Friday Ephemera
On the upside, I bet the acoustics are tremendous. || For readers overseas, a brief guide to the beauty of English. (h/t, Brian) || “I own big shoe company.” || Today’s word is enrichment. || She’s really showing those patriarchal oppressors. || She does this better than you do. || At last, sliced mayonnaise. || “It loves like a man.” || Mothers and sons. || More joys of public transport. || Pulling Gs. || Script Doctor recaps Picard. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. || A project for the weekend. || Ice, ice, baby. || Two football tribes, one alley. || Crush, kill, destroy. || The Chrysler Building’s art-deco eagles, 1930. || How to move around your space station, plan B. || In Indonesian sperm-related news. || And finally, three times, you say?
The collective denial of reality is an odd thing to watch.
“You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.”
Unrelated:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/02/massive-migrant-wave-hits-europe-as-turkey-opens-border/
FYI…
Do You Need a Permit To Wear High Heeled Shoes In Carmel by the Sea, CA.?
Yes, yes you do.
https://buyersask.com/edu/code/do-you-need-a-permit-to-wear-high-heeled-shoes-in-carmel-by-the-sea-ca/
Do You Need a Permit To Wear High Heeled Shoes In Carmel by the Sea, CA.?
A very dear (shoe-loving) friend just broke off a serious, but long-distance relationship with a man who lives in Carmel. This was likely the straw that broke the camel’s back. Bullet dodged!
Do You Need a Permit To Wear High Heeled Shoes In Carmel by the Sea, CA.?
“Although Carmel by the Sea has the requirement, it is not enforced.”
There has to be a mechanism to vote California out of the union.
What’s even more absurd about it is that Clint Eastwood was the mayor there 30 or 40 years ago. Wife and I stayed there in one stop over on our honeymoon 30 years ago partly because I was curious about the town that elected him mayor.
The “permit” is just a release of liability for the town. Carmel is very hilly and rough-paved in large part. Also populated by some of the wealthiest people in the US, i.e. Deep Pockets.
So, a little defensive lawering is only to be expected.
And I’d bet this is a follow up to an actual suit.
(Man, I need to spend more time in the real world. I appear to be actually defending this regulation.)
While I always understood that Steve McQueen’s Mustang in Bullitt nor probably not even his BMW bike in The Great Escape could have taken all that abuse and kept running, there was still the thrill of seeing individual cuts of stunt drivers (and Steve himself) pushing these machines to do such incredible stuff IRL.
Well [pedant on] McQueen was actually riding a Triumph in The Great Escape [pedant off]. But you are correct about the most important bit (IMRHO):
OK, everybody knows that SM didn’t do ‘The Jump’. But watch the scene leading up to it – SM rides up to the fence, considers things, opens to gas cap to check the gas level, and turns around and powers down the hill in prep for the jump. One take, no cutaways – McQueen actually fishtailed that bike down a grassy hill. Just try to imagine any of Hollywood’s current dreamboats doing any such thing.
I appear to be actually defending this regulation
California, with lawyers every few feet, was the birthplace and enthusiastic practitioner of the drive-by lawsuit. So I find myself in the same position of understanding why a city would make sure to protect themselves against a lawsuit for someone else’s bad judgment yet rolling my eyes at such micro-management legislation.
Related: California’s new law that effectively bans freelancing has special carve-out exemptions for about a dozen professions. OF COURSE, “lawyers” are in that group.
Well [pedant on] McQueen was actually riding a Triumph
Heh. Horrors. I actually looked up what bike it was, google or whatever told me BMW which made sense if historically-ish accurate, being it was supposed to have been stolen from a German soldier, yet some little voice in the back of my head told me it was wrong. While tempting to say I should pay more attention to that little voice in the back of my head, long term odds on that strategy are probably sub-optimal.
“Do You Need a Permit To Wear High Heeled Shoes In Carmel by the Sea, CA.?”
Well, I know you need a license to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in Omaha, Nebraska – Porky Pig has one, I saw it on TV.