Friday Ephemera
Wing man. || “Hingst told the court that Short would enter Hingst’s small, windowless office several times a day and break wind.” || The complete North Bergen High School performance of Alien. || Our betters reminisce. || Eminently binge-able. || Salt mining. (h/t, Pogonip) || Skills. || Signage of note. (h/t, Dicentra) || 23 caves. || Mr Yoshimoto has a curry vending machine. || Crows bearing gifts. || Hand-cranked rhythm generator. || Hooters Air. || A feminist is corrected. (h/t, Darleen) || That’s exactly how I would do it. || The question you’ve always wanted to ask. || Tools of wooing. || Shopping mall ceiling of note. || And finally, the boys’ home-made flame-thrower was a partial success.
A couple of caves they missed:
—The Lost Sea, Sweetwater, Tennessee, USA. Biggest underground lake in U. S, most of the time. When we went it was the middle of a multi-year drought, so it was becoming the Lost Pond, but was still deep enough to take the boat tour.
—Ohio Caverns, West Liberty, Ohio, USA. Has unique “soda-straw” crystal formations. Watch out for the 85-step “steep stairs” formation at the very end!
Tools of wooing
The down side is if you open it it summons Cenobites.
The down side is if you open it it summons Cenobites.
I just saw a wedding ring.
Eh. Tomato, tomahto.
Eminently binge-able.
Although some are looking forward to Lance Reddick impressions.
Morning, all.
The down side is if you open it it summons Cenobites.
Relationships involve compromise.
Although some are looking forward to Lance Reddick impressions.
It’s quite a voice.
The downside of bingeing, given the brevity of the seasons, is it’s ten evenings and done. Then a whole goddamn year to wait.
That’s exactly how I would do it.
I think I’m in love.
Is your sandwich gay-affirming?
“Is your sandwich gay-affirming?”
Oh, M&S…
Never mind that, is your gay sandwich affirming? *Goes off with sandwich to find a local gay*.
😄
I’m officially retired! Emphasis on “tired.” I accumulated a surprising amount of stuff over 28 years which I then had to push across the vast uncharted wastes of the parking lot. By the time I got done my feet hurt!
I’m officially retired!
Did the tearful crowds shower you with rose petals?
The bar on school plays just got considerably higher.
Of course they did.
*adds Bosch to list of things to watch*
*adds Bosch to list of things to watch*
If you like complex, slow-burning detective dramas with long arcs and atmosphere, then… well, there’s plenty of that. Police dramas aren’t usually my thing, but Bosch is very well done.
I forgot to make sure the rose petals were sandwich-affirming. ☺️
Family resemblance.
Bosch is well done and crucially (can’t stress this enough), they plausibly explain how come he lives in a fantastically expensive up-market house while being a mere detective, so you don’t spend the whole thing being uptight about THAT. (Everyone does get uptight about that, don’t they?)
Everyone does get uptight about that, don’t they?
Well, Maddie really grates.
Well, Maddie really grates.
She’s not the most engaging character, though she does actually prove useful in season five. And the Bosch / Honey Chandler team-up was particularly entertaining.
Finally, common sense control of another dangerous weapon in the UK – anyone caught with one will be whisked off to jail.
Someone is beyond stupid if this isn’t a joke.
P T Barnum smiles.
Someone doesn’t quite get the idea of “comedian”, however, NAAFA is a real thing, they are a “civil rights organization”, unlimited pie being in the 57th Amendment.
That’s exactly how I would do it.
Sparks argument about circumcision in 3, 2…
Sorry, should be:
The question you’ve always wanted to ask.
Sparks argument about circumcision in 3, 2…
oh-oh.
Hope this fixes it before our host notices…
I’ll just leave this here, shall I…?
Someone is beyond stupid if this isn’t a joke.
Who’s Zed? Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead.
anyone caught with one will be whisked off to jail
Heh.
I can’t help but get the giggles imagining the scenario of a couple of tough youths holding up the convenience store with that kitchen implement.
P T Barnum smiles.
AS MIND-BOGGLING as it sounds, there are people out there who think that there are people who should be taken seriously who think that the earth is flat, some even that it is a disk, with an edge that is an ice wall. They are convinced that the these flat-earth people are serious and not “taking the piss” or whatever, but truly earnest in their beliefs.
That said, the great majority of people who take those supposedly serious people seriously cannot rationally explain why they think the earth is round aside from the “fact” that everyone believes it is so thus it must be true. There are even crazier people, like me for instance, who think that such a thing partially explains socialism. Or even globalistic warmering hysteria.
“given the brevity of the seasons”
I may give it a go again, then. I saw a couple, got distracted by something and then didn’t want to go back and commit to watching 163 episodes or something.
I can’t help but get the giggles imagining the scenario of a couple of tough youths holding up the convenience store with that kitchen implement.
With a hit of laudanum you can picture Humpty Dumpty behind the cash register. Not so funny anymore, is it? Or are you one of those anti-ovites I’ve been reading so much about lately?
Prayers answered.
I Imagine the home made flame thrower was only a partial success because only one guys pants were on fire.
What David wears when holding his mini flamethrower.
Horrorshow.
Via Perry de Havilland.
Somewhere, Quaker William Penn despairs of what goes on in his city of brotherly love.
Hand-cranked rhythm generator.
Does it come with perfect timing?
Mark your calendar:
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/batman-day/
And the 13th is International Belly Dance Day! 👏
Here’s a useful article from Everyday Feminism:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/12/stay-grounded-after-election/
“Stay in your body” is all-around useful advice, especially when you consider the alternative.
go back and commit to watching 163 episodes or something.
Something I realized when going back and rewatching Smallville and Chuck recently is just how much padding and wasted time there is in most television episodes pre- the streaming era. The economics of syndication and the seasonal TV cycle pretty much demand it (David’s UK readers likely won’t know what I’m talking about given that the BBC doesn’t operate under the same strictures).
It reminds me of the aphorism that for decades, the way to get a TV show made in Hollywood was to start the pitch with “it’s like The Fugitive, but…”
rewatching Smallville
He’s feverish. Fetch towels.
Quick! Give him some hump fat!
but Bosch is very well done.
Hinterland on Netflix is another good one. It’s a little bit darker. In the genre of the tortured DI running away from himself and the big city, [spoiler alert] it features an episode where said tortured DI plays russian roulette with another tortured soul who lived through hell in Afghanistan.
Another plus, there are three seasons. So great for binging.
Mark your calendar:
The site informs us that Batman Day will be 15th September, 2019, “to celebrate the anniversary of the character’s first ever appearance, which was in Detective Comics #27 way back in May 1939” what
The moment when I suddenly realized the retro-flowerchild cum fascist at the audience mic was actually a professor.
… retro-flowerchild cum fascist…
Step off, you violent oppressor, she has been to art school for eight years and is an artist, and if that doesn’t qualify her to judge when disrupting speech is fascist violence nothing does.
The moment when I suddenly realized the retro-flowerchild cum fascist at the audience mic was actually a professor.
And what a passive-aggressive, mentally inadequate, morally degenerate piece of shit she is.
You know, the Khmer Rouge were not entirely wrong. Ms. Artist would benefit immensely from a year of minimum-wage-or-less labor. Stoop labor, fast food, big box. Maybe she and her nanny could swap jobs for 12 months.