Comments on Blogging (and Drinking) Our Way Through the State of the Union

The state of the union is crantastic.

The state of the union is crap.

The state of the union is douched, utterly and totally douched.

And, yes, it's all my fault.

The state of the union is dire and deteriorating.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "Texas"

What again?

"Fucked."

I hate when they're all respectful and stuff. But I have to admit, from her to him, they were actually half-way respectful. Helps me think someday I'll actually respect the office of POTUS again.

you guys bought COORS? jesus. why don't you just send a check directly to the republican party in colorado?

I hate all this clapping shit...

Pelosi blinks a lot. And she looks exceedingly nervous (and uncomfortable) about being on camera back there.

Better than Cheney, who looks about to nod off!

Kerri is right, the Coors family is right-wing republican nut-jobs, don't buy their beer. They are one of the biggest supporters of the GOP.

propa-fucking-ganda. kill it. kill it. please, somebody, kill it. but the way cheney keeps casting furtive glances at nancy to see how she's reacting....it's pretty fucking hysterical.

DO NOT PUKE ON MY BEANBAG CHAIR, KIDS!

Wait, tax cuts are totally free money, right? Can I tell Citibank they can have a tax cut for my bill?

Did Dick Cheney just smile and wink at someone when he said we were going to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by 20%?

what a god damn fucking asshole.

what were those statistics, 4K in health care for an income of 60K? If you get 60K you aren't truly in the danger zone of health care costs. If you make 30K and get 2K it won't help your family of four very much if you are paying out of pocket medical costs.

The reason we bought coors is because this WAS a joke that TURNED INTO reality. I know the Coors family sux.

@19 Ari - when you SOTU drinking-game liveblog on slog, you SOTU drinking-game liveblog FOR REAL!! Be careful.

Uh oh, if Ari's drinking for every time he says, "Turrist" I hope somebody has some activated charcoal ready.

The terrorists! I'll never get to sleep now. Kerri, hold my hand, I'm scared.

You guys must be loaded. Christ on a Cross, that's a lot of terrorists.

anyone notice how many times he licked his lips when talking about iraq and the war on terror? damn. I counted 23 times.

Funny reading these Coors posts and then seeing a Coors Light banner ad at the top of the page...Pete's gonna be pissed. (And to think he almost could have been sitting there tonight...)

You guys must be hammered by now

Did you drink when he congratulated the "Democrat Majority"?

hammered..i ug.asd of fffffff

92,000 more troops in 5 years?

I dunno where he's getting his crack, but it must be might fine stuff.

Yeah! Fuck Iran!

Woo! Deploying NATO forces outsides the treaty area!! Yeah! Wait.. what?

eric! take your shirt off! ari! take a picture! quick---or the terrorists have won!

i hope when he gets assassinated, it happens on live TV. i also hope he doesn't die immediately.

92,000 more troops in 5 years?

I dunno where he's getting his crack, but it must be mighty fine stuff.

Seriously, more Grandy pics! Is he still upright?

Yay sports!

As if he knows anything about poverty, kindness, courage, hard work or self sacrifice. Fuck that rodeo clown

baby einstien dosent work...

Do I have healthcare now?

Look, Mutombo!

The State of the Union is...how Ari's going to feel in the morning.

America is a great country, just look at these 3 nice people!

What other country can claim to have nice people? Go ahead.. name one.

@37 Baby Einstein worked for W. Look how good he talks now.

So what are the rules for the Ari/Eric toxicology screen drinking game? plz don't die, guys.

i'm so high right now, i don't even know where i am....

http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/images/508/img_02.gif

look how good he talks. ahahahahahaha

Bush workin the crowd, make you feel like a dick if he wants to.

A question for Congressman McDermott:

Congressman, please kindly inform us what cuts of pork you intend to deliver to the residents of your district in 2007/2008...in order of importance,
thank you.

--Jensen

not to spoil the fun - but if you're going to take photos ahead of time [fine by me... the writing is what counts, right?!], don't let a window that reveals daylight show up in the background.

You gotta keep drinking to the Democrat response. Unless you are puking.

Yeah, I think you're supposed to hork up a shot's worth of bile for every sane thing Webb says.

Consider our web continuity person canned, stacy. Unforgivable.

Not to mention the fact that those are not actually Eric's pants.

are you kidding me? you think we could take pictures when we are this drunk? ask eli. we are completely unreliable right now.=

WE ARE GOING TO SHOW HIM THE WAY

NPR's national feed just went to interviewing drunks at the pub on 3rd in Revenna

Your iMac at work has a built-in camera. Try photobooth. Also, try not moving the iMac.

eric grandy is hot! i think that justified any pictures that were taken, no matter what the time

#55: agreed. What a magnificent mane.

Wow. Webb did an amazing job! Came off as serious, thoughtful and on the side of the public.

I didn't watch.. I couldn't watch. I monitored the blog. Ok I watched for a minute..... my main question is: WHY DO THOSE PEOPLE STAND UP AND CHEER? WHY WAS PELOSI STANDING UP? I SAW THEY WEREN'T ALL STANDING BUT WHY IN THE HELL WAS SHE? RESPECT? RESPECT FOR WHAT?

#53 sez:
NPR's national feed just went to interviewing drunks at the pub on 3rd in Ravenna

Yeah!!! That was so hilarious! I listened to NPR for the whole SotU and for Webb's response, and what do I hear next but Michele Norris talking to Third Place people on a cell phone! Seattle drunks are representing tonight! lol

Hang on, did he really bring the Baby Einstein lady on? That's patently ridiculous. Baby Einstein is videos for six-month-olds, and instead of making them smarter as advertised, damages their brains.

Now, I know they weren't around when GWB was six months old, so what's his excuse again?

Hahahahha!

Brilliant! This is the kind of superior reporting that should deserve a Pulitzer!

Yes about this:

you guys bought COORS? jesus. why don't you just send a check directly to the republican party in colorado

Love me some Stranger, but sorry, we beat your asses on the liveblog front.

Yes about this:

you guys bought COORS? jesus. why don't you just send a check directly to the republican party in colorado

Love me some Stranger, but sorry, we beat your asses on the liveblog front.

i have no iea what you arrrre talking about. areyou drunk too?

hey aaron retka, i just read your coverage and have to disagree with you. it's impersonal and, i can't believe i'm saying this, more immature and childish then the stranger's coverage. trying a bit hard there aaron. keep it up though!

Oh, snap, Impersonal Observer!

Don't make me wanna fistfight over AIM! (For I am a pacifist.)

that ain't no case of coors! that's a half-rack. 24 beers to a case, people, and don't trust a paper that tries to tell you otherwise.

Grandy's rollout and back plant into the hallway wall was the highlight of my evening. I think you should pick a drinking event each month.

I just want to know if they fucked afterwards.

I wasn't drinking, but I tried blinking- everytime Pelosi did. I couldn't see. Not only that but Ol' Dick wasn't blinking at all. Bush and everyone else there was blinking normally. I got way too in to it.

I listened to as much as I could take over the radio - jesus, it was as if they had a 'clap' track or something, they were applauding every fucking word. It was such a fucking travesty. So fucked up beyond words. I'm sorry, this is just so fucking upsetting....

i don't know what's funnier... bush and his terrists or this drinking game... ok, i do know... and your collective hangovers are going to be lethal... GREAT WORK SLOG!!!

Earlier today, on The Beat (KUOW 2:00pm) there was a discussion on the origin of the phrase "clap-trap." Look it up.

:(

Nice Gut in that last shot. Maybe you can submit yourself for Drunk of The Week....

I think I love you (both). So what am I so afraid of? Um, oh yea...

Time to play Twister.

I think the terrorists will be attacking them with hangovers in the morning ...

These are some seriously disturbing photographs....it took a lot of gut(s) to post them.

ha- if there's one thing i have, it's a lack of shame. enjoy!

Is there a reason why you folks are drinking Coors. I mean not only does it's corporate owners give massive amounts of cash to Homophobic right-wing thinktanks but it tastes like pee.

@81 - you got that right - the taste ...

Coors is of course terrible- but what do you think our dear President would drink? I'm always thinking of him.

i recommend high waisted mommy jeans. por favor!

they actually are. they go up to my bellybutton. but eric snapped that shot at the exact right time for you all to get the best possibly eyeful. Cheers!

I'd just like to point out that the assholes making reference to Ari's body in those pictures are verbally-incontinent idiots. Seriously, you took actual time out of your day to write something derogatory to someone you don't know on the Internets? I'm positive you guys were the rocket-scientists who went up to over-weight kids on the playground to inform them matter-of-factly, "You're fat!"

What could be the point of that kind of observation? Surely not to glean any sick satisfaction out of watching said fat kid dissolve into tears of shame and embarrassment? I mean, what kind of person could be that big of a waste of skin? Oh, it must have been because the fat kid didn't KNOW they were fat and you were obviously doing your civic duty as a fellow citizen to help inform he or she that their health was in danger.

Or, perhaps you were just reading the Slog and saw pictures of a perfectly normal, healthy woman whose body just happens to be slightly less than porn-tastic and decided to be a chauvinistic pig. I mean, we can't have women thinking it's alright to show themselves in public unless they look like a woman thatyou have absolutely no chance in hell of ever acquiring Yes...I'm talking to you 75, 79, and 84. I'm sure your girlfriends look like Ewoks.

Hey Jess- you made me feel worse than any of those stupid dudes did.

I look terrible. It's hilarious. I'm not worried that they were being lecherous. I know I look terrible. I also have many very beautiful pictures of myself that were taken when I wasn't watching the president and getting drunk.

There are very few people who can be funny in pictures without looking bad. The fact that you assume that those guys hurt my self-esteem insults my intelligence.

Glad you stepped in yourself, Ari.

I think there wasn't a ten-foot-pole long enough to touch @86. Dumb luck how it came out, you'd think.

@81: Already asked (@9 + @13) and answered (@19)

I'd really like to not see comments here slide towards the example set by certain imageboards. That said... "Rip and Tear!"
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/
Seriously, tho - "like the fist of an angry god" fr'E-elz

Seriously, you took actual time out of your day to write something derogatory to someone you don't know on the Internets?

Yeah, we don't stand for that sort of behavior here at... oh, wait. Disregard.

lol I apologize if I "made you feel worse" than any other random asshole who replies to this blog, Ari. However, it wasn't my intention to defend you so much as it was my intention to vent spleen towards other random assholes making other random asshole comments.

Reading this thread & your previous replies in this thread I was able to easily surmise that you could give a flying fuck what other people thought of your pictures. Reading your work I can also easily surmise that you are very intelligent.

The fact that you assume that I was leaping to your defense instead of just rambling off an opinionated reply to a bunch of pricks is assuming too much.