Obsessing about Israel/Palestine right now. So, yeah.
Standard FYI clause: I generally wait about 2 hours after Ta-Nehisi would typically open a thread (roughly noon, EST, back when such a thing was typical…!), and if none is forthcoming, I put one up here.
Emily L. Hauser - In My Head 
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012Hey, I didn’t have to even round you up!
The good news? Kevin Clash has been cleared!
Also? GoT cast a couple of Freys, we got rid of two useless non singers on The Voice, and at 2pm, the Disney Princesses will Welcome Leia into their ranks: http://anibundel.wordpress.com/
David L
/ November 14, 2012Since People and Salon have both made announcements today, so why not the Horde?
Who’s your nominee for sexiest man alive?
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012(I’d say Rob, but I’m biased. Also he desperately needs to accept his balding state and chop the queue at the back of his neck.)
So instead I guess I’ll say….Robert Downey Jr.
Jordan Devereaux
/ November 14, 2012As I have stated elsewhere, if I ever start going bald I’m going to shave my head. Balding + long hair is not a good combination.
Lizzou
/ November 14, 2012Nicolas Duplat!
taylor16
/ November 14, 2012My nominees are always Taye Diggs and Taylor Kitsch from Friday Night Lights (and those movies he’s been in recently that I choose not to watch).
Though Salon makes a strong case for Chris Kluwe, and I do find it hard to argue with those pictures…
Darth Thulhu
/ November 14, 2012But you make a strong point yourself in regard to Mr. Kitsch. Clearly, the only acceptable answer is Kluwe *&* Kitsch, jointly accepting the award by kissing shirtless.
Nora Munro
/ November 14, 2012I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
taylor16
/ November 14, 2012I swear to you, I almost left this EXACT SAME COMMENT a couple of hours ago, but got interrupted at work.
Darth – yes.
Nora Munro
/ November 14, 2012Great minds having similar thoughts about great bodies. What else could one expect?
scone
/ November 14, 2012TIM RIGGINS TEXAS FOREVER
socioprof
/ November 14, 2012+1 on the Taye Diggs. I watched Private Practice last night but all I can remember is how dreamy he was.
Also, too: Idris Elba and Daniel Craig (I saw Skyfall today and all I could do was sigh)
Jordan Devereaux
/ November 14, 2012First post-sickness blog post! I reviewed Neisson Réserve Spéciale rhum agricole, a delightfully mature berry-fest that should appeal to lovers of sherried scotch whisky.
http://cocktailchem.blogspot.com/2012/11/rhum-agricole-review-neisson-reserve.html
JHarper2
/ November 14, 2012If you have a moment to spare a good thought or a prayer, please do so for S. Today she is scheduled to receive a donor kidney from her sister. The surgery is long and complicated and the kidney does not always “take”, so let us hope that all goes well for her and her sister.
Also spare a thought for A, whose battle ended on Monday. She was not a happy patient, but bore up under the treatment and diminishments of live as best she could. Anyway I hope she has peace now.
Me, I’m just chugging along, trying to stay on an even keel.
Captain_Button
/ November 14, 2012(crosses fingers)
emilylhauser
/ November 14, 2012Love you man. All best wishes for health and healing to all.
doginajacket
/ November 14, 2012Keeping them in my thoughts.
taylor16
/ November 14, 2012All my best thoughts and wishes to S and to A’s family and friends.
Darth Thulhu
/ November 14, 2012Best wishes and prayers for success for S and peace for the progression of A’s soul.
socioprof
/ November 14, 2012Sending good thoughts and prayers your way…
wearyvoter
/ November 14, 2012Thoughts and prayers. I’ve been getting in the habit lately.
WAKnight
/ November 14, 2012Blog flog: I wrote a blog post about how the Republican Party should already know what to do to appeal to Hispanics, and it isn’t likely to do it.
WAKnight
/ November 14, 2012Links would help : http://testudomeles.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-state-of-gop-part-i-we-already-know.html
Captain_Button
/ November 14, 2012Where is your blog?
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012IN HIS HEAD
JHarper2
/ November 14, 2012That’s Emily’s blog.
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012Noooooo, Emily’s blog is in EMILY’S head. It’s not in WAK’s Head. That would be weird.
emilylhauser
/ November 14, 2012You make an excellent point.
Captain Button
/ November 14, 2012But where to find a hat to fit it?
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012My head is killing me. Also everyone in my office seems to have worn their moron pants today.
Let’s have kitten cam:
http://new.livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/TheSpiceKittens
Lizzou
/ November 14, 2012Moron pants? *raises eyebrow*
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012Our CEO left town today and the tizzy this threw everyone into in beyond me. Somehow it also meant that meetings were delayed people didn’t get where they were supposed to on time, and at one point She Who Is Not My Boss forgot it was me she was talking to on the phone and started talking to me like I was the person in our foyer waiting for her.
Lizzou
/ November 14, 2012Oh, THOSE moron pants! The moron pants I were imagining were very different…. I saw them as cousins to hammer pants.
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012STOP! (moron time!) *dances away*
doginajacket
/ November 14, 2012Lizzou and anibundel owe me a new keyboard and a bottle of Coke.
efgoldman
/ November 14, 2012On Friday do they get to wear moron jeans?
emilylhauser
/ November 14, 2012HAhahahaha!
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 14, 2012new name for the Horde: Urban Voting Ninjas.
emilylhauser
/ November 14, 2012I’ll take it.
efgoldman
/ November 14, 2012Some of us live and work outside the lesser urbs…
Speaking of which, what happened to Ian?
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012He’s been hanging out with Fallows! He’s too good for us now.
efgoldman
/ November 14, 2012Frank Rich’s Mittster post-mortem. His language isn’t t as colorful as Charles Pierce, but he nails it pretty good just the same.
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gop-denial-2012-11/#
watson42
/ November 14, 2012So what’s the word on how the Chris Hayes/TNC event went last night at MIT? Or has this already been discussed to death on the Facebook? (Curse you all!) I wasn’t able to go, but I did hear they were turning people away once it got too crowded.
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012No, on FB we discussed Fallow’s trip to Fairbanks, AK and that Ian got to go on a double date with the Fallowses. He now refers to them as “Jim” and “Deborah” and everything.
But being FB, the thread then devolved when Adele was introduced (Fallows is a fan) and Sara had to get all ranty and derail things.
Bookwoman
/ November 14, 2012I think someone (ahem) should do a daily FB digest, for those of us who don’t belong.
corkingiron
/ November 14, 2012Trust me – much of what is discussed there is truly indigestible….no, I mean non-digestible….ack! Ya can’na summarize! Whar’s yer Wully Shakspeer nooo?
baiskeli
/ November 14, 2012My wife and I were in line. We got turned away because it got full to capacity. If we’d gotten in line 10 minutes earlier we would have been golden 😦
watson42
/ November 14, 2012Well that sucks. 😦 Too bad there couldn’t have been a guest list like there are at bars/clubs….then TNC could have reserved some spots for the Horde. The upside (I hope) is that perhaps the popularity of the event means there will be more events featuring the Khan and others.
I guess I’m glad I decided to go to class rather than skipping out to go to MIT, even though I ended up way short of sleep because I stayed late.
I’ve been thinking we need to figure out some sort of Horde meetup with TNC when he’s in town, but since I can’t access Disqus (or even gmail consistently) from work, I can’t figure out a clever way to coordinate. And of course I’m not on Facebook.
efgoldman
/ November 14, 2012How about a Boston area horde meetup period!
DC Horde has ’em quarterly. They don’t even really announce them anymore. What do they have that we don’t – other than Kate Cox and anibundel, of course.
Tenar Darell
/ November 14, 2012Oh here it is. Dratted thingy! I was tapping and pinching and punching my iPad looking for the reply button. I forgot where it was!
Interview was more like a probing conversation. I was really glad I decided to come out in the rain. They were filming, with a full rig, so there may be a podcast out there in MIT land if you want to see it. I ws lucky, I was almost 45 minutes early, by accident. I didn’t realize so many were turned away. Now I have another book waiting for me when the semester is over.
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012In today’s episode of “All My Generals:” Military suspends MacDill AFB pass of Florida socialite at center of Petraeus, Allen scandals.
Nora Munro
/ November 14, 2012I cannot wait to get home so I can catch up on all the latest. Maybe I should get some popcorn …
anibundel
/ November 14, 2012Chuck Todd apparently couldn’t wait and asked Obama for the latest spoilers during his presser today.
Nora Munro
/ November 14, 2012Dang it, I forgot the popcorn. I have a cold so I stopped to get cold medicine and tissues on the way home and was so annoyed about getting carded for the cold medicine that I forgot everything else.
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 14, 2012Well there goes her trips to the Commissary for tax-free goods…
Darth Thulhu
/ November 14, 2012My state’s fantastic recent efforts to become the next Florida where vote counting is concerned are bearing fruit: still no resolution of the race for Gabby Giffords’s old seat. The two candidates keep trading the lead, tons of provisional ballots are uncounted and in limbo, and the inevitable waves of lawsuits to influence the result are beginning.
Thanks, Arizona Legislature!
Paul Wartenberg
/ November 14, 2012And the political will to get electoral reform passed remains below that of passing legislation to ban foreign-made automatic weapons from schools.
wearyvoter
/ November 14, 2012The roofers have finally come to our house. How did we know they were here? We heard tromp, tromp, tromp on the roof at 6:20 this morning. That’s how we knew. That, and the sound of nails being ripped out of the boards. It makes a squeal that rival fingernails on chalkboard, but it sounds like the roofing nails are squealing in pain.