Haha, nice 2nd link.

OT: Just watched the CSPAN's Sunday Q&A. This week Brain Lamb traveled to Berkeley for a sit down with Kos' in the Kos living room. Rerunning it at 11:00. Reaction: meh.

First time I've seen/heard Kos'. Content wise, said about what I'd expected. Appearance wise, was a little suprised (and to Kos' benefit!) Seems not to have aged a bit since his/her Oscar winning turn as 'Billy Kwan.' What's Kos' secret?

About ten years ago I ran into Linda Hunt at a movie theatre. Disappointingly, it was one of the few times when I instantly recognized a movie star, because she really did look like Billy Kwan. Nice, I mean, but definitely no Wonkette.

Midge,

Caught that also. Did you catch his sickening defense of his infamous "screw them" statement?

Exactly how did he justify that little verbal turd, Golden Boy? For once, I might be interested in hearing something Kos had to say.

I see "meh" a lot. What does it mean exactly?

Is it the new Star Wars kid?

OK..Paul Anka needs to fuckin' slice the loose shit off of his online store.

http://www.paulanka.com/html/store/index.php

I go there, cause I have loads of t-shirt spending money, and I'm thinking "Ace would want me to buy an Anka shirt instead of one of his".

Only to find the following message: Anka T-shirts are sold at Concerts only.

WTF??? That's some loose shit.

I wonder if Walken sells t-shirts on line...

I stole "meh" from Lileks, Ace. I think it's a sort of shoulder-shrugging moue of dismissal. If it turns out "meh" is how the kooky kids nowadays say "that is so freakin' kewl," I'll have a lot of embarrassing statements to retract.

On an utterly unrelated note, props for the Fatboy Slim video, which I hadn't seen. Walken definitely explores the studio space.

Golden Boy: I did catch that, at least partially - sort of listening out of the corner of my ear - and he seemed to be putting forward some 'superpatriot' defense. That he was angry cause those mercenaries were getting all the press when the 5 good marines who died that day didn't: "I'm one of the few bloggers to actually wear marine boots, and those boys...."

Maybe there was more he said than that, but if that was all, seems in conflict with what I understood of his earlier explanation all about how he came to hate mercenaries as a boy in his central American days, terrible stuff he saw them do and thusly scarred his heart against them.

Don't really challenge that earlier explanation. Could very well be true. Just seems the superpatriot, angry to give the boys in green their due, is completely different from that earlier explan. I dunno. Maybe he said that earlier too. Just as he mentioned he doesn't read a single conservative blogger, I don't get over to the other side much myself.

Meh: I stole it from the Simpsons, myself. Utron seems to nail it as I understand it.

That music video is amazing, although the one I have on my computer is kind of crappy. Thanks for the link Sondra

Walken sticks it to Anka LIKE A VIKING. Ahem.

Midge:

Yeah, that was quite a logic twister.
His "patriotism" caused him to view the charred images of fellow Americans, 1 of whom was a former Navy SEAL, and 2 others were veterans as well, and say "screw them."

He also apparently believes that the contractors he labels "mercenaries" are running loose in Iraq on their own and not at the behest of the United States government.

Chris. Is. The. HOTTEST. being. known . to. man.
PERIOD.
ROWZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Why would 'Kos' say he wears Marine boots? He says he served in the Army. And he has a picture.

Just as Marines get ticked if you call them "Soldiers," Soldiers don't like to be called Marines.

This is priceless. A NIH employee claims to be intimidated by a *cup*:

"I found it very intimidating to walk into Dr. Kagan's office for a one-on-one and see this — the first, first thing you see on the left side as you walk in the door is the cup," Luzar testified.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050411/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/aids_research_safety