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george w. bush country superstar

george w. bush country superstar, originally uploaded by scarah.

recently seen in rite aid.

frightening. (it dances).

WWAT?

....as in, "What was Andy Thinking?"  (Andy Rooney that is). I want a t-shirt with this.  with andy's face silkscreened on it.  Because I love him. Thanks.

MyMonkey tipped me off on this amazing discovery.  Apparently some genius from CBS News' blog "Public Eye" has begun posting a list of the topics Andy Rooney covered in his Few Minutes spot on 60 minutes.  He's started with 1994 (hmm an odd choice --- I would have gone with a year from the 1980s or 70s -- classic andy).

Read it all here:
What Was Andy Thinking…in 1994? (CBS Public Eye)

the safe way to hunt

This morning Good Morning America had a feature about the Quail Hunting: The Safe Way to Hunt.

Um... how about NOT to hunt?  C'mon guys -- leave the birds alone. Thanks.

Welcome to Schnooklyn

Interesting article today in the NY Observer about Cobble Hill and Brooklyn (its not all about Peter Braunstein):

On a recent Sunday afternoon in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, dads went by with well-bundled babies draped across them like mink stoles. Moms pushed strollers and pulled children. Couples held hands, coffee cups, dog leashes, cell phones, shopping bags. All the cheery, chatty toddlers at the playground stood around and mingled, as if attending a make-believe literary party. Every street corner along Smith Street was set and lit like a Norman Rockwell. But. The signs in the windows all read: “Wanted for Sexual Assault. Reward of $12,000. Name: Peter Braunstein.”

It’s not Whitechapel during Jack the Ripper, but ever since the former Women’s Wear Daily reporter allegedly assaulted a woman in her Chelsea home on Halloween night, Peter Braunstein, or his unlucky doppelgänger, or some mass-hysterical hallucination, has been spotted sipping lattes and annoying dry cleaners all over Cobble Hill. Every day the police dragnet continues, and every day drags nothing up.

But Alberto Braunstein, the suspect’s dad, knows that Peter wasn’t the suspicious coffee drinker or the irate dry-cleaner customer. His son, Mr. Braunstein assured the Daily News, wouldn’t be caught dead outside Manhattan. “I have never known my son to even go to Brooklyn,” said Mr. Braunstein. “So I was stunned.”

for more click here

I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work

After answering just six questions from a group of US reporters, the president strode away heading towards the door.

President Bush tugged at both handles on the double doors before admitting: "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work."

Mr Bush was in China in the latest stop of his East Asia tour.

Click here to view more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4454738.stm

Make sure you watch the video!  I love the journalists are completely laughing at his face.  Take that for not answering our questions!!!

Surprisingly there hasn't been given much other coverage about the incident (KateDates sent me the link, but I had trouble finding other mentions.)  Needless to say, the Daily Show is going to have field day on this one.

more on braunstein...

NY Times had their article about the ordeal out today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/nyregion/18rape.html

I woke up this morning and walked outside to find that my, and all the other brownstones on my block had Braunstein's wanted poster plastered on our front doors.  Pretty disconcerting.  I'm glad I'm going away next week... i hope they find him.

But again... Bococa? huh???

Peter Braunstein in Cobble Hill

Gawker reports that the "firefighter rapist" Peter Braunstein was spotted at Bococa Cafe this morning:

www.gawker.com/news/peter-braunstein/breaking-peter-braunstein-in-cobble-hill-137952.php

I was there -- I walked by the gazillion cops and police cars on my way to work. I didn't see the jets, but I did see two helicopters and a couple news trucks. NY1 reported on the story later today here

So scary to think he was steps away from my home... and at BOCOCA CAFE? wtf! Braunstein obviously has terrible taste. Or as Judah says "I always knew there was a reason I didn't like that place."

Bush Needs to Poop

From Gawker via Reuters

The Reuters caption:
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005.

The note reads:
I think I may need a bathroom break?  Is this possible when ...

Subtext:
I need to poop

Karl Rove is a big fat idiot

from new york times.

Mike Daisey on the NYC Olympics

TO: Mayor Bloomberg, FROM: Mike Daisey
RE: Olympics:

I would rather have nails driven through my cock than have the Olympics in the goddamned city, and I think a majority of folks who actually live here agree. The only people who live in the city who want this are yourself and the army of corporate entities you swept into office with you--take your stadium, your Olympics and don't seek re-election. You can go back to anally raping us with your self-branded corporation and its subsidiaries, knowing you're still a billionaire, making you unimaginably better, smarter and more deserving than everyone else you ever meet. I think, ultimately, we'll both be happier.

Well put, Mike, well put.

More of his Gothamist interview, here