Friday Ephemera
Cheeeldren of the niiight. || Enchanted instrument. || You want one and you know it. || Know your moons. || The thrill of surface tension. || Firefighting garments of note. || The Guardian, ladies and gentleman. || Effective, if not always elegant. || It ain’t pretty, but it flies. || If you laugh at this, you’re a terrible, terrible person. || Big beasts. I said beasts. || This is one of these. || Wet hands and Satie, together at last. || Pay slip of note. || On the origins of circumcision. || Remember when the ACLU wasn’t entirely ludicrous and unhinged? || Hey, it could happen. || You may need to give it a minute. (h/t, Damian) || Seafront views. || And finally, while on holiday in France, a family’s luggage goes astray.
He does this better than you do: https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1222164060390617097
Pay slip of note.
Wholesome.
The Guardian
Has anyone else ever thought that Owen Jones has the look of a high-functioning Down’s boy? Or am I a uniquely terrible person?
am I a uniquely terrible person?
I laughed at the fat lady crashing into the stunt pad, so at least you’re in good company.
Well, company, anyway.
a family’s luggage goes astray.
In before the inevitable unfunny Pratchett references.
Some animals are more equal than others
The Guardian, ladies and gentleman.
From the same twitter feed, a lovely story about Roger Moore.
Re This as one of these … Anyone else here old enough to remember PDQ Bach and the Baroque Beatles Book?
|| If you laugh at this, you’re a terrible, terrible person. || Big beasts. I said beasts. ||
Entirely proverbial I See What You Did There . . . .
Anyone else here old enough to remember PDQ Bach and the Baroque Beatles Book?
Not quite old enough for that, but ashamedly old enough to remember Walter Murphy and A Fifth of Beethoven. Took years to get the effing song out of my head.
Seafront views.
Really, there are other ways of washing the windows . . . .
a family’s luggage goes astray.
In before the inevitable unfunny Pratchett references.
Well, unfunny succeeded.
The rest of us can point out that there just aren’t enough legs involved to be the Luggage.
Moving house always involves difficult choices:
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1288806902369984513
This is one of these.
Love it. 🙂
And finally, while on holiday in France, a family’s luggage goes astray.
Is the BBC calling them ‘migrants’ yet?
Morning, all.
Is the BBC calling them ‘migrants’ yet?
Hush, now. We must welcome our new Eritrean brain surgeons and prepare for enrichment. And what society wouldn’t wish to welcome presumptuous foreigners who imagine themselves exempt from that society’s basic laws – say, regarding citizenship, property damage and theft. Good times ahoy.
Everyone has to start their future career somewhere…
http://twitter.com/FUCKOFFEE215/status/1289096363683323904
From the unhinged ACLU twitter thread:-
Alex L Combs
@alexlcombs
Replying to
@chasestrangio
The British passed laws with the explicit goal of exterminating trans people in India under British colonial rule. It may seem extreme to use this language, as some of the commenters feel shocked by. However, there is a precedent for it– history shows this “tendency” to be true.
Yep. That ticks the unhinged box for me.
That ticks the unhinged box for me.
It’s quite a thing, to hear that the author of the Harry Potter books is “dangerous” and enabling a “genocidal impulse.” But then, this is a person who favours strings of words such as, “The violence of the binary sex,” and “Situating the trans subject and the trans body in the contested discursive space.”
So, not a twat at all, then.
…while on holiday in France…
The new remake of Alien looks scary.
The British passed laws with the explicit goal of exterminating trans people in India under British colonial rule.
Wild-assed guess that this is a pretzel logic reference to the British possibly trying to suppress the practice of castration.
You may need to give it a minute.
LOL. All-natural DIY fertiliser?
“Police were called and a motorcycle unit arrived on scene and when they opened the box they found the two sixteen year old migrants – one from Guinea and one from Eritrea.”
Wait – in the video, the stowaways are seen exiting the roof storage with no police in sight. Is the video a re-enactment or something?
All-natural DIY fertiliser?
At first glance, it does look like the service they provide is to fart on your shrubbery. Which seemed a little odd. Even in 2020. It took a surprising amount of time – several seconds – before I realised that the bare butt-cheeks were actually meant to be hands.
Wet hands and Satie, together at last.
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
—For that matter, for the first story in the series . . .
Walter Murphy and A Fifth of Beethoven
That was simply a one-off. The bigger issue is Trans Siberian Railroad and Mannheim Steamroller. The latter of which is the crux of a musical taste standoff twixt me and my sister-in-law every Thanksgiving.
Hey, it could happen.
Groundhog year.
Eritrean brain surgeons
Band name.
Trans Siberian Railroad?
Hmmm. Not much of a beat to it
At first glance, it does look like the service they provide is to fart on your shrubbery. Which seemed a little odd. Even in 2020.
This is why I like Fridays…
Anyone else here old enough to remember PDQ Bach
A little earlier and different style, the multi-talented Gerard Hoffnung deserves a mention.
That was simply a one-off.
You’re obviously unfamiliar with his follow up work Mostly Mozart. Also in the Top 100 Songs to Ride Elevators By.
before I realised that the bare butt-cheeks were actually meant to be hands.
Didn’t see that until you pointed it out.
Does that make a bad person?
Jones is so beyond sorry that he didn’t apologize (at least not in that tweet fragment).
Ugh. 32°C. Even the feeble breeze is hot.
“You want one and you know it.”
That’ll tell those pesky ChiComs where to get off.
“This is one of these.”
Well, that was a rabbit hole. Hildegard von Blingin’ (best internet name ever) is the master, though.
“Wet hands and Satie, together at last.”
“Cristal Baschet” sounds like a female racing driver. But who is Ondes Martenot?
“Anyone else here old enough to remember PDQ Bach”
I recall the BBC or Classic FM did a series back in the… ’90s? Although that was kind of a “rediscovery”, as far as I remember it. In fact, I think it was one of those one-a-day things across a week, with PDQ as the jumping-off point for a load of other “forgotten” Bachs.
“the multi-talented Gerard Hoffnung deserves a mention”
As often as possible.
“Ugh. 32°C. Even the feeble breeze is hot.”
It never quite topped 28 here, but it’s suddenly become very, very dark. And I hear rumbles of thunder.
And I hear rumbles of thunder.
Same here, though no rain is forecast. I’m considering whether to climb onto the roof and make an offering to the gods.
A cooling downpour is three puppies, right?
Rain!
Ugh. 32°C. Even the feeble breeze is hot.
[ translates to proper human-scale temperature…89.6 ]
White fragility, indeed.
https://youtu.be/LOy2GuaP8Mo
Seeing the reference above to Gerard Hoffnung I encourage anyone unaware of this unique character to listen to this cautionary tale about brick-laying. There are far worse ways of spending 6 minutes.
A cooling downpour is three puppies, right?
Posted by: David | July 31, 2020 at 19:02
Rain!
Posted by: David | July 31, 2020 at 19:17
That’s five minutes a puppy. Someone’s been practicing.
That’s five minutes a puppy.
I have an idea. I just need three oxen, a goat, and a first-born child.
Ugh. 32°C. Even the feeble breeze is hot.
Blessed be St. Wllis Carrier …
It’s 1:06 pm, SoCal – backyard thermometer reads: 105°F/40.5°C and even the 22% humidity isn’t dry enough to offset it.
blah
backyard thermometer reads: 105°F/40.5°C
[ Faints. ]
It’s 84°F (29°C in weird foreign numbers) here. So gloriously cool it feels like Spring.
Ugh. 32°C. Even the feeble breeze is hot.
Assorted monitors tell me it got up to 72F around here, currently back down to 64F.
Projections are of getting to a much more normal high 50s or so, with flurries of coworkers exclaiming OhGhods it’s freezing out there!!!! as I’m occasionally strolling about with my coat left draped over a seat . . .
Here in the midwestern U.S., a relatively cool August is predicted.
Depending on how far west you are , “relatively cool in August “ can mean “not much above 90,” but my little corner of the Midwest is looking at low 80’s next week.
Well, now … no red flags here.
The BBC brings us new art in Trafalgar Square.
Mysteries of a Barbershop
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
The BBC brings us new art in Trafalgar Square.
I suppose making something that’s both incongruous and banal is a kind of skill. Not the kind of skill one should pay for, of course, or be coerced to pay for.
If we could spread the rumour that that new work of art is a conceptual interpretation of a slave owner…