HELLO.
We had a fabulous idea while we were drunk in Detroit last week, and that was that we should do a “Kickstarter” to spread our Wonkette Drinky Things and Meetups all over this great nation. We want to come and see all of you Wonkers, but it turns out? You are not cheap dates!
So on the flight home we made a video (it sucked, but it was supposed to) and wrote a thing explaining how throwing parties all over the country was actually Conceptual art.
Well Kickstarter did not think it was Conceptual art, even though we were a professional art critic and they presumably are not, and they said NO.
But we thought: Why not do the exact same thing Kickstarter would have done but without the 5% off the top, and offer you fabulous prizes our own bad self?
So give us all your moneys, and here is what you will win!
$10 — We will send you a sticker featuring our famous (not famous) kitten-with-a-whip.
$25 — You will have a chance to be one of 10 people to decide where our Drinky Thing and Meetups will be held. Atlanta? Nashville? ALTOONA? Fuck yeah. ALTOONA OR BUST!
$100 – We will make you a goddamn Wonkette tote bag to take to your goddamn hippie co-op and in which you will carry your goddamn hippie organic vegetables. And we will put something in it! Maybe it will be a copy of Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States! Maybe it will be something EVEN BETTER.
$1 – You get a thank you email. It won’t even be a form email, but it will probably say roughly the same thing as all the other ones.
Down below should be a “Donate” button. You will need to do TWO things. You will need to press “donate” and then give it your credit card numbers (this is the first thing). And then you will need to send an email to rebecca at wonkette dot com telling us your address, so we can send you your fabulous prizes. Do not expect to get them before August. You will also need to tell us what name you just donated under, so we can assure ourselves that you are not a LIAR. In conclusion, fuck Kickstarter. Cut out the middleman and buy your Wonket a beer DIRECT!
Courage.
Rebecca Schoenkopf,
Editrix
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If I had a job I would love to donate (can only afford cheap beers for myself right now) but someone please pick Knoxville. Or somewhere in like a 2 hour radius of there, Nashville works
It's been years but I don't recall there being that many drinky places that would be worthy of Wonkette. Maybe it's different now?
Anyways, I would fear for their safety should some crazy right-wing loon with a personal arsenal found out through the Intertewbs that a bunch of commie lefty liberals were gonna meet up in Knoxville.
He'd probably be willing to drive the all way down from his trailer park in Claiborne County to shoot up the place.
hey were the gayest city in the south now… but youre still correct :(
How far are you from Asheville? Probably nice drinking establishments?
(Likewise unemployed, but trying to think of way to become self-employed…)
Asheville works, and hey dude if you need a rockin salesperson second only to Baconz lemme know
As someone on the far end of the state in fair Memphis, I would like to second the vote for Nashville. Like Memphis, it has a Bosco's which means great food and beer, like Memphis Nashville is an utter shithole, and unlike Memphis it wouldn't cost the US military budget for our lovely Wonkette to fly into and out of.
Oh I do love Nashville — but we're looking to make the Memphis Flyer our first print partner since I was at CityBeat. I think Memphis should really get some love, don't you?
Oh, absolutely. Whether Memphis deserves it or not (the Flyer certainly does).
Memphis was a a nice place to hang when Elvis was there, but now that he works the night shift at the Kalamazoo Burger King, I think you should look elsewhere.
Memphis works too! I'm from there even tho I moved to the prettier end of the state
feeling the Memphis love. not something that happens often. make it happen Wonkette!
FYI Stage Stop in Rockin Raleigh has a $6.95 steak special and meth.
Wow. So this is what the view is like up here. Hey – where's Barb?
Barb is with her husband, eating dinner and getting ready for happy hour.
Barb:
Isn't every hour with your husband Happy Hour?
Tundra, you are a wonderful person and you make my heart smile, thanks.
I just donated $100.00 because you make me feel good. (hugs) I hope you get a beer!
OMG! You're gonna get a goddamn Wonkette tote bag to take to your goddamn hippie co-op and in which you will carry your goddamn hippie organic vegetables! I'm so goddamn jealous! If I had an extra $100 I would get my dog's limp fixed. But the second $100 would be all over that donation.
PS. I don't really neglect my dog. She's just old and $100 won't fix that.
Barb:
That is very sweet of you! Or, as we say in California, "Dulce!"
For $100 I could probably get a Kallie…
I tricked Becca! I donated 100 and 25 and 10 and 1 dollars ALL AT ONCE, so I win EVERYTHING SUCKAHS!!!!
How much for a blotto Libertarian dickweed?
I thought Late Night Shots got shot down.
I'm thinkin' that's probably always free. Because, y'know, free market and all.
supply>demand
Anybody have an idea what those things floating in the cement pond are?
Oversized 'ludes?
Winner!
I remember Gorilla Biscuits being white and round with "714" stamped on one side and a cross on the other.
But it's been a while, and when I was looking at them I was…well, I was in the mood…
I musta meant oversized generic 'ludes. My bad.
Lame 1970s era pool floats on a string. People used them to divide the "deep end" from the "shallow end" as a way to tell kids how to mess with their parents, but mainly they wound up tangled in piles in or out of the pool.
As opposed to what I can only guess were happy 1970s era floats on the front of the lady in the middle.
Pool floats separating the majors from the minors at this swank '70s pool happening is a necessity. And that also applies to the "tangled piles" of poolside boogie knights and disco damsels.
I'm guessing bodysnatcher spawn.
Dead penguins, near as I can tell. I'm sure there was a perfectly reasonable explanation.
If they were dead penguins, there'd be live penguins fucking them.
So it was that kind of party.
Inflated condoms looks like to me, but that's just where my mind goes.
Ten dolla! Good lawd that's a lotta money! Hows about i give u a NICKEL and u give me a facebook like?
Ha!
1. I will donate, prob. after payday.
2. Doesn't Paypal take at least 5% off the top its own self, for letting you accept credit cards?
3. You might consider this site: http://www.indiegogo.com/
They don't appear to have *too* much restriction on what kind of campaign you create. Of course, they also take some percent off the top.
4. Also, shameless plug for this: The Oatmeal's Charity Campaign. If you're not familiar with The Oatmeal, you should be.
All credit card transactions, which involve a swipe and the pushing of a few buttons, come with a percentage taken off the top. (The electrons belong to a union, maybe?)
Transactions involving pieces of paper, envelopes, and stamps, and the schlepping of those pieces of paper from place to place to place, do not. Go figure.
The link is broken for me, and you should carefully consider whether you want to use PayPal. They have a history of arbitrarily freezing and/or seizing collected funds: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/
Besides, isn't their founder a dick? Or am I confusing it with–whatever. I know ebay was a bitch.
Ebay is Paypal…and guess what? The bitch is seriously flirting with anti-trust action.
What's this I spy? Perhaps another Fat Jealous Loser who surfs the Wonkettes?
I'm sorry, I only speak Finnish.
(ETA: I've only posted infrequently over there, so I don't think I can call myself a true Fat Jealous Loser. But indeed I am an obsessive reader.)
I don't *really* know what this means (the Fat Jealous Loser part), but do you actually speak Finnish? Because that would be cool.
FYI: "Fat, jealous loser" was an insult thrown at Regretsy readers who called out bogus (or just really shitty) Etsy sellers. Very few things are funnier than Etsy sellers who will fight blog posts about their shitty work with poorly-worded, misspelled invectives against Regretsy. "U dont no what yu r tlakin abot ur just a jealous fat loser! Ur r gung to here from my lawyar"
The Regretsy community happily embraced the phrase, so it's now self-referential.
$25? What do you think I am, some kind of fat-cat public school teacher?
$25? What do you think I am, the 1%?
THAT is some funny shit, there.
I keep trying to use my Credit Card, but it seems to be maxed out on RNC donations addressed to some Nigerian.
She may take chickens as payment. Or vodka!
I'd be willing to barter. I wonder what I could get for a ball of pocket lint & a couple of dust bunnies.
An unpaid internship.
I finally left the reserve army of the unemployed for a not very good job at a not very good wage, but after months of not working it is OK.
So I have a bit of extra scratch for the Wonkettes.
Way to make the rest of us guilty-donate, Chow. (Chow Yan Fat is hot.)
Hey, I am feeling rich, having a paycheck to complain about (the fortnightly insult) that has real FICA and tax deductions.
Chow Yun Fat is cool as cool can be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQ_iyQ61ig
I will fuck the face off anyone who donates $100 or more
Orally? Because that seems to be the trend in Miami.
You mean fuck their face off with votes, right?
With an offer like that, I'm surprised everyone here isn't hurting themselves digging in the sofa cushions for dollars.
How do YOU know they're not?
I sprained a wrist.
Alright, change "will" to "will try to". Also, if you donate $500 I will explain about freedom to you in a condescending way, including, but not limited to, calling you Sheople.
Or Sheeple. I don't spell non-existent words well.
Sheople sounds like an ancient Egyptian demi-god.
It's not the face you're fucking, it's the fuck you're facing.
Are you by chance French? As my learned mentor taught me shortly after I started grad school many decades ago:
The French they are a funny race –
They fight with their feet and fuck with their face.
Van Damme!
I'll give $500 if Editrix throws in nekkis pictures of the editorial staff.
And I mean, Full Monty, and no contortions to only show backs while showing face. I want boobies and poon (including Ginger and Josh).
This post? Easy to masturbate to.
Exsqueeze me?
Baconzgood started it.
There's a rich old dude in Las Vegas who is throwing millions around like it was pocket change. Suck up to him for a bit. Newtie and Mittens hit paydirt with just a basic reach-around.
I believe it's spelled 'measly'. I can donate a dictionary.
Only on the wonket. Snark and spelling, in two measlie words.
I'm just waiting on the ban hammer (I couldn't use banhammer although ban-hammer is probably appropriate).
I'll bet you ten grand I haven't got $25…..
All gave some, some gave all….most don't give a shit.
Give 'til it hurts.
hurts so good
hurt til it gives.
You better get that pay pal button up before my after work beers wear off. Wait. What's pay pal?
If you're thinking of more valuable prizes, I have one word: TRUCK NUTZ!
Except that's two words. Or one word and something that's not a word. Sort of a word and a half and an incoherent grunt.
I forgot what my point was now.
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION:
Does pay pal take hobo beans and moonshine as legal tender?
Or food stamps?
FOOD STAMP FRAUD!11!1!!
Don't cast a moonshine pearl before those paypal swine, save it for the actual meet up thingy. I will bring a monster bottle of Hawaiian punch
Nice to see that the spirit of Russ Meyer lives on, even if it's in a diluted 21st century way.
THIS IS MY HAPPENING AND IT FREAKS ME OUT!
Classic! I caught that flick here in NYC at the Film Forum several years ago, and after an hour the place reeked of urine from everyone pissing themselves from laughter. For good or ill, Meyer was in many ways the USA's own home-grown Bunuel. Then again, I've drunk at least six beers.
Hey, what was the one he did where everybody changed into colors – green with envy, chicken yellow, – I've been trying to remember since that drive-in back in 1966…..
Ahh, drive ins. Now that's the way to watch a movie!
Now I watch 'em in bed on my iPod. Yeesh, how the lowly have fallen.
Bleh, no donate button to be found…
The Paypal Button: Just in case you don't already know this, you probably have to go into the "HTML" or "Code" or whatever tab in your WordPress admin thingy to paste that paypal button code. If you've already done that, then I dunno.
Did our esteemed editrix previously work for PBS?
If she interrupts every interesting post for the next week with a twenty minute plea for cash then we will know for sure.
Pledge week is when they pull off your favorite shows hold them hostage while they substitute them with assorted Irish groups stomping in clogs or singing in a most annoying way. "You want Masterpiece Mystery back, bitch? Pay up.
That's not entirely true. Sometimes they show BeeGees concerts from 18 years ago.
BeeGees concerts from 18 years ago
It's a
travestyTragedy, I'll tell ya!*"Tragedy / When you gotta pee/ And you can't find a tree/ Tragedy…" ♫ — Mumbletypeg, 6th grade
Our presence here at this internet site is proof that we never lost that spirit of a 6th-grader who would craft song parodies with " gotta pee" in the lyrics.
My local NPR station (KUT) runs the most annoying commercials asking for donated vehicles. About every other hour.
KUNM does that too. Do they think I'm made of used vehicles? How many could we possibly give?
Arizona actually has a PBS plate that I'm proud to display on my own vehicle. Drivers behind me seem less aggressive than when I had that old shitty car with the "Jesus Loves Me But I Make Him Wear A Condom" bumper sticker.
Radio–did you MadMen yourself? I'll have to use mine..
That is a cool plate.
I'm Dewey, actually. Several of us changed our names to "Radio" when Radiotherapy went away, as a show of solidarity. Mumbletypeg has all the details. He'll be back next month.
And yes, I MadMenned myself.
In the Detroit area there are billboards asking folks to donate their boats. WTF? Will homeless people live on them? Last I heard keeping a boat was fairly expensive.
Sounds as though a mass migration to Windsor, Canada is in the works. I'm ready.
NO. If she did she would be calling you at work for the monies.
I hope so. Because they always show that documentary about how cool cats are when they want money!
Which ALTOONA? There's one in Iowa! It's where the casino is. It's the only place you can smoke and drink indoors. Problem is: they hate it when people just stand around gabbing and being disgusting hippy liberals instead of blowing their retirement at the tables.
Sounds like nothing's changed since I hitchhiked through there in '73.
I will send everything I have: Half an apple (my health plan), Two Altoids (my dental plan), an empty Billy Beer can (my retirement) and a '71 Pinto (birth control device).
THIS! This gets my vote for teh Intertnetz Winner For Today – mebbe even tomorrow.
I do believe we need an unprecedented COTD two days in a row.
If I donate $100 can I get an animal feed bag instead of a tote bag?
Not if you know Illinois GOP state Senator Suzi Schmidt!
Rats…I do know the esteemed and polished state Senator. We got Schmidt-faced at a truck stop diner one night after our Whack-a-Mole class.
Compromise and get a turd bag like those fancy, taxpayer-funded, fat cat cop horses have?
Uh, you forgot 'union thugs'.
For $100 you get an autographed bag from Nina Feedenberg herself.
I soooo want one of those stickers for my bike. $10 seems a little steep, though it is certainly a worthy cause.
Here's my money makin' idea for Wonkette (Jukesgrl has a share in this concept, by the way – although she's been missing and been missed for a while).
Wonkette needs a books page. Almost everybody hear reads. A lot. There have been book review blogs and they've been popular.
There should be a section where we can post brief (not Twitter brief, but brief) reviews of books we're reading – fiction, non-fiction, current affairs, 2012 election, right wing nutz sux, etc. Folks could vote "thumbs up" on the reviews.
How does Wonkette make money from this? Great question!
Book publishers and some authors and probably some book sellers would advertise because they would be reaching an intelligent audience of book readers.
Genius, no? NO?
Where IS Jukesgirl? Wonkette may have to start a 'have you seen me?' segment with the missing's avatar.
She was here this afternoon, over on the Pam Gellar post. Perhaps she was destroyed by the insanity.
I think we were all destroyed by the insanity, but I suspect that she may have a real life away from the Interwebz.
You slipped into Gellerese there at the end. Life away from the Wunket ??
I know, really.
I like it, but can we include a link to the Indies? http://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder
scvirginia:
Can't the Indies sign up for local ads? I'm not an expert on Internets advertising, but if Google can target ads to the point where if I clean out my gmail Spam folder I get recipies for Spam Omlets, Indies can probably purchase ads targeted to Wonketters within their market area(s).
Then there's all the self publishers, Lulu and her buddies. Blurb? And?
Almost everybody hear reads. A lot.
But we're not spelling Nazis.
Jukes was also around to celebrate the demise of Jesse Kelly.
Here! Here!
Speak for yourself.
But, masters, remember that I am a spell check Nazi; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am a spell check Nazi.
Today, we are all Spelling Nazi's
As, long? as we: are not! obsessing; over punc-tuation.
I was gonna suggest that our Editrix auction off a chance to motorboat her boobs, but your suggestions is much less offensive (to the editrix) and sounds moar intelectual.
See, when liberals suggest motorboating boobz, it's harmless flattery. When Rethuglipuke Fascist Nazi PigVomits suggest motorboating boobz, it's rape.
No one here would ever motorboat nonconsensually.
Jukesgrrrl is somewhere around, dood. I asked where she had been and she said she was lurking quietly.
The books page idea is good, if you have any evidence that it actually makes money; Editrix would probably be able to get the figures. I know that if you have links on your site to Amazon, you get paid a percentage from any buyers your site sends there. I'm not clear on the details, but the information should be available. And of course there's the whole advertise thing, although if there's one industry that is no longer throwing around the $$, it's publishing.
"she said she was lurking quietly."
The "Jaws" theme song just raced through my head.
I like the idea of our Jukesgrrl drifting silently deep below, watching our legs paddling feebly in the waters above as she sizes up Wonketeers for succulence.
We'll never even see it coming.
I like it. I would gladly buy all my Amazon books through Wonkette. 2. PROFIT!!
Oh hi Dean it's me Editrix. Just wanted to point out that little Amazon box up on the right. I think you can click through and once on the site buy anything, not just my own book that I'm whoring right there. But I am not sure. You could try it, and report back to the rest of us!
Just wait till someone dies and leaves me money! My Amazon wish list is already passed the maximum 2500 so I have about 600 in sublists.
Anyone feeling sick?
My throat's a bit sore.
I never saw that. Will do.
I like it!
How many Ameros do I have to donate to get a gun?
No, no! First you get the gun THEN you get the Ameros!
LOL chascates!
Also too: When fired, Wonkette guns shoot a small parachuted marshmallow barely past the muzzle. Instead of the classic gunshot noise, you'll hear an effeminate sneeze. The guns come in one color, "Arpaio Pink".
Now THAT'S a gun I could go for.
First you get the gun, then you get the money, then you get the women.
All of them, Katie?
I see this is one of those articles I actually have to read. Gee, thanks.
How many ¥ to the $?
All of them, Katie!
First off, Denver, because we have like a million weed shops, and Colorado has the best beer in the nation. Secondly, there are no better books than Zinn's "People's History…" so…..
Left Hand Brewery helps to counterbalance the Colorado Springs fundamentalism.
Don't forget, we also have New Belgium (employee owned and wind powered? Socialism!)
The Springs is like the cliched "Crazy Beautiful" girl, because it really is so beautiful there with the mountains, but it's also militarized and fundie to the hilt.
I don't go to the springs unless I have to, For my money, there are many more beautiful places in Colorado (I always prefer to head west than south) and with less god, guns, and meth.
I used to live in Denver, and it's still a half-hour drive to the foot hills. But it seemed like when I'd stay with people in CS, they lived on the steep sides of beautiful mountainous terrain. Maybe I'm mis-remembering…
I've got a Zimbabwe $100,000,000,000,000 note, who do I send it to?
The fireplace?
Much, much better odds than betting on the lotto.
I'll give you a nickel for it if you give me six cents change.
My best friend, Bill has taught me "do good things and good things will happen." I base my life upon that ideal.
Let's chip in and everyone will benefit.
Thanks BITCHES!
(okay, don't tell Bill I am calling ya'll that, please)
A good Karma can run over a bad dogma.
Bill sounds like a good guy, but I imagine during the 1940's hundreds of thousands of others thought something just like that as they were herded into cattle cars on the road to certain doom.
Nice thoughts are nice, but reasoning by facts is superior. But in my example above pretty much everyone died, so it didn't really matter whether they reasoned by facts or not. They're simply dead.
But rest easy Bill, I'm not pinning any of that on you. You sound like a good guy.
My bestie, Bill is the BEST person ever!
He:
Talks me down from the ledge when life is kicking my ass.
He eats Cheetos with chopsticks to avoid orange smudge.
He goes to church to make sure that everyone is warm and safe.
He is a longtime Navy vet.
In all the years we've been friends we've never had a fuss, not even close. He's my songwriting partner, my greatest inspiration and the funniest person I've ever met.
And no, before someone suggest it, I've never had a sexual though about Bill. That would be super gross.
I forgot something……..
Bill sent me a case of customized fortune cookies with our favorite Asian joke as all the fortunes: "Surprise! (you're in charge of "supplies") you will eat another" He's married to a lovely and delicate Asian bird. He calls my husband, "that New Mexican"
Wait– is Bill the AA guy?
I think those who were realistic about what was happening around them, and fortunate enough to have friends and funds beyond the borders, managed to escape. But I know that many people simply did not want to believe what was happening around them until it was too late.
Did you ever read Aharon Appelfeld's To The Land Of The Cattails?
Lol MittBorg. I subscribe to 25 magazines a month and I don't even read those. Lean on any piece of furniture in my house and you will find that I don't read the assembly instructions.
Fortunately, she's married to a guy who pulls out the instruction manual and lays out all the pieces and tools before part A meets tool B.
No this is not a sexytime comment.
Nobody RTFMs, huh?
Dear Wonkette,
I'm sorry about all the crappy comments I made.
Can I just pack you a bowl and let's call it even?
Regards,
Sharkster
I will pack your sweet pink mouth so full of ice cream you'll be the envy of every Jimmy and Jane on the block.
Sorry but I just blued myself.
Wow, youse guys! First Barb and Jeffer are talking tools, and next I find you making the Editrix blue herself. It's a regular fucking orgy in here.
I live in Arizona, so I guess that's totally out of the question. (Besides, Sheriff Joe would stop all of you at the airport and demand proof of U.S. citizenship.)
It would be so fun, though. Seriously, everybody here in AZ is retarded in their own special way.
!!!******WHO IS YER GOD NOW, BECCA?*****!!! Fucking goddamn IntenseDebate lost all my shit again. It’s me you guys. I swear! Ask me a security question! But I have no idea how I’m supposed to moderate comments now since THEY LOST ME.
Skullfuck! rétârd! Kill somebody famous!
Hahaha!…… [Runs off cackling....]
this made my evening.
and after jonah goldberg on jian ghomeshi and now a replay of jane mayer on BRIAN FUCKING FISCHER on fresh air i need me some cackling.
Oh boy, that Fresh Air episode just backed up a dumptruck of shit on top of the Angry Liberal brown fart cloud that was orbiting my head this morning. It reminded me of how I drove through Mississippi a couple months ago, listening to NPR the entire time like a Good Liberal. I didn't hear this Brian Fisher person while I was driving my family around, fortunately. I think that's how "Family Annihilations" happen.
You forgot to throw in the Machine-gunning!
I skull-fuck like a gatling gun. Not really sure how I do it, bit there you have it. Also, retard.
I never would've thought you had it in you, Chich, old man.
Lol, I gave you a p-point.
So thats why I've been allowed to comment.
Kirsten you moderating BITCH.
What is the name of your pet?
What is your favorite colour?
Blu…no, yellow…ahhhhhh!
Brown acid.
Intricate.
Hmmm. OKAY well either KIRSTEN is a moderating bitch or KEN has restored me. I guess there is no way we will EVER KNOW.
But the banhammer's back, so WATCH YO SELF.
But what about our RELATIONSHIP!?!?!
You know damn well what the answer to that is Baldar. THAT WE GO DO SOME CRIMES.
Only problem is that I have that weird allergy to seafood, so getting sushi and not paying is not an option. Even if we steal it, I WILL PAY, with anaphalactic shock. We can go steal a Malibu with pecan pies in the back, but we can just go cruise in mah '64 convertible without the risk of slammer. Recommend a Wonkette drinkathon in central/south TX at some point.
I've got a great security question. What is the most amazing thing, according to the male Wonketteers, about your ex-boyfriend?
HA! That he is 51 and has only to touch my wrist …
See! It is I!
Hi I.
Open season on the r-word!
What is your mother's maiden name and the hospital your first pet was born in?
Jesus I hate those fucking questions. None of them ever seem to line up with my life.
What do you call toes that walk in rice paddies without footwear?
that sounds like a Zen koan!
What was your first car?
First I had to spend most of the evening trying to get my laptop back from the land of the dead. I was thinking I'd have to take it to the 'puter hospital where they'd charge me 100 dollars to tell me it's a piece of shit & should just get another one. After which, I would have the strong desire to take off their glasses & stomp on them.
Luckily, it rose from the dead like Lazarus (thank ya, Jesus!)
Now Wonkette wants money for their drunken orgies?
I might be be able to spring a dollar for a thank you email. Hell, Wonkette could skip the email altogether & just take the dollar. I don't read most of my email anyway.
For $10, I might get the sticker. I'd just stick it to my forehead, go to a mall, and watch as people tried to ignore it. If someone asked me what's on my forehead, I'd just say: "Keeps the aliens out."
DOES it keep the aliens out, she asked casually?
So far.
They refused to fund Wonkette but they fund sandals with fake grass? Dont they know we are doing the lord's work here?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1937773453/gr…
Would that be the Weedlord's work?
Next they'll be funding sandals with fake socks, alerting all the hipster douchebags.
I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can turn that woman by the pool around for me.
Oh, and if that guy to her right isn't a mobster, I'll be very surprised.
Ya know, when I saw that photo, my first thought was 'OMG.! It's [....]' Someone I had some acquaintance with in 1978-80. Still miss her.
I can see why!
The guy across the pool halfway in front of the umbrella looks like Bobby Ewing from "Dallas". Or I've had too much to drink
Damn you!! OK, how much for the shot where she dropped those adorable panties?
Welp, I just sent in my donation cuz we went to Detroit and it was worth the two hour drive of construction and bloodthirsty MI drivers. Our Editrix is warm, friendly and just lovely and all of the men are charming and very good-looking.
And all the children were above average. Oh, that's Lake Wobegone.
You're on a roll.
He/she/both is a sesame seed???
You're quite the cutie-pie and charmer yourself, TCHo – it was nice to meet you and your husband (TCHpimp?).
Thunder, you are awesome! (hugs)
Hey, B. I'm hoping for a drinky-meet-up in your vicinity this winter. Do you think there is a hotel with a bar nearby that would give us a discount?
My husband runs 3 casinos with a hotel attached. I have a home that is open to friends like you. Whatever you want is always yours.
Thank you. You are most generous. This sounds like it would be a blast. Let's try and make this happen.
That'll teach you to ask a serious question in a room full of smartasses.
Hmmm, this sounds suspiciously like PBS. Can I get some Downton Abbey videos for $25? Also: NEW JERSEY.
How about I pay $7 and you turn off this onswipe nonsense that keeps fucking up the wonketty goodness for my iPad/iPhone? Goddamn. If I want anything other than your fine desktop site that plays fine with the above, I'll ask for it. Thank you.
YES. But fear not, I figured out how to shut it off! There are three vertical bars in the lower left corner. Touch (or swipe, don't remember) them and a magical sidebar will appear that lets you turn that shit off. I figured this out three days ago and it was like a choir of angels.
Yeah, but it keeps coming back, like herpes, and opening new tabs. If you hit “back” to go back to the main page, the process often repeats. I've saved the bookmark with the “onswipe never” in it, but it's no guarantee.
So this is the ugly side of the present depression. We have to fund a site promising us beer. If we show up.
Sorry Hon, I've got a convenience store on the corner. And they are masters at scamming poor folks.
I can't wait for our next Wonkette MeetUp™ in Wasilla!
Now that would be a gasser. Betcha half the town would show up for it too.
I'm maybe too literal-minded. Undiagnosed Asbergers, no doubt. But I'm not sure I completely understand the bit about the drinking gatherings and videos and kickstarter, etc.
But I do understand that it takes money to run a site, and you work hard at it, and your work brings me and the rest of us here a lot of pleasure and fun. And I'm insanely well-paid for doing a job I love. So absolutely I'll contribute a couple of hundred. As soon as I can figure out how.
Chich, I loved you before and I will always love you.
Barb, he's also like eight feet tall and handsome!
I do love me the tall men!
Aw, I haz the sadz now. But I luvs me the tall womenz!
What Rebecca said is true, Chich is hawt.
Exactly. I had no trouble making my donation with Paypal but we already had an acct.
MittBorg has TONS OF MONEY!$!$!$!$!$!
Rich as Croesus.
Oh, Lydia, oh Lydia, have you seen Lydia?
Lydia the tattooed lady…
MITTBORG, GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY. There, will that have done it, do you think?
I'd love to, but Blue talked me out of it. Wouldn't even leave me a couple of pennies to rub together and stay warm!
No fair, BeccaLou, you went from 30 pee to, like 61, and you JUST signed on again because you lost your keys.
That would be Blue, hon. I'd start making nice with Blue right about now, y'all.
You can learn a lot from Lydia.
Puuurrrrr….
I gave it all to Blue!
Sure, if you can find it in that hellish strip mall her developer pals turned that formerly quaint town into. My at the time Republican-leaning sister lived down the road and kept me up to date on how it made her sick to watch such gruesome goings on. Little did either of us know about Sarah Palin, who was then only a faint glimmer in Bill Kristol's scleritic eye. The only bright spot is sis doesn't lean Repug anymore.
See, SOMEthing good came of it!
Hope this will stick around for a week or so when payday rolls around again. But I'm betting Mr. Bread (aka AbandonHope) will agree with me when I say we need to fork over cash monies to make this happen.
P.S. if you come to Chicago I will buy you an adult beverage.
Thanks for helping Banana, my banana! I appreciate your generous spirit.
Jeff and I will be in Chicago in October and I would love to meet up with you and buy you some pancakes.
Awesome! I love you AND I love pancakes! It will be like Christmas!
(Let's try this for the FUCKING
FOURTHFIfTHSIIIIIIXTH TIME here, Intense Debate!!!) Barb, do you like strawbery pancakes?Yes, Flaming, I do.
I hear they pretty much fuck your face off.
Yes! The instant we have money that isn't going to food or gasoline or prescription drugs or mortgage payments or car payments or student loan payments or credit card payments or electric bills or gas bills or water bills or sewer bills or internet bills or doctor's bills or paying off the new windows WE WILL BE ALL OVER THIS.
Expect a check around 2036.
(I keed, I keed… next Friday assuming the clicky button is still available then.)
I would just go without the drugs but withdrawal is a bitch. I vote we slack on student loans.
Hm, let's see, I have:
Half a tin of Mints
A lapsed WoW subscription
and a supposedly free cat that's cost me $2000 in vet bills…
If I donated 50 cents, can I have a pity fuck?
I have a few signed Misfits albums (Jerry and Doyle ONLY–pun intended) and a paid-off Mazda Protege that I'm really thinking needs a fucking timing belt right about now..
how much for a dick joke?
$50.
Can I get anything for the French fuck joke I posted somewhere upthread?
I just want sideboob, why do you deny me.
Why not also a P.O. Box and we can mail you some checks? Because some of us are leftwingers and feel more comfortable sending things through our socialist mail system than the unregulated internet.
I'm thinking Jersey City, NJ for the drinking and I'm willing to throw down to make that happen.
El, Jersey City is a happening place. Please, donate what you can and I hope you get your wish. Thanks!
People live in Manhattan just so they can be across the river from Jersey City???
Crazy, right?!
yeah. sure. why the fuck not?
i already bought that one dude in the wheelchair outside the cvs a loaf of bread and a brick of cheddar today.
(and not the off brand cheddar either)
also, this will be of far more effective than the hundreds of dollars i gave to the WI recall effort.
i am such a sad little libtard.
That was so sweet of you to help the dude at CVS.
Hey, the Koch brothers helped out another dude panhandling in a wheelchair outside CVS and now he's governor of Wisconsin.
i AIN'T GIVING NOTHING UNTIL IRA GLASS SHAMES ME IN TO GIVING
Usually my Ira Glass is a car bomb.
Meghan McCain has called this a shameless plea for money that amounts to less than prostitution.
And she would know.
Like your new avatar!
Hell, I'd vote for Altoona — especially if the meet-up was on a date that the pernicious Altoona Curve was playing my beloved and noble Richmond Flying Squirrels. And I get paid soon, so you might be in luck.
You, too, are a Flying Squirrels fan?
NASHVILLE.
oops! forgot to pay…
NASHVILLE, BITCHES!
Not a fan of Pretty Miss Kitty Wells, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Blonde On Blonde, Jack White, heh?
Pay Pal is the spawn of the Devil. Fucked me up good a few years ago. Had to actually close a checking account to be shed of them for good. Saying that 'cause I know 'Becca is having problems with her password, etc. all the result of fucking around with Pay Pal. I'll prolly give something later, got to get my narrow ass to bed now, though. Ta-ta, bitches…
I would contribute to your happiness, but I am just a poor Nigerian prince who is heir to an enormous fortune. If you would just send me your credit card number (with security code on the back) and your social security number, I could pay my lawyer to break our (Note: Our) fortune free of my political enemy's control and I will donate half (Note: HALF) of the money to your Wonkette. You do not even have to knit be a tote bag because we are friends. I know your mother would want you to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
No one can resist that silky voice or that penetrating mind. Just thinking about it makes me want to write a $100 check to my local NPR station right now. Oh, the liberal vibe, it squiggles!
Let's do it like I do with Minnesota Public Radio. I offer $30. You suggest $10/month. I say I'll do that next year. I give the $30. Then you leave me alone for at least 6 months, maybe more !
Ha. The NOBAMA actually got me with that one even after I said no. I am what in used car circles they call "a grape."
Round, plump, and a mouthful of sweet, sweet juice when squeezed between the teeth?
These comments are so far superior to the Algonquin Round Table's efforts I fear an in-person, live salon might be the death of us all. So that wallpaper goes or we do. Or something. I actually have a new piglet I can sell to throw into the bar jar.
I can't find your last comment, DustBowlBlues, lol.
If you want to be with Lizzie and me in "the sisterhood of the traveling panties" just come and join us on Twitter:
Wonkette
WonketteJr
Commiegirl1
and Barbara102006
We have money saving coupons. Okay, that was a lie.
What? No underwear?
I knew there was a reason I liked this site besides the posters. It's cheap! Count me in.
Thanks TribecaMike! You rock!
Rightbackatcha, Barb! And believe me, I'm one broke bloke.
But poor as I am, I did have my eye on that musclebound Breitbart poster before it vanished quicker than a Dolph Lundgren direct to dvd. That was primo Craigslist material.
I am seeing that the Texas contingent needs to marshal our vote. I mean, we'll never re-elect Obama with Texas electoral votes, but I bet we can entice aTX Wonkfest in some friendly Hill Country spot. We'll be like the Repubs in FL in 2000. Let's get it started. While I am drunk and fucked up from other various and sundry substances both legal and illegal, I created a yahoo specialty acct.. email me at baldartflagass at yahoo dot fucking com. (leave out the fucking) Let's get this done people.
I have chipped in a few ducats for my two favorite things in the world: Wonkette and alcohol. Now please let one of these things be in Portland.
Fuck Toad, there is a special place in beer heaven for you, thanks!
Come to lower Manhattan, Barb. Like the wind, the surf, and Shelley Fabares in a particularly bad Elvis movie, NYPD Commish Ray Kelly calls to you… Bali hai!
You tempt me with your wares.
Hey Fuck–I would give my left arm to live in Portland..
It's pretty damn awesome, I ain't gonna lie. Not many wing nuts, lots of good food, good weed, good beer, nobody expects you to wear a suit, lots of people don't get up until noon, people are nice to talk to but nobody minds if you want to keep to yourself, doesn't get very hot, lots of pretty plants and flowers.
It's pretty much paradise.
Portland: It's where young people go to retire.
I don't really drink or interact with humans, but I donated enough for 1 lucky Wonkateer to purchase some tabs of brown acid. Yay!
Me at the Bronx the other day: "Say, Rebecca, all this free booze has to be stupid expensive, right"
You: "No I got it mang, btw you are the most attractive young man I've ever met"
And then I flew away with my magic cape and trousers. What's this about money now?
I don't think that was 'wonkett' I think that was 'percocett' and also 'orange sunshine'.
Don't ruin my fantasy dude.
This is as good of an explanation as I can think of…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWzlnYpLlgI
Since you're all a bunch of goddamn liberal pinko hippies, I vote Gitmo.
I chided all for Rethuglitard Facebook friends a little while ago because I, the Commonist Pinko Librul, was the only one who noticed that today, June 14, is FLAG DAY.
I wonder if Betsy Ross was a hottie.
ALTOONA, PA might suck ass, but at least we have one bar that makes you feel like you are not in ALTOONA, PA. SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS, STILL CELEBRAYTINDG BOURBON DAY.
If I give $100, does my name show up on any "list"?
Dammit- I love this wonketeer thing, whatever it may be. Sign me up for three emails!!!
- Sincerely yours, Oklahoma's three liberals.
Is this really teh Wonkette here, guys and guyettes? I just got through looking at the blog post pic and then wading through 283 comments, and not even one of them is "I'D HIT THAT"??????
I'd pay good hobo beans to hit that.
I'd consider "hitting" that…that is, of course, if the young lady possessed a strong moral fiber and came from a good family.
What the hell, I sent you some money. Cheers and thanks for all the laughs.
Dear Editrix,
The only thing I ever bought sort of, kind of indirectly through teh Wonkette was something I bought from my former Wonkette Goddess, Sara Benincasa, at Etsy, but then she lost the item and gave me my money back. So, anyway, before I buy everything on the list above, because I'm an old, overpaid gummit worker with a few Ameros laying around, could you promise I get a hot, sexy 8 x 10 color glossy photo of my new Wonkette Goddess, Kirsten Boyd Johnson, in the hundred-dollah hippie bag?
Sincerely yours,
flamingpdog
P.S. I still lurves you, Sara.
You leave KBJ alone! I was stalking her first.
Rubbish, I was stalking her before either of you.
Pffft.
I've been enamoured with KBJ since her first post. That'd be before we found out how pulchritudinous she happens to be.
Hey! I've had a PI tracking her for MONTH…um…:::whistling:::
As soon as I get the money I'm expecting from trickle-down economics, I will first fix the zipper on my tent and then I will happily send you some cash. Ooh, I can't wait until all that glorious money comes my way! Very exciting!
Is this kinda like one of them on-line things?
Sincerely, Clem
BAM! Enjoy the beers, my wonkette comrades!
edit: and SAN FRANCISCO, DAMMIT!
What is going on here?
We pay money for the Wonkette Drink Tour of Doom not to come near where we live.
Well I can tell you that if a bunch of popular people started showing up in my town, I would have to leave!
Man after my own heart! The thought of having to be around actual live people is enough to send me skedaddling.
Single scooper, single scooper, this man is a party pooper!
They're just getting drunk and rowdy, as usual.
Apparently, some hi-jinks and a dash of derring-do. And a plea for donation. (Yikes! did Ken just leave you in the lurch?)
I'll have to wait until I get paid next week. I already donated thirty whole bucks to Ronald Poppo. (I would have given my whole paltry paycheck if I could afford it).
Maybe if you played that Sarah McLachlan commercial about abandoned pets on a continuous loop on the front page, people would give you some more money.
Or started 'stillhavetogetusedtothisdontwannarunitintothegroundpleasehelp.com'.
What's a credit card?
I'd donate money, but the PayPal nationalists froze my account because I dared to buy something while overseas. Any other payment option would be most appreciated.
I sent a $100 to someone by PayPal and they sent it back and PayPal said that was "suspicious", so they kept my money.
Seriously.
They didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks…
I'm sure it's simply being kept in an account somewhere, waiting to serve as evidence for your upcoming trial for money suspiciousizing.
If that's a picture of you at the party, I obviously left too soon….
Is it Wonkrentte time again?
In the picture, are those giant yellow squash floating in the pool? My goodness, the 70s were an odd time.
I thought they were bowling pins. Hollow bowling pins.
I'll be out in the field tomorrow so i thought i would respond now to this inevitable post
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/michiga…
"Oprah told us it was a vajayjay"
Seattle in da house!
Did you see weejee's call for a meetup 6/30 or 7/7?
previous comment here
I had not – thanks for the tip!
Looks like it's going to be on 6/30. See:
http://wonkette.com/475459/the-presidents-famous-…
If I donate more will you send Riley over to pumice my feet while I drink margaritas by the pool?
You'll get more donations if you open a sperm bank.
I run my credit card to get the kitten-with-a-whip (I'm sure is a calendar featuring Benincasa, Becky Editrixxx et al) but the transaction didn't go thru. Can I use my ForniCard instead?
What do we have to pay to see that picture from the reverse angle?
(Apologies if somebody already went there, I don't have time to crawl through all this shit right now.)
Yep. Time to put yer money where your snark is. My snark just looked guiltily around and began whistling and went walking slowly away…
Tundra, people like you inspire me.
Where in California are you?
Barb:
You bring a smile to my lips and put a song in my heart.
I'm in Northern California, the Bay Area, a little south of Berkeley (where every corner store has its own foreign policy). The Big Island of Alameda.
I've been pushing for a Wonkette gathering in San Francisco.
Maybe we'll have to have one without the good Rebecca…
You treacherous fiend!! What have you done?!!
That magnificent bastard. Bested me again!
That's how I wanna go. Right in the middle of a drunken sentence.
I would love to have a par-tay in San Fran. I understand we have many Wonkette members there. I have gum, will travel.
Punk-tuation? Are you going rogue?
Punctuation. It's important.
This ISN'T a sexytime comment?
Lowers my sweet sexy southern drawl to a whisper, "I am pulling out my Jeffery Alan wrench…." (mind goes blank)
Why did this have to be about tools? You KNOW our tool box is nothing but essential screws needed to keep furniture together, a Bic lighter and a corkscrew. You tricked me!
We're putting together grow boxes in our garden, and my partner's like you. And I'm like Barb. It's been an exciting weekend.
Rouge, I think. Also, Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon.
Okay, A true story for those of you that have websites that say we don't really have a life…..
We have a ledge over our front door that is about twelve feet up and is 10 X 3 feet. It's been gathering some dust and we decided we needed to do something about it. I buy a dustmop and such and get the ladder set up. Climb up ( cause, I'll be dayumed if Barb is going up there) and start cleaning up. It's not going very well, and Barb yells, "Hold on, I've got an Idea!" and runs into the garage. Comes out with the leafblower and a 50' extension cord.
Worked like a champ. Sorry goofball chimp sites, no photos for you!
(speaks in southern drawl)
Why Barb,
Ah do say, if it so tickles your fancy, I could bring over my trusty screwdriver t' help ya around the house, or maybe even mah jackhammer if your foundation needs a little TLC, so long as you're willing to use that leafblower of yuh's to help me clean up afterwards!
(See, this is what happens when I go for more than 24 hours without sleep…)
By the way, how is yuh fine and distinguished husband doin' these days?
http://yfrog.com/042oc6j
It sucked to go up that high on a ladder. Yes, we used a leaf blower indoors, so sue me.
We only "officially" become white trash if we use a weed whacker indoors.
Shit. I see a spot.
Denver is out on teh fruited plains, and it ain't a short drive from LoDo to the purples mountains majesty. And you have to go through deserts like Lakewood and Golden to get there. There are some peoplez who actually live on the steep sides of mountains in the Springs, but most of the town these days is ticky-tacky houses out on the plains. Jeebus people and teh troops generally can't afford the mountain sides.
I love you more than the moon and stars. Get your ass back up and upfist me when you reply to my post.
Pokey, do you really want to get back up on the ladder with the leaf blower? I'm just sayin'……
Something tells me that if we're here 6 more months that We'll be putting our Christmas tree up there in December.
Not that I mind. I'd do anything for you my love!
The picture doesn't show the incredible picture window above that ledge.
I love that you would do anything for me. Speaking of Christmas………Rebecca is going to offer that sweet little sports car you gave me for Christmas for donors tomorrow.
http://yfrog.com/10r9zej
I've only driven it 1/10th of a mile.
I used to live in brand-spankin'-new, just-paved-over-a-prairie-dog-colony north Thornton. Then I lived in scary-almost-Five-Points south Thornton. Then I lived a couple blocks from DU for a year, by "Observatory Park", if I remember the name correctly. That was a lovely place to live, I thought. Sometimes I miss the town. I imagine the "TRex" project is done now so I-25 doesn't suck shit constantly?
I remember working a show where we were promoting Camel cigarettes (no joke, and I'm going to hell). At the end of the night a group of us went to a house party and one of the guys worked at a brewery (2 Dogs?). He had 2 big coolers full of "misfills", so free good beers. Me-e-e-emories.
MittBorg, you are always sending me to Google. What does "RTMF" mean? I hope it means that you are going to help Wonkette with a donation, please.
You lived a couple blocks from DU? Were you living with eight other people, or are you one of the rich? TRex is done, but now they're rebuilding the highway north of TRex and replacing the Bronco Arch bridge to the north of that, so the drive still sucks shit, and according to the diagram somebody pasted on the wall at work, it's gonna suck until sometime in 2015. But, hey, JOBS!!!!
Everyone was rich but me, I lived in a 4-plex apartment bldg across from some frat houses. The park was about 2 blocks away from that (could be getting geographically fuzzy again…). I still think it's weird (if this anomaly in space-time still exists) that on Colorado Blvd, on one side of I-25 there''s a Village Inn, and there's another one a block or two on the other side of I-25. It did not compute! That's why I left.
Where do you live (east/south/north/west)? Just curious.
Actually, on Colorado Boulevard north of I-25, there were two Village Inns, one on the east side and one on the west side, a couple of blocks north of the one on the east side. A few years ago, the one on the west side went out, but the one on the east side is still there. My office is just a little ways north of the both of them. I live in the Peoples Republic of Boulder County.
RTFM means Read The Fucking Manual. It's something nobody does, ever. Or at least that's the standing joke in the SillyValley.
I'm digging through the couch cushions as we speak. I am a Poorz, an Oldz, and a Disabledz, unfortunately, so money is always in short supply. But when I put enough coin together, on to the Wonketz it goes.
Boulder County? As in, where Boulder is? Well! NOW who's rich? That's a beautiful area.
My girlfriend at the time, now Mrs. Rants, lived in Boulder when I lived in Denver. Then she followed me back to Iowa. I'm irresistible.
Nope. : )
Husband is great, thanks for asking. He's getting ready for work.
You're allergic too? I can't even go near cat food, seriously. My next kitten is going to have to eat only chicken and turkey cat food.
I can't afford to live in Boulder – I could afford to buy a one-car garage maybe in most parts of town – so I live in one of the old coal-mining towns to the east of Boulder.
Follow you back to Iowa? You MUST be irresistible. Although I'd pick Iowa over southern Illinois or southern Indiana any day. At least you have an occasional hill.
You know what would really spice things up? Invite a third party into the mix! I hear Custerwolf is available!
There's something about KBJ….
Ah yes… that rings a bell.
Today, we are all fat jealous losers.
Actually, you'd be quite disappointed with the hill content of my area. But 3 things that are all related and big selling points for me: 1) Quiet, 2) No traffic, 3) Inexpensive cost of living.
I grew up on a farm and thought I wanted to live in a more happening place. After living in a couple cities for 10 years, I wanted to get back to Boring As Fuck, because it's just what works for me.
Invite a third party into the mix! I hear Custerwolf is available!
It would still be a two-some.
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