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He has squinty Joe Scarborough eyes. Maybe even squintier. Ewww.

Have you been there before?

I love the Getty! If I could go somewhere this week, that's where I'd be. Which re-creation is your favorite? It's hard to choose. For me it's Madonna and Child or Irises (use the arrows on The Laundress). https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/04/03/people-are-re-creating-famous-artworks-with-their-pets-whatever-else-is-lying-around/

Me too. Can't find it now. Donny's smirk was priceless.

Ha, oakville, you were on to something about the deleted scene but it dimly rings a bell that Mika-in-bed-with-Donny was the opening scene in an episode of his sitcom that didn't last very long. Joe did insist on it being deleted later. I could be wrong but that's how I remember it. That 3-minute promo you posted got a lot of flak in 2011 (when Joe was still wearing his wedding ring) and he and Yoko were miffed about the bad press. Gee, what's not to love? Joe and Willie partying with Louis Bergdorf and without their wives, Joe shooting craps in an alley and passing out in a hotel room next to some wormy guy, Bergdorf kicking in the door in time to defribrillate Joe so he can slug his breakfast from a pint bottle, Mika's speed wake rousing a passed-out Barnicle on a sidewalk bench who then looks at his watch and mouths "Oh shit," Mika knocking a bottle from (I think) Heilemann's hands at a food truck (I dunno, maybe he wasn't tall enough to be Heilemann), Mika stealing a pair of shoes from someone exiting a cab (one of the Sex And The City actresses?), Louis burning up a pedi-cab to get Joe to 30 Rock on time where Donny is operating the elevator. Glynnis MacNichol at Business Insider described it best: Fun stuff. And presumably viewers are supposed to be reassured that they are watching the coolest show on television. Less reassuringly, it also manages to sum up quite succinctly the increasingly hard to watch dynamic of Morning Joe, in which Joe and company behave like bad little boys and sexy Mika scolds them. https://www.businessinsider.com/morning-joe-promo-smoking-video-2011-11 https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2011/11/morning-joes-icky-promo-041104 https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/11/morning-joe-doesnt-get-why-its-new-promotion-sexist/335012/ http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2011/12/morning-joes-sexist-icky-frat-boy-promo.html The head-scratcher is the disappearance of the 2014 promo called Morning Jolt (Three years after the first KYV book was published). Remember when Joe wanted Google to be "fixed" because he didn't like Joe Scarborough search results? Morning Jolt AFAIK was scrubbed from the internet. Various sites that promote Video Below or See It offer no video. Sites that promote Watch It At MSNBC link to ... nothing. Only one article about it remains. Some excerpts: Why Does ‘Morning Joe’ Throw Mika Into the Toilet? Can’t any of you chicks take a joke? On The Daily Show last week, Samantha Bee did a nearly seven-minute bit on MJ, portraying Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and supporting players as a sicko family. It was painfully unfunny, but it did get in some jabs about how the “boy pundits” are “always completely agreeing with their dad.” The more amusing and yet more damning parody of the show, however, came in the form of “Morning Jolt,” a 4:23-minute video from Morning Joe itself. Launched last week, with clips from it now running as MSNBC promos, “Morning Jolt” (see it below) inadvertently reveals why the relationship between Joe and Mika, and between Joe and the boy pundits, is getting increasingly hard to watch. “Morning Jolt” is intended to be a self-deprecating and obviously exaggerated look at what the MJ crew goes through to get to work in the still dark hours of the morning. They did something similar in 2011, in a bit panned as “icky” and sexist - Joe and the boys carouse all night while Mika jogs before dawn in a skin-tight dress. But this newest video moves beyond sexism: the real jolt is the smell of a little S&M in the morning. Mika portrays herself (as she often does on the show) as an overly diligent but discombobulated dame. She drops her coffee and her many newspapers; she trips and breaks a stiletto heel; driving herself to work (what, no limo?), she nearly runs over a construction worker and parks her SUV right on a Rockefeller Center sidewalk. Joe is the laid-back screw-up, a guy’s guy who oversleeps and casually rebels - when the alarm clock rings at an ungodly hour, he throws it onto a pile of other clocks. It’s then that the promo starts to edge into Republican war-on-women territory. When Mika calls and Joe sees her photo on his smart phone, he hurls it too, but this time into the toilet. Other cell phones marinating there indicate that she bothers him daily. So, hmmm… maybe she’s a little unstable, stalker-ish even - the next time we see Mika’s picture on a cell, she's bugging sex symbol Bradley Cooper, who tosses his phone into the trash. The camera catches Brzezinski’s face landing on a paper plate smeared with leftovers. Putting her face in the toilet and then the trash is simply demeaning. It’s odd that Mika (not to mention the show’s producers) would want to blare that to a national audience. Joe, however, operates from a [more] passive-aggressive place. There’s an anger in him that he denies but can’t quite hide from view. For her part, Mika swings between vigorously defending herself and willingly making herself the butt of a joke gone ugly. Joe, of course, wants us to believe he’s just horsing around, and the video’s fantastical morning commutes are supposed to clue us in: Scarborough stands in the prow of a small boat crossing the Hudson, à la Washington crossing the Delaware, as if he’s invading New York to bring some red-state virtue to Sin City. The guys - Mike Barnicle, Willie Geist, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Donnie Deutsch, Steve Rattner, Dan Senor, et al. (Tina Brown is one of only two women; Al Sharpton’s the sole black person) - arrive together on the subway, like working-class stiffs, setting them apart and below the more individualistic Joe. Mika and the boys humor Joe, and themselves, that he’s only kidding. But hoping you’re not going to be flushed down the can isn’t the same thing as love. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-does-morning-joe-throw-mika-toilet/ The video of their big blow-up, when he snapped his fingers at her, has disappeared. Only her apology to him remains. Looks like he did get Google fixed. Imagine that.

The deleted scene IIRC was the opening scene in an episode of Donny's short-lived sitcom. (Only six episodes). JoMika appeared in three episodes but that waking up scene disappeared after the first airing. I think it got deleted because some cracks about it on the show sent Joe through the roof.

August 2011, a couple months before the promo video oakville posted, when Joey was still married (barely) and they used to end the show by standing around as they answered the question "What have we learned today?'

Your Nancy Snyderman-Zeke Emanuel-Donnie Deutsch post was a tasty one, oakville. I wanted it give it a Useful AND a Like. Those were the days, my friend. I forgot about the Dr Nancy brouhaha, yeah, Joey was ticked! Dr Zeke is one of the three famed Emanuel brothers. Rahm was Obama's Chief of Staff for a couple years and Mayor of Chicago for a couple terms. Ari is Joe and Ono's talent agent. Jeremy Piven's Ari Gold on Entourage is based on him. Gee, is that why Dr Zeke got the MJ gig? Donnie. He had a huge crush on Mika that was sad to watch. He wanted to slip her a lot more than a pair of Louboutins but there were cameras everywhere so... He usually oozes slime but I sorta felt sorry for him that morning.

Yep.

Barf. Inside Kim Kardashian’s Prison-Reform Machine In two years, the reality TV star has become a force in criminal justice, all while continuing to sell body-sculpting undergarments and plugging diet products on Instagram. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/television/kim-kardashian-prison-reform.html?action=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage

He's reacting to the tickle that runs up his leg when he hankers to get back into an elected office. That, and his delusions of grandeur. I think I've watched six hours of MJ since June, when I retired from politics so I could preserve what is left of my sanity. That King of Queens marathon is sounding better and better.

It's a shame that the government can't respond by saying "Go right ahead, with the requirement that every member of the congregation will cough in your face as they leave the church/the sanctuary."

Hey Maddie, you do not look like a hip, slick and cool badass. You look like a Miley Cyrus wannabe asshole who thinks the world wants to see the white coating on her tongue.

So I'm scrolling down on my phone and the dreaded word "Screenshot" appears and I think "Oh FFS, what now?" I wasn't wrong, was I? She and her mother are beyond hope, beyond reach, and then you have to add Kody's influence to that festering mixture. Gah!

And Janelle and Christine (and their kids) are in his rear view mirror and Meri and (the gay) Mariah are the equivalent of neighbors who lived on your street a few years ago that you vaguely remember.

I wonder if Mika had a mastectomy or had an issue with one of her implants? She looked distinctly mismatched in the pink top she wore this morning and it's very noticable in the stills and video that oakville linked from the Daily Caller. It would explain many of her wardrobe tics and tweaks during the last year or so. I don't see her as someone who would step forward to represent as a cancer survivor who opted for surgical restoration, critics be damned. Or as someone whose body reacted badly to implants. But it is odd that she looks very different than she has in the last year. The most obvious "new and improved" Mika occurred right around the time Stormy Daniels/Michael Avenatti came on the scene.

Exactly. My dad served in WWII, he enlisted three weeks after Pearl Harbor when he was 21, almost 22. He died 6 and a half years ago a few months before his 94th birthday. The average age of a soldier or sailor or airman in WWII was 26. In Vietnam it was 19. 😞 Joe is full of shit as usual.

Yeah No - it sounds like your dad is 9.5 out of 10 on the good news scale. That is wonderful to hear! I bet those five minutes you waited for the doctor to call weren't easy* after the SW said "I'd rather you speak with the doctor first." *Grrrl, don't do me like that! As for Morning Report, I think Universe (sly one that "she" is) sends messages to us all the time - and some of us are better than others at recognizing them.

Gramto6 - glad to hear you were "only" frightened beyond belief. Sometimes it takes awhile to get past a quake mentally because they come without warning and can be so devastating. And if you're OK maybe someone you know and love isn't. so there's that. Do you have family or friends who were closer to the action? (Hopefully not). As for the Loma Prieta 6.9 that struck about a half hour before the start of Game 3 of the Oakland- San Francisco World Series and put an end to the pre-game show ... so much death and injury and damage, so many fires and bridge collapses, and displaced people and animals! But also many uplifting stories. For some reason I have always remembered one scene from the days and days of news coverage we watched in SoCal. Right soon after the quake long lines of civilians were moving hose for fire departments, and fire hoses are HEAVY. One woman in a business suit and heels - obviously just getting off work at 5pm - was carrying hose and her purse kept slipping off her shoulder as she was fast-walking. Every few steps she shrugged it back into place - I think it felt too heavy when it slipped down to her elbow - but she never faltered and she kept up with everyone else. It makes me cry to think about small things like that but people are quite often so lovely in little ways during times of need. And of course the background music for that TV station's footage of various scenes was hometown boy Steve Perry's Lights. I like the way he has rarely missed a Giants home game over the years and pops up somewhere to lead the crowd in singing Lights or Don't Stop Believin' and no one bothers him, he's just a fellow baseball fan. IIRC he used to arrange Journey's concert tours around baseball season. "You know the song about our home town, San Francisco, it's called 'Lights.' "

6.5!!! Holy wow, no wonder you're shook up. Are you OK now? Did it jolt or was it a roller? I was watching Steve Perry right around that time so If I felt anything I woulda thought it was because of him. Where was the epicenter? I'm in Cache Valley about 20 miles below Idaho's southern border. Wonder if it was on the same fault as the quake outside of SLC a couple weeks ago? I get freaked out about the Yellowstone Caldera every time there's a quake around here. Holy wow, 6.5!

Yes, yes, and yes. Dang, they do like to say "Coyote Pass," don't they?

Sorry this is such a long one but we're not gonna have a baseball season this year. (Yes, big money has ruined professional ball anyway but that's another post for another day). My family bled Dodger Blue in the '60s and '70s and Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game at home against the Cubbies in '65. Hometown announcer Vin Scully once again showed why nobody called a game like he did (for 67 seasons). Radio and TV sound engineers always had a hard time calibrating their broadcasts because Vin was blasting from so many transistor radios in the stadium. We didn't have season tickets but we went to at least a dozen home games every year. The players came out of their gate after they showered and spent what seemed like forever talking with kids who waited for them and they were so patient and so nice. (I guess the ones who weren't like that used a different exit. I don't recall Drysdale hanging around, if he did it wasn't for very long). They remembered where you lived and asked about your travel time to the park and where you were headed to eat afterward. (Garvey-Lopes-Russell-and-Cey is still the longest-together infield in MLB - 833 games - and they were hella good to their fans). We couldn't go to this game in '65 because Tuesday was the first day of school (I was 15) and this was two days later and we lived two hours one-way from the stadium. We were bummed but as usual we listened to 50,000 watt powerhouse KFI 640 AM Los Angeles on our transistors in our rooms. And as soon as the game heated up we went to the living room and laid on the floor in front of the hi-fi where my mom had the speakers maxed. We loved Koufax because he was a gentleman and we loved Drysdale because he was a barbarian and both were outstanding pitchers. Quotes from Drysdale (who hit 154 batters in his 14 seasons with the Dodgers): My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down then I knocked down two on the other team. I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it’s over. The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid and, if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid. When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate. Quotes about Drysdale: Batting against Don Drysdale is the same as making a date with a dentist. (Dick Groat) Don Drysdale would consider an intentional walk a waste of three pitches. If he wants to put you on base, he can hit you with one pitch. (Mike Shannon) The trick against Drysdale is to hit him before he hits you. (Orlando Cepeda) I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he’d come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say "Do you want me to sign it?" (Mickey Mantle) Home plate is 17 inches wide. But to Don Drysdale it is divided into three parts – the inside four inches, the middle nine inches, and the outside four inches. To him only the middle part belongs to the hitter; the inside and outside parts belong to the pitcher. (Dave Anderson, NY Times) I personally think it’s too bad if a batter gets hit crowding the plate. I know that Don Drysdale, Larry Sherry and Stan Williams felt the same way when they pitched for the Dodgers in the late 1950s and early ’60s. That was the formula I was raised on. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a batter apologize for smashing a line drive off some part of a pitcher’s torso. (Roger Craig, Inside Pitch) [The score is 1-0 Dodgers, top of the 9th inning. Chicago pitcher Bob Hendley had a no-hitter until the 7th inning and LA's only run was unearned.] Vin Scully: Three times in his sensational career has Sandy Koufax walked out to the mound to pitch a fateful ninth, where he turned in a no-hitter. But tonight, September the 9th, Nineteen hundred and sixty five he made the toughest walk of his career, I'm sure. Because through eight innings he has pitched a perfect game, he has struck out eleven, he has retired twenty four consecutive batters ... ... the strike two pitch on the way, fast ball outside, ball one. Krug started to go after it and held up and Torborg held the ball high in the air trying to convince [home plate umpire] Vargo but Eddie said "No, sir!" ... and there's 29,000 people in the ball park and a million butterflies. Twenty nine thousand, one hundred and thirty nine paid. In the Dodger dugout Al Ferrara gets up and looks down near the runway and it begins to get tough to be a teammate and sit in the dugout and have to watch. Sandy, back of the rubber, now toes it, all the boys in the bullpen straining to get a better look, as they look through the wire fence in left field. A lotta people in the ballpark now are starting to see the pitches with their heart. The pitch was outside, Torborg tried to pull it over the plate but Vargo, an experienced umpire, wouldn't go for it ... ... and Koufax with a new ball takes a hitch at his belt and walks behind the mound. I would think that the mound at Dodger Stadium right now is the loneliest place in the world. The time on the scoreboard is 9:44. The date September the 9th, 1965. He has struck out, by the way, five consecutive batters, and that's gone unnoticed. Sandy ready, and the strike one pitch VERY HIGH and he lost his hat, he really forced that one. That's only the second time tonight where I have had the feeling that Sandy threw instead of pitched, trying to get that little extra. It is 9:46pm ... https://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-greatest-call-ever-the-story-of-vin-scullys-ninth-inning-of-sandy-koufaxs-perfect-game-161923355.html

I just discovered this genre today and now I'm steadily hunting 'em down. Chickens on a seesaw. A marble race. ROFL. (More videos at link). https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/31/joe-buck-quarantine-calls/

What was his comparison? The toll on 9/11 was 2900 and 58,000 in 'nam. Is he comparing the response effort? That happens after every flood, tornado, earthquake, etc TIA, anyone.

Where the hell is Lemire broadcasting from this morning? In the background I think I heard "It rubs the lotion on its skin."