š
Well, damn! I thought we lefties were supposed to agree on everything! I thought Nicole’s dress was pretty, but that she looked washed out in it and with her hair color. She still looked fab, of course, but I would have colored her up a bit.
I think Nicole always looks washed out, but she looked better last night than in previous years.
Uma’s dress was pink? It looked champagne/gold on my TV. Her eye makeup was hideous.
I like her better with red hair than blond. The blond with the white dress — too ghostly.
intentional, I would prefer to think, if only because she usually looks so awful. The last show she was on, they had her made up like a cartoon Rita Hayward, lots of black eye makeup and red lipstick.
Speaking of eye makeup and lipstick, poor Sandra Bullock was in urgent need of both. Someone had daubed her cheeks with too much rouge and decided that would be all she needed to wear black. That someone was terribly wrong.
and what was with her hair?
Helena Bonham Carter’s hair was atrocious too — but sort of went with the whole “I’m married to Tim Burton” thing.
floating in a lake.
Will Ferrell’s makeup artist could have given her a few tips.
that there were no real standouts among the bunch. Not one of them could match the elegance and understated beauty of, say, this:
maybe there are times when black IS preferable
Maybe they’ll have a separate GOP Oscar ceremony featuring all of the republican members of SAG…like, um, Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, Arnold, and Ron Silver. So, basically a pretty small event.
and all male?
A whiter shade of pale…. looking very ghostly… hmmm….
But while dishing the dirt, will you please tell me is Lauren Bacall just very unwell, or was she very drunk/medicated…. it was ghastly and painful…..
and be a little sensitive about it, she certainly has the experience and the poise to just make a little joke and dispel anyone feeling uncomfortable about a hestiation here, a tremblette there, and in the process make herself feel more comfortable too.
These things happen with years and pills, and one either makes fun of them like everything else, or it will be, as you say, painful for the watchers and ten times as painful for the watchee.
I thought that dress was sooo pretty on her, and I don’t usually think of her as being pretty.
I was glad to see that Meryl didn’t look as dowdy as she has the last few awards shows that I have seen her in. Did she call you and Madame first, Ductape?
I think we’re detecting variations in color reproduction in our television sets, lol!
Morning, all. Did I miss anything?
Oh — thanks for the coffee. Mmmmmmmmmm….
Nope. It’s pretty slow as Monday goes. Think everyone stayed up too late.
I’ve been going to bed early, since brinnaine made me stop drinking Diet Coke.
I am going to have to keep going to bed early because the sun is up earlier and earlier, and makes me think it’s time to get up, before it is!
I really shouldn’t complain, though.. I’m ready for it to be spring.
Is this better than oscar talk?
He’s always got the best expression on his face.
I love the way he stretches his legs out. Our other beagle mix did this too but none of our other dogs have done it.
Graciedog does that…we call it the “frog-leg” look.
For some reason the squirrels do that on the railing of our deck. It looks really weird but it must feel good to them.
Puppy Pilates š
My black lab does the same thing. She also sits side saddle on her hip.
give me a break — you already got me with the virgin rape.
and that picture is even cuter than the other one.
He looks like he gets really tired of you snapping his picture — but would be really sad if you stopped.
Sorry about that. But at least this is a much nicer way to get you to delurk.
“Sheesh, Mom!”
Nope but he does recognize me as the person with the fingers that can scratch, open doors, put food in his dish, put shoes on for walks in the woods, and give him cheese.
give that poodum a Twinkie š
Morning again, I’m back for a while.
Yes, the Oscars are “neato”. They are.
But… ENOUGH with the “news” about who wore what.
Instead show us the gas guzzler limos lined up and equate that with the Iraqi dead. For example:
The Gas consumption for the “Crash” crew = two weeks of bombing Iraqi schools, museums and mosques.
Ohhh look at Nicole Kidman’s dress, why that dress alone would pay for toilet paper for at lest 5 school districts for 5 years who are now having to lock up the toilet paper due to budget cuts.
The goodie bags each rich person got for showing up would be more than most Americans make in 2 years.
During the broadcast how many children went to bed hungry, hurting, forgotten.
Morning DJ. I didn’t even see it, so I don’t know what they’re talking about. š
THe conspicuous consumption is always hard to swallow. But many of those movies had such good messages that I felt really good about honoring them. Crash was about race relations…very powerful and haunting movie.
SEcond, Oh believe me, me and the Mr. were talking about how refreshing it was to have an Oscars that had movies we’d actually want to see. It was a Maverick year for Oscar š So many great guys up there for awards. Clooney, … it lit my Liberal heart afire š
But… damn, America does have it’s priorities ass backwards.
I missed so much of John Stewart, whom I have wild fantasies about š – but I doubt that crowd or the ones who tuned in would “get him”… I just wasn’t in it this year even with all the great films, directors and risks. So I just caught the tail end.
Wouldn’t it be great if a major Oscar threat like “Crash” or some other maverick studio – showed up walking or ALL together – ridesharing?
Here’s what I think would be great….you know, I was looking at all those people there, thinking about all the money they have and how much of it they probably contribute (in vain) to the living-in-the-lame-ass-lap-and-limelite-of-luxury dems….and I thought: sheesh.
What would happen if all these people QUIT sinking their millions into these nags on the House and Senate floor, what if they all got together and decided to start a HOLLYWOOD party?
They have the money.
They have the looks, the glamour, the smarts.
They are ALL pissed as hell, just like the rest of us–many of them apparently moreso.
Listening to Clooney, I just couldn’t help but think to myself: I would so much rather have this guy representing this country internationally and domestically: at least he’s articulate.
Hollywood should form a political party and take Washington by storm. Just think what it would do for C-span’s ratings!
I bet the least they would accomplish would be to supply all the schools in the country with asswipe!
I’m holding out hope that Clooney will run for office in the future. The rest of them….not so much.
Hey, you know: if the alternative is B*shCo and/or sHillary?
I dunno. As I’ve said before, I’d vote for Sponge Bob Square Pants over anyone who’s looking like a “serious” candidate for 2008.
I have seen more truth and reality-talk coming out of Hollywood in the last 5 yrs than I have seen in Washington (with very few exceptions).
At this point, there is more “reality” filtering through on the cop and detective shows than there is on the Senate floor.
I personally can’t stand Oprah, for example, and consider her a big sellout–but I’d support her over sHillary any day.
I remain convinced that a Hollywood ticket would be able to shake up this friggin’ system like never before. If you could only convince enough of them to take the time and money out of their careers to do it.
Hollywood can bite ya in the ass though. Look at Arnold. Californians were so fed up with Gray Davis and politicians in general they swalled Arnold and he’s basically a fucking Gestapo Bastard from hell. He”s terminating schools, fire depts, nurses… students, the elderly.
As I posted elsewhere to you, Clooney/Penn would be great. : )
Oprah… ugh. Rich people have money to do great things, doesn’t make them great though.
I would like to see a Librarian run for office.
Someone who volunteers for GoodWill
A special ed teacher
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Well, shit, anyone who fell for Arnie from the getgo….I dunno.
I consider him a lousy actor and an even worse politician.
I do not think Clooney is cut from the same cloth.
That’s exactly my point: take the CREAM of the crop, not the fucking dregs.
I didn’t vote for him LOL But it was surreal at the voting booths, people were HOLLERING “TERMINATOR!!! – Whooot”
See in Calif they had a recall. They got rid of Davis and had a special election ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$) and people went out and voted for someone who couldn’t fix anything that they were pissed off about in the first place and Arnie has actually made things WORSE.
everytime I think of Arnie, I am reminded of Sylvia Plath’s line about how “every woman loves a fascist….”
MMWV
(makes me wanna vomit)
Hollywood Party?? I just escaped from The Terminator. LOL
Clooney/Penn would be a great ticket though š
However the Republicans always bitch and moan about hollywood should shut up about politics.. however
Reagan
Schwarawhateverger
Gopher from that love boat show
Uh Sonny Bono (the late)
Jesse the Body Dude
That’s what I’m saying, DJ, the Rethugs have already successfully been doing exactly this: “hiring” actors and running them. Their choice of actors is a good reflection of their BAD taste–they have taken two-bit actors and ‘hired’ them as front men.
What if we got the real pros in there?
If I ever thought there was a dem out there who could stand the blow to his/her ego, I could envision something like a major dem running alongside Clooney, but they are so obviously just in it for the ego-stroking, masturbatory self-congratulation, there’s no way the democratic party would so much as consider beating the Rethugs at their own game by putting a major, major Hollywood heavy-hitter like Clooney on the Dem ticket.
Hmmmm you”re right! š
So let’s contact George Clooney and Sean Penn š
Campaign to Recruit Clooney!
I’m behind Clooney, but ditch Penn.
Penn’s writings, he’s a journalist, from Iran and him walking down the streets in Iran in protest. … were incredible.
Big, brass balls : )
I think you need someone like Oprah or something to attract the “deer-in-the-headlights” folks, the folks who still think all Black women all over the world have a shot at becoming millionaires or billionaires, the folks who still need to placate liberal white guilt by promoting a sellout like Oprah, the folks who might think that a vote for Oprah means they too might get a shot at winning a pontiac (or the lottery)….
Oprah would be a good “balance” on a Hollywood ticket. I’d be more willing to compromise my principles with a vote for Oprah than one for sHillary.
Well that would beat out my nightmare Prez Election of Hillary and Rice..
Blondi versus Condi ACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
But I think some voters did wake up after Arnie Syndrome. I know so many who rather eat a bowl of broken glass, than listen to Oprah.
Yes, she’s built houses in NOLA, she’s buttrich… but she also pisses people off with her HOlier than thou crap. Last time I watched her “show” was when she was trying to talk about children with autism and mentioned her fucking dogs… and how she doesn’t KNOW but can relate… She is another one who isn’t dealing with reality LOL
Yeah but. As I said, I can’t stand her either.
However, she’s got the “catch a lot of flies with honey”-bit down pat.
Anyone who can sell books (especially the egregiously BAD books she picks) can sell ANYTHING.
Again….the question would be for me, could Oprah do a worse job than the sHillarys of the world?
I don’t think so.
Had I my druthers, I’d run someone like Woopie over Oprah any day, but if America’s wonderbreadbasket were ready for someone like Woopie, Katrina and the FEMA fiasco would have led to a fucking civil war or a violent overthrow of gov.
Oprah is worth her weight, not only in gold, but in VOTES.
How many people in her vast, vast viewing audience and/or in her book club would get out and vote for her just because they “like” her?
Unfortunately, this is what politics (like just about everything else in this country) has been reduced to: it’s not about priniciples, its not about competence, it’s about “likeability”–it’s a silly little popularity contest, Miss Congeniality pure. Great. So, who’s the most “popular” Black woman in America today?
Don’t think it’s Condi (in my neighborhood, they just call her “whore”)
While gearing up to protest Hillary recently, I thought of the whole “blow up” over the blue dress/Monica… and I wanted to ask Hillary, why you of all people are sucking Bush and Dicks cock??
The cAndidate, the people that would work hardest for the people… they have to try to reach the very people who are apathetic regarding politics. It’s such an uphill battle for Democrats/Liberals.
the Oscars are probably the only time that the TV set of Mr. and Mrs. Middle America is tuned away from FOX News (“Remember, it’s FOX not facts!”). This year’s crop of movies might not drag them out to the theaters or DVD rental stores, but while trying to figure out what the hey they’re about, they have an opportunity to think for a few minutes at least…
True, and I agree š
Munich alone should set their Lemming brains on fire LOL
Of course whatever they spend is spit compared to what is going toward the iraq war. Ever go to this site.
Instead, we could have insured
147,008,983
children for one year.
thank f’ing god. I just sold a monthlong premium ad for the Showtime program Huff. It payed my rent.
maybe I should add Showtime to my cable lineup as a thank you (have to have HBO for the spouse’s Sopranos fix)…
Yay. And remember:
“It’s hard out there for a pimp, when he’s working for the money for the rent”
i was just sitting there wondering how that scene was going down in Topeka. It was a trip.
Showtime? We don’t do Showtime but I would consider it.
I have papers all over my desk. I forget things I’m supposed to do. It’s because I’m too busy to clean and too busy to hold all that “stuff” in my head. I like being busy. I like my life. But I need to organize it better to be more effective at all the stuff I’m trying to do. When I’m not this busy, I don’t have the forgetting and the clutter problems. Well, some – I’m a cluttery person. But not as much.
Does anyone have suggestions?
As I crawl out from under the papers on my desk, all I can do is shake my head no.
Ha. Fair enough.
Well, I have the same problem… and the solution for me is to do just one thing at a time, give it my whole attention and do it AS SLOWLY AS POSSIBLE.
Part of the problem is too many things given too little attention at too fast a rate.
Make lists, prioritize, and no more multi-tasking !!
Paper in piles…. then take them down in order of importance… which sometimes means doing the least important first…. and building up a good orderly method towards the most important.
Stress is counterproductive.
Was given a high anxiety assignment on a Saturday night with expectations that it would be finished in a few hours. Looking at it I knew it would take at least five, and finishing it in the wee hours of Sat. pm, or working on Sunday was unreasonable.
So I gave it a few tries over the weekend… no go. Tried on Monday, an hour of frustration. Slept well. Woke up 5AM on Tuesday morning, having given up altogether…. got the whole project done in an hour.
Delevered it Tues. afternoon, where it sat for a week on my supervisor’s desk. So it goes.
Also I ask myself often, “Since when is your best not good enough?” Since never.
“emergency” pile..stuff that must be tended to and include notes in same pile about stuff that I must remember. Then I do my best to have some “good” ritual that goes with the pile…..sit my coffee cup on it so that it goes with coffee in the morning – something like that.
Gone again, everybody enjoy.
What a man of mystery; here one minute, gone the next.
Nice is that the Oscars created alot of buzz about BOOKS š I have tons of reading to do.
They New York Crime Student rape/trotre death case: Labeled as one of the most gruesome and heinous crimes they’ve had. A bouncer is their prime suspect. A very dark part of me kept help but wonder, does this suspect have any ties to AbuGhraib?
I’d better jump into the shower, get outdoors – do some errands because I couldn’t even read what I wrote above LOL
Hey??? Where’s Gooserock and Puget, lately? I know that Ask is in Sudan.
If you’re all good… I’ll bring home some yummies to share with you all. Cyber Calories… š
Still drizzly and chilly here but it’s supposed to warm up into the 70’s midweek.
The forsythia is in bloom:
ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz. Lounge open!