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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    I REALLY hope there's some reference to Michael Richards' n-word rant. I can't imagine LD would leave that alone. "It's gold, Jerry--Gold!"
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    The New Adventures of Old Elaine, anyone?
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    I thought it was well-handled, to be honest. At first I didn't like the commercials that billed it as some kind of sappy reunion show that you knew it wouldn't be, but in retrospect, they worked because on Curb, they were never actually on the Seinfeld set. It did make sure this kind super-meta kind of episode couldn't be replicated, but all in all, it wasn't a bad episode.

    Apparently there were peope clamoring for a Seinfeld reunion show (though I don't know any), so they did the closest thing that would still fit the character of both shows. Meta isn't always bad, hipsters.
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    10/05/09

    @mharker: Except it's not over. This plotline is going to run through the entire season of Curb.
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    10/05/09

    @The Sneak: Seriously? Meh, I still trust that they'll do at least a decent job with it.
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    10/05/09

    @mharker: what would a "decent job" of a seinfeld reunion look like?

    this is why missing an episode "curb" is becoming a non-issue. if i wanted a whole season of the seinfeld characters' whining, i'd buy a DVD of seinfeld. love me some larry, but no thanks.
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    10/05/09

    @thatgirlinnewyork: A decent job would be like the way the last episode was done---very meta, yes, but if you look at the Larry David of Curb as a fictional character with his own world, however much it is based on his real life, it's not as bad as the article above makes it out to be. The last episode dealt more with Larry's desperation to get Cheryl back, even if it meant casting her in a reunion episode, which was always an idea he hated. With the rest of the season, if they emphasize that Larry's basically "selling out" to get his wife back and if it's less about a Seinfeld reunion, I'd consider that decent.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    In the not-too-distant future, when NBC is scrounging for new show ideas, Seinfeld will be remade with new actors.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    Oddly enough, I love "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and loathe "Seinfeld." Viscerally. Kramer is never funny. At all.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    He was the man in a cape. replaces: It's a turtle without its shell.
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    10/05/09

    @CaptainFantastic: It's a sloth, dammit
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    For what it's worth:

    According to IMDB (and this is probably incomplete, as I only quickly glanced over his credits for Seinfeld), Larry appeared on the show five times in a non-voice only form:

    1. On "The Heart Attack" in 1991 as "Screaming B-movie Actor,"

    2. on "The Trip: Part 2" in 1992 as "Man in Hallway,"

    3. on "The Pilot" in 1993 as "John F. Kennedy, Jr." and "Main in Raft #1,"

    4. on "The Chinese Woman" in 1994 as "Man with Cape,"

    5. and on "The Gum" in 1995 as "Newsstand Owner."

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    Looks like he appeared on about 30 additional episodes in voice-only format.
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    10/05/09

    @mattchew03: The majority of that voice work must be as Steinbrenner, right?
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    10/05/09

    @mattchew03: He was always the voice of Steinbrenner.
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    10/05/09

    @mattchew03: As opposed to the other four who were in every episode! I have since amended the offending sentence.

    And the first person who says that Elaine wasn't in the pilot gets a knuckle sandwich.
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    10/05/09

    @psybab: Where did I say he wasn't?
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    10/05/09

    @Brian Moylan: I know, I know... I didn't mean to be a nitpick. Apologies!
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    10/05/09

    @terrible: Yep. Looks like he voiced Steinbrenner in 13 episodes, voiced other random characters in 19 episodes, and appeared as an uncredited actor in five more.
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    10/05/09

    @mattchew03: I think he was also the dog in the early episode when Jerry gets stuck with a drunk's dog (which we never see). Woof!
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    10/05/09

    @mattchew03: And I forgot--he was the man in the cape! Frank Costanza's lawyer.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    If I ever own a racehorse, its name will be Faux Jason Alexander.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell the Death of Meta
    don't want. awful people yelling. ugh.
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