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Lost Vs. SOTU

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Media
Posted on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 03:21:21 PM EST
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Funny dkos diary. AdamB provides link to new "Lost In 8:15"

My favorite line of it? "The survivors see a boat. It's Desmond. He's drunk." That always made me laugh. For the record, I love Lost and would choose watching the premiere over the SOTU. I can always watch the SOTU later on You Tube.

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    Lost Vs. SOTU | 19 comments (19 topical)

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    Not having SOTU on Groundhog's Day (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Cream City on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 03:57:58 PM EST
    is a very good idea for other reasons.  Imagine the cartoons of Obama as Puxatawney Phil (if I recall the rodent's name correctly) poking his head up for the first time in months to see how it's going up here . . . and then going to ground again -- or to the golf course again, whichever.  Imagine the pundits having fun with whether the economy could come back as soon as spring does.  Etc.

    What are they thinking in Teh Most Brilliant White House Evah, Anyway, even thinking about the SOTU on that day?  Don't they watch Bill Murray's movies?!

    You were soooo (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Inspector Gadget on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 06:35:57 PM EST
    so close.

    Punxsutawney Phil

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    Darn that rodent (none / 0) (#15)
    by Cream City on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 08:27:44 PM EST
    I mean, who can memorize such a spelling?!


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    SOTU on TV (or radio) is a big snooze (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by shoephone on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 04:26:14 PM EST
    I went to the SOTU in 2007, just to be able to experience it once in my lifetime, and it was fun to be there among all the bustling energy, and the political hoi poloi. But that was right after the Dems took back Congress in Nov. 2006. I was excited to see people like Jon Tester and Jerry McNerny (and many others I'd $upported) in the House chamber. It was especially gratifying to watch Joe Leiberman being shunned by practically everyone.

    This year, you couldn't pay me to go. I've lost all my respect for the Dems in the Congress and that phony Dem in the WH. There would be nothing to applaud. They only deserve to have tomatoes thrown at them.

    Now that's funny! (none / 0) (#18)
    by shoephone on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 10:02:35 PM EST
    If only...

    But really, right after they all filed in and were schmoozing with each other, slapping each other on the back, there was Joe... all alone in the middle of the crowd... no one talking to him, no one slapping his back. Remember, he had just won re-election by dumping the Democratic party in CT. It really seemed like he was the pariah. He reminded me of the nerdy outcast in junior high school -- the one who eats lunch alone everyday, because even the other nerds can't stand him!

    (Is that mean of me? Yeah, I guess it is. Oh well. The look on his face in those moments is forever etched in my memory.)

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    For me, it's an easy choice (none / 0) (#1)
    by nycstray on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 03:27:36 PM EST
    State of the Union is pretty obvious, State of Lost, not so much {grin}

    Depends (none / 0) (#2)
    by DancingOpossum on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 03:41:34 PM EST
    ...on which offers more unexpected twists and turns of plot, I suppose.

    Or shoes! (none / 0) (#5)
    by DancingOpossum on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 04:42:05 PM EST


    Or anything within reach! (none / 0) (#6)
    by shoephone on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 04:45:49 PM EST
    Believe me, it was all I could do to keep from heckling Bush. (A friend suggested I enter the gallery with my mouth duct-taped.)

    I would surely get thrown out this time.

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    Only reason to watch SOTU is to see which (none / 0) (#7)
    by steviez314 on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 05:42:05 PM EST
    congressman finally loses it and yells "You communist!" (or worse) .The craziness just seems to be escalating and heading there.

    I'd (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by lentinel on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 06:15:56 PM EST
    like one of the members to yell, "Get the f-ck out of Iraq and Afghanistan. NOW!"

    That would be interesting.

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    I never agreed with Carroll's (none / 0) (#12)
    by MKS on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 06:32:09 PM EST
    ditching of Aaron Corp for Matt Barkley at QB.  In high school, Corp beat Barkley and took his team to the state championship.  Barkley ended his senior season throwing a lot picks while trying to pad his stats, and his team didn't go very far in the playoffs....

    Overall, UCLA should be improved.  Oregon looks good and SC looks average....

    Carroll excelled because he kicked butt in recruiting.  He made sure he got all the premo players in SoCal--instead of letting them slip through SC's fingers to Texas, Florida St, Florida, Oklahoma, etc.  His magic in that regard has probably waned....

    I don't think it will happen (none / 0) (#19)
    by shoephone on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 10:09:38 PM EST
    Not that I can read minds, but I honestly believe that Carroll knows his strength is in college ball, not the pros. Anyway, Seahawks are in a bit of a top-tier mess. They need a new coach AND a new GM.

    I have to disagree with people who dis Carroll though. USC had only one mediocre season -- this one -- since he took the helm there some nine years ago.  

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    Local news says it's a done deal. (none / 0) (#21)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 12:49:33 AM EST
    97-19 record at USC.

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    Shoot. I just saw that on Seattle local as well (none / 0) (#22)
    by shoephone on Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 01:13:40 AM EST
    Can hardly believe it. According to the report, Carroll started putting together a new coaching staff last week and the ink is all but dry.

    Not sure about this one. I like him but... the local sports blogs are on fire with some major vitriol. (I think they could have given Mora one more season to bang it into shape. I guess Paul Allen wants what he wants, per usual.)

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    Well, the Dems surely are lost, (none / 0) (#14)
    by Anne on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 08:24:15 PM EST
    or maybe I'm the one that's lost, but either way, I'm pretty sure that my general reaction to the SOTU will be a mix of disgust, outrage, and befuddlement, as Obama lists a bunch of "accomplishments" that are little more than warmed-over campaign rhetoric that bear no relation to reality.

    But are you not ready to be amazed (5.00 / 2) (#16)
    by Cream City on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 08:32:00 PM EST
    and awed by the pageantry, the spectacle, the SOTU staging of the equivalent of styrofoam pillars?  The stunning accomplishment of the politicized selection of the color of the tie?!  The major question of whether the First Lady shows her awesome shoulders -- and what that means for America?

    Seriously, sadly, it is too late to teach to all of our schoolchildren the saga of fiddling while Rome burned.


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    Oh, good grief... (5.00 / 2) (#17)
    by Anne on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 08:39:53 PM EST
    [wait, I think I threw up in my mouth a little]

    you know what goes along with the spectacle, don't you?  That imperious thing he does where he pulls his head up, tilts his head back just a little, and looks down his nose at the great unwashed...ugh.

    I will have to be drunk on my a$$ or medicated to a fare-thee-well in order to be able to listen/watch...I once thought no one's voice could inspire skin-crawling loathing like the voice of George Bush, but I was wrong.

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    Shudder. (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Cream City on Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 11:34:28 PM EST
    You remind me that I have not been able to listen to my president for a decade now.

    But I am compensated by my bemusement at the very thought of Anne drunk on her a$$!  You would have to understand my mental picture of the usual Anne we "see" here to understand my bemusement at the very thought of the opposite.:-)

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