Eric Shaw Quinn

It’s Premiere Day!  Join the Party, Live!! Tonight The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn Premieres at 8pm EST/ 5pm PST 11/11.

For now, here’s a peek Behind the Scenes. http://youtu.be/QqUk-sdZCp4

See you at the table!

From Shea Butters, alleged “help”/Butler for The Dinner Party Show:

Gentle Viewer,

YouTube possesses the dubious distinction of both making people famous for their stupidity while capitalizing on our stupidity for watching them.  No matter how infamous these “characters” of “your tubes” have become, it is my most heartfelt prayer that they never grace The Dinner Party Show table with their insidious presence.  My deepest fear is that, if the show is, shall we say, less than successful, any one of these video celebrifools could be our next guest.  Believe me, my charges, Eric and Christopher are challenge enough for any manservant.  Therefore, I am pleading with you, please do listen in. And, I implore you, chime in if you can. What remains of what is left of my sanity depends on your cooperation.
The show is LiveCast each Sunday at 8 PM Eastern/ 5 PM Pacific at TheDinnerPartyShow.com.

Cordially,
Shea

Excellent service makes good dinner parties into great dinner parties.  At The Dinner Party Show, we’ve got our butler Shea and despite that, we think the show will do pretty well.  When he isn’t sniping at one of us or serving up a steaming tray of attitude, he’s actually really difficult to get along with so he fits right in around here.

Shea is in charge of invitations to our upcoming and subsequent Dinner Party Shows and you may rely on him to keep you posted on upcoming events and our past faux pas.  At The Dinner Party Show, Everyone Gets Served and, thanks to Shea, that includes us!

Here is his latest “helpful” little blog post about our premiere on Sunday November 11, at 8pm EST/ 5pm PST.  http://thedinnerpartyshow.com/2012/11/the-dinner-party-show-seating-begins-november-11th/ Hope you’ll join us then and on upcoming Sundays at the same time each week.

With deepest gratitude,

Eric Shaw Quinn

I guess this is my last Sunday off for a while, glad I got the extra hour! (Curse you sleep thief DST!!) The Dinner Party Show premiere is next Sunday evening, 11/11, at 8 EST/ 5PST. See you there!

Tonight, at last, justice! The hour of sleep that was stolen from me is returned. #EndDaylightSavings

Here’s a helpful instructional video on the topic.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXunWSjn2wY&feature=youtu.be

The Dinner Party Show, Premieres Sunday 11/11, 8pm EST — 5pm PST at www.TheDinnerPartyShow.com

The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and ME!! Eric Shaw Quinn, will premiere live, Sunday November 11, at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST at our hot new website www.TheDinnerPartyShow.com which is goes live today! Check it out and sign up for more information on shows, guests and special events!!

Okay, so we keep doing the same thing with the economy and it keeps not working, right? Am I the only one who sees this? If cutting back on spending and slashing public programs while not paying taxes and concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people is the solution, things should be great, right? I mean we’ve done that.

I am no expert.  The only two technical terms I have retained from my disastrous stint in college econ 101 are guns and butter.  And I think the only reason I remember those two terms is because I’ve had cause to use them in other non-economics contexts since. 

Still, it seems to me that in the midst of very bad economic times the biggest employer in the country keeps downsizing.  Federal, state and local government laid off nearly 40,000 people last month alone.  That can’t be good, can it? Certainly not for those 40,000 people or their landlords or mortgage holders or yogurt shops or grocery stores or Starbucks or favorite restaurants.  That’s 40,000 less people spending money buying stuff and services that gives the rest of us jobs.   And that’s just last month. 

But then last week, the people who I thought might actually see what I see, agreed with the people who want to keep doing the thing that’s not been working for 30 years now.  The people who wanted to keep doing the things that seems to have gotten us here want to keep doing it so bad that they were willing to blackmail the entire country on behalf of their rich, generous friends.  So now, apparently, despite the empirical data that “the economy totally sucks” both sides are agreed we need to slash zillions of dollars out of the budget. 

So what happened? Well, faced with the massive loss of jobs and revenue those cuts represent the stock market crashed.

It wasn’t the radical right’s insistence on keeping the money in the hands of old-rich-white-guys, that’s what they always want to do.  It wasn’t the brinksmanship over raising the debt ceiling, apparently that’s been going on since the days of super debtor Ronald Regan.  It wasn’t even the Standard and Poors downgrade of the US debt rating – if that had been the cause people would not have taken their money out of the stock market and put it into the newly “downgraded” US treasury bonds, as they did. 

What crashed the economy, it appears to me, is the agreement that we need to cut trillions of dollars out of the US economy.  That’s what cutting the budget actually means.    

As far as I can tell, not only are the “job creators” not creating jobs, they are getting richer and richer and taking more and more money out of the economy.  And in response to our continued self imposed loss of revenue we keep shutting down the engine that has fueled our economic growth, the United States – all of them.  Maybe I’m wrong, but it would appear to me that the biggest drag on the economy is our continuing refusal to fully fund federal, state and local government. 

We’ve been all about “cutting wasteful spending” like education, health care and infrastructure for as long as I can remember and here we are in this mess with stupid children, broken roads and sick poor people costing us a fortune.  It just seems to me that if these slash-and-burn-economics were going to work they already would be.  The deficit would be down, everyone would have a job, revenue would be up and the stock market would be heading for the stratosphere.  Since that is clearly not what’s happening, instead of agreeing with the ideas that got us here, why don’t we do something else?

Or is it just me?

Michele-Bachmann-speaking off camera to power - not truth, but speaking

There seems to be some problem about a recent photo of Michelle Bachmann.
So, I Googled  her image.

Michelle Bachmann election night interview

Here’s a sample, many official photos, of her that seems representative
of how she always looks to me.

Representative Bachmann looking official.

Which one is the unfair sexist one?

Michelle Bachmann looking right at home on Fox

Michele Bachmann addressing her adoring fans

Michele Bachmann celebrating the 2010 victory.

Michelle Bachman Official Photo

Michele Bachmann on the cover of a national magazine looking like she always does. Has she had her eyes done? Is that why she always looks like this?