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Open Thread * An Overlooked New Movie

By SusanUnPC on November 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM in Current Affairs

These skits come from “Almost Live,” a very popular half-hour comedy that immediately preceded Saturday Night Live, aired and filmed at the Seattle NBC affiliate, KING TV.

Want to see more? ‘kay. You talked me into it.

And now, what’s goin’ on???

  • benny

    lol, NQ, that was hilarious.

    • Right on the Left Coast

      Thanks for posting that, NQ. Ahhh, our little friends the Northwest Garden Snail. Now we just need a movie review from the Seattle Heavy Metal Community (is it lame?) or a look at the Ballard Driving School. But my favorite…”From the Auburn Center of Performing Arts…Lord of the Green River Dance.”

      I miss that show. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

  • workingclass artist

    Funny that Susan…You Rock!

  • oowawa

    Clearly, the Adventures of Sluggie was filmed in the Greater Seattle area. A website called “The Straight Dope” describes the situation as follows:

    Previously I had always thought of Seattle as charming–but no more. Now I know that beneath those mountains and trees there lies a seething chamber of horrors. True, there are slugs in other parts of the country. But they are nothing compared to the Seattle variety, which thrives in the region’s damp climate. The Seattle slugs can be as much as four to five inches long, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and a ghastly brownish-white in color.

    When we first moved to Redmond (Seattle suburb, home of Microsoft) back in the 70′s, the first morning in our new home we were greeted with the sight of a huge banana slug crawling up the kitchen wall. From then on it was a non-stop disgusting slime-o-rama. O the horror! Seattle Moss, you out there? Care to comment? Anyway, thanks NQ for the vid. Very funny!

    • workingclass artist

      lol…Ever been to Houston…and the have gators too…

      • oowawa

        Hi workingclass artist. I’ve only been in Houston long enough to get lost on the freeway-spaghetti maze that I remember as the most confusing I’ve ever seen–even worse than L.A. Slugs and gators? And Lone Star Beer. I’m coming.

        • imustprotest

          Long live Long Necks and Lone Star Beer! I was in Texas, first year of college! (I drank a few Long Necks, can you tell?)

          • workingclass artist

            As the natives in and around Houston like to say…Sheeeeit…ain’t nuthin like nice cold un on a hot day…Pearl was popular local brew around Houston hen I was a kid…But then in Texas in the summer who cares how it tastes as long as it’s ice cold…

            • imustprotest

              OMG ain’t that the truth! Having grown up in So. Cal and thinking I knew what hot was…..what a rude awakening..I had never experienced Houston Heat! Wow! Loved my time there though, met some wonderful people, still friends today.

    • I’m a Linda too

      I don’t mind saying, the year we lived there ’01-’02, I didn’t see such a sight. YUK! And I’m happy about that.

      Do you still live there? I lived at the Avalon Apts at Bear Creek on 520 and 116th. A great location. We had trail that we were able to walk and pick wild blackberries right next to our apt. Thank goodness, simple things to make us happy as that was a year with no income for us, which is why it was only 1 year living there. :(

      • workingclass artist

        Grew up there as a kid…Spring Branch and althoug I never saw a SLUG that big…The number and variety of slugs,snails,lizards,snakes and toads was a kids creepy crawly paradise…Houston is carved out of a jungle…It’s so damp it looks like there has been an overnight downpour in the morning and it’s just the humidity…Very green and pretty though a Tree lovers and Gardeners delight…I moved to hotter and dryer…The Black Prairie…

        • I’m a Linda too

          I too am in a drier area again.

          …lol talk of looking like it rained the next morning. I forgot ’til you said that. My car, that I had at the time, which would have fit in to Galt’s car terror story…the only vehicle I purchased used since an adult, which I’ll never do again. I had to replace the sunroof, along with the tran and all 8 fuel injectors. But with the moister in Redmond and that added moister still got in from a bad sunroof repair, I had rain on the INSIDE of my car there. NO LIE, there was so much moisture that my fron windshield had water running down the INSIDE of my window.

          …I was happy to sell THAT car.

        • KintheNorthwest

          Oh my what a small world. I went to Spring Branch Jr in the 60s, then Memorial High.
          I remember picking Blackberies behind my house to.

        • stodgie

          look down at houston from the air and it looks like a huge green umbrella! lots of green here and the grass just keeps growing and growing and growing!

          i am trying to decide which driver makes me crazier the guy in the pickup who just must get past me by driving on the right side or the driver who gets up close to the person in front and stay right on their bumper no matter what speed.

      • oowawa

        Hi “I’m a Linda Too.” I know exactly where you lived–we weren’t far from there. Moved back to CA in the late 80′s. We were a getting a little weary of the anti-Californian xenophobia in WA (bumperstickers saying “Don’t Californicate Washington,” etc.), which was usually hypocritical, since some of the worst WA xenophobes were ex-Californians themselves. To me, it’s all west-coast: there does seem to be a coastal regional identity shared between the Pac-10 states!

        • I’m a Linda too

          yes, I agree. But why are they STILL doing that California thing? Again in their newer boom. I think Freud would have something to say about them constantly complaining about California. Probably along with lines of “Inferiority complex” lol

        • workingclass artist

          Ahhh…You 2 kids bring back memories…chuckle…
          I do miss the easy access to the Gulf…Sigh…Grew up going to Bolivar and after Ike that Beach house built after Carla is one of like that survived the Travis Point of the penninsula…Truly incredible…

          BY the way…We could pick wild Berries Black and red when I was a kid while we walked down the dusty limechalk road…Past the Rice Refinery and the only Utotem ( like a 7-11 ) in miles on our way to the community pool…That was when NASA was king and everybody played baseball/softball in the summer and nothin tasted better than a hotdog and an icecold coolpop

    • Morty

      One of my first mornings on the west coast, I woke to find two slugs slithering up the wall, by the front door.

      So I just whacked ‘em…

      Ran upstairs, grabbed a bottle of windex, and cut loose.

      Worked, though, they dropped right off.

      Then I went around telling everyone we had leaches, the concept of “snails” foreign to my midwestern upbringing…

      Turns out they had hitched a ride on two pieecs of cut firewood…

      Now I try not to kill even the bees which get in the house, I guess I’m used to it, more repsect for nature, and life…

    • melisa

      Ewwwww!

  • I’m a Linda too

    Open Thread.

    …here’s some thoughts shared on a sad Thanksgiving for many that didn’t find Proposition 8 and it’s passage holding up to any of the current rhetoric that fails to match existing actions.

    Of course when a liberal’s voice, one who even supported “The One”, questions “The One” and his actions, the extreme lefties get downright hostile on him as well, like anyone for daring to question “The One”, quite irrational behavior.

    It is so sad these koolaid drinking mindless followers like to claim they are actually activists. When they can’t handle someone even mentioning a fault of “The One”, how did they expect to hold “The Ones” feets to the fire? They’ll be licking “The Ones” feet to keep them moist so as they don’t burn from any flame.

    Of course, we always viewed these “we’ll hold his feet to the fire” as cute, in a naive and simple minded sort of way, but now they’re scarier now knowing he has been elected and they sound and act the way they do.

    This is by Steve Clemons of the Washington Note

    I don’t often delve into the deeply personal in my blogging commentary — although foreign policy, getting national security decisions right or wrong, economic frameworks that turn the wrong stakeholders into losers rather than winners are all personal matters for me. But this year the fear and bigotry that animated Proposition 8 in California has made this a strange Thanksgiving.

    Yes, like everyone — I’m pleased that Barack Obama won the White House. But it is only a small beginning in the right direction. But with Barack Obama, we also got Proposition 8. We have him talking about Iraq as the “bad war” and Afghanistan as the “good war”. We have political appointments in both security and economic policy that either will be the height of brilliant personnel and policy maneuvering or alternatively could end up as a paralyzed cabinet and government disaster. There is only fog ahead, much yet we don’t know.

    We have wars going on in the Middle East that shouldn’t be going on. I have friends there now being shot at — and helping to kill others — and this wasn’t what the 21st century was supposed to be about.

    I have been writing here for some time — far before the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025 report came out chronicling America’s global decline — that America’s mystique as a great nation had been punctured by the invasion of Iraq. We showed key limits in our military and economic capacity, leading allies and foes respectively to count on us and fear us less. The economic crisis is the punctuation point in America’s fall from its once significant global perch. I’m worried about all of this — making a traditional thanksgiving very uncomfortable.

    Our new president preaches inclusion, which is a good thing — and I think he has the potential to be one of the great stewards of the White House and the executive branch authority we have given him.

    But how could people who helped deliver this man to the White House also spit on my decision to enter into marriage with someone I have been with for 17 years? Europe has embraced adjustments in marriage easily and in a socially healthy way, and yet we still stoke embers of nativism and fundamentalism in this country. Barack Obama’s voice was used on anti-gay marriage robocalls to African-American and Hispanic voters in California. To my knowledge, he didn’t ask for his voice not to be used.

    full article
    http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/11/an_uncomfortabl/

    • pm317

      Too little too late — Clemons if he was as smart as he was purported to be would have been more circumspect about giving away the farm to Obama. I have no sympathies for his wailing now.

      • I’m a Linda too

        I hear ya’.

        • jbjd

          The potential to which Mr. Clemons refers is rightly reserved for those with either a record of like performance; or no record at all. BO, on the other hand, has a record that evidences anyone who expects better than worse is a fool. I would imagine that, Steve Clemons is white and, has few if any close black friends (like, I suspect, many of BO’s most mesmerized minions) because as anyone of color knows, the black community is, in general, homophobic.

          • I’m a Linda too

            Yep.

      • imustprotest

        Remember, Obama wouldn’t stand for a photo op with Mayor Gavin Newsome of SF….he had to go get a haircut I think was the excuse. Methinks he wanted to placate the AAs in all the churches who were preaching for prop 8.

        • I’m a Linda too

          that one REALLY bothered me. He told his people not to let any photo’s be taken with him.

          “Brown reminded the SF Chronicle of a fundraiser he held for Obama at which Newsom was present, shortly after Newsom’s controversial decision to allow the city to begin issuing marriage certificates to same-sex couples. Said Brown to the Chronicle: “I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama’s) request at the Waterfront restaurant. And he said to me, he would really appreciate it if he didn’t get his photo taken with my mayor. He said he would really not like to have his picture taken with Gavin.””

  • Hank

    Sluggy: Man’s Best Friend.

  • I’m a Linda too

    What does this say about O-shit! that he hires back a woman he had to fire because she stepped waaayyy over even HIS line of “get in their face, argue with them, say anything”?

    November 29, 2008
    Obama adviser who called Clinton a ‘monster’ back
    Posted: 11:11 AM ET

    From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
    Power resigned from Obama’s campaign earlier this year.

    (CNN) — Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who stepped down from her post earlier this year after labeling Sen. Hillary Clinton a “monster,” is now working for the president-elect’s transition team.

    According to the Associated Press, Power is part of a team of foreign policy experts tapped by President-elect Obama to help ease the transition at the State Department — the agency Clinton is expected to head up.

    Power is also formally listed as part of the State Department agency review team on the president-elect’s official Web site.

    full post
    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/29/obama-adviser-who-called-clinton-a-monster-back/

    • benny

      Called hillary a monster, anti-semitic nutjob. what was obama thinking of? This is just getting stupider and stupider. Obama is creating an unnecessary friction with HRC.

      • Galt

        I agree, not a wise move.

        “Harvard pedigree guarantee wisdom not.”–Yoda :shock:

      • I’m a Linda too

        Agree.

      • csuzeq

        But I heard that Hillary gets to choose her staff. Supposedly that was the deal. Can she get rid of Power later? That would be hilarious if Odumba appoints her and Hillary unappoints her.

        • I’m a Linda too

          That is my understanding, too. It was specifically mentioned in their early talks that was a key factor, that she have the freedom to hire her staff and also she have direct access to O-shit! himself.

    • http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/ ginaswo

      what is really interesting is Power, who is now married to Obama’s likely 1st SCOTUS pick and dont even get me atarted on him Cass Sunstein, is hired as state dept transition personnel. Interesting to see if HRC keeps her on. Hillary strikes me as the type of person to utilize the best personnel regardless of their prior missteps….

      • stodgie

        power? i’d put her in charge of something that sounds important and has a lot of busy work out the limelight. i’d make sure the media never saw her and that office in the corner has no real responsibility.

  • Hank

    I don’t know that it says anything about him, particularly, other than that Power was never really pushed out of his circle in the first place.

    • jbjd

      You got it.

      • Galt

        Window dressing action while keeping her in his inner circle is change we can believe in? Seems like the same-old same-old to me.

        • jbjd

          Did you ever doubt it?

          • Galt

            Nope. The question was a rhetorical utterance. :mrgreen:

    • Morty

      I used to respect her writing, but I find it odd, given Obama’s relationship with Auchi, and Odinga, she sees no hypocrisy.

      Which makes me not take her seriously, whatsoever.

      I even wonder if she’s aware of her behavior.

      And if she’s not, she has issues, and the last thing Obama needs is another fruitcake in denial.

      • http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/ ginaswo

        Hey Morty, yes, mixed up person is Samantha IMO,

        she has made many comments suggesting she thinks there is a kind of rationale in some genocide and a bad kind, seriously it borders on that, ie she understands why some African nations killed the many foreign farmers to get the land back, uh huh, but she sees Israel as apartheid, she suggested to BBC that Obama would meet with HAMAS and NOT Abbas, uh huh
        She also (after her stepping down) continued to make BIZARRE comments to foreign press, one stmt was that her good friend in Canada who hadnt been elected yet and Barack would RULE N AMERICA together, she left out any mention of Mexico, that one is very well scrubbed and I havent been able to find it again….

        very interesting is Ms Power, oops MRS SUNSTEIN

      • http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/ ginaswo

        HERE IT IS!!
        http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/03/barack-obama-interview-power

        This has some of the most interestinf quotes:

        Power’s demeanour is so different by this point that I don’t believe she’s convinced by what she’s saying. Dissembling does not come at all easily to her, and if she is to be part of an Obama White House she will have to learn to deliver the odd fib more persuasively. I think she agrees with her friend Sergio (they didn’t know each other well, but she has a biographer’s affection for him) that you should talk to anyone, literally anyone, so that you leave open the possibility of improving relations; and if that ultimately fails, at least you have the measure of your enemy. “Obama has talked a lot about the importance of moving away from electocracy,” she says, trying to move on to more comfortable territory, and suggesting that the way people actually live is more important than the “reification of elections”.

        “In terms of how radical the shift will be, I think it’s very hard. There’s going to be a huge foreign service and civil service that he will inherit, senators and congressmen who have already been elected. So I think he is one guy, trying to steer this ship of cacophonous agendas into a new place.”

        In other words, promising to shut Guantanamo Bay, ban extraordinary rendition and pull troops out of Iraq within 18 months is fine. So is striking at al-Qaeda positions in Pakistan without the government’s consent, an Obama line widely thought of as a gaffe when he delivered it last August.

      • http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/ ginaswo

        see here as well:

        he Cruise Missile Left (part 5):

        Samantha Power And The Genocide Gambit

        by Edward S. Herman

        http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=5538

        http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=13626

        Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the “Worthy-Genocide” Establishment
        (Kafka Era Studies Number 5)
        by Edward S. Herman
        March 24, 2007

        http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12404

        • Morty

          I couldn’t get the link to work, so, I’ll yahoo the material, later.

          Having said that, first impression I keep getting of Obama is he’s the kind of guy who thinks “pay to play” is OK, even if one is taking “orders,” like a waiter, from the Russian mob – his other supporters being, god bless ‘em, idealists, who couldn’t cut it in the real world.

          Leaving them dysfunctional, and ultiamtely weak and uneffective — I can often see some connection in otherwise disparate reasoning, but rationalizing genocide is never a good sign– ever, for those on the right, or the left.

          There should always be a solution, no matter what, no truly innocent life is expendable, it’s really too bad about Powers.

          I’ve always like Holbrooke, too, I hope he’s not implicated here…

          Again, I’ll try to pull up the links, later…

          • Morty

            I know the word is ineffective, but “uneffective” just seemed the better choice, for some reason.

            Sorry, please excuse the neologism.

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  • candymarl

    I can’t find any more Sluggy You Tubes! Waaaahhhh!

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