Friday Ephemera
Romanian scenes. || The baby-repelling properties of grass. || Perfect every time. || Exactly how should we perceive you, madam? || The progressive retail experience, parts 401, 402, 403 and 404. || Classing the place up no end. || “I’ve decided to dissolve my wiener in acid.” || An educator speaks: “We have to find a way to re-regulate white people.” || The walking dead. || What cotton buds are for. || “The covert world of spy centres and secret bases.” (h/t, Things) || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || It seemed like a good idea at the time. (h/t, Damian) || One month of the Sun. || Stalker, thwarted. || A bathroom tale. || Turning back time. || And finally, enticingly, “I’m working on a children’s book…”
A sliver of sanity — a rather brave jury affirms the right to self-defense.
The BBC is very unhappy.
So their rioters are heroic champions
“Our violence is speech. Your speech is violence.”
By the way, tips for late-evening viewing, dramas or documentaries, are still welcome. I wish to binge.
“The BBC is very unhappy.”
Heh.
“I wish to binge.”
Well, we’re watching the verdict. Again and again. With bourbon.
Why do people feel they need to wait until dark to
protestriotprotestwhatever? Does it have anything to do with Halloween?I wish to binge.
The only shows I can stomach watching anymore are old, so my recommendations may not suit. My last bingeing included the original Hercule Poirot shows before they got all dark and woke (when Hugh Fraser and Miss Lemon left), Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett by Granada TV, Jeeves and Wooster with Fry and Laurie, and for American fare, Magnum P.I. (go ahead and laugh).
For non-fiction I’ve found myself glued to YouTube videos that I think I originally found in one of the Ephemera (or Ephemer-arne’t) awhile back: some guy (in N Europe somewhere?) who restores old metal tools (I think a big vise was the first I saw) and objects in his workshop. There’s not a lot of chatter, or even a musical soundtrack, just captions and the sound of the various tools. I don’t know why I am captivated by those videos, but they’re satisfying to watch.
tips for late-evening viewing, dramas or documentaries, are still welcome.
I recently watched the two live-action The Tick serieses (2016 and 2001), which are both quite good.
There’s Endeavour, if you like nostalgic crime dramas.
I might have mentioned Love, Death and Robots before too?
Well, we’re watching the verdict. Again and again.
Well, the verdict was correct, which is a great relief. But the prosecution was a fucking travesty.
But the prosecution was a fucking travesty.
I think they should be treated like Nifong.
I only worry now if Merrick Garland is now bored with siccing the FBI on uppity parents and will now move on Rittenhouse.
By the way, tips for late-evening viewing, dramas or documentaries, are still welcome. I wish to binge.
I caught a trailer a few days ago for a heist film on Netflix called Red Notice, starring Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, and the delectable Gal Gadot. From the trailer, it feels like one of those fun, forgettable, old-fashioned popcorn films that Hollywood used to do very well before defaulting to seemingly endless superhero schlock and woke remakes. It’s probably not great art, but it does look like great entertainment. I looked up the RT score out of curiosity, and 92% of viewers liked it, versus 35% of critics. It might keep you entertained for a couple of hours.
SDA is only loading the frames for me.
I’m approaching my Friday night dinner at the pub with a mixture of dread and anticipation, since I’m absolutely certain that The Verdict is going to be a centerpiece of the evening’s conversation.
I’m hoping that the usual suspects can explain to me how it is that they’ve come to lionize a child molester, a wife-beater and a burglar who never gave any indication of caring about Black Lives Mattering but rather looked to take advantage of the protests in order to get their rocks off by burning down buildings and breaking things. I mean, if I were a community organizer, I’d be pretty pissed off about three violent white felons piggybacking off my efforts in order to gratify their own barbaric urges for violence. Not saying I’d wish them dead, but I sure wouldn’t be putting them on a pedestal or shedding a lot of tears over their fates.
I’ll let you know if they shed any light on the apparent contradictions!
Oh, and I’d absolutely love to volunteer as Rittenhouse’ libel lawyer right about now. Given the number of times the facts have been presented, there’s no reason why the usual lefty blowhards should still be shouting falsehoods at this late hour, except if they’re deliberately trying to ruin the young man’s reputation and stir up trouble.
Hopefully he and Nick Sandmann will have fun playing with all the really nice toys CNN is forced to pay for.
I think they should be treated like Nifong.
🙂
Speaking of travesties – have you checked out the case of Lucas Gerhard?
For non-fiction I’ve found myself glued to YouTube videos…
I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole in a big way myself.
My latest distraction is a tugboat driver moving barges around New York Harbo(u)r. I was complaining about how stressful it is to get a 40-foot sailboat into a marina slip when the breeze is up, and one of my sailing buddies pointed me to TimB and told me to count my blessings that I’m not trying to land a 300-foot barge alongside a pier with wind and tide both conspiring against me.
Now we’ve got this absolute piece of inhuman shit chiming in.
Never mind Nifong – I think we may need the Nguyễn Văn Lém solution.
I’ll let you know if they shed any light on the apparent contradictions!
“He shouldn’t have been there … muh!”
I’d absolutely love to volunteer as Rittenhouse’ libel lawyer
Not just media, but every leftwing politician is screaming … from Gavin Newsom to Deblasio … and saying the same things shown to be false at trial.
And media personalities are melting down right before our eyes.
Now we’ve got this absolute piece of inhuman shit chiming in.
Don’t forget all the New Yorkers who elected him.
Now we’ve got this absolute piece of inhuman shit chiming in.
This is one of the replies. Serious or satire? It’s so damned difficult to tell:
https://twitter.com/myhunt1972/status/1461779601139679237
this absolute piece of inhuman shit
I prefer “most engorged of ticks on the American backside”.
I mean, if I were a community organizer, I’d be pretty pissed off about three violent white felons piggybacking off my efforts…
Efforts to what? Burn, loot, and terrorize while lionizing some other dirtbag who got himself killed through his own poor decisions?
The only shows I can stomach watching anymore are old, so my recommendations may not suit.
Same here. We mostly watch classic movies on TCM. Someone here recommended that Russian 2015 remake/series about WWII women AA gunners. We watched the first episode last night. It was good but hard to follow. Most foreign films that we have watched move kinda slow. Maybe it’s age but we found it a bit hard to keep up with the subtitles while trying to follow war action. I wish movies like this would be dubbed. I get that it’s hard/expensive to get right, and I generally don’t mind reading the subtitles (and a few Irish and UK films could be helped in this regard…looking at you Kes) but I fear it’s the snob factor that drives such a decision. I remember 20-some years ago staying in Prague, got back to the hotel room as wife was turned, so I turned on the TV and some good American film was on…forget which…and I was surprised (based on said snob factor) that the film was dubbed in Czech, which made it too bothersome to watch. I found the irony rather thick.
Lab Rat,
If you like Magnum PI, try The Rockford Files.
LOL, always a reliable anti-woke circle-jerk here.
LOL, always a reliable anti-woke circle-jerk here.
And look who’s shown up for a little bukkake.
Somewhat off-topic, but a living example of why “wokeness” needs to be in the next revision of the DSM (DSM-6 ?) : https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1461808173447266309
Now we’ve got this absolute piece of inhuman shit chiming in.
This is one of the replies. Serious or satire? It’s so damned difficult to tell: “>https://twitter.com/myhunt1972/status/1461779601139679237
I’d hate to see inside this guy’s mind – talk about contradictory.
(PS he can’t count – claims 8ish children but shows pic of 10)
Father of 8ish. Left wing conservative. pro vaccine MANDATE. Pro liberty. NRA advocate. Avid hunter. Vegan. Allergist. full time doc, part time drummer
Bingeing
How about Thames TV’s World at War?
26 episodes, enough to keep you binged for 24 hours, allowing for 90 minutes of popcorn-bucket recharging and the occasional pee.
I just finished “Unknown Soldier,” a Finnish film about the men of a machine-gun company in the Continuation War. It was excellent. Intense. Finnish. Maybe the best depiction of WWII-era small-unit combat I’ve seen.
I’d hate to see inside this guy’s mind – talk about contradictory.
Another lunatic comment.
Please. My rabbit. He very sick.
Something I am mulling over in my mind – are we seeing the decline of the 5th Amendment? I noticed that with Kyle Rittenhouse, the Ahmaud Arbery case, and the Theranos trial, defendants are taking the stand. In Kyle’s case, his defense team used mock jurors beforehand and concluded that he plays well and the Midwest zeitgeist is that folks want to hear his side of the story. My thought is will that become a norm? Frankly, I don’t see how Travis McMichael is a sympathetic character but then, I am not privy to seeing the jurors’ faces.
Efforts to what? Burn, loot, and terrorize while lionizing some other dirtbag who got himself killed through his own poor decisions?
That’s not fair: Some “community organizers” only engage in more peaceful forms of harassment and extortion. /sarcasm
How about Thames TV’s World at War?
Having seen the entire series, and having recommended it here some years ago, while noting the sometimes harrowing content, I’m not sure I’d want to watch it again shortly before going to sleep.
My last bingeing included…
I’ve seen all of the Jeremy Brett Holmes episodes, most more than once, though I could never quite get into Poirot. I found Marple much more entertaining.
What?
tips for late-evening viewing
This may not be your cup of tea, but I’ve just this morning finished Episode 3 of Amazon’s latest, Wheel of Time.
Almost in spite of myself and a little to my surprise, I’ve actually found it quite enjoyable and it’s almost worth it just for the many panoramic shots of the world its set in, some of which are very striking indeed.
However, and it must be said, there are several occasions when you get to experience what it must have been like to be television-viewer in the former Soviet Union.
In other words, there are a number of very irksome interjections of what the Critical Drinker refers to as “the message”.
These are so ubiquitous now that I find myself, probably like many of those Soviet Union viewers, simply screening them out while they gibber on about the power of strong women and the evils of weak men or when they show petite five-foot nothing actresses improbably working the bellows in a blacksmith or easily defeating eight-foot tall raging orc-beasts that whole groups of armed warriors have trouble taking down.
But if you can screen those out, along with some clunky direction*, it’s actually not too shabby.
Not a ringing endorsement, no, but then it’s not by any means a superior production.
* One scene during a battle scene in the first episode is literally laugh-out-loud ludicrous.
This may not be your cup of tea,
[ Spits out tea, throws cup on fire. Burns down house in which tea was drunk. ]
I kid. I’ve never heard of the thing. Though, it has to be said, you’re not really selling it.
In theory, if someone in California steals >$950 of stuff without particular worry, then why can’t there be some waiting outside the door to steal what was just stolen from the original thieves?
@Nikw211: if the ‘Daily Mail’ is to be believed (yeah, I know…) the, ummm, male scenery is pretty remarkable too.
*fans self*
I’ve never heard of the thing.
It was released on Prime only yesterday.
Though, it has to be said, you’re not really selling it.
Well, what can I say?
It’s one thing to screen out “the message” as a viewer, but as any kind of review, you feel obliged to mention it.
It’s really a question of how intrusive it is, not whether or not it will be there – that’s a given.
sigh
OF COURSE I used > instead of <. In natural language, “steals less than $950 of stuff” would have been unambiguous.
*fans self*
[ Turns up air conditioning. Puts newspaper under Julia. ]
I could never quite get into Poirot. I found Marple much more entertaining.
Ludicrous.
Particularly as although there is only one Poirot, there are a million Marples. From the sublime Joan Hickson to Americans.
*fans self*
Heh.
Well, yes, to the extent that I’m in a position to judge such things on behalf of others, I would say Marcus Rutherford has ‘giant puppy’ appeal and Josh Stradowski will strike a blow for gingers everywhere as a taller, younger version of Ryan Phillipe.
* Masculine throat clearing growl *
‘Course the birds are fabulous, too. That Rosumand Pike’s a top bit of posh tottie, ain’t she just? etc.
It’s one thing to screen out “the message” as a viewer…
Perhaps the reason I cannot abide much modern
entertainmentpropaganda is my inability to do precisely that?although there is only one Poirot, there are a million Marples. From the sublime Joan Hickson to Americans.
I’ve seen the Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie runs twice. I think of Marple as comfort TV. Yes, there’s quite a lot of poisoning and questionable will-altering, and bodies piling up everywhere, but it’s oddly comforting.
bodies piling up everywhere, but it’s oddly comforting.
I think it’s the knitting. Probably those French aristocrats being led to the guillotine felt the same.
I think it’s the knitting.
I’m not quite sure what it is, but my two attempts to get into Poirot have failed. I don’t dislike it as such, and I remember being entertained by The ABC Murders. But as an ongoing series, I just didn’t find it as charming.
Maybe it’s the fact there are more homicidal lesbians in Marple.
Poirot
Not a fan but iirc, he’s Belgian, correct? The boredom is baked in. Probably the only country on the planet that I have no fear of visiting yet never even discussed a reason to go. Even their beer is boring. Especially in a European context. Coming from someone who grew up on American beer of the 1970’s, that says something.
there are a number of very irksome interjections of what the Critical Drinker refers to as “the message”.
How does it compare to the original novels?
he’s Belgian, correct? The boredom is baked in. Probably the only country on the planet that I have no fear of visiting
I assume that “migrants” have made Belgium much more exciting in recent years, yes?
It’s one thing to screen out “the message” as a viewer, but as any kind of review, you feel obliged to mention it.
Which is one of the things that distinguishes you from all too many professional reviewers.