Friday Ephemera

Damn, we’ve both posted the exact same thing. Pass me the Stool of Shame: I’ll go and sit on it in the corner.

Today’s word is inadvisable: that was filmed in Clumbus. Ahia, where I used to live. Now you know why I moved.

Roads designed by women would be skinnier and the lines would be a soothing pink instead of that glaring yellow that flatters no one. And all roads would begin and end at a shoe store. 👠

champ: “How exactly would roads designed by/for women differ from roads designed by/for men???”
*sharp intake of breath* Oooh, you’ve done it now!

Narrower roads?
And by this broad’s interpretation, make them safer for women cyclists?

Two martinis in and I can’t get more that a couple minutes into the velocity video – I’m hearing blah blah death pelt blah blah
It might be the martinis, but I don’t think so.

Oh dear, bad luck.

“He was like, ‘Don’t shoot me.’ I was like, ‘Then get out of here.’” Hill then jumped into the passenger seat of a woman’s car in a Starbucks drive-thru.

Moral of story: shoot carjackers.

Barbed wire telephony.
An Indian wants his son to have it better than him, so he sends the son away to trade school. The kid comes back after finishing electrician’s training.
The father takes him to the chief and is bragging about how smart his son is. The chief says to the kid “Look, every time I gotta take a shit at night in my outhouse, I can’t read because it’s too dark unless the moon is out. Is there any chance you could put electricity and lights in the outhouse?”
The young Indian replies, “sure thing, Chief,” and he does as asked.
Thus, he became the first Indian to wire a head for a reservation.

Moral of story: shoot carjackers.
It is rather ironic that a felon who’s prepared to terrify random people, to threaten their lives and slash them with a knife, then begs not to be repaid in suitable fashion. And indulging this double standard does no favours to other victims. Because, as above, there will be other victims.

Also this. I’ve spent the last few weeks clicking away four, five, even six goddamn boxes before being able to read a site’s content.

Slam poetry of note.

“Roads designed by men are killing women,” says the Guardian.
Women are just as good as men at everything and don’t you suggest otherwise.
But women are also totally incapable of surviving if roads aren’t designed by another woman despite men and women being the same.
[stage whisper] The password is, doublethink [/stage whisper]

Regarding the niche enthusiasm, I briefly perused the comments and, sure enough, trans-sexualism is “different” because…reasons.

I don’t believe that Ryan Gosling is Jennifer Lawrence.

I don’t believe that Ryan Gosling is Jennifer Lawrence.
I’d believe he was Jennifer Lawrence before Armstrong.

re: On the relativistic addition of velocity. And yes, there will be a test.
Yeah, well Einstein was racist, dude. So that relativity theory stuff is bunk.

His travel logs are particularly harsh on the Chinese. He says their children “are spiritless and look obtuse.”
“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races,” he continues. “For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/travel-diaries-reveal-einstein-s-racist-views-n882931?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_nw

I’d believe he was Jennifer Lawrence before Armstrong.
In the handful of films I’ve seen featuring Ms Lawrence, her performances have been, at best, unremarkable. And as Mystique in the X-Men films, she’s utterly dull and unconvincing, even by the standards of her peers.

To paraphrase The Other Half, “I don’t believe that Ryan Gosling is an actor, let alone that he’s Neil Armstrong.”
I don’t think that’s entirely fair. I met him a couple of times long before he became famous (like a lot of Canadian ex-pat actors, he was in some of the absolutely dreadful children’s TV we produce so much of[*]). He has a lot of screen presence and he’s good at emoting.
Most people don’t realize how much good direction and showrunning matters; by way of example, Battlestar Galactica was filmed in Vancouver with C-List Canadian actors (don’t try to translate that to an American or British scale; your alphabets don’t go that far) who turned in performances that were light years beyond anything they’ve done before or since.
[*] See also Reynolds, Ryan

Most people don’t realize how much good direction and showrunning matters;
Yes, there is that.

Barbed wire telephony.
Narrator voice: “Later, Iowa became critically important in Presidential elections, and rural self-sufficiency soon fell out of fashion. Today, tens of millions of Americans continue to pay surcharges on their utility bills in order to provide cutting-edge technologies to out-of-the-way rural communities. Because jacking up the price of corn just wasn’t enough.”

Re: First Man
When I was a kid, my dad worked for the military industrial complex, which included doing work for the space program. This resulted ultimately in an invite for him and his family to go to Cape Kennedy and watch Apollo 10 lift off from the VIP section.
Very, very cool. Got within 10 feet of Jimmy Doolittle and 100 feet of Spiro Agnew.
Later that year, with Apollo 11 on the pad, my dad decided it was time to buy a color TV because he wanted to see the moon in color.
Of course, the first broadcasts were in B&W, but we still had our magnificent console Magnavox TV.

Boat on a bridge.

Life Lessons: Don’t ever share your password with your girlfriend … ever.

Life Lessons: Don’t ever share your password with your girlfriend … ever.
Mothers should really warn their sons about the existence of such women. It should be a thing, a tradition.

“Don’t ever share your password with your girlfriend … ever”.
It is very hard to not generalise and become a misogynist. I must confess that I’m even angry on his behalf and I’ve never laid a finger on a clarinet in my life.
I suspect this lady has also moved on without a care in the world.

Most people don’t realize how much good direction and showrunning matters;
Which reminds me that I’m still irritated by Blade Runner 2049, which, like the original, had bled me of all interest, such as it was, after about an hour. Someone should tell Mr Villeneuve that a glacial, drama-killing pace does not equal profundity.

To be fair, this should be communicated from fathers in tandem with “always wear your raincoat”.
I was assuming mothers (or grandmothers) might have some additional insight, being womanly and all.

I was assuming mothers (or grandmothers) might have some additional insight,
My advice to my daughters: If he says don’t worry, I’ll pull out in time he may be sincere, but it’s not going to happen.
My advice to my grandsons: If she says don’t worry, [I’m on the pill] [it’s not the time of the month were I can get pregnant] [I know you’ll pull out in time] she may be sincere, but always wear your raincoat.
Advice to both: Don’t sleep with crazy … the experience that night is never worth the days that follow.

Knowing how to identify crazy before it bites would also be useful.
“Society is far more comfortable with teaching women about the dark side of men than vice versa.”

It starts in childhood with both the father and the mother’s advice to the daughter, and it continues into adulthood. I think this is very important because I think the average man puts the average women on a pedestal far more often than vice versa, and men are trained and socialized by both parents to do this from young. Women on the other hand get an education from both parents on how to protect themselves from the dark side of most men from a very young age. “All men want is just one thing.” “Give it up too fast and he won’t stick around.” “He’s just not that into you.” “He won’t buy the cow if he can get the milk for free.” “Don’t let yourself be alone with a guy you barely know.” “All men will cheat given the opportunity.”
Go into the relationship section and see how many relationship books aimed at women warning them about shady men. Book after book about dogs, cheaters, players, emotionally unavailable men, narcissistic men, “Nice Guys” (the apparent latest bogeyman of the dating world), immature men who need to “man up!,” passive aggressive men, verbally abusive men, men who string women along with no intention of committing or marrying, and so forth. Even when women admit that all men don’t fall into the bad categories described in a book or article, they make it clear they found “one of the good ones,” which still implies that the good ones are a minority of what’s out there.
Meanwhile, I don’t think men are capable of even believing the average woman has a dark side. They think only the outliers do. (I believe this is why the Madonna/Whore problem is still prevalent today.) Women are totally fine accepting that the average guy has a dark or unsavory side and that they need to be informed about that, without believing that doing so makes them man-haters. Yet men feel like the mere entertaining of the idea that the average woman (not just the mythical “bad girl”) can have an unsavory side will transform them into instant misogynists.

Because, as above, there will be other victims.
Our bien pensant progressive betters don’t care.

Yet men feel like the mere entertaining of the idea that the average woman (not just the mythical “bad girl”) can have an unsavory side will transform them into instant misogynists.
It always amuses me, and not in a good way, how even very intelligent women (or so my deluded cis male brain has been trained) will be surprised to hear of a nice guy (nice, but too boring and/or socially awkward for they themselves to ever take seriously) falling for the Whore With A Heart Of Gold.

Next up, Woody Allen as Patton.
Well, come to think of it, for several decades, we have had Woody Allen as James Bond . . .

Hal has inspired me. Probably some here have read the following, but it’s Harlan Ellison’s account of him as a writer for Disney. For 1/2 day. It’s “3. Labor Relations”, the third account on the page below. Of the other two, the first is also funny. The second is definitely not.
http://www.harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

Ok, I have to crow a bit. Wanna know who taught Armstrong to land vertically?
Google images “Fred Drinkwater Neil armstrong”