Motley Moose – Archive

A look at America’s first interracial stand-up comedy duo and – sadly – its last, after the jump …..

                   

                                          Padden Creek at Fairhaven Park

Among the icons associated with the Pacific Northwest are evergreen trees, rain, streams, and salmon. These PNW icons have existed in symbiotic relations with one another for probably millions of years. A change in one can affect the others. But apparently this fact was unknown or at least unappreciated by the early American settlers of this region. They over-logged the trees which allowed the abundant rain to wash mud and whole hillsides into the streams which became uninhabitable for the salmon that had used these streams for eons to maintain their life cycles. They also dammed up spawning rivers to provide electricity to run their sawmills and salmon canneries. The irony is that they destroyed the very things that made them wealthy.  

Interrogatories

Have you ever had an encounter with a bear?

Did you ever babysit? What was your pay? Ever hire a babysitter? What did you pay?

Are you good at untangling knots? How about holiday lights? How are you with the garden hose, do you keep it nice and neat?

The Twitter Emitter

The bottom is usually reached when you are falling faster than you can lower your standards. #topoli

— Jim Coyle (@coyleWERDZ) November 3, 2013

The fact that K-Mart is open on Thanksgiving Day comes as a shock to those of us who didn't realize it was open the other 364.

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) November 5, 2013

The real victim here is the dead animal Rand Paul stole his wig from.

— Tina (@trcfwtt) November 5, 2013

Although @ColbertReport is fabulous, he referred to ticks and spiders as "insects" rather than Arachnida. O, the arthropod-anity…

— Bill Nye (@TheScienceGuy) November 5, 2013

Apparently if you're a straight white male in politics, there's nothing that will stop you from thinking you deserve to hold office.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) November 5, 2013

When people grill him about plagiarism, Rand Paul should just quote from the Wikipedia entry for Originality http://t.co/F7dDLI7NRx

— Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) November 6, 2013

RT @_el_sid_: …has anyone ever seen Rush Limbaugh and Rob Ford together at the same time?!?!?

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 6, 2013

Mark Obenshain called to reassure Ken Cuccinelli that "as Attorney General I'll carry on your great work oppressing women and gays."

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 6, 2013

Well it looks like stop and frisk will be going away from the streets of Bee York, but not the bedrooms of Virginia

— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) November 6, 2013

I like when people leave Congress 'for more time with their family.' Cos those guys only get , like, 150 days off per year.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 6, 2013

  Make sure you let your peeps

  know where to find you!  

Interrogatories

What sports do you follow/enjoy?

What sports do you hate?

What’s your favorite recorded sax solo?

Do you get lost easily, or are you really good at getting around strange places?

The Twitter Emitter

I'd like to commend Toronto mayor Rob Ford for keeping drugs out of the hands of young people.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 5, 2013

I will now only vote for candidates who've smoked crack. THIS IS THE NEW BAR, PEOPLE.

— Highly scatological (@RaisingOneBrow) November 5, 2013

Majority of Canadians say they would still rather keep Rob Ford than take Ted Cruz back

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 5, 2013

Toronto mayor: Yes, I smoked crack, but in my defense, I was drunk at the time.

— Seth Masket (@smotus) November 5, 2013

Early exit polls show McAuliffe leading Cuccinelli by 25% among those with an expectation of engaging in oral sex.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 6, 2013

Looks like the only person banning sodomy in Virginia tonight is Mrs. Cuccinelli

— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) November 6, 2013

The Cooch has lost! SODOMY FOR EVERYBODY! #VAGOV

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) November 6, 2013

Terry McAuliffe has won the governorship of Virginia. Ken Cuccinelli plans to ask for a deep, invasive probe of the election results.

— Adam Carl (@AdamWearsPants) November 6, 2013

GOP probably shouldn't feel too bad. Decent odds of "Will McAuliffe's Woes Drag Down Hillary?" headlines all throughout 2016

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 6, 2013

McAuliffe won. Im so excited I cant contain mysel-oooh look. A commercial where kittens are wearing sunglasses.

— D'Brickashaw (@DragonflyJonez) November 6, 2013

Here's hoping that the GOP does a deep probing into the reason why Ken Cuccinelli lost. Or maybe they could just ask women & young people

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) November 6, 2013

Good morning, Moosekind.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

Let us know about winners and losers in your part of the Moose pond!

Solomon Northup

With all the movie talk centering around the film 12 Years a Slave, the plot, the cast, the director, critical reviews and audience responses, it is important that we don’t forget that this film is taken from real life…our history and yet, bound to our present.  

Solomon Northup’s tale is one of many narratives of the era of enslavement, and its aftermath.

I haven’t seen this film yet, years ago I saw the version directed by Gordon Parks, “Solomon Northup’s Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free” and read Northup’s published narrative many years before then, several times.  

Given my own interests in genealogy and history, reading his harrowing tale, and about his eventual escape, even though his fate in later years is buried in mystery, I thought about his wife, his children and his descendants.  

Interrogatories

What’s your favorite kind of donut or other deep fried pastry goodie?

What’s your favorite bagel, and what do you top it with?

Have you been the subject of a surprise party? Ever surprise someone else?

Describe the sound your doorbell makes. Do you always answer the door?

The Twitter Emitter

The fact that men rape women, men rape men, women rape men, and women rape women proves that we don't have a rape problem. Got it.

— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) November 4, 2013

Apparently, this is the last week you can tell all your friends you were into Twitter before they went corporate.

— pastordan (@pastordan) November 4, 2013

Great job by the Senate. Unfortunately, the GOP House is the ENDA the line for any bills on equality.

— Dante Apollo Atkins (@DanteAtkins) November 4, 2013

somewhere in hell bin Laden is still chuckling over his jar of honey. "First you get the honey," he hisses. "Then you get the power."

— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) November 4, 2013

PLEASE NOTE: If you use your religion to deny people rights, opportunity and medical care, that's not "religious freedom."

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 4, 2013

If these big corporations believe we don't need government, I don't see why they employ all those lobbyists.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) November 5, 2013

When the Wampanoag fed the Pilgrims on Thanksgiving they didn't realize they'd just begun Socialism for Illegal Immigrants.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 5, 2013

Did Rand Paul also cut and paste the thing on his head? #WentThere #CrankySueMe

— GottaLaff (@GottaLaff) November 5, 2013

People need to lay off Rand Paul. His "I have been to the mountaintop" speech is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) November 5, 2013

You can tell @SenRandPaul has no fear of being called a plagiarist by the way his websites are being scrubbed of content.

— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) November 5, 2013

Rand Paul apparently thought it was "Atlas Cribbed."

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 5, 2013

There’s an election in Virginia today:

Ken Cuccinelli is proving that women can still vote.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 28, 2013

Ken Cuccinelli and Christine O'Donnell would be a dream ticket for people who don't want their genitals touched ever, even by themselves

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 29, 2013

Ken Cuccinelli: "I'm the only candidate who cares enough to make sure your younger neighbors aren't committing oral and anal sex. "

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 5, 2013

  Make sure you let your peeps

  know where to find you!