The Guild 2-7-2003 Night O' the Freaks

[BigWaveBetty]

Yes I think The Guild should go! There seems to be something for everyone there. Only problem is the population is mostly lefties, so we'll have to steer clear of that.

I'd rather catch some waves than go snow skiing. And you can give me a ride on your boat out past the big breaks then drop me off. No loooong paddle out!

[BigWaveBetty]

WHEN LITERARY SNOBS ATTACK!!

Reading turns into a rumble

LITERARY debate sparked a street brawl the other night when members of the writers' group the Underground Literary Alliance ticked off Open City publisher Tom Beller and New Yorker writer Ben Greenman during a reading at Housing Works on Crosby Street. Greenman had read a short story about a tree when ULA'er Michael Jackman demanded he explain its social relevance. Greenman - who is hated by the ULA for his ties to both the New Yorker and Dave Eggers' literary Web site McSweeny's, which the group considers elitist - did not take well to questioning. Insults were exchanged and the ULA boys were asked to leave by a store employee. ULA honcho "King" Wenclas claims that Beller - Parker Posey's 6-foot-6 boyfriend - followed them outside and got into a wrestling match with a third ULA member, snatching his camera and tossing it to the ground. "We were rude," Wenclas admits on the group's Web site. Beller tells PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman, "This guy is a stalker. He is frustrated and potentially violent. That I even care about these people is wish fulfillment, let alone that I would ever get physical with them."

Greenman had read a short story about a tree when ULA'er Michael Jackman demanded he explain its social relevance.

Bwahahahahaha!! Maybe Babs Walters can help, "Mr. Jackman, if you could be any kind of twee, what kind of twee would you be?"

[BigWaveBetty]

Thought you might get a giggle from this...

RAQUEL WELCH launches her own jewelry line this Sunday, 6-8 p.m., over the Home Shopping Network and will be back Feb 10 from 7-9 p.m. The sexy one will also give tips on how to look savvy and develop a sense of style ... Page Six

Also from Liz:

DIDJA KNOW the CNN poll shows that two-thirds of people trust Colin Powell on Iraq while only one-third trust the president ...

What poll would that be Liz? The one where you ask your 3 friends, all of whom are cockroaches what they think?

More Liz:

LIZA MINNELLI and David Gest got back to NYC from London in time to straighten out the real date for their one-year anniversary party at the Regent Hotel downtown. The bash takes place April 14. Among the invited guests will be Betsy and Walter Cronkite on whom Mr. Gest has an enormous crush. Don't we all?

Uh, no. If you're referring to Cronkite, that dried up waste of flesh. That David Gest has a crush on Walter doesn't surprize me a bit.

[BigWaveBetty]

Oh look! Hillary tried to style her hair and attempted a stab at fashion. Bless her heart!

Sen. Hillary Clinton at the Harvard Club for a celebration for National Mentoring Month. - Photo by: DMI

[Iowa Granny]

I don't subscribe to the theory that HRC owns only one black pant suit. I suspect she has MANY. Wondering just how many it is????

[BigWaveBetty]

Taking a peek into hillary's closet would be like peering into a black hole. In other words..... way too many!

[BigWaveBetty]

More commentary from Real Clear Politics on Bill and Larry's love fest.

BILL AND LARRY: I only watched a few moments of Bill Clinton being interviewed by Larry King last night - not because I had something better to do but because I simply couldn't stomach the former President's self-congratulatory answers to almost every single question.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

KING: Should we stay with humans going into space?

CLINTON: I believe so. I gave the approval for the Israeli astronaut to go.

KING: Really? It started then.

CLINTON: And on the day that he went up, former Prime Minister Barak called and thanked me and reminded me that he and I had done this deal to allow this remarkable human being to go into space.

Could any other person take such a simple, general question about the US manned space flight program and turn it into a paean to himself?

Here's another:

And let me just say that, you mentioned Rwanda. One of the reasons there's a picture of me in a clinic in Rwanda with all these women nursing their newborns is they at least at this clinic have the medicine to stop mother to child transmission.

Thank God the world has been alerted to the fact there is a picture of Bill Clinton in an AIDS clinic somewhere in Rwanda!

Clinton's need for validation - especially as he watches his presidency shrink in comparison to George W. Bush's - is so palpable it's both amusing and frightening. You can feel Clinton trying to work the rhetorical eraser on history, smudging what's written just enough to diffuse culpability for the problems we now face on Iraq, al-Qaeda, and North Korea.

This isn't to say that Clinton and his administration are 100% responsible for the many dangerous situations America now faces in the world, only that it's obvious the former President feels his record needs defending. And it does.

UPDATE: Some quantitative proof of Clinton's egocentricity - if such a thing is even needed: A reader sends word he sifted through the Larry King transcript and found that Clinton used the personal pronoun "I" a whopping 197 times.

Charles Krauthammer made a similar point on Fox News last week contrasting Bush's speech memorializing the Columbia astronauts (one mention of the word "I" in the entire speech) with Clinton's speech in Oklahoma City after the 1995 bombing (eleven mentions of "I" and three mentions of "Hillary and I"). Link

[BigWaveBetty]

Bringing this pic over, it jogged a terrible memory.

At the "end" of the war in Kosovo clintoon and halfbright went to one of the refugee camps. Most of the people and children were just milling around and a few were interacting with bill and maddy. Then came time for the photo op so bill and maddy start to round up the refugees. Not many smiles, especially on the children who were made to hold up poster boards that spelled out clinton and stand in front of him and maddy.

I really got sick when bill and maddy started putting their arms around the children and tried to act like they cared. Children are very perceptive, they knew what kind of people bill and maddy are and it showed on their faces.

Could also have been these muslims understood they had to appear grateful, as much as they could stomach, to the infidels they hate but did help them defeat their enemy.

[Endeavor]

Timeout,

I've also found that our bbq sauce is thicker and sweeter than that typically found in NC or some parts of Tennessee - theirs seems to be more vinegar based and thin/runny. I was in NC recently and couldn't believe how runny their sauce options were - it wasn't barbecue to this Texan and of course I just nodded and ate it politely, but it is funny how bbq is a different animal in various parts of the south. I think you guys in Alabama are more like we Texans in the quest for richer, thicker sauces - "Secret's in the sauce."

[Teacup]

Post 68.OMG! Hillary should stop while she's ahead. She looks like she belongs in the cover of a 1950's cook book.

Hi Ya all! I'm back on line again. Hubby put in a whole new server. It should make my computer run faster and better.

[BigWaveBetty]

Yea! You're back! We've missed you. Hope the kids aren't driving you too loony. :-) You have freepmail.

[Timeout]

My recipe is onion & garlic, 1/2 stick butter, catsup, vinegar, brown sugar (or honey), soy sauce, tabasco sauce, lemon juice & cornstarch...and, yes, after simmering for an hour it's very thick.

On a hot, sultry southern summer night there's nothing better than spicy grilled BBQ chicken, silver queen corn and fresh tomato pie. Add ice cold beer and you've reached BBQ heaven.

[Timeout]

I never can decide which is better...the above on a hot summer night or a big pot of chili on a cold winter night. Thank God for "diversity".

[Endeavor]

OK, Timeout,

You better watch out - I know you're a good cook and may just be droppin' by for some of that bbq once summer beckons.

[Endeavor]

The only thing I admire about Cronkite is his ability to bring a big sailboat to its mooring completely under sail - no motor. Other than that, he's a commie.

Would I go out on his boat with him? Sure, someone's got to evangelize the lost!

[Endeavor]

Hillary's cheeks are starting to fall to her chin.

[Teacup]

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who was revealed to have Jewish grandparents.

OK, let me get this straight. First off. John F. Kerry started off by appealing to the Kennedy Catholic Irish vote, and now he's Jewish? When will he come out and say that Michael Jackson is his long lost cousin? Oh yeah, John F. Kerry is also a transviestie, feminest.

[BigWaveBetty]

And her other cheeks have fallen past her knees.

[BigWaveBetty]

You might have also missed the revelation that Kerry is quite the guitar player. Oh and in his younger days he'd get drunk with his buddies and go surfing.

He is the man of the pipple! (A little Nelson Mandella lingo there for ya.)

[lodwick]

Morning all - you guys are on a ROLL today.

Next year in NZ.