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Morning Briefing – January 3rd, 2011

January 3, 2011 in Morning Briefing











Australian floods are quite intense, perhaps the same level of intensity that sadly-now-dead actor Pete Postlethwaite portrayed on screen in Distant Voices, Still Lives besides his shining turns in other, more pulpy material – neither is as intense as the memory of 66 people being crushed to death at a soccer game back on January 2nd, 1971, a memory that the Prime Minister of nuclear-weapon-owning Pakistan forgot to respect due to his watching of his own career disintegrating as we-always-thought-it-was-hot-there India is distracted by freezing temperatures in the North killing at least 24 while Facebook-enabler Mark Zuckerberg’s Frankensteinian creation is valued at $50bn by Goldman Sachs’s fundraising push they ignore the fact that Chuck Berry collapsed on stage in Chicago last night because, well – Chuck is 84 and all 84 year old’s collapse at sometime but Chuck’s consciousness-dropping is not stopping Hillary Clinton becoming BFF’s with Harvey-Weinstein-faced capitalism-questioner Hugo Chavez by actually shaking hands and smiling during the new Brazilian president’s inauguration kegger – little does she know that after all the hot social-shaking action she’ll have to stop smiling to read the intel about Iran’s latest sporting craze – Pro-Am Spy Drone Shooting.

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  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    RIP, Pete Postlethwaite, perhaps one of the most interesting character actors there ever was. Saw him in The Town last year and he was his usual brilliant self, even though the role was a bit stereotypical.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    The Clinton-Chavez handshake may be her first faux pas since she chastised that student in the Congo. Everyone knows that when you shake hands with Chavez, you have to make a face as though he smells like a skunk so that everyone knows that you’re not enjoying it.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    @ Chillbear Latrigue: I don’t know; that smile she has one her face in the BBC picture looks like one of those thin-lipped smiles she had on while everyone was wondering why her husband had been getting blown by an intern. I can only imagine that in her head, she’s picturing Chavez as Jabba the Hutt.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    @ NefariousNewt: Let’s not forget The Usual Suspects. Awesome performance.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    Floods, freezing temperatures, death, death, death. Although, I think Clinton was just charming her breasts there with that hand shake.

  • http://wordsmoker.com levari

    i was all pro-hugo until he jumped on the tired palestinian bandwagon. and i’m with newt–just thin-lipped enough.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/dieterthemasseur/ DieterTheMasseur

    @ NefariousNewt:
    Maybe she’s imagining Chavez blowing her husband?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/weegees_bored/ Weegee\’s Bored

    Under the always topical heading of “Unforeseen Consequences,” today is the anniversary of Alaska’s becoming a state, thereby entitling its citizens to become President.