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It really is a funny focal

kyle flynn — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:36:44 +0000

It really is a funny focal point in our house. It started out as a joke. Pure novelty. Now it's a fixture. And people who come over for whatever often take their picture with it. I kinda think that might be one of the primary reasons these things exist. Anyway, my buddy's folks were in town a couple years ago and my lady and I hosted a dinner. My buddy's old man--let's see, how can I put this? Well let's just say he's conservative--wouldn't pose with the cut out to save his life. We couldn't get him to just stand there and smile. Or glare. We worked on him all night. Nothin'. People. What are ya gonna do?

Thanks for dropping in. That counts for everyone. Read you next week.

I have thought about that too

MrSmith1 — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:22:51 +0000

In reply to My business partner was there

I have thought about that too, Oxy ... One reason, I think is to turn a scary world of strangers into a safe collection of friends. Our minds look for what we know is safe, friendly and / or attractive. I suppose it is a survival instinct; we recognize and pick out features we have seen before in order to make the judgment of whether someone is a friend or a foe.

My business partner was there

Oxy Mora — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:30:46 +0000

In reply to Thanks Oxy. And just to be

My business partner was there and started riffing with the guy---"ah so, flench correction---like this" and starts wildly gesturing, some I won't describe, but the guy was laughing like crazy, bows as we get off on our floor. Had fun on those trips---"Lost in Translation" nails it, just like that...well except...

Subject for another time---what makes people want to make these connections? I know a person who is consistently making the actor-comparisons, "..he looks just like so and so, doesn't she look like Anne Hathaway, etc

If you can read this blog,

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:35:17 +0000

In reply to I used to get Nick Nolte a

If you can read this blog, pick me up and put me back on my soapbox - I fell and I can't get up. You're not fooling anyone, Q, they all thought you were Falconnetti with your eye patch, sneer and gimp leg. Did your PR guy tell you to spout this nonsense?

Oh you sombitch!

Richard Day — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:19:37 +0000

In reply to I used to get Nick Nolte a

Oh you sombitch!

hahahahah

This is exactly how I feel.

Hilarious about cardboard

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:00:49 +0000

In reply to Midnight Musings

Hilarious about cardboard Obama. I'll tell Articleman next time I talk to him.

Alas, Articleman removed the funniest post ever published at dagblog, titled, "McCain Loses Hastily Convened Fourth Presidential Debate With Lifesize Cardboard Obama." Josh Marshall even linked it from the front page of TPM, which brought a ton of traffic when we were first starting up.

But I did find this pertinent quote from another A-man blog post:

At TPM Cafe, articleman has The Top 10 Signs You're Too Into Obama.

2. You have a lifesize cardboard Obama cutout up in your dining room.

1. Obama staffer asks you derisively if you hug the cardboard Obama before you go to bed.

Have a great trip, kyle.

Yeah, I'm often mistaken for

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:29:15 +0000

In reply to Nice writing, Kyle.

Yeah, I'm often mistaken for Ming the Merciless - a lot of unwanted attention I have to admit, gets in the way when I want to go carousing and wreaking mayhem on my own. Whether it's dining at some new ritual cannibalism delicatessen or just about to start a new plague among some civilization or even destroy a galaxy, someone always comes up and wants my autograph or to discuss some retrospective playing at the local atrocity museum. If I weren't so Merciless, I'd have trouble getting rid of them, but as it is, a job's a job, and the tabloids need filler as well. Still, truth be known, occasionally I have a small bit of petite regrette that quickly passes.

But if someone's going to play me in the movies, I'd still rather it be Tom Waits than one of these regular actors - he did such a bang-up job in Dr. Parnassus. Even Hackman would have trouble being that mischievously evil.

Thanks Oxy. And just to be

kyle flynn — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 05:17:30 +0000

In reply to Nice writing, Kyle.

Thanks Oxy. And just to be clear, I've never been mistaken for Gene Hackman. That would be next to impossible given the difference in our ages--gotta be at least 30 years. I can imagine it might be fun, though. Did you sign any autographs in Japan? "Who should I make this out to?"

Hackman is great in nearly

MrSmith1 — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:06:35 +0000

In reply to Thanks. Even I get sick of

Hackman is great in nearly every film he's in. Even in a comedy cameo as the blind man in Young Frankenstein or playing the villainous Lex Luthor in Superman.

The scene where his Little Bill character in Unforgiven insists on reading "The Duck of Death," always makes me laugh.

I used to get Nick Nolte a

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:36:10 +0000

In reply to Midnight Musings

I used to get Nick Nolte a lot. When I was younger.

And then, as I grew older, I got Nick Nolte a lot.

So... progress, right?