DNC Lockout Update
Welp, I’m on the phone trying to get Mencken, at long last, into the DNC Big Tent (population: 400 bloggers and blog-related people). Apparently, there’s simply no more room for a single other person, along with their having him down as Josh Marshall — and not being able to correct the name on the credential because what if Josh Marshall shows up unannounced?
In short, it hasn’t reached the vodka and sobbing stage yet, but it’s still early in the afternoon.
Anyway, we know for a fact that there’s room for one more in the Big Tent, because what about this guy?
Reply to: sale-813681983@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-26, 9:36AM MDTThis is a credential that will get you into the what’s called the perimeter. You’ll be able to move around the entire pepsi center but not actually inside the pepsi. You will have access to the media pavilions and get into all events the press has been invited to
Classy move, Yglesias. Like you really needed the extra hundred bucks.
This just in, as well:
Blue Dog party shuts out Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, and Jane Hamsher despite credentials.
by: ctrenta
Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 07:05:12 PDTh/t to Raw Story for covering this. Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and A-list bloggers Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher were all shut out of a Blue Dog Democrat party sponsored by AT & T. All three of them had press credentials. Here’s how Amy Goodman covered the event [link]. Welcome to the Dems version of Dick Cheney’s energy council.
Because, you know, for awhile there we were thinking it was something against us personally.
Welp, back to business…
Bill Prendergast put up a diary at Kos about a mistake that John McCain just made. I can’t describe the mistake he made without getting shut down by the S,N! spam filter (I tried 3 times). It’s that bad. Wow.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/27/0050/93650/765/575892
While you are at it, Gavin, check to see if the Denver Craigslist has a left handed bass for sale. At least it will give HM something to do.
Um, left handed bass?
Dude, fish don’t have hands.
Sheesh…
mikey
Why is that man holding that beautiful Rickenbacker upside down?
why does AT&T refuse to report how much $$$$$ they are spending in Denver on them blue dawgs?
Alas, I cannot revel in McPOW’s latest gaffe, because my current employer blocks the GOS for “profanity”.
But of course, sites like Free Republic and Hot Air aren’t blocked at all. Man, if I ever own a company…
DNC: How do you make a bass player leave the steps of the convention?
SN: I don’t know? How?
DNC: Tip him for the pizza.
Seems kind of disingenuous to call it “The Big Tent” and then not let m’man Mencken into it.
More like kind of a “selectively sized” tent.
But then, that’s some very high end oatmeal they got there, and I’m sure they don’t want any dirty hippies pissing in it…
mikey
Big Oatmeal is keeping Sadly No down!!!
I think it’s your 300-watt travel companion (the Darth Vader Ampeg) that’s too big for Teh Tent.
You should have taken the SWR combo.
Ummm, didn’t Atrios break that story (including one poorly translated word) three days ago…
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_08_24_archive.html#8297330950508186987
That’s almost like this:
BREAKING!!! NEWS FLASH!!! BREAKING STORY!!!
John McCain was a POW!
Ummm, didn’t Atrios break that story (including one poorly translated word) three days ago…
Ummm, apparently word travels slowly to the heartland. Sorry ’bout that. The choppers doing pre-convention surveillance work in St. Paul kept me awake last night so I’m slow on the uptake today.
Darn it, WordPress.
Sorry to be so mean, I’m currently camped out, fornicating MzNicky’s rats:http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/11121.html#comment-667923
This story’s good and deserves repeating. Also the whole thing being illegal is new (to me anyways) data.
FYWP! Yon Witty Post awaits!
Da man be hurtin’ on us progressives!
I also wish to blame the DNC for forcing me to drop my laptop, destroying both my hard and optical drives.
In addition, I think WordPress is a DNC plot.
FYWP, FYDNC.
Because the bass player is left handed. Most guitar companies* assume everyone is right handed, so left handed people are often forced to string the guitar “backwards” and play it “upside down”, which sucks if you’re trying to hit the high notes.
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* I know that at least Fender makes left handed guitars.
Sorry to be dense, but what does FYWP mean?
Y’know, I just realized the left handed bass Paul McCartney always used is a Rickenbacker.
Don’t be silly. The SVT is the only real bass amp. SWR stuff is for jazz gigs.
And I’m pretty sure it’s 350W.
That Hofner that everybody knows might beg to differ.
From RB –
Fetch Yon Witty Post to alert the custodians of the moderation queue that some juicy treasures are growing stale in link limbo.
Y’know, I just realized the left handed bass Paul McCartney always used is a Rickenbacker.
Paul actually started out with a hofner. Remember it well from the Ed Sullivan appearances.
Thank you, kind sir. All the googles was giving me was some economic crap.
Fiscal Year Work Plan. Puh-lease!
P.S. What the fizuk is up with the spam filter?
Well Goddamn. I’m just confused today. I think I need to get a drink.
Greenwald has post about trying to get into that ATT private party with video, featuring anonymous fat cats and hired goons. You would swear it was a GOP event.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/25/blue_dogs/index.html
question: is html really a lefty (judging by how the bass is held) or is he just that committed to leftism?
😉
Well, at least I know what FYWP is:
Flaunt your whiny pantload.
=P
Not only did (does?) McCartney play a Hofner, but he was also their spokesperson for a while.
Maybe Blue Buddha is thinking of that other famous upside-down Rickenbacker bass player, Jim (né Roger) McGuinn of the Byrds. /snark
And what’s the big deal about playing your guitar upside-down? Some guy named Hendrix seemed to manage it OK.
F*ck You WordPress
Paul actually started out with a hofner. Remember it well from the Ed Sullivan appearances.
Yeah, the one that looked like a minature double bass was a Hofner. They are reputed to be fairly crappy instruments, if I recall correctly.
The back panel says 300 watts RMS, which is just an estimate of how much power it can put out…given the plate voltage on the power tubes, I’m pretty sure you could get 400 watts out of it if you really pushed it.
Not only did (does?) McCartney play a Hofner, but he was also their spokesperson for a while.
Does, altho he’s diddled with a few others.
Oh, the amp in the picture is sneakily constructed out of photos of an SVT and a V4 guitar head.
The main difference from actual Ampegs is that some knobs were moved to the left, where the input jacks are supposed to be. This is a custom mod that allows you not to draw the cable coming out of the jack.
Mr. Wangchuck darling: I thought that was you! Last I lurked over there, you were maintaining a civil tone and attempting rational discourse far above what that remaining handful of lunatics deserves. Just be sure to take your leave if you feel your brains starting to boil. It’s not worth it.
Glen Greenwald had hi moments , but he is really old now . Plus he is like obsessed with logic – For Real !
He got stuck like most soldiers on that honor thing , sigh …
If only he could have seen his way clear past that Manichean hiccough
You say obsess
I say abscess
abbicess obbisess
abnormal conformal
Lets call the whole thing slightly off
“While relaxing at their Benedict Canyon retreat [in L.A., during the 1965 tour] The Beatles entertained several guests and fellow musicians. During one of those days off, Rickenbacker’s Francis Hall and his son John managed to arrange a meeting with the group. It was then that McCartney was presented with the left-handed Rickenbacker 4001S bass he’d first seen in New York in 1964.”
–Beatles Gear, Andy Babiuk, Rev. Ed.
Paul would use either in the studio, depending on the sound he was after. Weird miking techniques too.
The Hofner “violin” bass is indeed a piece of shit. Many of the Beatles’ early guitars were pieces of shit. That tiny Rickenbacker that John played inthe earlies was perhaps the biggest piece of shit of them all, although George’s Checkoslovakian Futurama ran a close second.
MzNicky,
Their acting like lunatics helps (AHA misogyny rears it’s ugly head – I called them lunatics because they’re women!!!!). I don’t know what the story about Steve is, but he showed up and then they went ballistic – I mean worse than when Poopypants tells us that he’s gonna school us. Then I got to call them on it, still in the calm rational manner that I’ve been maintaining. Maybe there isn’t anyone left there to win over, but Ima gonna give it the good ole college try.
Incidentally, I’ve come out as a troll, targetting their lurkers with my glib charm and silver tongue – at a minimum that should get them to reconsider behaving like screaming idiots.
“SWR stuff is for jazz gigs.”
Dude, the SWR doesn’t know what kind of music you’re playing !
Move the knobs around !
Man, you blew that one! A positively GOLDEN opportunity, wasted.
DNC flunky: “Are you Josh Marshall?”
HTML: “Yep, that’s me!”
DNC lackey: “Can I see some I.D. please?”
HTML: “Sure…oh crap, I left my wallet in my room!”
Gavin: “I’ll vouch for him.”
DNC minion: “OK, Mr. Marshall, enjoy the party.”
You forgot Ghostbusters, you forgot the American Express commercials (“then I’m Mr. Galaweekich” “you mean Dr. Galachewicz?” “Yes, I am!”), you forgot The Fifth Element (“I am Corben Dallas”)…
D-K W: I don’t know anything about “Steve” either. He probably once said something positive about Obama so now if he shows up they all jump him like shrieking hyienas. It’s beyond appalling. There are some obvious ratf*ckers hard at work (check out “marie438? or whatever that thing is) as well as the tattered remnants of what was once a fairly decent feminist blog. Now they’re going on about the size of Michelle Obama’s rear end and that she had bra straps showing during her speech. Like I said, totally beyond appalling.
My buds and I tried like hell to converse with the old regulars and point out the obvious ratters, to no avail. We got called trolls and worse and then were all banned. I do wonder if TGW’s host has completely lost her mind. Very very weird.
Their acting like lunatics helps (AHA misogyny rears it’s ugly head – I called them lunatics because they’re women!!!!).
Are you suggesting, as Obama did, that periodically they overreact?
Which thread, guys?
You forgot Ghostbusters, you forgot the American Express commercials (”then I’m Mr. Galaweekich” “you mean Dr. Galachewicz?” “Yes, I am!”), you forgot The Fifth Element (”I am Corben Dallas”)…
Dude! Spartacus? Hullo?
I want to play with the ratfuckers.
Neddie,
He only plays the Hofner in concert, however.
Sweet Ricky HTML has.
And what a surprise, the blue dogs are asshats. I keep saying this. Isn’t about time we ran these DINOs out?
Where are those rats?
He only plays the Hofner in concert, however.
It Looms Large in his Legend.
fadgeophile:
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com
Most activity’s now going on in the top 2 threads. Man, if I weren’t banned! … I’d say something and get banned again anyway. Oh well.
Put your haz-mat suit on first, and be careful out there. They’s plenty of real ugly stoopid goin’ on.
:-p
If an admin is reading this, I’d really love to know whether I’m being deliberately blocked from posting or whether something goofy is going on, kthxbye.
Zifnab—
our hosts are apparently having spamulator issues. You’re not the only one who has been censored by WordPress, who hates America and eats puppies for breakfast.
This site has good information on the Beatles’ guitars, including McCartney’s basses.
Thanks Simba B.
I have this horrible feeling every time I post that I may offend someone grievously enough to get banned without warning. Red State traumatized me bad. Comforting to know I’m still in positive territory around here.
If you go visit, please type in the name or copy-paste it. If I get out-ed as a foul mouthed snark worshipper than a lot of my work’ll be undone.
Zinfab, you have to try really, really hard to get banned around here.
It takes hard work and dedication, and boatloads of Teh Stoopid and Vile.
Zifnab: See the second-to-last paragraph at the About page. Laissez-faire is the general rule for comments here.
Zifnab:
You’d have to work at it pretty hard to get banned from S,N!. And don’t take WordPress personally — it hates everybody lately. Fooking WordPress.
Turning to the lighter side of things…
Seems our good friend and serial art destroyer Chris Muir is out of a job and has gone begging:
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/08/27/and-not-a-penny-will-be-wasted-on-art-lessons/#more-11235
Do be good people and scrounge in that foreign currency bin for some pfennigs or centimes for the old boy.
I’ve got some 50 haleru and 20 forint coins with his name all over them.
IceWeasel: Check out Greenwald’s “Stange Bedfellows” I wish they accepted PayPal.
Speak of the devil.
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and A-list bloggers Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher were all shut out of a Blue Dog Democrat party sponsored by AT & T.
No cocktail weenies for you!
I think it’s about time for the, what, eighth fashion-revival for the Rick 360-12.
And if not me, then who? And if not now, when? And if not what, where? And if not whom, then whom?
Greek columns! Columnated ruins domino!
They domino, I tells ya!
Swear to FSM, everybody getting their panties in a twist over this “roman columns at INVESCO” thing is seriously Teh Funny. Laws-a-mussy, what a species. What a species…
The fact is, columns are eletist. Here in the heartland, we construct our houses out of sod and thatch.
Sod and thatch is elitist! Here in the great Southwest we construct our houses out of mud and cow pies!
Yeah because monumental architecture in stadiums is so rare.
Seriously, at what point, if ever, will these assholes in the MSM stand up and just say, “you know what, I’m not giving you air time, I’m not repeating your stupid shit because it makes me look as dumb as you obviously are.”
Oh, never. Really?
Ok.
Furthermore, whooooooooooooooooo.
Oooooooooh.
People should be serving cocktails at parties like that one.
I think it’s about time for the, what, eighth fashion-revival for the Rick 360-12.
I think it’s time they made more than fifteen 330s for lefties every ten years.
And on it goes…
Fadgeopohile: FYWP is an acronym for what we all say when WordPress eats one of our witty comments.
WordPress? More like Nerdpress. Am I right? Huh? Huh?
mud and cow pies? Paradise! When I was a kid our house was made of foraged grass, dust and me olde dad’s bronchial sputum. Nasty bit o’ work there. And we were grateful!
You had sputum?!
We had to make our own sputum by squishing bugs.
In the snow!
Uphill, both ways!
(and, thanks to WP, this will appear much later and will be that much less funny. FYWP, I can’t really afford to be that much less funny.)
Luxury! Our house was made of metallic sediment and surrounded by superheated seawater. We had to get up at ten thirty the previous night (half an hour before we went to bed), eat a handful of vestimentiferan tube worms, then work twenty-six hours a day generating usable energy from hydrogen sulfide, and when we got home we would be crushed by the abyssal pressure if we were lucky!
The voices told me that the architecture at the Republican conference will be Egyptian-themed.
Another SadlyGems nominee. They’re coming fast and loose tonight. So, Kruckie, who’s your pick?
The rest of you text “post” to 6969 to vote….
mikey
You had HOUSES?!?
We lived in a bomb-crater & fought with wild-dogs for the offal from roadkill.
Dessicated, leathery, sun-baked, wormy roadkill.
Mmmmmmmm, roadkill.
Ah, the good old days.
You had roadkill? We had Elvis Presley’s Irreplaceable Worcestershire Cake:
Ingredients:
4 sticks boisterous kangaroo, dried
6 bunches brilliant worcestershire, thrillingly marinated
1 Fiore Sardo cheese, laxly tossed
4 sticks warthog ear, unstintingly glazed
7 pounds rosemary
3 gallons baking soda
Begin praying. Place the kangaroo into a small bag. Use a food processor to mash the Fiore Sardo cheese with the worcestershire. Slather resulting potion over the kangaroo. Stir – very fearlessly – the warthog ear, rosemary, and the baking soda. Dab the latter combination on to the former. Heap the latter combination on to the former. Leave raw but pretend it’s cooked. Serves 11 short individuals with roasted stomachs.
We had to eat Elvis Presley’s Irreplaceable Worcestershire Cake glazed with insincerity!
Oh yeah, well we had to replace the Worcestershire with some cheap Dollar Store sauce who’s label had faded so much we couldn’t tell what it was.
You were lucky, lucky to have insincerity (which really comes as no surprise) — we had to make do with indifference when it was available and otherwise we had to pronounce all the syllables in “Worcestershire” and pretend that was a glaze, which it wasn’t.
And after we ate that, our dad would kill us and dance on our graves singing “Kasimir S. Pulaski Day” at three AM.
Syllables? You had syllables?!
We would have given a month’s supply of glottal stops and velar clicks for a decent syllabary.
Our da used to come home from pub, give us words like ‘Cholmondelay’ or ‘Pontefract’ or ‘Worcestershire’, and tell us to share out the syllables by ourselves… and of course there were never enough to go around, and us little ones missed out…
Oh yeah, well we had to replace the Worcestershire with some cheap Dollar Store sauce who’s label had faded so much we couldn’t tell what it was.
Damn, that’s what happened to my iodine?
Columnated ruins domino!
Canvas the town and brush the backdrop, are you sleeping Brother John?
Nobody quotes the Brian and gets it past me, sir!