Friday Ephemera
On second thoughts, maybe not. || Mosquitoes say hello. (h/t, Damian) || Are you wearing your anti-motion-sickness spectacles? || Something overhead. || Teeny, tiny tentacles. || Two phenomena, possibly related. || Ah, those simpler times, before white people arrived. || River bottom findings. || Continue the research. || The percentages of air in various bags of crisps. || Plaything of note. || Chinatown, New York. || “Queen of nuance.” || This is one of these. || “Why did the rescuers have to be white people?” || So much unbearable whiteness. || The eternal struggle. || At last, a Gregorian chant generator. (h/t, Things) || It’s a surprisingly versatile product. || And finally, his patience tested, Zeus shoots back.
After apparently attending a struggle session Scarlett Johannson bails from “transgender” gangster flick.
In English I think that means, “I didn’t want my career to be ended just now.”
Oh no, Scarlett. You can’t apologise to people who don’t value contrition and don’t believe in redemption.
I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
I started with the books … 20 of ’em (I’ve stopped at 19 because I’m saving the last one a bit …)
I’ve now gotten to season 3 of Bosch and I’m so glad the author is the exec producer, even as a few things are changed (e.g. the books start in the 80s with Bosch as a Vietnam “tunnel rat” Vet) … the series really captures the books.
I usually don’t read a lot of mysteries but I got hooked from book one.
Oh, it really captures the rhythms of Los Angeles quite nicely. It’s a strange city – and I say that as someone who was born in El-Lay and grew up in The Valley.
Pogonip
Yep, Harry “Hieronymus” Bosch
For Darleen, the Valley Girl:
https://www.imaginaryforces.com/work/bosch-main-title
Been trying to get people to watch this for the last couple of years, and just tonight talking to my leftard friend about it (he’s halfway through season 3)
Incidentally, and belatedly, I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
Have you tried Patriot?
“Have you tried Patriot?”
This is a type of condom?
Incidentally, I’ve only recently discovered that The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore) is originally by Frankie Valli and Four Seasons, and not the Walker Brothers. Smh
Bosch is good, but I’m cheap, so most of my power tools are Ryobi.
What?
“What”
*while jabrwok is looking around the room for approval, quietly slips a pickled egg into his beer*
For Darleen, the Valley Girl
Love the opening theme.
BTW … I get a kick that a jazz musician that Harry goes to see in the later books, Grace Kelley, actually appears in Season 2 of the tv show. No clip from the show, but she composed a piece for her appearance and performs it later here, too.
oops … “Kelly”
“Why did the rescuers have to be white people?”
Don’t worry, when the BBC do their dramatisation they won’t be.
On Joan’s link.
But my anecdata shows that “let’s compete by eating something so stupidly hot that the pain in both our throats, and somewhat later, the bottom ends of the digestive tract make us want to kill ourselves”, which is what that Yank program(me) seems to be celebrating, is an almost exclusively male stupidity?
Been trying to get people to watch this for the last couple of years,
Thanks to nagging by The Other Half, I’m halfway through season one, where another grim twist is emerging – and so far, the series strikes me as well played, and paced, and shot, if not altogether original in terms of genre tropes. I don’t usually go for police procedurals, but I was drawn into its story threads quite easily. No small feat.
Have you tried Patriot?
I don’t know what that is. Is it a deodorant?
*while jabrwok is looking around the room for approval, quietly slips a pickled egg into his beer*
[ Slides along bar a large, overfilled ashtray. Nods towards Jabrwok’s beer. ]
Will ‘she’/‘zie’/‘zey’ be in charge of who can have what?
Avery’s nuanced political philosophy:
Apparently, there’s “nothing moral” about paying your own way and preferring not to be a needless burden on strangers.
Farnsworth M Muldoon:
Yes the one-eyed, without depth perception, were much more suitably employed in the 1950s.
Andre De Toth for example directed the 1953 film House of Wax… in 3-D.
Apparently, there’s “nothing moral” about paying your own way and preferring not to be a needless burden on strangers.
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
Quite.
We’re told, “Remember, babes, there’s nothing moral about work.” What Avery means, of course, is that there’s nothing immoral about habitual, opportunist freeloading. I.e., parasitism. And so, according to our self-imagined moral better, if you choose not to work and support yourself, some other sucker should be made to pay your bills as well as their own, indefinitely. Because hey, you’re just so fabulous, babe.
You’d think that being trans would be enough of a challenge in life without also being quite so obnoxiously narcissistic.
Quick Reflexes.
How they call cows in Sweden.
Today in Real Life or 4chan?;
Are MAPs a new subgroup of the LGBTetc movement?
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/09/pedophiles-lgbt-community/
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/pedophiles-desperately-join-lgbt-movement-acceptance-flag/
Hugs,
-S
Andre De Toth for example directed the 1953 film House of Wax… in 3-D.
Strangely, however, the cinematographers, who only required one eye to operate the cameras, had binocular vision…
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
a) Yes, but they are the ones who created zit.
b) Bear in mind she is a he. (…and the colored girls go doo doo doo, etc.)
But my anecdata shows that “let’s compete by eating something so stupidly hot that the pain in both our throats, and somewhat later, the bottom ends of the digestive tract make us want to kill ourselves”, which is what that Yank program(me) seems to be celebrating, is an almost exclusively male stupidity?
“For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and a man who is.” (G.K. Chesterton)
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2013/07/two-balls-bad-no-balls-good.html
A small act of kindness:
https://twitter.com/markaizatt/status/1017825170218737670
Wow … as in Holy crap, Salem witch trials couldn’t have been much worse.
Ah yes, the five stages of welfare parasitism:
1) Gratitude: “This money is a lifesaver, thanks!”
2) Entitlement: “Where’s my damn welfare check?”
3) Blame: “It’s not my fault I’m on the dole.”
4) Resentment: “You don’t give me enough. The system sucks!”
5) Contempt: “There’s nothing moral about work, babes.”
Wow … as in Holy crap,
Yet another illustration of how flashing one’s woke credentials just happens to coincide with all manner of spiteful and unsavoury motives. Strange, that.
Gif as art.
Via Damian.
I’m not surprised at Avery’s attitude. He obviously has no problem declaring his right to steal the identity of women.
Do I understand correctly from the Galloway story that the graduate student on whose word he blacklisted a job applicant is the same person who in the next paragraph accuses Galloway of sexual assault and is the same person who two thirds of the way into the article he admits to have been sleeping with (which turns the the blacklisting incident from a story about unaccountable institutional policies into a sleazy soap opera). If so, isn’t the job applicant the one we should feel sorry for, and isn’t Galloway just taking some of what he admits to have dished out?
Gif as art.
Damn it. I’ve just wasted five minutes watching that. Yes, I know – no refunds, credit note only, etc.
isn’t Galloway just taking some of what he admits to have dished out?
Admittedly, he acted just like SJWs want – take the woman at her word. I feel sorry for the candidate that didn’t get the job, but AFAIK Galloway didn’t lead a mob full of pitchforks and burning torches against this person. Indeed, that person probably went on unaware of what really happened to their application and has gone on with life.
Galloway was totally exonerated of all charges but he’ll never get back any of his life. Ditto anyone who dared to ask for due process for him.
Do I understand correctly from the Galloway story that the graduate student on whose word he blacklisted a job applicant is the same person who in the next paragraph accuses Galloway of sexual assault and is the same person who two thirds of the way into the article he admits to have been sleeping with (which turns the the blacklisting incident from a story about unaccountable institutional policies into a sleazy soap opera). If so, isn’t the job applicant the one we should feel sorry for, and isn’t Galloway just taking some of what he admits to have dished out?
Yes, that was my reading of it as well, though my sympathy gave out about two paragraphs before the “sleeping with” part that I just went back to see. The story winds its way around to that in a rather odd manner. Not that I don’t believe this guy but as you said he blacklisted another person on even less “evidence” than what was had on himself. And yet he got awarded $167K. As I said, I gave up on it and no desire to read through the rest of the TL;DR but I am curious if he ever expresses contrition for the blacklisting.
I have far more sympathy for a guy no one gives a damn about, one George Zimmerman, whose life has been completely ruined, even down to his personality. Who could stand up to such an onslaught? An entire nation, and beyond FWIU, hates him. And he didn’t get a dime from the slanderous news media attacks, the lies, the selectively edited 911 call. And to this day, nobody give a damn about what happened. Nobody cares that even “conservative” media would not support a man using a gun to defend his own life. All of these witch hunt stories are important, especially in the light of the most prominent one that has been going on for two years now, and the exposure of the nature of the mob attacks is very important. Yet I find it very, very hard to have an ounce of sympathy for this Galloway clown.
WTP
I have sympathy for all individuals who run afoul of the mob regardless of their flaws. Zimmerman was rightly acquitted — so even if he’s not a sterling character, I believe he should be left alone to live his life. The complete demonization of Darren Wilson is also unfair and I have a lot of sympathy for a man who has to live in a clandestine way just to protect himself. Anyone standing up for him?
One can pick apart anyone’s life and find flaws. The perfect person is not in need of due process, it is the flawed person precisely because sympathy counts for nothing when the mob is working to lynch you.
Speaking of attitudes and senses of entitlement, Deep Thoughts™ from the loser of the last presidential election:
1. I can’t help but to have noticed that “the most vulnerable” to whom she refers have been the ones disrupting traffic, setting fires, shouting down speakers, and generally rioting.
2. “Contempt for our values”; if by “our” values she means her values, well, yes there is, if, OTOH, she is pretending to speak for the values of most ‘Murkans, again, yes, but the obvious thing is it is her side to blame.
*while jabrwok is looking around the room for approval, quietly slips a pickled egg into his beer*
[ Slides along bar a large, overfilled ashtray. Nods towards Jabrwok’s beer. ]
Pfft. No one appreciates good humor anymore.
[Drinks.]
And another thing…hmmm…piquant, yet bold…and chewy…and…like…have you ever really *looked* at your hand before?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………….
have you ever really *looked* at your hand before?
It should wear off in 8-12 hours.
“There is nothing moral about work” is merely an assertion, lacking argument and evidence.
Babe, how about you review a dozen or so moral philosophers and put together a cogent exposition of your position… or is it a pose?
Ten bucks for naked pics of Ms Edison? This is so sweetly naive. Photoshop, babe.
Ten bucks for naked pics of Ms Edison?
It is all in the fine print, it is actually Mr. Edison.
I’ll assert there’s nothing moral about my job (bookkeeping) but nothing particularly immoral about it, either. It’s just there, paying the bills.
It depends Pogonip. Do you do your accounts honestly, without fear or favour? Assuming yes, then it is moral. The system works based on millions of people making moral decisions, albeit small ones.
Because there certainly are immoral bookkeepers!
And countries where bookkeeping is regarded as an inventive occupation don’t run so well.
Incidentally, and belatedly, I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
The actor (Titus Welliver) who plays the protagonist bears a striking resemblance to a slightly older James Nesbitt.
Are MAPs a new subgroup of the LGBTetc movement?
There’s a very real problem hidden in there, which is that people with strong paraphiliac urges towards minors have absolutely no avenues for support to prevent them acting on those urges. Just admitting to the urge, even under medical privilege, could be social and career suicide.
Much like gender dysphoria, though, a tiny but real mental illness is getting seized upon and normalized for political purposes.
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
More of Avery’s deep wisdom. Apparently, wealth causes poverty.
Are MAPs a new subgroup of the LGBTetc movement?
I bloody well hope not. One of the most disgusting and offensive tropes used by anti-gay/anti-bisexual bigots 50 years ago, and one still used today to a lesser extent, was that all gays were/are pedophiles. And so, as someone who’s bisexual, it would be nice, really nice, if today’s activist left stopped trying to prove those bigots right.
“As a woman, you should know this.”
Apparently, wealth causes poverty.
Look at the replies to that tweet. This is what a large percentage of people, I would even say most people, believe. Break this misconception that most people have and you will go a long way toward solving the problem of creeping leftism and a good number of other social ills.
Zimmerman was rightly acquitted — so even if he’s not a sterling character, I believe he should be left alone to live his life. The complete demonization of Darren Wilson is also unfair and I have a lot of sympathy for a man who has to live in a clandestine way just to protect himself. Anyone standing up for him?
Well neither Zimmerman nor Wilson were active participants in the kind of mentality of which they became victims. I have not heard much about Wilson but I am fairly certain he has support of a good number of police officers and society in general. Zimmerman, not so much. Tell you what, if the day comes where Galloway is simply driving down a road and someone fires a weapon at him simply because he is Galloway, I might reconsider. As for “so even if he’s not a sterling character”, this in itself is part of the problem. To my knowledge he was a decent guy, no different from the vast majority of people of his socioeconomic background and such. His character has been degraded by the horrible way he has been treated by our society in general. That man is truly a victim of a much bigger, far more threatening, and far more dangerous mob.