Braaaaaains

[tree_and_leaf]

The picture of McCain shambling after Obama like a drooling zombie posted at Making Light is the oddest thing I've seen in ages. Is it really genuine? And if so, what the hell is going on in it?

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[azdak.livejournal.com]

I seem to come out like that in most photos. ::sigh::

[tree_and_leaf]

Surely not with the flappping tongue, though? I mean, there are
plenty of photos of me looking like a village idiot, but that's special...

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Believe me, if my tongue happens to pop out for half a second - because I'm concentrating, or because I burped and it tastes foul, or because it needs some fresh air - some bastard with a camera is sure to snap me at that precise moment.

McCain, of course, another matter. Presumably he's had training in How To Look Photogenic On Camera. Perhaps it was a little Hallowe'en joke.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

McCain's manner of wandering about the stage throughout the debates has greatly amused The Daily Show. There have already been a number of opportunities for his opponents to point to him as dangerously infirm, and this goes much further.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes- that's not so much senile as undead.

Apparently he was pulling a lot of odd faces in the debate, so it's possible that it's at least mostly real, though the tongue looks a bit improbable.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Apparently it might at least be mostly real. He does tend to shamble a bit.

But, yes, zombie!McCain. He often looks like the undead.

[tree_and_leaf]

I know he can't help the colour he is, but it does look alarming at the best of times (and doesn't inspire confidence that he'd survive the term, assuming he's not in fact dead already).

[anna-in-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Surely it can't be genuine? If so, it is somewhat scary...

[tree_and_leaf]

Only somewhat?

IDK. The press has commented elsewhere on the odd faces he pulled in the debate, but it's a somewhat unbelievable expression - not to mention the pose.

[anna-in-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Only somewhat?

My attempt at understatement...

Come to think of it, it might be mad cow disease, what with the tongue lolling out like that.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

augh zombies (http://expectare.livejournal.com/tag/in+ur+facebook+takin+ur+screencaps)

[tree_and_leaf]

It's terrifying, isn't it?

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Now you see I thought he was ogling Obama's bottom and was about to make a grab for it...

[tree_and_leaf]

That as well. Drooling, lust crazed zombie!

[gramarye1971]

Apropos of nothing, that's one of the best FU icons I've seen in a while. May I nick it?

[tree_and_leaf]

lizbee made it, but I don't imagine she'd mind you using it with credit. It's much better than the one I made, because my iconing skills are low....

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Terrifying! And probably the most scary thing of all is that the US may actually be about to elect a zombie president!

*stocks up on bottled water, petrol and tinned goods. And stakes*

[tree_and_leaf]

Good idea. I think I'll pack a flamethrower, too!

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Noooo! You need a golf club or cricket bat!

Silly woman.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think flamethrowers stop most things *gestures meaningfully*

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Ah, but some people prefer the sickening thud of willow on decomposing flesh.

[tree_and_leaf]

I just like setting fire to things, frankly....

[expectare.livejournal.com]

MY GOSH WE SHOULD FORM A CLUB

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I think it's called the Anglican Communion.
--PK Choir-brat clergy spouse

Also, Fire!

[expectare.livejournal.com]

true fact: I actually set fire to myself during an Easter vigil once.

[tree_and_leaf]

FIRE!!!

To be fair, I think the pyromanic section of the Anglican Communion overlaps fairly comprehensively with the high-church/ Anglo-Catholic bits... the Evangelicals, not so much.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

Yes. I set my hair on fire making the sign of the cross. :P

[tree_and_leaf]

Now that takes talent!

I singed a cassock once, but that's about the limit of it.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

*g* At the same church, the taper bearer set a crucifix on fire during passion week (when we had it covered in purple).

My church history is somewhat...special.

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, that must have livened things up no end!

I keep expecting someone to set fire to something during Nine Lessons and Carols (too many people squished in, all carrying candles), but thus far we have escaped, probably only through the protection of Our Lady (unless it's J.H. Newman's missing miracle, of course)

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Have you met my husband and children?

I think you would get along famously.

Flames.

[tree_and_leaf]

Your children are clearly natural born Scouts.

[snorkackcatcher]

Somebody on that thread posted a link to the video -- he was making a sort of joke at the end and that was a still picture in the middle. Nothing significant, really, unless mockery takes off. Probably not what his handlers wanted him to do, mind you.

[tree_and_leaf]

Ah, I see. The picture's worrying, all the same, though. (But it is amazing what awful pictures you can excerpt from video,)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I think he just tripped; but the result is still most unfortunate.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I take it you are not a Private Eye reader? Or else you would know that it is possible to find perfectly natural people looking all kinds of stupid. It is just the photographer's luck. We consider a face in motion, in time, and tend to edit out little moments that do not fit in or form an inelegant transition. But the camera, though it cannot lie, is even more incapable of telling any truth. It simply catches (especially if we are talking of a motor camera taking several shots a minute) all the stuff that an ordinary, sane human eye would edit out.

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, there is that. But that's the worst example of the genre I"ve seen in a long time (motordrives have a lot to answer for).

I haven't read Private Eye since they stopped doing the St Albions Parish mag, which was generally the only thing I read (that and Piloti).