Althouse: My usual Mendota lakeshore walk takes me into a Bucky Badger photoshoot.

September 13, 2019

My usual Mendota lakeshore walk takes me into a Bucky Badger photoshoot.

Today at the Union Terrace:

38 comments:

Limited blogger said...: I would not have apologized. You didn't do anything wrong.; 9/13/19, 6:57 PM
Sarthurk said...: Messing with someones photoshoot. Bad girl. In public no less. Funny.; 9/13/19, 6:58 PM
mezzrow said...: we don't need no stinkin' Badgers!; 9/13/19, 7:23 PM
rehajm said...: More of a chipmunk, really...; 9/13/19, 7:53 PM
Ann Althouse said...: It’s a public thoroughfare with no effort to block off a space. Bucky was skipping and jumping right into the crowd.; 9/13/19, 7:58 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I would have avoided the camera range if I had seen it.; 9/13/19, 7:59 PM
rcocean said...: What? "We're filming a video" Well, fuck you. You don't own the space. Put a sign. Damn.

Good to see you're posting more pictures and videos.; 9/13/19, 8:01 PM
Ralph L said...: Were you trying for your own Red Badger of Courage?

He should have told you to fucky off.; 9/13/19, 8:12 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Uh, we're filming a video, so could you, ah, step out of the shoot"

There isnt a more pretentious bunch than those "in film"-- all the way down to the unpaid intern PA gopher.

Dont let them badger you, AA; 9/13/19, 8:23 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: That's what you get for sleeping in. Ye gods.

Early, early, that's when you go photographing.; 9/13/19, 8:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: Bucky is so self satisfied and full of himself. He is on a high horse, as my mother would say.; 9/13/19, 8:40 PM
Jay Vogt said...: Becky Badger . . . . . .whatevs.

The real stars at the venue are a couple of Buddy Melges boats in the background. His legacy is astounding and his boats, especially the "E" boats are things of extraordinary strength and beauty. Your lucky to have them in your neighborhood. I was lucky enough to sail them long ago.; 9/13/19, 8:49 PM
David Begley said...: The Creighton Bluejay gets a partial athletic scholarship. Our last mascot was very acrobatic.; 9/13/19, 9:22 PM
David Begley said...: Didn’t they know who Ann Althouse is? They should have apologized to Ann for disturbing her walk!; 9/13/19, 10:00 PM
Lewis Wetzel said...: Most people see Bucky Badger and assume that there is a human in that costume.
I don't.; 9/13/19, 11:03 PM
Sebastian said...: "the impression from a distance is: 2 radicals who want to make America unrecognizably different"

Hold on to that thought, Althouse. You said you wanted a candidate who "expresses American values." If you happen to be an exception to the Althouse theorem, and believe what you profess to believe, do you hereby decide not to vote for Warren?; 9/13/19, 11:12 PM
Nichevo said...: If you happen to be an exception to the Althouse theorem, and believe what you profess to believe

SPOILER ALERT: She's not.; 9/13/19, 11:46 PM
Earnest Prole said...: I don't want to tell tales out of school but Bucky Badger is queer.; 9/13/19, 11:59 PM
Phil 314 said...: Professor,
I was impressed you didn’t exclaim:

“Do you know who I am!?”; 9/14/19, 12:11 AM
Lewis Wetzel said...: Warren will be the nominee because she appeals to the people who actually choose the nominee in ways that the other candidates do not. She is progressive. She is female. She has a veneer of intellectualism. She is a scold, which is where the D's are at these days. She is Mary Poppins, except that she does not love the children she is driven to nanny.; 9/14/19, 12:38 AM
stevew said...: Public spaces, reporting from Italy: there remain cultural differences in regards to queuing in that English speakers and Germans respect them, French do not, Chinese and Japanese travel in packs so it is hard to tell (they are the best dressed though). Lots of tattooed younger folk, though not the Ameiricans. Smoking cigarettes in public remains quite popular, though, again, not among Americans.; 9/14/19, 12:41 AM
Danno said...: Blogger Phil 314 said...Professor, I was impressed you didn’t exclaim: “Do you know who I am!?”

Me too! Ann didn't pull rank and make it known she was a distinguished professor emeritus.; 9/14/19, 1:00 AM
tim maguire said...: Sebastian said... You said you wanted a candidate who "expresses American values." If you happen to be an exception to the Althouse theorem, and believe what you profess to believe, do you hereby decide not to vote for Warren?

Right now, I think Warren’s the one to beat in the primary, but she risks going too far to win the activist vote (as they all do). In the general, she needs to convince everyone she is the centre-left person who became famous in the Senate, not the loon we see now.

Against a Romney, that trick would have been easy to pull off. Against Trump, not so easy.; 9/14/19, 4:51 AM
Breezy said...: Why are all the Dems such scolds? They offer no objective argument for anything and just want everyone to feel ashamed of themselves. It’s completely off-putting.; 9/14/19, 5:55 AM
rhhardin said...: An Ipana toothpaste ad, most likely.; 9/14/19, 6:03 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "I was impressed you didn’t exclaim: “Do you know who I am!?”"

In Madison, I have to hope people don't know who I am. I am not looking for trouble, and when I experience random hostility, I have to worry that it was because I was recognized. This has been going on for 15 years. There is nothing good I can hope for in getting recognized here.; 9/14/19, 7:17 AM
David Begley said...: Don’t former students recognize you?; 9/14/19, 7:25 AM
Ralph L said...: I am not looking for trouble

Jeez, you could be safer in the bad section of town--and save on your taxes.; 9/14/19, 7:34 AM
Ralph L said...: Her former students are too busy lawyering to pay off their student debt. Plus she wore a dreadlocks wig in class.; 9/14/19, 7:37 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Don’t former students recognize you?"

I can't read minds. Maybe they look to see if I indicate that I recognize them, but I don't go around looking at all the faces, trying to see if I know them, so I suspect they would not necessarily talk to me.; 9/14/19, 7:49 AM
Ann Althouse said...: I don't think most of our graduates are traipsing about Madison in midday.; 9/14/19, 7:49 AM
Ann Althouse said...: I sometimes see people react to me and imagine they recognize me, but don't know. The worst is if someone is pointlessly cold to me and I wonder are they just having a hard life or is this special meanness to me.; 9/14/19, 7:52 AM
AllenS said...: Althouse, try a disguise. May I suggest this --

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You can buy it through the Amazon thingy. Win win.; 9/14/19, 8:23 AM
Fernandinande said...: Nobel Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject: "Hungover Hydrocephalic Demeans Self"; 9/14/19, 8:24 AM
David Begley said...: 1. She didn’t make that comment to the stroller women.

2. What shadow? It was overcast.; 9/14/19, 9:20 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: You mean leftists aren't nice to you? Golly - I thought leftists were superior.; 9/14/19, 9:30 AM
rcocean said...: I sometimes get stared at, but they're usually just mesmerized by my stunning, manly, legs.; 9/14/19, 9:49 AM
steve uhr said...: Ann - I'm pretty sure people recognize you and treat you like they would treat Trump or Sara Huckabee. You live in Madison afterall. Dissent from the groupthink is not tolerated.; 9/14/19, 10:04 AM