Ten days to go………..

Annette | January 9, 2009

but I am only human, and weak, and so I shall take this opportunity to kick around Chimpy Fucknuts one more time:

Think you’ve seen sand sculptures?

Annette | January 9, 2009

Sure, we’ve all done them at the beach.
But, this site shows us how the pros do it.

What should hang in the National Portrait Museum……..

Annette | January 8, 2009

The French have a way……..

Annette | January 7, 2009

Leave it to the French to come up with this utterly charming and instructive cartoon to get across to youngsters the importance of safe sex:

We’re going to be all right……..

Annette | January 5, 2009

contrary to this latest graphic that broke me up:

Isn’t this a hell of a time?
We have a half-black, half-white President-elect.
And he’s a Democrat.
(What? You expected him to be a Republican?)
We have the first female Solicitor General nominated.
Al Franken was just named the Senator-elect from Minnesota.
And for a while, NBC was going to pass on [...]

See this………..

Annette | January 5, 2009

It just aired on MSNBC. Its North American premiere.
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a more damnable story. It is shocking. It is sad. It is filled with beautiful people. It is a murder tale that is about love.
Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like it.
“Dear Zachary” is a love letter [...]

I’m no fan of Scientology…….

Annette | January 5, 2009

but, man, the creeps blathering about how the Scientologists killed the Travolta boy are starting to get on my nerves. They have no access to the kid’s medical records, so where do they get off condemning the care his parents obtained for him?
That kind of intrusive ignorance just fries my ass.
I shouldn’t waste my [...]

It’s like kicking a dead dog……..

Annette | January 4, 2009

or pounding something with a foam-rubber bat. It accomplishes nothing, and yet there’s this curious and entertaining aspect to it, as if you really are accomplishing something. Slapping around Chimpy Fucknuts is an utter waste of time – sort of like Chimpy Fucknuts himself – but I am human and weak and cannot [...]

To be a good anti-Semite……..

Annette | January 4, 2009

it helps to demonstrate publicly your total ignorance.

Yale and Harvard Must Be So Proud, Part Two…….

Annette | January 4, 2009

President George W. Bush will leave behind a legacy of Bushisms, the label stamped on the commander in chief’s original speaking style. Some of the president’s more notable malaprops and mangled statements:
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_ “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” _ September 2000, explaining his energy policies at an event in Michigan.
_ “Rarely [...]

Happy Birthday, Jimmy…….

Annette | January 4, 2009

You and I were instant best friends when we met in first grade. We had some sweet young years together, playing in our respective back yards, sprawled on the floor of either home, watching Howdy Doody and Pinky Lee on TV, dawdling on the stools at the counter of your Dad’s luncheonette, chewing on those [...]

Damn!!! Damn! Damn! Damn!!!

Annette | January 4, 2009

I just found out about this treasure, and Christmas is over. I know so many people who’d have loved to get this instead of that filthy lucre, but, hey, there’s always Groundhog Day……

Best closing line in any movie ever….

Annette | January 3, 2009

From “Jagged Edge”, delivered by the inimitable Robert Loggia:
“Fuck him. He was trash.”

Real women catch fish……….

Annette | January 2, 2009

A long time ago, in 1974, I believe, down in the Florida Keys on holiday, I caught my first fish. It was, of course, memorialized by an ardent fan:

Nice hat, huh?
Yesterday, as 2009 began, the year in which Miss Ava will turn four years old, she caught her first fish. Like me, she [...]

Yo, 1710………..

Annette | January 2, 2009

You think I don’t think of you, but you’re wrong.
So there.
Happy New Year, 1710.
I hope your best is yet to come.

Dreams Come True….

Annette | January 1, 2009

I used to watch “West Wing” and wish it were real. I wanted a smart President, someone with a head and a heart. I wanted him to have smart people around him, and I wanted them all to have what was best for our country as their first priority.
Alas, we got Chimpy Fucknuts [...]