Friday Ephemera
Code brown and hairy. || Tricky conditions. || A delicate touch. (h/t, Obnoxio) || Today’s word is segue. (h/t, Ben) || In defiance of gravity. || An ongoing index of every physical record shop. || Pastries of note. || It’s a price she’s willing to pay. || Every bloody time. (h/t, Holborn) || When you’ve never held a baby before. || Bookmark of note. (h/t, Damian) || Animated collages. || Cross-cultural bonding. || His computer case modification is more ambitious than yours. || How to de-crumple a paper balloon. || The thrilling world of icicles. || Hand-carved wooden toys of note. || Cinemagraphic waves. || When victimhood is currency, strange things will happen. || And finally, artistically, his self-portrait-done-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-canvas-using-a-mirror is more impressive than yours.
Mine was the ugliest baby you ever saw. I wasn’t sure I wanted to take him home. Fortunately in a week or two he began to look a lot like me.
What are all you Brits doing up this late?
What are all you Brits doing up this late?
It’s Friday night – no school in the morning!
Black Friday goes global.
What are all you Brits doing up this late?
I just tuned in for a bit of light relief when the Ashes series paused for lunch and ended up in an episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond”.
She seems nice.
She seems nice.
Ms Morgan has a history of “woke” sentiment.
“She seems nice.”
And so smart! Gentlemen, grab her and marry her before someone else does!
No small appliance report today. I’ve caught a cold and will probably do little but drink tea and surf disreputable sites.
See you later.
Hello Oik! My mom used to watch “Raymond.”
drink tea and surf disreputable sites.
[ Wipes bar while doing best attempt at an innocent face. ]
Another towering intellect finds racism.
“No small appliance report today.”
I am about to make some toast. Wish me luck!
Ms Morgan has a history of “woke” sentiment.
Indeed, and she stands shoulder to shoulder with Shaun King and Rachael Dolezal as she proclaims herself “racequeer” to get a leg up in Oppression Olympics.
OK, maybe not Shaun King as he is a palepenisperson and we know what she thinks of those.
She responded by saying, “You liar, they all look like Churchill.”
Heh…Attending a work-related pig roast when I was in my 20’s a coworker had brought her first baby to the party. I’m sitting there 4-5 beers into a good buzz and she plops down next to me to show off the child. She introduces me to a months-old Laura. I says, “Looks just like Winston Churchill”. For years it was like I was the only person to make this observation, though over time I feel increasingly vindicated.
Even came up in an episode of “Third Rock”. Surprisingly, we’re still friends. Don’t see each other very often, though. When we do, or even around mutual friends, the subject does seem to work it’s way into the conversation.
Ever enjoyed ‘The Wizard of Oz’? Don’t:
Judy Garland was 16 when she won the role of Dorothy in the MGM musical in 1938 and it was to mark both the beginning and the end of her career. The insecure teenager was by that time addicted to barbiturates and amphetamines and was on the road to alcoholism. In addition, she was routinely molested by older men including studio chiefs who considered her little more than their “property”.
It gets better:
She certainly didn’t feel safe in the MGM offices of Louis B Mayer. “In our house the word of Louis B Mayer became the law,” Garland said later. He took to groping her in his office, telling her as he put a hand on her left breast that she “sang from the heart”.
Not done yet:
Thanks to a deal struck by Mayer with her agent, a former bootlegger and pimp called Frank Orsatti, Garland was earning $500 a week. Her friend at MGM, Mickey Rooney, was on $5,000 a week. It was, as she remarked later, the beginning of the end
Are you loving Hollywood even more now? Evidently, nothing has changed for those who run it.
http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/167269/Dark-side-of-Oz-The-exploitation-of-Judy-Garland
Jonathan,
Judy’s mother sounds like a nasty piece of work. Yeesh. By contrast, Shirley Temple’s mother was said to have been highly protective, watching over her like a hawk.
Curiously (of maybe not so much) there was a well-known Hollywood Madam who had girls in her employ who resembled many young starlets of the day, and had them dress like the stars to make the resemblance even more striking. She later claimed her “Shirley Temple” was by far the most popular.
Twenty-odd years later, another pretty young starlet was quite shamefully exploited by her mother: Natalie Wood. She was told to, umm.. seduce the producer/director/whomever without him even having to ask, in order to get the part. IIRC, this started when she was 14.
Harvey Weinstein is nothing new, he’s just more of a disgusting pig about it than his predecessors.
Harvey Weinstein is nothing new, he’s just more of a disgusting pig about it than his predecessors.
I love a good movie as much as anyone, but it’s incredible how politicians and the public fawn over scum like that.
Spam, Spam, Spam Spam…….
http://twitter.com/CharelsCD/status/934102054158471169
In Japan!
http://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/familyandrelationships/perth-mother-asked-to-pay-dollar100-for-10-week-old-baby-to-attend-paul-kelly-concert/ar-BBFCemK?li=AA2FZ8I&ocid=ientp
Farnsworth your input would be most appreciated here, it is in regards to a baby.
Spam, Spam, Spam Spam…….
The picture on the can is Spam musubi, a great favorite in Hawaii where there are almost entire supermarket aisles dedicated to it, and in a variety of flavors.
A proper Spam musubi made with Spam marinated in teriyaki overnight is quite tasty, and the things are a handy snack to take with while boating, hiking, or whatever.
Properly made Spam musubi.
Farnsworth your input would be most appreciated here, it is in regards to a baby.
I think it is the beginning of a great idea – anyone who brings one to an adult concert, or any restaurant, airplane, theatre, or similar establishment should be charged am exorbitant security deposit.
If the brat cries, poops, or has any other activity or bodily function that disturbs a human patron, there will be no refund. If it is quiet and doesn’t disturb the other patrons, a 50% refund of the deposit will be given. The same will apply to anyone using a phone unless it can be shown the call or text was of a true emergency nature.
Aircraft, in addition, will be laid out per this diagram.
A proper Spam musubi made with Spam marinated in teriyaki overnight is quite tasty
Savoury deliciousness!
Farnsworth, what do you do, just marinate it in the teriyaki, fry it, make a rice sandwich out of it, then wrap it in nori? Or is there something else I can’t see? I like Spam and I like rice and I’d like to try it.
Also, regarding Farnsworth’s anti-baby scheme–does he get charged if he farts? Fair’s fair.
I went over to Amazon to see if I could try any of those Spam flavors (no, too expensive), and found you can choose from several different models of Spam musubi maker. There’s a whole secret Spam world out there!
There’s a whole secret Spam world out there!
Ruled over by a wicked Spam Queen?
Aw, shit, I’m busted.
Farnsworth, what do you do, just marinate it in the teriyaki, fry it, make a rice sandwich out of it, then wrap it in nori?
Pretty much, to do it properly you need a musubi press and some furikake, and sushi rice, all of which can be purchased using David’s Amazon link. you can use regular rice if you cook it on the sticky side (shusi rice is shorter grained and stickier).
Marinate sliced Spam (flavor of your choice), fry to desired crispiness. Moisten a piece of nori about 2/3 the width of a Spam slice and long enough to wrap around the thing. Place the nori on a flat surface, place the press centered about 1/3 the length of it. Add the rice and press. Sprinkle furikake on the rice to taste, place Spam on top, remove press and wrap nori over the Spam.
Eat straight away, or wrap in Saran wrap for later. They freeze well too.
Also, regarding Farnsworth’s anti-baby scheme–does he get charged if he farts?
Of course the baby would be charged. If you mean me, any adult not in possession of a physician’s note with a valid diagnosis of a gastrointestinal disorder that makes farting unavoidable should be fined on the spot.
From the wonderful world of small appliances:
https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Spam.htm
We have everything but the Spam and the musubi press. Next time I make rice, I’ll buy a can of Spam and give it a try. Without the press. I’ll just smush it down good.
(I live near a large Air Farce base, so Asian groceries are ten to the block here. Thus the furikake, which is also good to season hamburgers, salmon patties, and deviled eggs.)
We have everything but the Spam and the musubi press.
You can cut the bottom off the Spam can and use it for a press, it is important to pack the rice firmly so the thing doesn’t fall apart. Also the Asian groceries might have them, our local Korean one did.
They probably do, and if I REALLY like Spam musubi I may even buy one.
Another towering intellect finds racism.
Don’t tell that Sooper-Jeenius about black light, black holes, or black body radiation. Also do not mention dark matter, dark energy, brown dwarfs, red dwarfs and white dwarfs.
In keeping with the classy and educational nature of this joint, I offer this. See also the comments.
More super-woke post-modern black “scholarship” from, not surprisingly, a “studies” professor:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/physics-of-blackness
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
2015
Author: Michelle M. Wright
Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define Blackness as a “what,” it in fact always operates as a “when” and a “where.”
Review
“Opening up the middle passage, and working with and across narratives by thinkers such as Paul Gilroy, Ama Ata Aidoo, and James Baldwin, Physics of Blackness asks that we think through the time and space of the diaspora in order to notice that blackness is continually updating itself.”—Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds
“An unorthodox and highly engaging study by a scholar unrestrained by the conventions of the field. Michelle M. Wright advances a penetrating, stimulating, and immensely rewarding contribution for those that rise to the challenge.”—Stephen Small, UC Berkeley
Amazon reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Blackness-Beyond-Passage-Epistemology/dp/0816687307/
“By defining blackness against the limitations of [linear progress narratives], Wright expands our senses of temporality and even of physics.”—KronoScope
“Its appeal to philosophical, literary, cultural and diasporic studies is apparent; but while contributing significantly to, and grounded in, the humanities, Physics of Blackness is not restricted to it. Its redeployment of analytical categories informs an innovative, interdisciplinary approach that necessarily reinvigorates and enhances generally academic and societally transformative pursuits for future oriented, inclusive and nonhierarchical understandings of not just black, but all,racial(ised) ontologies.”—Transnational Literature
About the Author
Michelle M. Wright is associate professor of Black European and African Diaspora studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora.
Biography
. . .
Michelle M Wright is currently Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Duke UP 2004), co-editor of The Black German Experience, a special issue of the journal Callaloo with Tina Campt (2003); co-editor with Faith Wilding and Maria Fernandez of the anthology Domain Errors: A Cyberfeminist Handbook (Autonomedia Press, 2003) and Blackness and Sexualities, co-edited with Antje Schulman (Lit Verlag Berlin, 2006). Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, is her most recent book (UMN Press, 2015).
Is Ama Ata Adoo a pseudonym?
Is Ama Ata Adoo a pseudonym?
Not according to Ghana Web, unless you count the first name change.
“First you have to build a Bat Cave”
And all the gadgets have to be labelled.
Oh. Belated followup, since nobody actually explained that penny . . .
I still don’t remember seeing the Giant Penny on the show.
I still don’t remember seeing the Giant Penny on the show.
On the show.
As opposed to the actual.
Code brown and hairy.
Oh II. Thanks to the comments, and speaking of small editions of Winston Churchill, I’ve now found out about some show with Derek Jacobi.
Well, after liberal application of the world’s unsexiest perfume, Eau de Vicks, and a day wearing a warm granny gown and making frequent honking noises a la Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple, I seem to have induced the cold germs to flee, possibly in search of a supermodel. If there’s a small appliance report tomorrow, though, it’ll probably be the toaster, so any musubi makers are encouraged to musube like mad to keep the small appliance fans satiated.
making frequent honking noises a la Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple
That bad, eh? Ouch.
If there’s a small appliance report tomorrow, though, it’ll probably be the toaster
Is it a Brave Little Toaster?
Not really. Every time the tea kettle whistles, it starts barking and whining.
Especially for Londoners, a riposte of note.
..a riposte of note.
Uh-oh!
“First you have to build a Bat Cave”
Uh-oh!
That’s…Judge Dredd.
Apparently the Brits are taking their Internet virtue signaling really seriously now.
Or I could just get him one of these.
That’s also quite good.