Friday Ephemera
Look away now. || I laughed and I’m not sorry. || Maybe a bath. || Giant cat roams British countryside. || Today’s word is suboptimal. || Does both ends, you know. || He does this better than you do. || High drama. || Kinship detected. (h/t, Julia) || The thrill of fertilisation. || Modern fretting. || Wait for it. || You want one and you know it. || At last, an hour of whale probe ambience. || First-person parkour with balloons and monkeys. || Tape recorders of yore. (h/t, Things) || Light and layered glass. || More glamourous than thou. || It has “autonomous steaming technology.” || Snow in Nagano. || Not a lot happened, then quite a lot did. || And finally, the heroic intervention didn’t go entirely to plan.
Wait for it
Where’s that guy who adds rubbery, wavy arms onto video clips?
A colossal hand-bound book, with no printing, no writing of any kind, no illustrations of any kind….. 908 pages of blank paper.
Do click on the link. It’s much better than it sounds, and really quite lovely:
https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1349726353034153984
Recipe of note:
https://twitter.com/NasheedWallace/status/1349407757636665344
908 pages of blank paper
Book title is “What Exists Outside of Leftist Bubble”.
autonomous steaming technology
Reminds me of the military rations, self-heating cans of soup. Culd be life-threatening
“You want one and you know it.”
Oh, hell yes. It’s like a giant one of these. Which, were I in a position to throw 100 quid away on stuff I have absolutely no use for, I’d buy without a second thought.
Recipe…
Reminds me the recipes I ran into while studying Sam Pepys diary.
They often started something like this:
Take a Bushel of Water and a Lot of Good Beef…
It’s too bad there weren’t video cameras when me and my cousin (at age 3) were being interrogated after painting our family Buick. We blamed each other.
Maybe a bath.
Brilliant. Actual handwringing.
“You want one and you know it.”
It’s astonishing how often this is actually true!
Morning, all.
Actual handwringing.
As parent-small boy negotiations go, it’s quite a thing. I get the impression it’s not their first rodeo.
I wonder if I could adopt them.
We blamed each other.
I vaguely recall a similar negotiation taking place after my parents discovered that an old writing bureau, a can of silver spray paint and an unsupervised four-year-old is not an ideal combination.
I think it was the first time I saw that you could be told off by people who are trying not to laugh.
we blamed each other
I have three boys and many stories, some of them involved the dog and many were expensive. How the youngest survived we don’t know. We regale each other with them on family occasions. The story always ends with “and that boys, is why mummy drinks”.
Maybe a bath.
LOL Cutest bad guys ever.
I get the impression it’s not their first rodeo.
Definitely not. 🙂
Definitely not. 🙂
Oh, there’s history there. It’s the line, “Maybe if we think about what we’ve done…?”
Cunning yet adorable.
“You want one . . .”
As soon as I get the hobbit hole I want.
Snow in Nagano
Er….
Er….
Answers on a postcard, please.
More glamorous?
Wouldn’t have been out of place on the recent thread about A Flock of Seagulls and others of that era.
Snow in Nagano looks like a still from a Miyazaki film.
Errrr
The car on the right seems to be rather curiously parked.
Answers on a postcard, please.
You all, being yte supremacist racists, see a PoC caricature, I see a victim of yte imperialist colonial supremacism, a poor tortured soul with flash burns from Hiroshima.
I am just woke that way.
I’ll ruin the joke and point out that giant-headed mascots outside businesses, even ones as small as convenience stores, are a common thing in Japan.
whale probe ambience
Well, that is more soothing than what I was listening to!
giant-headed mascots … are a common thing in Japan
Well that Kumamon has seen better days 🤔
I have a couple of friends who live there and the Japan you see in film and TV is very different from the reality. The country is in the middle of a massive demographic crisis, it’s been in an economic malaise for decades resulting in a kind of genteel shabbiness outside the major tourist centers, and it’s still fantastically xenophobic.
It’s a fascinating place to visit, in the same way Cuba was.
autonomous steaming technology
Reminds me of the military rations, self-heating cans of soup. Culd be life-threatening
I assume you’ve never encountered Scottish army field rations?
Well, that is more soothing than what I was listening to!
[Proffers ironic OGT handshake.]
Er….
Mystery solved.
Mystery solved
I beg to differ:
“Tanukis have legendarily been known to use their testicles as makeshift raincoats, as weapons, and as drums.”
Eh, I’d say it’s more “radical” or “tubular” than “awesome” or “glamourous”.
been known to use their testicles as makeshift raincoats, as weapons, and as drums.
Blimey.
Today’s word is suboptimal.
Is that the built-in cigarette lighter?
autonomous steaming technology
Reminds me of the military rations…
The woke left, according to Anton Chekhov, is not civilized.
Giant cat roams British countryside.
Is it hunting killer cars?
I love coming across things that explain things.
How to refine a font for sheet music, including an amazing program (Score) developed in the ’80s.
Why the Music in Cats is worse than you thought. Including digressions about why Cats worked on stage, ALW’s two ways of writing a song, how singers express themselves, and how sound engineers realized director Tom Hooper’s insane idea that makes listening to the movie equivalent to applying a high-speed drill against your cranium.
Why the Music in Cats is worse than you thought.
One might suggest that the podcaster record his digressions as separate recordings. One was amused for ten or twelve minutes, but the magic wore off after that.
Oh, wait — did he produce an overly long, overly padded rant about Cats on purpose?! Diabolical!
(The sheet music special was enthralling, btw. Maybe my patience was tested by Cats guy because it suffered by comparison.)
@ Karl
I beg to differ
A subtle reference to Villa Incognito perhaps?
Wile E. Coyote shouts “We was kings!” while blowing self up.
Via the same link, French police raid Antifa bomb factory.
a subtle reference
You flatter me sir.
Alas I am more Baskin than Tom.
I’m so old I remember Chiffon toilet paper!
Also, easily the weirdest thing on the Internet, at least I hope it is: smurf torture!
http://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/1/1960.html
Extra-credit weirdness: it took the audience ten years to realize what the story was actually about.
I’m so old I remember Chiffon toilet paper!
Was it everything the adverts promised?
Probably not.
The woke left, according to Anton Chekhov, is not civilized.
Wokelings tend to disdain reciprocation, which is pretty much the foundation of being civilised, even denouncing it as, for instance, “respectability politics” and a “bad idea.”
Hence their principles, so-called, are not in fact principles, merely excuses.
Can endorse.
[ Wipes chin. ]
Science !™
I think the best part is the rags stuffed in the ends of the flutes.
There was also a Chiffon margarine. Never tasted it—Mom was Parkay all the way.
There was also a Chiffon margarine.
See how far we’ve come.
There was also a Chiffon margarine.
It’s a bit like using Diaphanous as a brand name for lard. Promising more than it can deliver, really.