NEWS IN THE NEWS
Possibly inspired by this blog's high-quality and insightful live coverage of 24, the Wichita Eagle newspaper editorial board blog is going to be blogging the State of the Union speech tonight, and apparently you can comment on the speech while it is being delivered. I mention this because (a) the higher powers at Knight Ridder asked me to, and (b) the publisher of the Eagle, Mr. Lou Heldman, once performed "The Tupperware Song" with me live in front of 1,000 Tupperware distributors. Also in the band were Mr. Gene Weingarten and Mr. Tom Shroder of the Washington Post. Here is an account of our performance. God knows how far we could have gone as a band if we had not been destroyed -- like so many great musicians -- by journalism.
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I think he was shot before the SO even began.
Get the feeling that he too wants to run for president.
Posted by: Alfred | January 31, 2006 at 10:36 PM
Naw but I did want to wax off that rogue eyebrow.
Posted by: wolfie | January 31, 2006 at 10:38 PM
You guys so rock! Hope you don't mind if I stop by for a shower once and awhile:-)
Posted by: J M Walker | January 31, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Hello!
And He*l no!!
Woohoo. He tracked us down. Hard to do really cause we were soooo stealthy weren't we?
Nice to cross pixels with ya JM and come back soon k? Welcome to the blog.
Posted by: wolfie | January 31, 2006 at 10:46 PM
wolfie - just so ya know, JM's a guy, and yet, he invited me ta take a shower with him - NTTAWWT
Posted by: TCK | January 31, 2006 at 10:50 PM
Can I be the loofah?
Did I say that out loud? I'm going to bed now.
G'nite everyone.
Posted by: wolfie | January 31, 2006 at 10:51 PM
TCK,
Didn't your mother tell you about lying? I said no shower, but peanut butter and oily rags . . . now that's another atory!
Posted by: J M Walker | January 31, 2006 at 10:55 PM
*Can I be the loofah?*
SNORK
Posted by: boredtotears | January 31, 2006 at 10:55 PM
sorry JM - but if yer gonna hang around these parts, yer gonna have to get used to me missing the entire point of any given conversation - and also me lyin' about any guy I think might be scorin' points with any of the chicks (and I mean "chicks" in the respectful connotation - any hate mail should be directed to C-bol)
Posted by: TCK | January 31, 2006 at 10:59 PM
Hey Dave bloggers!
Thanks for visiting us beknigted folks in Kansas.
Sounds like a good name for a rock band.
I didn't know Dave had a blog. I miss his columns alot.
I'll be coming back from time to time. As you might imagine my duties as a liberal blogger in Kansas keep me pretty busy. (Hard to educate folks when the crowd with pitchforks may show up anytime)
Come on back to WEblog anytime. Trust me Kansas needs ya.
Posted by: J R | January 31, 2006 at 11:24 PM
A point to conversations? Here? Eeeeek.
Judi...if you are still reading by this point...email me the Tupperware song...and I would be delighted to play it. (and I could even play you some Counting Crows too...)
Posted by: Susan | January 31, 2006 at 11:29 PM
judi - are you still up? I'm still waitin' ta hear 'bout that picture
Posted by: TCK | January 31, 2006 at 11:31 PM
Did anyone notice that the loudmouth neocon posters over there pretty well disappeared once we showed up?
Good job, all.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | January 31, 2006 at 11:37 PM
Mr C - I noticed that too - hard as I tried to pick a fight, I couldn't find any takers - damn wimpy right wing wackos
Posted by: TCK | January 31, 2006 at 11:40 PM
TCK - no kiddin'. Apparently when they want a fight, they send other people to fight it for them.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 01, 2006 at 12:11 AM
hear about a picture? do you have one up somewhere? i'm off to bed now tho...
Posted by: judi | February 01, 2006 at 12:52 AM
Mr. C - ouch. Too true, too sad. I had a hard time tonight following President Forceps-at-birth Bush. Seems like there was a tape delay...between his brainlet and his monkey-lips.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 01, 2006 at 01:18 AM
judi - I found a picture of TCK. It's from the University of Montana, it's smutty, and he's low on the food chain....so I'm pretty sure it's him!
http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/ag/tckchina.html
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 01, 2006 at 01:37 AM
Sorry I couldn't join in the fray real-time (couldn't even listen to the speech), but having looked at the SOTU comments posted at the Wichita Eagle blog, it looks like those from this blog were a solid mix of opinion and wit.
Wolfie, Sly, TCK, Daisy, MarieIK, others (sorry if I'm leaving anyone out who should be specifically credited) - you did a bang-up job. Foil hats off to you all. Wish I could say the same for POTUS.
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 01, 2006 at 08:18 AM
what Blue Meanie said - Great show guys!
welcome JM and JR! (n hopefully Tramp:) hope y'all hang around a while. we have lots more fun n are waaay more innerstin'
Posted by: cyn | February 01, 2006 at 09:36 AM
Annie.. *SNORK*
Posted by: just lmao | February 01, 2006 at 09:38 AM
Annie W-B-H,
My God, that's what TCK looks like? And he wanted to shower with me? Smutty, TCK, bad. No wonder you try to drive off competing males.
Posted by: J M Walker | February 01, 2006 at 09:43 AM
Ooooo he came back!
*gets overexcited*
*faints* (In a cute girly way. Not a sloppy hangover way)
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 09:46 AM
Annie: *snork*
Thanks, Blue, wolfie led the way.
Their server was a challenge. It kept double stopping me from posting with those stupid codes. Why would a robot want to post on a blog about the SOTU? Why would a robot want to post on any blog?
Did you guys see at the end of the blog, the guy (not Dave) who invited us thanked us for coming.
Posted by: daisymae | February 01, 2006 at 09:58 AM
I went back and checked daisymae. It was very nice of him. And to not be annoyed either.
The server did need some help tho. I had to close that tab and open a new one several times when it stopped letting me post. As if I was posting too much or something.
Sheesh. *hairflip* As if I'd do such a thing.
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 10:01 AM
daisymae - sorry about blaming you for the John McCain comment last nite - the whole thing about the name being at the top of the next person's comment got me confused (that and the amount of booze I drank before and during the speech)
Annie - while I'll be the first to admit to being smutty, I want to go on record right now and say: I DO NOT HAVE SPORES!!
there, now that I've got that cleared up, I'll tell you that I e-mailed El a picture of me last nite, and I might have sent one to you too, but you wouldn't let me out of the doghouse last night, even after I behaved myself all day yesterday - and now you're bein' mean
so booger!
Posted by: TCK | February 01, 2006 at 10:35 AM
Pictures? Hello? Remember me? Loofah girl?
*gets huffy and considers having hissy fit*
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 10:39 AM
and why didn't *I* get this picture?
Posted by: judi | February 01, 2006 at 11:08 AM
Want to have a hissy fit with me judi? They are much more dramatic when done in a group than by myself.
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 11:15 AM
TCK, I saw the pictures! you may not have spores, but being one is a completely different story. The peanut butter and oily rags are out. Heaven knows what a large spore would do to peanut butter.
Wolfie, will a loofah take care of spores? Degenerate minds want to know. *Grabs oily rag from garage and heads for basement.*
Posted by: J M Walker | February 01, 2006 at 11:18 AM
*zips in*
Sheesh, I missed all the fun last night! I'm going to *zip* over there, it sounds like it was a great evening!
judi - if TCK doesn't send you a pic today, let me know and I'll forward mine.
COMMENT ON TCK'S PIC: NOT BAD!! :)
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 11:24 AM
Oh, and Dave: How could you stand playing music while the Tupperware distributors were "burping" their containers instead of applauding? My God, man, the noise alone would have left me screaming, which for me is probably okay, as my regular singing voice sucks.
As for band names, if you haven't visited, http://sam.hochberg.com/bandname.html then you might want to skip it. Some of the names arn't for adults, let alone adults.
Posted by: J M Walker | February 01, 2006 at 11:26 AM
JM ~ the loofah or any one of a number of other toys
*eyes toybox peeking out of the shaodws*
Not a problem. What are you plannin on doing with those slippery oily rags tho?
Pervish minds want to know.
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 11:30 AM
*zips back*
zionist masters WTF???
Now I'm p!ssed!!
to say nothing of the Viva El Razo Blanco or whatever it was!
Who are these people????
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 11:30 AM
El - I'm catchin' hell from all quarters here - wolfie's throwin' a hissy, cyn sent me an e-mail signed "formerly yers," followed by a "HaRumph! n PPFFFFTTTT," and now I've managed to offend judi, who knows all and sees all, and who used to love me best...
anyway, my problem is that the picture I sent you is on my laptop, which I don't have with me, so could you do me a huge favor and like psot that picture somewhere, or e-mail it to whoever wants it, or e-mail it back to me so i can dig myself out here...
pleeeaaaase?
Posted by: TCK | February 01, 2006 at 11:40 AM
"zionist masters WTF???" Oh my God, Ed must be back? I thought we locked him in the closet.
"to say nothing of the Viva El Razo Blanco or whatever it was!" That would be Ian. I think he thinks he's a white guy living in the 50's.
"Who are these people????" Just your ordinary combination of mid-american wackos. I'm one of em, but I'm a sick wacko, so it's cool.
"What are you plannin on doing with those slippery oily rags tho?" I can't talk now, I'm busy in my basement doing weird things with oily rags.
Posted by: J M Walker | February 01, 2006 at 11:49 AM
*zips back in*
*fans self*
*wipes brow*
Well, I just read the whole SOTU blog and I have to say - pause - well, I really don't know. I did leave a message about never visiting Kansas since I'm Jewish, but still....
JM - I think you're pretty cool - welcome to the DB blog, hand around if you can. :)
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 11:59 AM
hee, hee, hee!!!
TCK's begging me - woo hoo!
AnnieWBH, s'girl, Bumble (if you're here yet), wolfie, and all other female types who have been - how shall I say this - toyed with by TCK, whatever shall I do???
*waits for advice*
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 12:01 PM
picture?...picture?...there's a picture of TCK?
(wondering why I haven't received it)
Posted by: daisymae | February 01, 2006 at 12:01 PM
"JM - I think you're pretty cool - welcome to the DB blog, hand around if you can. :)"
Hand around what, Eleanor? Are you propositioning me? Cool, I ain't been propositioned in, like, thirty years. (Ya, well, okay, the loofah sponge thing was kinda one.)
Posted by: J M Walker | February 01, 2006 at 12:06 PM
El.. i didn't read the Kansas thing til early this morning.. n i kept thinking whereTF is El!? if i'da been there last night i'da e-ed ya! just stay here n pretend the meanies don't exist!! (the nice, funny ones came over here anyways;)
Posted by: cyn | February 01, 2006 at 12:07 PM
Kinda? Geez, I need to be less subtle.
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 12:09 PM
*waits for advice*
bring the feathers;D
Posted by: cyn | February 01, 2006 at 12:10 PM
wolfie - he's from Kansas, so "kinda" may translate to "woo hoo", for all we know! :)
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 12:14 PM
El ~ I think I will wait for TCK to freely offer up his picture rather than guilting him into it. I for one intend to wait until he's begging me to take a look at it. I do like when a man begs.
*contented sigh*
Posted by: wolfie | February 01, 2006 at 12:34 PM
wolfie..."loofah"...maybe he didn't know what a loofah was
Posted by: daisymae | February 01, 2006 at 12:57 PM
cyn: there weren't really any meanies...just an off-the-wall guy named Ian (said he was a White, Cuban male ). As Dave can attest, we've got LOTS of them in So Fla.
*(the nice, funny ones came over here anyways;)* - true
Posted by: daisymae | February 01, 2006 at 01:01 PM
daisymae,
Just because I live in the ozarks doesn't mean I don't know what a loofah is. It's ah . . . ummm . . . it's a shoe,ya, that's it, as in "see his new pair of loofahs. He's got a brand new kansas quarter in each one."
Posted by: J M Walker | February 01, 2006 at 01:07 PM
...new pair of loofahs. He's got a brand new kansas quarter in each one *snork*
JM - ask wolfie what other kinda toys she's got in that box
oh, and BTW, the Ozarks ain't real mountains - just sayin' :)
Posted by: TCK | February 01, 2006 at 01:46 PM
time check
Posted by: Bangi | February 01, 2006 at 02:26 PM
11:56a.m. PST
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 02:56 PM
pst? are you telling secrets, Eleanor? or did you spring a leak? *grins, smooches El and runs away*
Posted by: neophyte | February 01, 2006 at 04:37 PM
neo, it was a secret answer to bangi's time check. :)
Here's another:
2:18 PST
Posted by: Eleanor | February 01, 2006 at 05:18 PM
thanks for the pic, eleanor ;)
so tck.... hmmmm ;)
Posted by: judi | February 01, 2006 at 10:09 PM
pssst, judi. There's a Mrs. TCK
Posted by: slyeyes | February 01, 2006 at 10:50 PM
Gee, doesn't anybody love ME best anymore?
*sniff*
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 02, 2006 at 12:22 AM
Oh, Mr. C... no matter what anyone else says...I always tell everyone that you're (not your) the ginchiest. The UTMOST, in fact!
Oh, and that you're really, really HOT, too!
So, who loves ya, baby? :D
Posted by: southerngirl | February 02, 2006 at 02:29 AM
S'girl... I... I'm ginchy?
*sniff, sob* That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me since I logged on!! *sob* Thanks!
As for being "hot", well, I do have that spicy Italian blood coursin' through my veins... just sayin'...
And Telly Savalas still loves me, apparently.
NTTAWWT.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 02, 2006 at 12:57 PM
If Lou Heldman had only been a Tupperware salesman, the newspaper business would be much better off. This is a guy who ruined everything he touched and is now riding on an ego as a "senior fellow" who thinks he knows more than Davis Merritt...a true newsman and someone with intellect.
Posted by: Eagle 2942 | July 08, 2008 at 06:08 PM