Friday Ephemera
Three words: post-coital fondue. || Tongue action. || Twitter: The Movie. || He nipped outside for a smoke. || The thrill of carpet fitting. || Cyberpunk excitement. || How to empty one of these with optimal speed. || They have much to teach us. || A cosy murder mystery. || “The erotic mind-control community has a problem with racism.” || Brittany, 27, is not at all religious. || Booby drumroll. || There ain’t no cringe quite like woke theatre cringe. || Divergence. || “What does it matter?” || It’s amazing how quickly the day can turn to shit. || Apparently, he’s not broadcasting it. || Batman: The Silent Motion Picture. || Notice of note. || The thrill of anvils. || Millions of years of fun for the whole family. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || And finally, don’t pull that face – you’d watch and you know it.
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Ah, that’s better – you’re back. Every time I tried to log on earlier, I kept getting a message talking about an “Odnamrod Meditation”, which sounds like a bad 1960s thriller novel.
“I’m still working on the script for ‘Marple in Midwich’. ” With the cuckoos?
“I’m still working on the script for ‘Marple in Midwich’. ” With the cuckoos?
Beat me to it. I was going to say, that’s just cuckoo. Damned villagers!
With the cuckoos?
As noted previously, they’re set in the same period, roughly, and both involve cosy village life and suspicious, rather untoward events, so it’s not entirely without potential.
“The erotic mind-control community has a problem with racism.”
It’s not clear what “community” they are talking about. But maybe that’s a good thing.
[ Ducks out to do another chemtrail flight. ]
Is Odnamrod Welsh for Alucard?
Move over, Arkell Vs Pressdram.
How disappointing with that first link. I was thinking post-coital cuisine would be some advice from Jeffrey Dahmer.
I was thinking post-coital cuisine would be some advice from Jeffrey Dahmer.
[ Note to self: Do NOT accept dinner invitations from LadyTheo. ]
I kept getting ‘503 Odnamrod Meditation’. I thought it sounded like an album that Mike Oldfield never quite got round to releasing.
I thought it sounded like an album that Mike Oldfield never quite got round to releasing.
[ Vivian Stanshall introduces the instruments for the finale of Part I ]
“Grand piano; reed and pipe organ; glockenspiel; bass guitar; double speed guitar; two slightly distorted guitars; mandolin! Spanish guitar, and introducing acoustic guitar, plus… tubular bells”.
AND the 503 Odnamrod Meditation.
[ Fade out ]
AND the 503 Odnamrod Meditation.
[ Fade out ]
Oops! Sorry Mike we ran out of tape for that last bit.
“AND the 503 Odnamrod Meditation.”
I’m imagining something like the Ondes Martenot.
I first read that as “Nimrod Meditation”. Makes more sense my way.
Nimrod is an underutilized word. So many people (especially in my neck of the words) embody that word fulsomely and enthusiastically.
No worries, WTP, all my culinary efforts are certified 100% human-free.
503 Odnamrod Meditation
It was a steam engine on the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, it held the 1892 speed record for running in reverse.
Would he be allowed to call a black person a naughty word under similar circumstances?
Just seeing the video now. I’m guessing that guy isn’t even disabled, he just identifies as such. He certainly doesn’t seem to have a problem using them to scoot around. As for the elephant I’m disappointed in myself that I cannot find a good Alabama joke there. I’m slipping.
I used to be a big fan of Hannah Gadsby’s work. I’m fussy with comedians, so often I feel I can see the jokes coming a mile off. I tend to only like the ones who do something a bit ‘different’ or unpredictable (e.g. Sam Simmons, David ODoherty, Demi Lardner). I saw Hannah Gadsby a couple of times at a small local venue in my city – over ten years ago now, when tickets were fifteen or twenty bucks. I loved her style and presence… she spoke and came across understated, delightfully australian, someone who had mild, good humoured, impatience with ruckus and other people’s crap. Self-depreciation was always there, but as a woman (and at the time, recent teen) who had always struggled with identity, appearance, and feeling like I ‘fit’, I found a lot of comfort in the notion that you could use humour, intelligence and personality to draw people.
I’d recommend checking out this golden 5 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLQVvxfYe4
I saw Nanette when it came out, and appreciated it for what it was. I didn’t find it very funny, but its not really meant to be. So it makes sense that is is low rated as a comedy. I watched her next netflix special and was less enthralled. I felt that her presentation was totally different to how she used to be and she had lost what made her so unique and special to me. Its not just that she stopped self-deprecating, but her presentation was different – the understated, australian-ness was gone. She had adopted the more frenetic, quasi-shouty way of so many other comedians.
I imagine she is a lot happier nowadays – I hope so, and I am glad she is so successful. But I am selfish, and I just miss her act as it used to be.
503 Odnamrod Meditation
Oh dear. This goes back pretty far. “Meditation numbers” were a sort of system programmer in-joke that started c. 1978. If you were lucky, the number coughed up by a failure would give an enlightened user clues about what went wrong under the hood (bonnet?).
Juliaeryn
Thank Goodness for Youtube, then.
Fred the Fourth
I seem to remember some very old coder jokes around that . . . I think this was way before PC’s. There was a guide to “Hacker Jargon” from the early 90’s, iirc. Forget what the file was called . . .
So many people (especially in my neck of the words) embody that word fulsomely and enthusiastically
Well. I am a mighty hunter before the Lord.
503 Odnamrod Meditation
The 503 is the HTTP error code for “Service Unavailable”, or what happens when the web server is up and running but the application it’s serving has gone for a dance in the garden.
“Odnamrod Meditation” is TypePad’s in-joke based on Varnish’s “Guru Meditation” error (Varnish is an accelerator for high volume, dynamic web sites); which is itself an in-joke reference to an old Amiga error code.
TL;DR: programmers think they’re clever.
the understated, Australian-ness was gone. She had adopted the more frenetic, quasi-shouty way of so many other comedians.
Ms Gadsby’s contribution to Please Like Me, which aired about ten years ago and had a sort of misfit ensemble charm, is quite different from the solo efforts I’ve seen more recently.
For your enjoyment, h8ers.
Got just a few minutes in and turned it off. Not only unfunny but boring. I thought timing was everything in comedy and I just keep thinking, “Oh, just get on with it, won’t you?”
Thanks David. I might have to give Please like me a go, if it means glimpses of old Hannah. Josh Thomas is ok too. Never much for his stand up (see prev comment) but he was often funny off the cuff, like on panel shows…
I suggest a similar weekly countdown of the current intersectional charts showing who or what is on the way up and who is in danger of dropping out of the top 10.
I thought there would be conflict for the month of June – what do we celebrate, Pride or Juneteenth? Can corporations just use queer Black people?
But recently I have been told that October is now LGBTQ+ History Month. Was that done to keep pace with African-Americans, who have February as their history month (not to be confused, of course, with Hispanic Heritage Month that starts September 15, since dies y seis septiembre is Mexican Independence Day, Mexico being the 800-lb gorilla of Central America)? I suppose the next step for the queer folx is to get a national holiday for some icon since MLK Jr. Day affords US residents a 3-day weekend. California already recognizes May 22nd as Harvey Milk Day so maybe start there . . .
I might have to give Please Like Me a go,
It’s a sort-of social misfit coming-of-age comedy drama. Not, it has to be said, the kind of thing I’d usually search out. I’ve no great desire to watch it again, but it did hold my interest for its four-season run. It’s low-key and rather bittersweet.
For those who missed it because it was yeeted so quickly, Not The Bee caught it, the Globe Theatre and “trans” people are sacred.
If that get the axe, it is also at their site.
For those who missed it because it was yeeted so quickly, Not The Bee caught it,
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Thanks.
So many people (especially in my neck of the words) embody that word fulsomely and enthusiastically
Well. I am a mighty hunter before the Lord.
Extremely few people know who Nimrod was. 🙁
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Yeah, but the speed with which they hunt down and nuke the video, it is almost as if the Globe is embarrassed by it.
Meanwhile in Colorado, it is a mystery why this guy refuses to bake cakes.
Meanwhile in Colorado, it is a mystery why this guy refuses to bake cakes.
Everybody repeat: There is nothing creepy and evil about the Church of Satan and only a hater would say otherwise.
The stereotype lives on. 😐
Nimrod is an underutilized word. So many people (especially in my neck of the words) embody that word fulsomely and enthusiastically.
Similarly, imbecile
I have made a concerted effort to use it more. Astonishingly, it isn’t that difficult in every day encounters.
But recently I have been told that October is now LGBTQ+ History Month.
B-b-b-but October is Breast Cancer Celebration Month! Even at the high school football game I attended last night in western North Carolina, all the players wore something pink, even pink mouth guards. Many in the stands wore pink as well. Do the LGBTQ++++++ people just want women to die?
Yeah, but the speed with which they hunt down and nuke the video, it is almost as if the Globe is embarrassed by it.
But isn’t this The Great Dramatic Art – and the profound political message – they were so proud of announcing only days earlier? I’m guessing we’ll be told that the frantic removal of the video was a result of bigotry and “hate.” As opposed to eye-rolling and sniggering, which seems more likely.
I have made a concerted effort to use it more. Astonishingly, it isn’t that difficult in every day encounters.
Be prepared. I used that term pejoratively many years ago and got an “Akshully, Nimrod was a mighty hunter…” response. I try to take comfort in that old Bible verse to wit, “The stupid that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new stupid under the sun.”
Yeah, but the speed with which they hunt down and nuke the video, it is almost as if the Globe is embarrassed by it.
Claim: “Trans people are sacred. We are the divine.”
Fact Check: “PJM’s Megan Fox has clued me in to the fact that Baphomet, a very common Satanic symbol, is both male and female.”
Eh, Barkeep! Where did my comment go?
Sigh. You just can’t get good help anymore.
Eh, Barkeep! Where did my comment go?
[ Checks spam filter. ]
Nothing in there. Have you been hitting the Jägermeister again? I mean, harder than usual?
What a Brit saw in 1954 Africa.
An American. typing up these news letters back to headquarters. Fascinating stuff so far. Observations not translated according to the prejudices we’re now used to in reporting about Africa (the testimony of resident whites => tainted by colonialism; African dysfunction => legacy of racism; African superstition => alternative way of knowing that subverts colonialism; noticing the different habits and capabilities of different tribes/nations => illusion, everyone is the same apart from different superficial features and different legacy of racism) – prejudices that mean that you might as well write your report without going to Africa at all, indeed it might be more ideologically sound because the moment you set foot in Africa anything you see and say is also tainted by the colonial gaze. Doesn’t have those prejudices – he’s on the ground with his eyes open, talking to a variety of people, making his own evaluations, ready to be surprised.
From a Wikipedia trail looking up Jomo Kenyatta – probably not a feature film any time soon.
Um, er, no…Tequila is my elixir of choice. But maybe I forgot to hit Post after Preview…
(goes and sits in the corner).
Their violence is speech, but our speech is violence.
I saw Nanette when it came out, and appreciated it for what it was. I didn’t find it very funny, but its not really meant to be. So it makes sense that is is low rated as a comedy.
Yes, it was really one for her fans, which must have been many by then – her claim to be ‘quitting’ comedy in the show seemed sincere. But with the show came a big success and that must have been hard for a performer like Gadsby to turn away from.
This you, barkeep?
Unbelievable. 10 for £7.50. pic.twitter.com/PjwyeYUgh3
There’s a Panama City/Daytona Beach in the UK, eh? I miss nickel beer noghts. Can you get an Alabama Slamma over yonder?
Nights. Nights…nights nights nights nights nights.
A shocking revelation.
There is nothing creepy and evil about the Church of Satan
Well, really, originally there wasn’t. Anton Szandor LaVey set the whole thing up as a way of tweaking the US on its First Amendment protections. It was never intended to be taken seriously as a real church; it was kayfabe, like wrestling. The idea was to prove that if religions are protected from certain types of legal restrictions, then anybody can call anything a religion and you can’t gainsay it because there’s no way to distinguish between a “real” religion and a made-up one. The rituals are intentional inversions of Catholic church rites and as shocking as possible, because hey First Amendment! Can’t touch us!
I gather that much like children killing themselves in backyard wrestling rings, some of its adherents don’t realize it’s a sham and sincerely follow the tenets. Everyone I know who claims to be a member is clearly in on the joke. Although they don’t seem to appreciate when I ask them whether all the time and resources they expend on what amounts to “hurr hurr, churches sometimes don’t live up to their ideals” performance art is worth it.
It’s a sort-of social misfit coming-of-age comedy drama.
Yes, that’s certainly a criminally under-represented genre :/
I’ve been trying to determine if I’ve just become a crotchety old fart or if modern entertainment media really has become infantilized and ran into an interesting data point. Superhero comic books have always been kind of juvenile (people forget that Lee and Kirby did teen romance comics before launching Timely/Marvel, and it shows in the 1960s Marvel titles) but superheroes haven’t always been the sum toto of four-colour comic books.
Even leaving Marvels’ Conan adaptations aside, there was Arak, Son of Thunder, Mike Grell’s Warlord!, and even Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld and Jemm, Son of Saturn. I found electronic copies quite by accident.
They’re good. Arak, in particular, is really good. You can see them banging up against the CCA at times but these are good old-fashioned men’s pulp adventure fiction. Warlord! can get a little Mack Bolan-esque at times, and Amethyst is pretty much She-Ra, Princess of Power done right, but overall the quality of the writing is just miles better than anything currently being produced by the Big Two.
Yes, that’s certainly a criminally under-represented genre :/
As I said, not a world into which I often dip a toe. I can claim no expertise in the genre. But I didn’t regret watching it, which is something, I suppose.
This is what I imagine hell looks like:
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1578896717344550913