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    Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics

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    Image of birdfeet birdfeet
    02/28/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    I would love to have cocktails with Rachel Maddow! Very nice interview.
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    02/28/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    Ohhhmygod I love Rachel Maddow so much. And reading this post I am reminded how stupid I am in comparison to these two.
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    Image of Cam/ron Cam/ron
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    I'll read the rest of the interview later (it's deadline day at my office), but it's cool that she's an outspoken cocktail geek.


    Although I take issue with her use of calvados instead of Applejack in her Jack Rose recipe for NY Mag. And how she loads her martinis with vermouth. And her liberal dashes of Angostura bitters in her Manhattans (something I ahem, take very, very seriously).

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    Image of HalloweenJacqueline HalloweenJacqueline
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    "Megan: Sounds like a good plan! Speaking of China, Hillary Clinton went there having hit up Japan, Indonesia and South Korea. That's the same part of the world, right? They're all short and stuff."


    I'm assuming this last quip wasn't meant in all seriousness, but can I just say for the record that I'm sick of this "Asian=short" stereotype? The world's tallest person is in China for pete's sake and there are HELLA tall people up in South Korea. I don't know why this gets my panties all in a twist, it's not like short is an insult or anything, but I guess generalizations about such a huge, diverse part of the word and the people who inhabit it just irk me. Maybe Miley Cyrus has me feeling particularly defensive, I don't know...

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    02/27/09

    @HalloweenJacqueline: YES, THIS.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    02/27/09

    @Mama Penguino: There's a Chinese woman in my office who is 5'9".
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    02/27/09

    @Mama Penguino: Actually, it was meant as a send-up of the stereotype that all Asians are short and all Asians (Japan, South Korea, Chinese and INDONESIA, for Pete's sake) are alike. You know, like how you read the part after that, in which we compare Alberto Fujimori and Sarah Palin.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    02/27/09

    @Megan: Thanks for taking the time to explain, Megan. I'm probably more than a little knee-jerky when it comes to my Chinese kid. In fact, I often become outraged when people bitch about products made in China.


    Deep breaths, deep breaths.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    "They're all short and stuff."


    Words fail me. Tell me this shouldn't irritate me, please.

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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    02/27/09

    @Mama Penguino: Oh honey, I see what you mean.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    02/27/09

    @ellaesther: My Little P is soooo short.
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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    02/27/09

    @Mama Penguino: I was thinking that you must be thinking about your daughter, and how the country she came home to sees/will see her.
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    Image of OperationSnack OperationSnack
    02/27/09

    @Mama Penguino: It bothered me too. I know they were drinking and speaking casually, but this still made me cringe with discomfort.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    02/27/09

    @OperationSnack: Short little Chinese chick. That's my kid! On a similar yet different note, her class studied China earlier this week and she wore Chinese silk pajamas (given to her as a joke by some Chinese friends who know I'm wacko about adoptive parents who dress their kids as China dolls) and when I said, "okay, honey, let's take a picture," she struck a Kung Fu pose. Embrace it, kid!
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    02/27/09

    @Mama Penguino: It's interesting to hear this. Where my kids go to elementary school, there are a lot of adopted kids from China, and last year, they held a Chinese New Year dragon parade, with everyone who wanted to parading through school. And I couldn't help but wonder if that was more honoring, or othering? I suppose it depends on who the kid is, and it's the sort of thing that you just have to learn how to roll with. Like when certain friends always point out, say when "Christmas" gifts are being passed around, that I'm Jewish. (A thing I know you can relate to!) Yes, I want to say, we know that. I can handle it, really! It's nice, but it's also putting a neon arrow above my head. I suppose it's all a search for balance.
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    She used to annoy me when she was on Air America. I don't know if I like her better on MSNBC because I can see when she's smirking or because it's one hour instead of four. Whatever -- keep it up.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    02/27/09

    @meechybee: I know! I hated her Air America show too! She's obviously made for TV.
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    Image of ellaesther ellaesther
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    Has anyone else noticed how much, in profile, she looks like Elvis? I mean, not like like Elvis, but like she could be related to him? Like, Lisa Marie's sister? I could hardly concentrate on the interview with Nancy Pelosi the other day because I kept saying to my husband "but... but... she looks like Elvis!" (And he could hardly pay attention either! Funny thing).


    Just me? Ok.


    Oh, and Megan? Great questions! And, uh, yeah, I could just about cut you right now, I'm so jealous.

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    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    I feel kind of bad that I fangirled over her horror at lip plumper, because I had the same reaction the first time I used it.
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    02/28/09

    @sassy wants her own tenth Doctor: Don't kiss anyone who has recently shaved either! Oops! Which may or may not have happened the second time I tried one.
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    Image of Hooplehead Hooplehead
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    So jealous. Having drinks with Rachel Maddow is so not the level of excellence my day is operating on.
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    Image of maryalinney maryalinney
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    Did you ask her if she reads Jezebel?!
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    Image of ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox) ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox)
    02/27/09

    @maryalinney: I would be so upset if she said no.
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    Image of southernbelle southernbelle
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    My husband's brother goes to Liberty. You should see that place. Nonetheless, it makes me feel good to hear Rachel Maddow validate my feelings about it. Next time I go to visit, I'm so wearing a Rachel Maddow t-shirt. And lip plumper. And a button that says "Ask me about having children out of wedlock!"
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    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    Oh man, could you imagine a Rachel Maddow Crappy Hour?
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    Image of Dottie Gale Dottie Gale
    02/27/09

    @elysium_kitschen: MAKE IT HAPPEN, YE GODS!
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    02/27/09

    @elysium_kitschen: Add in Ana Marie Cox and I just might faint!
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    Image of Dottie Gale Dottie Gale
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    I got as far as plump lips and vibrating wands and got *really* distracted.


    (scrolls back up to read about smart people things)

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    02/27/09

    @Dottie Gale: Those must be industrial strength plumpers, because the ones I use just feel like I smooshed a bunch of mint on my face. Not painful, but tingly--like the 'erotic creams' that sex toy parties are always pushing.
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    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    Let me just say how happy it makes me to read this on my Friday afternoon--a discussion between two women I have intellectual crushes on.
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    Image of ImproperDancing ImproperDancing
    02/27/09

    In reply to Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics
    I finally caught her show last night and I think I'm hooked. This lady has awesome coursing through her blood vessels.
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