YOU'VE NOT SEEN NOTHIN LIKE THE MIGHTY QUINN
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Q IS BACK
Quinn the Eskimo comes back with his own blog; his first in four months or so. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/quinn_esq/
And the best part of course is that no one, I MEAN NO ONE is ever going to call Q a member of some frickin clique.
My son spent a couple days with me up here in the middle of nowhere. We walked the trails and saw the Sumac and the changing of the colors. It was delightful. He made me stay off of the internet for 48 hours, ha.
My son had a childhood friend named Q. The Café Q has at least one PHD. We know he has several degrees and decided for some reason, after finding a reasonable woman to keep his own garden up on sandy soil somewhere with a three month growing season. Hahahahahaha. There is a history there that we will never be really privy to.
But my son's buddy Q was something to behold. Never a degree. The kid would never get a degree from the richest suburban high school in Minnesota. The issue was always this:
If someone said to Q: Do not go over there.
Well the issue to Q was always 'where is over there?' That way Q would know, HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY KNOW, that THERE is where he had to go, immediately. Hahahahah
The Café Q, does not react to any reality that would immediately be apparent to the rest of us. I can spend six hours on a blog and positively document 103 times where Cheney lied. Q could give a shite. Hahahahaha
WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CHENEY LIES EVERY GODDAMN TIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH; EVERY GODDAMN TIME HE EVER OPENED HIS MOUTH. I wanna know what you are your dog did for two years alone at the cottage on the lake. Hahahahaha
I could get 150 comments and 40 rec's, and he could give a shite. Hahahaha
I have done a post like this before. An homage to Quinn, Esq., Only to let others read from some off handed comment from the single greatest writer that ever addressed TPM let alone our little Café.
A few months ago I did a blog like this about Q. There is a very serious biblical scholar of course, who comes to us from time to time to demonstrate with the aid of the single book written by Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, (BLESSES HIMSELF) including a book written before He was ever born, to demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that all men who play with other men's pee pee's will immediately go to hell upon death.
THIS IS A SERIOUS POINT OF CONTENTION.
The first time I witnessed this phenomena, Quinn shows up and simply links the guy to Queen and tells Leo to sing along.
I have never seen such comedy, such roll on the floor laughing, in written English since National Lampoon.
You see, most people, like me anyway, will come to a blog like Leo's and start ranting about how unfair this kind of rant actually is. I would wish to rant about the ranting and attempt to point out how any good Christian or good Budhist or good Hindi could not come to this kind of conclusion. Not Q. Quinn says, hey.....here is a song we should all sing together. Hey Leo, come on, let's sing it all together.. Hahahahahaah
So it is the middle of the night, as usual and here is Q, my hero, calling us to the chant:
Hey LisB and Dickday, LEO IS BACK!! Naturally he links Queen and asks that we all sing together to one of Queen's best songs.
You see the problem here is that no one immediately sees how valuable this contribution to our little blog actually is. Oh I know, Q is like sixth in all time followers here or some such. But Q does not spend fourteen hours a day here.
I have deduced that Q is one of those who will scan a blog at 1500 words a minute and wait until 'something hits him'. Oh he can do a 9 paragraph discourse on international law. He certainly will provide cites for his contentions.
He does not wish to get into a contentious argument about how our government has tortured or lied or stolen our tax funds. He already assumes that. He just figures rightly, that there is no defense against what has actually taken place. And he will never get into some contentious argument about what Bachman or Palin are actually talking about.
But he wishes to know about a guy in his pj's who spends two years with his dog in the woods by a lake; cut off from all of civilization.
Folks I just finished a wonderful two day vacation with my son. A wonderful week end.
But when Seany wished to know who the most interesting 'Blogger was in my little universe I had to admit that it was Q.
We then discussed Seany's old friend Q. I knew Seany's friend Q and I was one of the only adults his friend trusted. That Q, at age 16, received his first Honda Motorcycle. And Q of course had three accidents attributed to him within a year. Two of his crashes involved the same Postal Van. Yes, Q hit the same Postal Van twice in one year.
The mailman, upon the second crash, got out of the van...took one look at Q...and inquired:
WHAT IS IT THAT YOU HAVE AGAINST ME?
We have not heard from Seany's Q in three years. He left for Hawaii hoping for better days. I told Sean we must find him. We must know what has been happening. Is he in jail? Is he in a penal institution? We hope the best.
But folks. I blog every day; usually. I took a weekend off. But if you understand how to use the dashboard software...if you understand how to follow someone....if you ever get a little depressed and you are not sure what anti-depressant will deliver you somehow into sanity; just follow the Café's Quinn.
There have to be rules in the game of blogging.
But we have to have people like Quinn who would not recognize a rule if it hit him over the frickin head. Hahahahaha
SO THIS LITTLE NOTHING BLOG IS DEDICATED TO THE SINGLE GREATEST WRITER WE HAVE AT CAFÉ.
Sometimes we need someone who refuses to go by the rules.
And remember, Q will never be thought of as a part of a clique EVER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyTF3WItiE
















Good grief Dickon! Now you've done it, his head will swell so that he can't get in the cafe door.
Oy!
=D
Glad to hear you had a great weekend with Sean.
October 4, 2009 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahhahah. It will take more than some kudos from a guy in his pjs to swell quinn's head. ahhahaahha
I love you bwak!!!
October 4, 2009 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not true, Bwak. All it took was a little butter.
Dick... I HEREBY AWARD, FROM ALL OF ME TO... UMMM... THE REST OF ME... THE TITLE OF *BLOG OF THE YEAR* TO THIS HERE BLOG!!!! Full of truth, dazzling in both subject and style (and purchased at an entirely reasonable price), it's one heck of a blog. Actually, thank you Dick - you're too kind... and perhaps just at the end of one of those famous 3 day binges you tell us you use to start the month, eh? ;-)
Seriously, glad you had a good weekend with the son... laughed like hell at the other Q hitting the same mailman twice.. but most importantly... DON'T THINK THIS LETS YOU OFF FROM TELLING US ABOUT THE TWO YEARS AT THE LAKE!
Seriously. What could I POSSIBLY learn about Cheney that would, at this point, surprise me? Even the most vicious Republican understands that this has no soul. I just wanna know that he suffers, and dies. As long as we get that, I'm good. But I CAN learn something from a man who goes to the lake for two years with his dog. Ask anyone here which they would rather hear about - Dick's two lost years at the lake... or Cheney's latest, and the vote would come in about 90/10.
AND NORTHCO!!
October 4, 2009 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I sometimes think we should stick Dickon in a little gypsy caravan with a dog and send him around the country so he can meet people. And tell their stories.
But then, I remember this has already been done.
Well, shoot, they remake everything else, don't they?
October 4, 2009 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is right LisB. A dog and a goal. And why not the gypsy way of life?
Oh and you also know LisB. I cannot shut up. So the stories will continue. hahahahahaha
I knew it. I knew he could not stay away. ahahahahahha
You know, this makes my week. Not just my week end, it makes my week. ha
October 4, 2009 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
How about putting Dick on one of those little Radio Flyer red wagons, pulled by a couple of dogs? That'd be cool. I'd go to hear a guy like that. And at every stop, he could challenge the top local Republican to a cage match that evening. And then, when they were fighting, Dick would use his long adamantium claws to tear the guy a new.... Whaddya mean, it's already been done? Not with a little red wagon it hasn't.
Shit.
October 5, 2009 1:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
I rec this comment!
October 5, 2009 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sal, do not give positive reinforcement to a delirious screwhead. hahahhaha
I mean:
THINK OF THE GERMS.
HAHAHAHAHAH
October 5, 2009 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are not considering that the two years at the lake might have been utterly BORING, or at least 'uninteresting.'
October 5, 2009 9:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think I read something about that. There were ants, right? Red and Black ones? DD, great writing, that! Really well done! hahahahahaha
October 5, 2009 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love the story about Seany's friend Q and the postal worker, LOL!!
Here's to our esteemed friend Quinn the Esquimo.
*clink!*
And here's to your wonderful weekend with your son, Dickon.
*clink!*
October 4, 2009 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
CLINK CLINK CLINK
hahahahahahahah I cannot stop laughing. hahahahaha
October 4, 2009 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quelle homage a deux Qs, Richard!
October 4, 2009 9:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Et nous some joyeux que vous avez un temps grande avec votre son!
October 4, 2009 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
ha. Apres me la deluge. hahahahahahah
Now you have me laughing Wendy.
You are great Wendy. We may even, in the end, bring the great sage out of his most secret and sacred den.
GREAT. If the french does not bring him, we have no hope at all. ahahahahahahahah
October 4, 2009 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of the French (a distasteful task, I know - but necessary at times, like a good voiding of the bowels), it turns out that there are only 25 letters in the French alphabet. It turns out, there is no letter Q in French.
They found it too hard to spell.
October 4, 2009 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
You sure that wasn't "too hard to dispel"?
October 4, 2009 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
How magnifeek!
October 4, 2009 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Que non!
(Pretty funny DD can lay all that goo juju on some guy with a naso-gastric tube thingie in him. Eww.)
October 4, 2009 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I mean can you blame them? I mean the goddamn muslim imperialists all want to use q all the time.
hahahahaha
I knew, I knew as soon as I started this post, you would show up. SO THERE. hahhaahahhaha
Shite, but you have to give credit to my friend Wendy....I mean its funny to the extreme. It is something you would do. hhahahahahahahahahahaah
I cannot stop laughing, I shall return later somewhere here. hahahahah
October 4, 2009 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
So "coq au vin" is actually spelled ... oh, I get it.
October 5, 2009 2:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose we should be thankful. After all, being French types, if they'd managed to learn how to use the "Q," they'd have gone ape-shit, showing off.
You, f'rinstance, would be aqanuq.
Oh Qanada.
October 5, 2009 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quelle surprise!
October 5, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks ever so for not mocking my French; it's been....ewwww...40 years since French class.
(heh heh Heh!)
October 5, 2009 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
DD, I loved that you had a great weekend with your son. I love the story about his friend, Q, but I especially love your homage to our friend Q here.
I learned something about both of you! You are two terrific guys, and I'm glad to know you both.
So there.
October 4, 2009 11:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
When everything gets too heavy, we have Dick and Quinn to make everything lighter. Until, of course, they bring up a heavy topic. And then they make it heavy again. But, then again, they somehow make it light. Or, at least, lighter.
I'm thinking it has something to do with Quinn's nasal passages and the light bulb over Dick's head.
October 4, 2009 11:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aren't you sweet Ramona. hahahahah. You will never EVER see Q defending the powerful over the powerless. He is incompetent in that way, as they say.
Q will get mad if you spend your entire blog showing the 'obvious'. hahahahah
And yet, he will sometimes go to some troll and say:
All righty then, follow me a little. hahahahah
And the guy will follow q to other blogs. Ramona, you have a life and everything, along with a sweet blog site....But make sure you follow this crazy guy. He makes this blog FUN.
I do not know how else to describe it. Like I said, he is incapable of making fun of those in pain or the powerless. It is a genetic trait I am assured.
I love you Ramona. Thank you for taking the time to read a silly post; a post that in the end, I do not think is that silly. ha!!!
October 5, 2009 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have to underline this. I should just stop after my referenced link, but I cannot:
You see Ramona, you would hit on my links. But Q cannot make this kind of meeting impersonal. He cannot help himself.
Which is something you would advocate. But Q cannot make himself the hero.
We do not really know what he did in these two instances. He cannot let that out because it would make him into a hero. See?
You can discern what went on because you have done the same thing.
In one perspective, it is a waste of time to even relay this to you.
Yet, I relay it because it might catch on to someone who is not so sure of how the universe works.
I am really writing this because of your wonderful blog site. You know you are not alone. Q is just proof that all men are not pigs, that men are out there with real aspirations that are beyond question, really.
THE END
October 5, 2009 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, DD, that is one prize winning comment! (Both parts) No, I mean it. It was stunning. You have a way of honing in on truths that may not be so obvious to those of us who just skim past.
But this is about Quinn. I'm in awe of Quinn. I'm intimidated by Quinn's talents as a writer. And I wish I knew him as well as you do.
I love that you chose those two paragraphs of Quinn's to quote. I read them in the OP and then reread them and I felt what he felt. That's the makes him a great writer.
(And yes, I caught that about not using our blogs to relate the obvious. I'm afraid it's all I know how to do. But I do love to read those like yours and Quinn's and LisB's and some terrific others. You all tell a story and suddenly I understand human frailty, human dignity and soaring heroics. And I get a few laughs, besides. I LOVE this place!)
October 5, 2009 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice sexist comment, dick.
Well, I suppose not all women are shrews.
Oops! You mean when phrased that way you understand how sexist the original comment is?
October 5, 2009 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw
October 5, 2009 5:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
One large whine for man, one small thought for mankind
October 5, 2009 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's been established that you lack the Funny and Irony genes, CT.
October 5, 2009 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not to mention the social grace, argumentation, and coherence genes.
October 5, 2009 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
HAHAHA. Grouch....the poet lurks inside the photographer. hahaha
October 5, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your jealousy is showing! I'm actually surprised that you have stooped so low as to demonstrate your fragile ego yet again, for all to see.
October 5, 2009 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wonderful, Dick. I have to admit that sometimes I'll skip posts and just go straight to Q's comments to 'enlighten' my day, in all senses of the word.
But... how do we know these aren't two but one and the same Messieurs le Q? Y'know, sometimes our guy here sounds like he's run into one too many postal vans...
;0)
October 5, 2009 7:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ack! A whole new meaning to 'going postal'....?
=D
Sign me up!
October 5, 2009 7:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
And suddenly reports start coming in from around the country of postal workers reporting people running into their vehicles with motocycles, cars, bicycles, and, in one case, a tractor. The reasons are unclear, but it seems to have somthing to do with the desire to achieve the state of Q.
October 5, 2009 8:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahaha. This kid was great. I hope he is living without any real pain.
Some out there, really do not understand the rules but do not cause any permanent scarring as they travel through life. hahaaha
It is the one who finds himself in power and somehow is able to continue to disobey the rules. He or she can do some real damage.
October 5, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
From what you shared, my feeling is those that those with Q's spirit tend not to seek power. They shoot off to Hawaii or something else, the what is over there, the manic Kerouac. Of course in this regards I am romantic.
But I know what you're talking about those who rise up through a path that seems to take out those around them. (I'm flashing on the "smell of napalm in the morning" guy in Apocolyse Now).
I also remember one evening some friends and I were retelling stories of the "crazy stunts and near death situations" we put ourselves through as kids, and by evening's end, as the stories all piled we thought about put together a compilation of the stories called "How did I ever make to adulthood?"
October 5, 2009 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
NEVER DISS OBEY!!! HAHAHAHAH
Balmy here Dick. Can still do my work outside in my garden. Chestnuts frikkin everywhere though - keep losing control of my bike. But no postal van in sight. So shall have to Q another day...
;0)
October 5, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
How ya doin Obey? How is Europe this time of year?
The cool has come to Minnesota, pretty soooon the cold.
October 5, 2009 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
And meanwhile, as the celebration continues, congress and the corporatists are hatching their next plan to shaft us. Back to work you laggards.
October 5, 2009 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
I promise.
October 5, 2009 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just posted this on another blog, it struck me it was suitable for here and you will certainly enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySWbad58b9k
October 5, 2009 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Strange jonnie. And filled with dolor.
Sometimes I do feel like a crash test dummy.
October 5, 2009 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the Quinnatomy of the Lexicon where our hearts
romp with ice weasels for musical reasons,
and lightning strikes frequently, we sing
the body eclectic.
There’s no place like Q’s.
It’s his notes of the soul,
and the supersized brainwaves:~)
Rousing Trib, Day.
October 5, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh thanks Strato. Did not see you lurking there!!
Always appreciate a little poetry on Monday!!
October 5, 2009 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Totally OT, but you gotta see this:
http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=17075685001
October 5, 2009 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, these shepherds have way too much time on their hands. Awesome find, Cville!
October 5, 2009 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm smiling like a silly goose at this, so it is definitely entertaining but I don't know at all what to think of it. Bravo CVille.
October 5, 2009 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of OT, electric sheep with a monalisa smile
always make my day. Thanks!
October 5, 2009 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is awesome. No wonder everybody latches on to this. Better than my blog!!!hahahah
I love the 'shepherding' dogs. I have seen a couple docs about them. Genetically, it demonstrates links between dogs and wolf pack hunting behavior. The dogs however do not bite the 'prey'.
Great film CVille.
October 5, 2009 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Leonardo BaaVinci; I ask you. When they listed the credits, the forgot to mention the Sheep, and the Border Collies.
Talk about a mental health break!
October 5, 2009 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
While agreeing with the sentiments expressed, I find all this a trifle incestuous.
October 5, 2009 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
oh yeah. Once a month, maybe twice I get a little sentimental I guess. It was just a discussion of my son's old friend that led to this.
CVille's sheep video kind of expresses what was on my mind. I get into a herding mentality far too often. Which is one reason I always read your blog. haahaha.
If nothing else, you sure the hell do not have any herding mentality. hahaah
October 5, 2009 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Q Ed. That's how to learn about life. Get a degree here at TPM and be a Q Ed!
Or is that just another expressway near the Big Apple?
It's mush. that's all it is, mush, but I feel mush better now reading what you guys put together, and I use the term together loosely.
Wot?
Ack!
TPM, like no place on Earth! :-{)>
October 5, 2009 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
See Gregor, I knew you would forgive me. hahahahaha
Every frickin time he does those links, I swear I can hear him singing:
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS...HHAHAHA
October 5, 2009 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Freddie's gone... but the song lives on!!! Stand and deliver Leo!
Find Me Somebody... With George.
October 5, 2009 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Forgive you? If you offended me, I missed it. You've always been a-okay with me, my friend, always!
October 6, 2009 1:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Which means, if you were trying to offend me, you'er just going to have to try harder and be more blunt. I get a thick skull sometimes.
October 6, 2009 1:16 AM | Reply | Permalink