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TPM bloggers imaginary office
What does it look like?
Is there a receptionist?
Is it one long corridor of cubicles that leads to Dick Day's office?
Does Bwak leave a trail of feathers behind?
Does Strato fly in on a velvet cloud, drop off her copy, then fly off into the grand blue sky?
What happened that morning Obey walked in and found Lalo sitting in his Eames leaning chair?
How many times has middleclassbill pounded on LisB's wall asking her to turn the music down?
Is Oldengoldendecoy chiseling out cafe recommend rules on the ceiling?
Is Jason Everett Miller cursing at the person who, once again, left off a t while mis-stenciling his middle name on his office door?
What do we all wear on casual Fridays?
Do we have a ping pong table? If we do, who's the best player? Johnnienohands?
Is the cleaning lady who comes in at night actually davidfarrar in drag disguise?
Has Josh ever been to the TPM blogger's imaginary office?
Is Ramona's office really big enough for a Democrat wide intervention?
Are Professor Amike, Flowerchild, Miguel, Synch, Old Grouch, Ripper and Aunt Sam, all sitting in the conference room but not sure who called the meeting?
Does Thera have an honorary corner office? With a couch?
And who has the trap door beneath his/her cubicle that leads to a secret dungeon, with shackles and leg irons tailor made for Blunderdick and Widdle Dub?
Okay, I'm sorry not to have mentioned everyone else by name. (And everyone else by name knows who they are. I haven't even mentioned me, so don't feel bad.) But feel free to chime in and help give me an idea of what our office space looks like.
Maybe someone can volunteer to draw up a colorful blueprint once we solicit enough machinations on what the place looks like.
Is there a receptionist?
Is it one long corridor of cubicles that leads to Dick Day's office?
Does Bwak leave a trail of feathers behind?
Does Strato fly in on a velvet cloud, drop off her copy, then fly off into the grand blue sky?
What happened that morning Obey walked in and found Lalo sitting in his Eames leaning chair?
How many times has middleclassbill pounded on LisB's wall asking her to turn the music down?
Is Oldengoldendecoy chiseling out cafe recommend rules on the ceiling?
Is Jason Everett Miller cursing at the person who, once again, left off a t while mis-stenciling his middle name on his office door?
What do we all wear on casual Fridays?
Do we have a ping pong table? If we do, who's the best player? Johnnienohands?
Is the cleaning lady who comes in at night actually davidfarrar in drag disguise?
Has Josh ever been to the TPM blogger's imaginary office?
Is Ramona's office really big enough for a Democrat wide intervention?
Are Professor Amike, Flowerchild, Miguel, Synch, Old Grouch, Ripper and Aunt Sam, all sitting in the conference room but not sure who called the meeting?
Does Thera have an honorary corner office? With a couch?
And who has the trap door beneath his/her cubicle that leads to a secret dungeon, with shackles and leg irons tailor made for Blunderdick and Widdle Dub?
Okay, I'm sorry not to have mentioned everyone else by name. (And everyone else by name knows who they are. I haven't even mentioned me, so don't feel bad.) But feel free to chime in and help give me an idea of what our office space looks like.
Maybe someone can volunteer to draw up a colorful blueprint once we solicit enough machinations on what the place looks like.
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I haz a wall??? Yay!! I'm so sick of cubicles...oy.
Okay, okay, I'll turn the music down, Bill.....NOT.
*turns the stereo up two notches and puts feet up on desk*
Yeah...that's more like it.
August 22, 2009 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you have a cubicle, but is has a pretty solid wall on one side that goes up to the stars. Every song ever made occupies a spot on the wall, and is flash enabled, so that all you have to do is click that particular spot on the wall, and it will play that song throughout the universe. Oh and you have a sliding ladder, like some book libraries have, so that all the music is within your reach.
You, LisB, are the TPM DJ and everyone loves to hang out in your cubicle--they come and sit at the foothills of LisB's great wall of music.
Well, that's how I imagine it anyway:)
August 22, 2009 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
How very cool. Makes coming to the office so much fun!
Hey....let's call another fake meeting!
August 22, 2009 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love LisB's wall that goes up to the stars - that is so neat. One of my reasons for going to the chat room is to hear what music Lis is picking. But you know what? I used to have to ask her to lower Duran Duran and Queen many moons ago...............her taste has changed since....
August 22, 2009 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ack! I've been busted!!
My Duran Duran days are long over....Queen still rawks though.
Um, I nominate MaggieMum as our Resident Receptionist. She was a secretary for many years. GREAT phone voice. All in favor, say Aye.
August 22, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
so it is said-so shall it be.
Ladies and gentleman, please welcome MaggieMum, goddess of reception. She sits mid-air in the center of a sweeping cavernous chamber with mile long abstract earth tone murals along the walls and mesmerizing skylights from which sunlight pours down and powers the entire office. This is a phone-less space because
MaggieMum is a telepath. The minute she comes in and sits in her TPM sensurround chair, she is connected to the world's consciousness.
August 22, 2009 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Had a bad experience with Duran Duran. A friend had a doberman named Duran Duran. Sometimes I would sleep at his place on the couch. When the dog needed to go out in the morning he would fart in my face. Never liked them, the group or the dog.
August 22, 2009 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wish this was 5 minutes earlier, it really seems disgusting after your Maggie reply.
August 22, 2009 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jonnie, you change your avatar one more time this weekend, and I will hereby demote you to keeper of the basement, where we keep you-know-who locked up.
August 23, 2009 2:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please no, not with the one who shall not be named.
August 23, 2009 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
AYE!!!
August 23, 2009 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Aye to Maggie-Mum, as long as there's a promotion down the road. . .
August 23, 2009 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ping pong was never my sport, but I'm a better bowler than the President.
Aren't you the guy that toilet papered the trees in front of Redstate?
August 22, 2009 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
busted:) yeah, I made sure it was burlap-ply.
August 22, 2009 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
(bwakfat spikes the watercooler)
August 22, 2009 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
You, Bwak, have just anointed yourself, watercoolers bartender at TPM--located at the very center of the office. I say watercoolers because there are 1000 of them, a dazzling multi-colored display, all arranged in a giant circle around you--each holds its own magic elixir, and for the non-elixir types, there is the moonshine section, which includes a centuries-old collection of rot gut whiskies. You sell t-shirts to your watercoolers paradise. What do you think the t-shirts say?
August 22, 2009 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
She sells t-shirts by the water coolers? Heh. What does Seashell think about that??
August 22, 2009 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like the sound of elixer - a magic potion that grants us all a wish!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful blog with so many great people running through it.......thanks Gary!
I just picture a great big lounge with deep and comfortable chairs - everyone is sitting around chatting and then Dick Day enters, stands by a big podium and begins to read from this large tome of "Arthur of the Roundish Table". Silence reigns and all eyes and ears are focused on Mr. Day.
August 22, 2009 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8
August 22, 2009 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
er, (clink!) ?
August 22, 2009 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, I believe we're just sitting around rabble rousing, waiting for everyone else to show up so we can start the big party!
(Lis has to bring the music; bwak the liquid treats; barefooted and stilli the chips and dip; TPMGary promised a surprise treat and the list goes on and on and on .................)
dd just promised to wear clean pjs and his new bunny slippers.
(sshh - don't tell, but ol' grouch, amike, Synch, Flower, miguel, ripper and seashell are doodlin' funny pics of MCB, Ruta and LaLo!)
August 22, 2009 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The smoking lamp is lit.
August 22, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
OOps. Forgot that bwak is, of course, bringing her special deviled 'eggs'!
August 22, 2009 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
and the blueprint of our office evolves--Aunt Sam, TPM's culinary delight director. Just opposite the 1000 multi-colored circular watercoolers bar is TPM's food court, and Aunt Sam is working at the half-mile long red oak dining room table that winds up in a spiral from the main floor up to the roofdeck.
August 22, 2009 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, not to express too much self-interest here, bust can we enlarge the fountain in the entryway?
August 22, 2009 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where's moat when we need him?
August 22, 2009 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Enter Rowan. Rowan works on a laptop and likes to hang out at the fountain promenade, which boasts the finest acoustics on the planet. It's lined with sculptures from all over the world. Metal, bronze, wood, even shape-shifting sculptures that tell the story of human history. Also featured on TPM's fountain promenade are giant transparent spheres, one after the next, which you can step in and experience live holographic feeds of the seven wonders of the world.
August 22, 2009 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now THAT'S more like it! You go gary.
August 22, 2009 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
(runs over to fountain with multi-colored elixir for Rowan)
(skids)
(slips)
uh oh, a wet hen....
August 22, 2009 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
;)
August 22, 2009 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks so much Bawk.
Sorry, all I have is paper towels. But maybe they'll help.
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August 23, 2009 1:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is this Freudian?
August 23, 2009 9:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I too would like an answer to that question. I spent 8 years with that bible bibbled moron and I want my OWN undisclosed location. Given the amount of attention I have received at TPM, I do believe that I have earned my own office.
August 22, 2009 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Traveling just short of the speed of light on hover skateboard is the decidedly rotund Blunderdick, who, once again, crashes directly into the invisible Blunderdick zapnet that surrounds the TPM office--he's electrocuted with a toasty 200,000 volts.
Blunderdick walks away startled, shaking his head, as if he were a bird who just flew into a window, incapable of learning from the oft-repeated experience.
August 22, 2009 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean....it didn't fizzle out his fake heart??
Bummer.
August 22, 2009 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course not! It just recharged the battery. HAHA
August 22, 2009 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oy.
August 22, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I could watch that all day and never get bored!
August 23, 2009 12:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's a steady stream of Asian and Indian food being delivered to the front office where OGD hangs and trys to keep the riff-raff from entering the inner sanctum. No receptionist, although there is a permanent janitorial staff on duty 24/7. All the cats are on the east end of the office, and the dogs are on the west end. Some have formed interspecies friendships and have been seen slipping off to the cafeteria, (or the supply closet on the second floor on occassion!). The barnyard animals are to the north, (great window views!), along with wild animals, dolphins, manatees, etc., plus there's a special annex for stuffed animals). Humanoids are center stage, (especially those with professional wrestling avatars!). Center stage has a 'special' cubicle for those using their own pic for their avatar that periodically disappears, giving those bloggers a false, if well deserved sense of anonymity. To the south, (very hot over there in the afternoon!), are those with not so easily pidgeonholed avatars, (Mushroom clouds, naso-pharanx guy, flowers, peace signs, etc). Jason, lalo, mcb, and the so-called 'clever' bulldog have their own cubicle on the top floor, 'cause they must have better connections than the rest of us. There's a 24 hour laundry service on retainer that specializes in pajamas, (No starch please!). Benny, the delivery guy from the Thai restaurant down the street has automatic access to the whole office. Most of the bloggers don't have office work stations in their cubicles, but rather comfortable furniture suitable for napping, and some awesome sound systems. There's sometimes spontaneous bursts of laughter, and wafts of the kind drifting from certain cubicles at all hours. Every now and then Josh pokes his head in, and somebody invariably asks, "Who are you?".
August 22, 2009 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
that's a vivid image of our illustrious office, Miguel. I like the visual participation of the avatars. We should have wall-size silk-screen reprints of everyone's avatar, not only for decorative purposes, but also as a metaphysical experiment of sorts--see if they socialize on their own, if they gravitate to each other in the same way as the humans behind them, or do they find connections with each other that the humans behind them haven't.
August 22, 2009 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
What? No link to The Who????
Just for that Gary should switch your cubicle to a pig pen.
Oy.
August 22, 2009 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
earth to LisB, YOU are the DJ!!! Search that flash enabled towering wall I gave you and delight us with the appropriate link. SHHEEESH.
August 22, 2009 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ooops!!!
Sorry! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2sWjouB1YA
Forgot my job, for a mo'.
August 22, 2009 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, by way of apology, this comes with a free shot of John Cusack. Okay??
August 22, 2009 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahah
now i have to go back and read the comments.
THIS IS GREAT
August 22, 2009 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Enter Dick Day--TPM's grandmaster. Dick's office is at the end of the hall--the one with the giant white three dimensional letters "hahahahahahahhah" affixed to the double entry doors. The letters are done in a relatively unassuming lowercase font--relative to the doors that is, which are made of 25 carat gold. No one asks about the extra carat.
The grandmaster's office is home to the biggest closet in the galaxy. In it some 7,000,000,000,000 pairs of pajamas hang, all pressed and ready to be worn at a moment's notice. You've got your stripes, your plaids, your paisleys, your simple geometric shapes-- horses, rocket ships, flowers, star maps, trains, and so forth.
There's a new special flannel section--it's an homage to disgraced Republicans. On each pair, the faces of disgraced Republicans--Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Richard Armey, John Ensign, to name a few, superimposed over an illustration of a dartboard.
This particular flannel exhibit opens next Sunday. Invitation only. Complimentary champagne and darts will be served.
August 22, 2009 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
But no caviar. Only pigs in a blanket.
Hurry, they'll be going fast.
August 22, 2009 11:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I might as well keep the office swear jar on my desk because most of the quarters in it are mine anyway. Plus it saves some time and I don't have to run back and forth ten times a day depositing loose change for every time I open my mouth. Or type. Or something. Dammit. Anyway, do you think there's enough money in that jar to buy a congressman yet? Or some karma? There's always room for more good karma.
Oh, and also, my garden is overachieving this year. I've left a couple bushels of green beans and summer squash sitting by Maggie's floating desk. Just help yourself.
August 22, 2009 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Enter Flowerchild-TPM's master horticulturist, lover of all living things, pottable or otherwise, including the Welwitschia, long considered the ugliest speciclungmen in the plant world.
Flower is also keeper of the Legendary Leviathan Quarter Jar--home to hundreds upon thousands of spontaneously appearing 25 cent pieces. A favorite gazing spot for kids of all ages. You should see Flower's little office on TPM's Bring Your Child to Work Day.
Flower's office gets plenty of water and sunlight, as it is ceiling-free. Flower wouldn't have it any other way.
Bring an umbrella. ( If you don't have one, stop by Bwak's multi-colored 1000 Watercoolers Bar, and steal one from one of the lifesize Pina Coladas.)
August 22, 2009 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wonderful, guys, simply wonderful.
And at the end of the day, just before our dreams take over and our souls are free to fly ... we come together and share a moment of laughter. Just long enough to banish the squabbles (Lis agrees to play middleclassbill's favorite song - Professor Amike, Flowerchild, Miguel, Synch, Old Grouch and Ripper trade doodles with Lalo, Ruta and Des) and remember the reason we all wound up there in the first place.
With Dick's hahahahaha reverberating in our collective thoughts as we prepare for another fruitfully crazy day. Together.
August 22, 2009 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahahahah
Always nice to see you Missy. Hope you are well.
August 22, 2009 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Office ain't got SHIT on us!!!!
Love ya, Missy. I'm glad to see the ugly blue chair is sitting in your cubicle, and the fridge is full of Zin.
What Zen.
August 22, 2009 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
And Coors Light. Pop in whenever you need to sit a spell ...
Isn't that a great picture of Sox on the wall? I can almost hear her snoring in the corner.
August 23, 2009 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Your Zin and my Zen look lovely together.
Willie and Wallace and Sox are all getting along, believe it or not.
'Tis a good weekend.
August 23, 2009 3:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
jonnie in a marijuana stupor floats to fridge to get Howard Zinn's autograph. Is disappointed with typo.
August 23, 2009 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just behind the receptionist there's a door to the side with the Presidential Seal. There's usually a lot of growling emanating heasrd by those who pass. Sometimes there are great guffaws, and sometimes, every once in a while, there is a whisper.
Maggie, our angelic receptionist tells everyone as they pass, "Gregor works there. He's not actually the President. He just thinks he is, and we like to humor him. Get past the growl and he's not so bad, but he gets pretty mad. It's what comes from his delusional state of mind that he's the President and can control something, anything. He sure makes a lot of noise. That's why we try to keep his door closed.
August 23, 2009 1:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
...just came by the office to say hi and drop off cloud 9...
"the world is turning on and some things are just the way they are..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZozeL6g1mc
August 23, 2009 1:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
that's a wonderful song Strato, I'm sure LisB has it somewhere on her towering flash-enabled wall. You know, this goes without saying, but you are perfectly welcome to park your velvet cloud over on the Fountain Promenade (perhaps a fitting spot would be next to the shape-shifting sculptures) and walk around, maybe belly up to one of Bwak's Watercoolers and sample a tall cool glass of liquid light with a twist.
August 23, 2009 2:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Can't believe I missed all the fun here last night. Got busy, and. . .no other excuse.
TPM. you get the BEST ideas! The Office. For us.
But yeah, give me a big enough space and I'll round up all dem bad Dems and start the 'vention.
Everybody's invited, of course. I don't think I can do this all by myself.
(and LisB, you might want to crank up the music because there's gonna be some mighty hollerin' goin' on.)
August 23, 2009 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Glad you like the space, Ramona. Your door is the one that says "VOICE FOUND". It is also the door that is always open.
August 23, 2009 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goody. I'm settling in as we speak.
August 23, 2009 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's also a bridge over troubled trolls.
August 23, 2009 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what happens when we have a roundish table with no obvious head or foot.
I don't know who called this meeting. I wish whomever did would adjourn it or at least call a ten minute recess. My bladder can hold only so much and the john is way way way down the hall.
If Obey has hid the key again I'm going to be really pissed, and that's not a metaphor.
August 23, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Get Lalo out of my damn chair, and I'll give you the key!!
should warn you though, think Quinn is in there as usual on 'his throne', as he calls it...
August 23, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Little Debbie has a snack for you. I'll be in the break room.
August 23, 2009 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink