I may try to live-blog Raw Story’s own Larisa Alexandrovna, appearing at 11pm PT / 2am ET tonight on the Young Turks weekend filibuster live show. Are any of you going to be up around then? By the way, and I think this is weird, their page was blank until I registered with the site and logged in. So, register first, and then you can click on
the link to watch/listen to the live show. … Update [2006-1-30 2:5:10 by susanhu]: Someone at Daily Kos posted this alternate listening link in Martin’s top-rated diary — sometimes Young Turks has gotten overloaded. So try the other if you need to. We’re about to start … . 
Brad “BradBlog” Friedman is on now.
ALSO: “Breaking News: Cloture vote too close to call – Alito may be blocked” … “Annatopia says we are only two votes shy of sustaining the filibuster …”
OPEN THREAD! … (Tonight, “Crash” won best ensemble cast in a movie at the SAG awards, being repeated right now on TNT. I saw that film, and very much liked it … it hooked me emotionally, and there was some great acting in it. Yes, the events are implausible, but I didn’t even think about that while I watched. And, yes, Sandra Bullock was EXCELLENT in her serious role. “Crash” also makes great statements about race roles in the U.S.)
I’ll probably be up.
And I LOVED Crash.
oh great!
Btw, i checked, and Overstock has the DVD of “Crash” for only $13.77. That’s a movie I’d buy because I’d watch it, over time, many times.
I bought it just a few weeks ago. I’m a DVD directors commentary junkie. The commentary on it is very good.
I just checked IMDb, and its members rate it an 8.4/10 movie. That’s very high … #70 in the all-time top 250!
I think that’s because of the strong emotional connection one develops instantly with the many characters, and the plot twists.
Plot Outline: “Several characters of different racial backgrounds collide in one incident, The different stereotypes society has created for those backgrounds affect their judgment, beliefs and actions, This in turn causes problems for each of them.”
Some guy in New Jersey (!) wrote: “Bold and Compelling Treatise on Racism in Modern Society …
Yup.
I knew this was going to be a movie like no other movie beginning with the car jacking scene. “why are these people afraid of us? Why aren’t we afraid of them?” f
I’m going along with this — cuz of course I’m seeing myself as enlightened and not racist.
and then “Because we’ve got guns?” U turn. That’s when I realized that this film was going to challenge everything.
That was awesome. Completely caught me off-guard.
I really need to see it again. Trying to remember when it came out … just checked Imdb … May 2005. I dont have a dvd player so will wait for it to be shown on HBO, hopefully … shouldn’t be that long. I can play movies on my mini-Mac but I don’t like to sit at my computer to watch a film … i like to lie down 🙂
I just had to take a peek here. Thanks to all for keeping up the fight. Now back to bed with my fever and all the other symptoms. Hugs to all!
Please TAKE CARE of yourself! So sorry you’re feeling so rotten. I hope you can sleep well. Hugs.
Thanks!
And one of those kinds that stayed with me for day… I loved it!
… me too.
I went with my daughter, and we felt soaked up in it for hours and hours afterwards – and in a very powerfully good, emotionally compelling way. We felt more alive too.
It was a surprising choice for tonight’s SAG award as best picture — or i thought at first — then I thought about it again, and realized that that director brought together an incredible cast of actors — Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, and on and on — and wrung their souls out getting performances out of them.
(Even Oprah had an entire show about it because she thought it so important a film.)
As long as it’s an open thread…
Booman cracked me up with his “so I decked him” post tonight…I was laffin’ too hard to comment there…
I know! Shit! And he’s such a sweetie when he talks to me on the phone!
But, he is from New Jersey. And you know …
Who says us lefties are wimps!
I’d like to see him deck Cheney. Decking Bush is too easy.
I’m gonna pee my pants!
So frikkin easy,let’s see… pretzels, mountain bikes, speaking in public….
Problem solved.
I didn’t think those Princeton guys are usually known for throwing walloping punches…are you sure he didn’t live closer to, say Trenton? 😉
Don’t let Breeding, and Schooling fool you…
This was me in 1972, after 16 years of Boston area Catholic
Education….
Picture will self destruct in 1 hour
Kind of a serial killer look
i tried hard for the look…lo
Yes … ah yes … wasn’t there a movie named “Summer of Meagert” a few years ago?
Puget4 continues last week’s conversation about Depression at Eat4Today:
Stop by Eat4Today and read about Sneaky Depression
As I watched 60 Minutes tonight, Mandy Potinkin did a public service announcement for CBSCares … about depression. He was eloquent and powerful — as he always is — and really made a case, in a few seconds, for getting help with depression. It was very impressive.
(I’m a big fan of his, and I adore his new crime show, Criminal Minds, on Wed. nites at 9pm, CBS. It’s one of the very few network shows I faithfully watch, and that my daughter wants me to tape for her. That and, sigh, West Wing.)
Maybe they chose depression too because of Mike Wallace’s famous fight with depression….
it’s so sad that people feel shamed by those feelings of depression … and they manifest in not just feeling very sad and moping about. They also manifest in being irritable and tense.
I missed it — I was reading a new book.
What are you reading?
I need to remind Darcy again to give me her copy of the book club book for February. It’s getting near!
I just started Lies tonight and I’ve already learned things I never knew about Helen Keller. And I’m confirmed in my dislike of Woodrow Wilson.
On to chapter 2.
What about Helen Keller?
No spoiler! You have to read it yourself 🙂
Who knows, maybe you know all about Helen Keller and I don’t.
I’ve read a couple of biographies, but maybe they were lies.
Do you know anything about the last 64 years of her life?
Is it something bad? I never read anything bad about her. She died when I was 14 or so.
I didn’t think it was bad. It was just things I didn’t know about her. What he tells us about her made me appreciate her more.
Sad to say, i mostly know the Helen Keller jokes.
(Sorry … laughing …)
(laughing too)
But here’s a Helen Keller quote that’s appropriate for our times:
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleseant.
Kind of sad that what was true then is still true.
(looking guilty)
Not Lies . . .
Not yet.
What? I’m all excited because I think I’ll actually finish the book before the book discussion this time!
OK,OK!! I’ll find a copy some how!
Last time i checked, Alibris had some used copies that were super cheap. They’re very reliable about prompt shipping.
I actually gave Darcy her copy for C’mas, and I bought it at our lovely local bookstore — the most charming place — because we try to support LOCAL bookstores too. I’m just dreading a big box bookstore coming up here. Sorry, but I am. We have two lovely small-ish bookstores in town. I like small. I also love small libraries. Cozy. And they smell funky in a wonderful way.
I meant to say i bought it for her four years ago .. i don’t think she’s read it yet, ahem. So she’d better loan it to me.
Wish some of the folks on my ProgressiveTalk mailing list would join us — they’re the kind of people who’ve read that book, and the Howard Zinn histories, which I haven’t read yet. I’ll mention it to the list. They’re farther left than most of us here, but that’s cool.
and look at the previous thread… and then you can come back
didn’t mean to stop all blogging in the universe…
just gotta take the pic down soon…old and ready for bed…lol
I’ve responded.
Just saw this on Al Jazeera (get their e-mail news updates):
Fire traps 70 miners in Canada
70 Canadian miners are reported to be trapped after a fire in a potash mine. A company representative from the mine in the Prairie province of Saskatchewan told local television that rescuers were attempting to reach about 70 workers after a fire broke out on Sunday.Marshall Hamilton, a spokesman for Mosaic, which operates the mine in Esterhazy, said the company was in radio contact with some of the miners.
(I sure hope that DISH carries the English Al Jazeera when it launches.)
To access the live stream, paste “easylink.playstream.com/seawm1/youngturks.wvx””
onto your browser.
Thanks, I’ve been listening to Brad.
He’s not bad but I really HATE the call in part of talk radio. I don’t listen to it on any station, even NPR. So this has been painful.
Although I think Brad is completely out of touch with reality if he thinks that the people who write into his blog are representative of people in Red State America.
Uh oh. Another call. <sigh>
He thinks that Barbara Boxer could be elected in Mississippi. What is he smoking?
He also said that people in Red States aren’t hayseeds and they have access to the internet.
Oh Brad …
I’m basing this on nothing by my hayseed relatives in Missouri — people in rural areas don’t do the internet.
Wow. I missed all that. Glad you two were listening … I rebooted so I’d have lots of “juice.”
As Howie knows, I live in a very pink county, and they’d never go for a Barbara Boxer. George Bush wins here every time. Thank god for Seattle and King County!
Should we start a new thread, Mary and Howie?
Yeah — its a new day, we need a fresh start for filibuster day.
I’ll be here until midnight PST. This thread is workin fine for me. whatever.