Wonkette
- Do not bother trying to kayak to the Inauguration. [DCist]
- Obama went to his favorite mosque today, the 19th St. Baptist Church. [WTOP]
- Welcome to town! Try not to be a total dick. [Urbzen]
- The “We Are One” concert was a special event of some kind, involving Beyonce singing “America the Beautiful,” Obama and Lincoln doing a terrorist fist bump, and Sheryl Crow probably singing for seven fucking hours, about nothing. [USA Today]
- If you’re lucky enough to still have a job and still have a job that still honors federal holidays, you can still volunteer for some Hopey event tomorrow, in your area, for service! [USA Service]
- You people think this is the dumbest souvenir Obama T-shirt in D.C. this week? HA, wait until you see Newell’s. [Washington City Paper]
Make fun of me- I DO NOT CARE. I was at the mall concert today,signed up for an official service activity tomorrow and am an inaugural volunteer(I will be the old one on Tuesday telling you nicely where a portapotty is or picking up your trash)
I don’t volunteer for Muslin causes.
Will anyone be working in the District this week? Other than prostitutes, souvenir sellers, and the occasional working press?
chascates: starbucks employees
Dear Ligne Roset sales associate: I read Wonkette. I am furnishing a dumpster and would like a discount on that $15,000 bedroom suite.
Since I was only able to find three days of work in December, and am lucky enough to have four full days this week, I’ll have to skip the Tuesday celebration.
Damn.
Otherwise, I’d be dancing down Orange Avenue naked, with a bottle of evil DeWars in one hand and….. Well, you get the idea.
I went to the concert and volunteered to listen to Garth Brooks sing three songs in a row. That was a little too much racial transcendence for me.
Even I was planning on going, but things fell apart at the last minute. I wanted to go despite the potential shitwave exploding forth from DC sewers due to millions upon millions of people taking dumps.
Now you DCer know how us Austinites feel during SXSW. While you wankers are trying get the film festival and jamming up Loop 1, I’m just trying to get Lowes to buy more seeds and soil for my Great Depression II vegetable garden.
The first rule of Spy Museum is: do not discuss Spy Museum.
El Pinche: It is great for the panhandlers during SXSW I suppose. Other than that it’s what Spring Break at Padre is like.
ManchuCandidate: NASA nappies will be on sale for people to take their “fertilizer” home to help grow their El Pinche: ” Great Depression II vegetable gardens.”
chascates: You say that like those are separate jobs.
The Matrix T-shirt would be slightly less lame if it read “He’s ‘That One’” instead.
bago: Bravo!
But did they have a minstrel show at the “We Are One” concert?
Can’t use my fucking golden kayak, I can parachute me there!
Pop Socket: I know he’s my homey and I’m biased, but I enjoyed him. From the warmth of my home.
I liked the concert but missed the first few minutes–did the gay Episcopalian do something today?
And how fucked is it that Laura Linney was there and they totally missed doing a quote from Adams. I’ll bet Paul Giamatti would’ve totally done it and made the day awesome. When they were saluting the arts (and I was fearful a poet would appear) I kept waiting for this one:
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
If I heard correctly, even that poser Jefferson got a shout-out (not dissing because of the slaverly thing like the common folk do, but because his politics were completely wacky) (read American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis–then we’ll talk).
Adams was dissed (I read the book first–the movie is way more fun). Any mention of Washington?
The old ones are always overlooked.
Just watched the opening. I am so tired of Fanfare for the Common Man.
If I can’t kayak, then how the fuck do they expect me to get there. Huh?
It’s funny, but if you end up on unemployment, they discourage from doing any kind of charity work, because, like, it’s not gonna help you find a job? I dunno why, but I don’t think they’re into it.
waaaaaaaahhhhh, me wants to be there…
Are 19th Street Baptist Churches on 16th Street in all cities?
Lionel Hutz Esq.: I don’t think there was a minstrel show but I just saw Ashford & Simpson on CNN sing “Solid As Barack” with no trace of irony nor any clue that this song had already featured, as a joke (and not a very funny one) on Saturday Night Live.
Dozens of artists show up for this little shindig and not onecan say anything more creative that repeating “Let Freedom Ring!” over and over (and that was from some Irish punk).
chascates: You got that right. I head for Big Bend on spring break. I’d rather spend it with mountain lions and javelinas….and a bag of herb.
“Barry is my Co-pilot” available? I’m imagining a jesuit theme. that would really drive wingnuts and PUMAs crazy..er.
El Pinche: “Allah is my co-pilot” or “Sherpa Dirka, Dirka Sherpa, Jihad, Also” are both open if you want to promote Barry.
shortsshortsshorts: “Allah is my co-pilot” is the winner of everything
El Pinche: For the youngs, “Rocket the Vote.”
Our friends at Rumproast have uncovered that Malkin, et al have uncovered a bunch of FAKE Americans defacing the holy US flag in honor of the terrorist overlord N0bama.
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/scraping/
So did anyone do crowd estimates? Did they finally beat the crowd estimates from the ReLOVEution, or the Million-man march for that matter?
Thanks for the tip on ‘usaservice.org’. I signed up for a local ball, which will probably bring the number of attendees to around five in this very red state. But! They have music and dancing, so if there’s a woman there, I can dance with her.
I would have been there, exceptI’m Australian and it’s summer here. Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah! Also the Decembrists weren’t playing - only Bono, with fragments of Tony Blair’s large intestine still adhering to his tongue.
Bruno: Hahahaha. Yeah this picture wins:
http://www.rumproast.com/images/uploads/bushflag.jpg
I hope malkin got rumproast’s memo on this topic.
Bruno: Desecrating the flag is only a crime when liberals do it. In the sixties, if we sewed one of the ass of our jeans the Viet-Nam-War-Loving elders wanted to put us in the federal pen. In their “post 9/11 world” (shit, that phrase makes me cringe) Farrah Fawcett can go to the Golden Globes (in the olden days, like six years ago) with a flag hanging off the ass of her skirt and trailing down the floor behind me (methinks it’s what is called a train) and she’s patriotic.
I hate fascistards. Biggest hypocrites on the planet. No, universe.
Ok, some answers
Gene Robinson gave the invocation- he is the gay Episcopal bishop. Washington was mentioned. Jefferosn was metioned because of his monument(and Washington also). Lincoln got mentioned a lot- including the eagle named Mr. Lincoln. Yes, garbage cans overflowed. There were the legal souvenir sellers outside and people who pulled stuff out of a carrybag or their pockets inside the event. The police and military who checked you when you came into the concert did not care if you didn’t have a permit to vend as long as you were not vending weapons or glass bottles. It took an hour to buy a cup of cocoa(or hot dogs or veggie wraps or muffins- but food was available and did not run out). People did bring blankets and chairs and bags of food. It was incredibly crowded leaving but I hung out for about an hour and got on Metro- no problem
Great links. I LOVE the kayaking and Welcome to Town posts. I lived in DC for three years and tourists do ALL those thing. STAND TO THE RIGHT, PEOPLE!
Only the worst sort of liberal America-hater would ever dream of superimposing an image of something on an American flag. It would just be so tacky.
Did anyone notice the significant lack of Jesse Jacksonism and Oprah Winfreyness at Obamapalooza?
Does this mean we don’t have to see them anymore?