Friday Ephemera
Headpool. || Cranky when peckish. || From King Kong to Fleischer’s Superman, animated scenes. || “Pull on string” and other things seen by car mechanics. || The unspanked, a possible series. || Inconvenience of note. || Biometric security using veins. || Brøndby Garden City. || Launching satellites with a giant gun. || Seating solution of note. || The spirit of innovation. || Nommy nommy nom. || Always remove the nails. || Choices have consequences. (h/t, Perry) || Kagoshima. || The creatures who teach your children. || Somewhat related. || This is one of these. || Always remember, someone’s day was worse than yours. || Six dancers, one spinning platform. || And finally, musically, some daddy-daughter time.
animal story
I was over forty years old before I even heard of “Rab and His Friends” by the Scottish doctor John Brown: the story was first printed around 1850 or ’60, and for many years it was nursery fare, like Gulliver and Robinson Crusoe. It’s surely one of the best dog stories ever written, encompassing the virtues together with violent death and human pathos, but beautiful to stir the soul. They don’t give such books to children much nowadays, more’s the pity.
I only happened to discover it when I was reading some old talks given to first-year medical students by Dr. William Osler — and here I wish a Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends. Osler was a great champion of John Brown’s writings, and urged them on his listeners every chance he had. I’m glad I took his advice.
There are variant versions of “Rab” online; this is the best I’ve found:
https://www.studentuk.com/2016/07/31/rab-and-his-friends/
Re Evaristo:
I have actually read Their Eyes Were Watching God. As far as as I know, it is the only novel in the English language featuring a hero who (a) is named Tea Cake and (b) dies of rabies after heroically interposing himself between his girlfriend, Janey, and a rabid dog. Zora Hurston wasn’t a good enough fiction writer to pull this off, her forte was non-fiction.
…a portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg masde of 20,000 tampons.
Ms. Casey Jenkins performs vaginal knitting…
…Andrea Sheehan…
Hold my beer!
Read more about this and other stunning and brave artwork made by people of all genders !
Not to put to fine a point on it but,
And I thought there were something like 137 genders.
…a hero who (a) is named Tea Cake…
No doubt inspired by Joe Biden’s anti-hero Corn Pop.
…talks given to first-year medical students by Dr. William Osler — and here I wish a Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends.
Thank you Baceseras. Here’s some interesting history on Osler.
Osler grew up in the town of Dundas which is about a 10 minute drive from where I live. The house he grew up in is operated as a bed and breakfast today. He was born in Bond Head, but his family wanted to relocate to Dundas. He came down with the croup so the family couldn’t travel and had to cancel their train tickets.
The train they were originally scheduled to travel on collapsed on the Canal Bridge (I live 5 minutes from its location) in what became known as the Desjardins Canal Train Disaster. 59 people were killed in the accident.
So, ironically, the “father of modern medicine” might never have come to be had it not been for a childhood illness.
Hotel Zena celebrating tampons
Plato a champion of women’s rights? The things you learn here!
Young woke intellectual of the year.
My dear Nemo, thank you muchly.
You’re welcome.
“Osler grew up in the town of Dundas which is about a 10 minute drive from where I live.”
Interesting. Its founders must have come from my neck of the woods. The the Dundas Burn flows into the River Kelvin about ten minute’s walk from where I live (or rather the remains of it do; you could easily mistake it for a drainpipe), and Port Dundas is the district of Glasgow which grew around a canal wharf near its source.
“Young woke intellectual of the year.”
Totally not a racist at all. I mean, how could anyone possibly imagine that this is a similar thought process to that which led to the slaughter of the 20th Century? It’s a mystery, right enough.
All of the 60 art pieces on-site were painted, photographed, sculpted, or stitched by “feminists of both genders around the globe fighting for human rights,” the release says.
And I thought there were something like 137 genders.
You would be correct, the writer at your link to the DC Eater* is just manifesting internalized colonial yte phallocentricity by saying “both genders”, the writer at Hot Lifestyle News displays proper wokeosity goodthought when zher writes;
The DC Eater writer clearly needs reeducation.
*In this context, the jokes, they write themselves.
awarded an OBE…just let that sink in.
Well, Kentucky Fried Chicken officially changed its name to KFC and declares that KFC now stands for…KFC. So maybe an increasingly woke Parliament can decree that OBE no longer stands for Order of the British Empire. (Similarly, the A&M in Texas A&M originally meant Agriculture and Mechanical, but now officially means nothing.)
The NYT would like us to know about The Tragedy of Heterosexuality and other nonsense. Two excerpts:
Come the Restoration, I pray for the NYT and all its journalists to be thoroughly lustrated.
Interesting. Its founders must have come from my neck of the woods.
Dundas was named after Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville — an 18th-century politician from Edinburgh Scotland. Dundas was Home Secretary and Secretary at War in William Pitt’s government. He never lived in Canada. The town was originally called Coote’s Paradise as it sits at the end of a marsh that had been the preferred hunting ground of British Naval Captain Thomas Coote. Coote was born in Ireland.
There is some pressure being brought to change the name of the town. It is claimed that Dundas delayed the abolition of slavery by 15 years.
Young woke intellectual of the year.
Possibly related…
Possibly related…
Now come on…years ago, before 2015 even, I was assured by very, very smart people that such things were simply never going to happen. If you think something like this is possibly likely, well perhaps you need to speak to a psychiatrist. You wait right here and as soon as the good doctor is done fucking his parakeet, he will see you.
The tweeter in question, like the “99%” lady, seems to think that the limited market for leftwing students with fine arts degrees is a form of punishment, which is a rather grandiose way of looking at it.
The easy way to deflate someone who says this sort of thing: “Whom would you hire to do what you do? And how much would you pay?”
Modern romance.
Modern romance.
Bullet dodged.
Breaking News: World Health Organizations declare lockdowns “unnecessary.”
So much for science.
Before I turn in for the night, here’s that steampunk propeller car you’ve always wanted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/j8lygj/this_1921_helica_de_leyat_also_known_as_the_plane/
Modern romance.
“Let’s take this outside” – the proper answer should have been “Feck Off”.
From Biden’s website
I may be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to hunt children with even one shell in your shotgun.
Bridesmaids kind of cute. Can you marry them?
Farnsworth: re the RBG portrait, so would it be fair to say that the medium really IS the message?
Well, somebody HAD to say it…
“Dancing”.
If only those kids had these, they could have gotten close to their dates instead of someone else’s.
Meanwhile, as if air travel didn’t suck enough, I bet these work great in an emergency.
I bet these work great in an emergency.
It does rather suggest a gameshow challenge, in which contestants have to wobble down a narrow aisle, fully besuited in the, um, apparatus, as around them smoke thickens and screaming intensifies.
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Oh, she saved this little gem for the end: “…just the thing to rescue heterosexuality from its unearned hegemony in our shared cultural imagination.”
Given that we’re talking about the foundational social unit of thousands of species for thousands of generations, I’m not really sure “unearned hegemony” is the right label. I mean, if that level of achievement isn’t enough to “earn” dominance, what is?
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
I struggled through the review and felt I’d lost a leg-full of blood.
Well, as tampon portraits go, that one’s a pretty good likeness.
Going from the ridiculous to the not-sublime, I am just barely old enough to remember Shirley Chisholm, a Congresscritter who was also the first black something-or-other. I remember what she looked like, and that’s a terrible picture of her.
Always respect the media.
…just the thing to rescue heterosexuality from its unearned hegemony in our shared cultural imagination.
Just where do these people think new non-heterosexual humans come from? Gametes from each sex (hetero!) combine, resultant human gestates in the mature female human until birth or at least to some level of development where tech can keep it alive. And this is the party of Science!(tm)? It doesn’t matter what you think you are or are attracted to – you didn’t get on this planet in the first place without heterosexual reproduction!
Governor Squid said it much better. I’m just fed up to here with being beat about the head with Science!(tm) when it’s about masks or global warming, and told to shut up when it’s about basic biology.
…to rescue heterosexuality from its unearned hegemony in our shared cultural imagination…
From Orwell, someone is trying just that.
A tragic lament…
A tragic lament…
One would need a heart of stone not to laugh.
Just read this in a discussion on using cognitive ability tests in hiring practices. Based on previous comments, this person was serious…
One would need a heart of stone not to laugh.
Or be infected with the Woke virus.
NameRedacted based on our systemic racism, we dont deserve the fruits of a meritocracy, “the best”. We only deserve “good enough”, random chance from a pool of qualified candidates.
I have no problem with “woke” idiots getting medical care only from physicians who graduated in the bottom of their classes and barely passed their board exams. It’s what they deserve.
just the thing to rescue heterosexuality from its unearned hegemony in our shared cultural imagination
It’s as if the idiot has a woke cliche generator. Pull the string and hear the blather. But it does relieve the person of the burden of actual thought.
This is one of these.
Note how many of these involve the poster describing their mental health breakdowns as context.