Friday Ephemera (659)
How to lose your shoes. || Crown flash. || It fell from the sky. (h/t, Damian) || Fungus of note. || How to measure very tiny forces – say, the push of a laser pointer. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || On the benefits of British colonialism. || A very modern mindset. || An excruciatingly simulated heist game. || Moog dancers, 1971. (h/t, TDK) || As seen by meteorological satellite Himawari-8. || How was your day? || Because it can be done. (h/t, Dicentra) || The British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum. (h/t, Things) || Looking sharp. || Lighthouse location. || “Ready to drive away today.” (h/t, Julia) || A compendium of Japanese portable record players. || An attempt was made. || And finally, an illustration of life’s modern complications.
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Fungus of note.
It was called Jew’s Ear when I was a child, but that will get a call from HR nowadays.
David, I have happily noticed the absence of any “First!” comments on your blog.
Incoming.
Enlarged photo available here.
Lighthouse location.
At first I thought it was a photoshop.
A very modern mindset.
Is today’s word ‘pathetic’?
“An attempt was made.“
Yes, definitely a job for a man with a van…. Oh.
Morning, all.
Ah yes, the ‘Do It To Someone Else’ approach. The assumption that sociopathic predators will be swayed by appeals to pity and the plight of one’s fellow man is almost darkly funny, in a wretched kind of way.
Snow in Ginzan Onsen.
Moog dancers, 1971
Worst workout video ever.
On the benefits of British colonialism
Oh, they’re not happy with him in the comments.
An excruciatingly simulated heist game.
Arrgh.
There are some, er, helpful videos.
Incoming.
Only 3.75 billion years!
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
First!
Oh, wait.
With all the whimsical fuckery of the House attempting to select a Speaker here in the States, I am grateful for the diversion of leaked excerpts from “Spare,” Prince Harry’s autobiography. On losing his virginity:
“I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away. One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone had seen us.”
I see Fay Weldon died 🙁 Author of the cleverest-titled autobiography evah Auto Da Fay!
From Twitter, “based on your likes.”
There was a vicar had a God – and Bingo was his name-O
Don’t fancy yours much 😀
She’s about 20 years too early. 🙂
Wisconsin artist Kay LeClair, … has been accused of being white.
The modern equivalent of being denounced as a witch.
So many types of competing pretence, it’s hard to keep track.
Another struggling artiste being kept down by the man.
and Bingo was his name-O
This.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Author of the cleverest-titled autobiography evah
My favorite Auto-da-Fe.
@WTP
More like Mehron 😉
First!
Oh, wait.
David, about that covered hole in the floor of the correction booth: Is that an oubliette for those whom you judge incapable of correction?
Because it can be done.
The *only* thing stopping me is I don’t have any chickens.
Louis A. Layva, PhD (he/he) gives a lecture.
With casting like this, sure to be a blockbuster.
Heh. It would be quite funny.
man with a van: reminds me of the flatbed truck I saw with a pile of dirt…held down with a strap. One strap.
what have the romans done for us? A map of Europe roads vs roman roads shows that many many roman roads were still roads 2000 yrs later. Latin is everywhere in our language. We base our legal system on rome. All this in spite of how nasty they were if you did not want to be assimilated.
As for the Brits, yes they conquered half the world, but they also waged war against the slave trade for 80(?) years and finally shut it down. They were the first to end it in their colonies. Countries that were brit colonies are today ahead economically of those that were not.
Wisconsin artist Kay LeClair, … has been accused of being white.
From the article, a reason why this whole non binary pronoun shit has got to stop (bolding mine):
Passing off people’s crafts as their own is exactly the opposite of what LeClair’s being accused of, until you realize that the “their” there is not the people but her, LeClaire the indian faker who, unlike Elizabeth Warren and Sacheen Littlefeather, is being punished for her fakery.
With casting like this, sure to be a blockbuster
On the one hand, most rumours about superhero movies are the fever dreams of overgrown adolescents. On the other, Gunn has said in public that the Superman reboot will focus on Superman as a young man, because apparently ten years of Smallville weren’t enough. And I could see
man-made horrors beyond your comprehensionWB casting Ellen Page as Clark’s bisexual son Jonathan, who is certainly a Superman.In totally unrelated news, there’s a new 4K remaster of the Chris Reeve Superman films due out this year.
“As for the movie itself, fearing nostalgia bias, I showed it to my wife, 14 years my junior. She’s not fanatical about comic book movies […] I asked how the movie compares to modern comic-book films.
“I like Superman,” she replied. “It’s more epic.” And this was before we got to the part where he flies backwards around the world to go back in time.”
Snow in Ginzan Onsen.
I hate winter, and yet want to go.
Seems fair.
Science marches on.
Bring out the fine china. [ Raises eyebrow at David. ]
Too much information.
Heh.
I don’t normally care about Logan Paul, but OzzyMan released a video repurposing Paul’s non-apology for scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from crypto buyers. This led to Coffeezilla’s three-part examination of how it was done. What’s amazing was going through the first ten minutes of the third part (which was where I started) in which CZ apparently got ahold of Paul’s PMs with his co-conspirators detailing how they were going to buy in before the official announcement, only to discover that one of the gang double-crossed them by secretly buying more tokens (200K versus Paul’s 100K), and how they scammed that guy by releasing not the original token, but a duplicate that blackballed the guy’s wallets.
Apparently, this is not Paul’s first dip into NFT fraud. If anything shows how broken our judicial system is, it’s that he’s not in jail right now.
Louis A. Layva, PhD (he/he) gives a lecture.
The lecture title refers to Cisheteropatriachal something or other.
I thought “Cis” and “Hetero” meant the same (bad) thing.
https://www.londonworld.com/whats-on/london-dungeon-announces-they-will-ban-vegans-from-entering-in-january-in-support-of-beloved-character-3972614
“And the best bit, no need for additional security to help identify the veggie lovers, as we know they will most likely mention it within minutes of stepping foot into the attraction!”.
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for London.
Heh.
Would watch.
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for London.
“This Veganuary, the London Dungeon has decided to stand behind our Mrs Lovett and her iconic but somewhat suspicious meat pies.”
[ Looks up. ]
Just who are your suppliers, David?
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for London.
“According to Veganfriendly.org.uk, the United Kingdom has the most vegans out of any country.”
Not that I’d trust vegans to report honest numbers.
[ Slides jar along bar. ]
Jerky?
[ Slides jar along bar. ]
Jerky?
I may have found out why Britons become vegetarians.
You’ve got your band names, your album names, your song names, I give you 1970’s album cover…
Heh.
Vintage Wireless and Television Museum
Not much on the main page, but I’m sure Eileen does a bang-up job.
From Twitter, “based on your likes.”
I’m late commenting I know, but I spent the day in a lineup to renew my passport. Four-and-a-half hours later…
If that tweet is base on your likes David, then you’ve been “cruising” some interesting pinterest pages. The woman is definetly a prop (unless she’s trans), ’cause that guy’s headed for the Y M C A. Nice gloves. I’m guessing the folded cuff is very de rigueur for the 70s.
I spent the day in a lineup to renew my passport. Four-and-a-half hours later…
Yikes! Was it a processing center with a long line?
It went much faster for me because I filled out the application online, then printed it and took it to a suburban library which offered walk-in service. Only had to wait 30 minutes, followed by less than 30 minutes to answer all mandatory questions and let the clerk carefully review all the documents.
Yikes! Was it a processing center with a long line?
It was at a place ironically titled “Service Canada”. Where one goes for federal gubmint services. We’ve been undergoing a passport renewal/application crisis since the beginning of last year. A location in Brampton, Ontario had a line-up a half mile long outside one of the centres this week.
I filled in the on line form, but you have to print it off and mail or bring it to the passport office I had everything needed for renewal. It took an-hour-and-a-half just to get into the Service Canada office, half-an-hour to get to the window to make sure I had everything then a two hour wait to process and pay. It still has to be printed and mailed to me. My mail out date is January 20th so I can’t leave the country until then.
She does this better than you.
It was at a place ironically titled “Service Canada”.
Oh Canada.
If that tweet is base on your likes David
Surprised no one’s commented on the photo before now (unless I’ve missed that, which would be embarrassing). The bloke is the late Peter Wyngarde, star of the 1969/70 series “Department S”, playing Jason King; then star of the spin-off series “Jason King”. But what more do you want? Big hair; fab moustache; medallion; hairy chest; everything else made of leather. Did I mention the fab moustache? As 70s cool as a 70s cool thing. Not sure whether Mr Wyngarde swung both ways, but he was certainly prosecuted for gross indecency with a coach driver in Gloucester bus station.
The woman is the late Kate O’Mara, certainly NOT trans! Quite the sex symbol.
Click on the link and read through the comments – very amusing. “You could open beer bottles on Kate O’Mara’s cheekbones.”
Bearded trans woman arsonist destroys 117 year old church.
Bearded trans woman arsonist destroys 117 year old church.
This is my shocked face.
United Kingdom has the most vegans out of any country.
At a guess I’d say India has more vegans that the whole population of UK.
One last P.S. on JBP: from 2017, Camille Paglia on pronouns and JBP. (Yes, the questioner is wrong. JBP would use idiopronouns if requested, but he didn’t want to be compelled by law to use idiopronouns.)
According to Wikipedia, he was born with the name Cyril.
Pre 1980s tv, films and culture in general would have been very different had gay “style icons” been recognised as such by a more innocent but correspondingly more judgemental population.
JBP would use idiopronouns if requested, but he didn’t want to be compelled by law to use idiopronouns.)
I believe JBP said (in interviews back in 2016-2017) that he might use gender pronouns, but it would be on a case by case, person by person basis, and would depend on his assessment of the person requesting them–motives, psychological state, etc.
As for me, I don’t want to use them at: It would be participating in a delusion.
“He dindu nuffin!” (Ranchito Taqueria in Houston TX.)
Down on the farm at L5
Six year old shoots his teacher.
“ ‘This was not an accidental shooting,’ the police chief said.”
The demographics of the school:
74.2% Minority Enrollment
45.3% Black or African American
25.8% White
14.4% Hispanic/Latino
11.3% Two or more races
2.2% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander
0.8% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native
Black kid screws up, blames everyone else–white, hispanic, etc.
“You’re racist!…White boy!…I hate all of you fucking white people!”
It was many decades ago that I started to notice that blacks were much more racist than whites, and were very open about it. They also were very quick to insult people by calling them ugly while declaring their own beauty.
Not just transgender, but trans-child, too.
“he dindu nuthin”: defenders of criminals often say “it isn’t fair to kill a mugger/robber over a few dollars” but they ignore that such people will often enough just kill you for the few dollars or even for looking at them funny.
Sadly I predict the good citizen will be dragged through the legal mill by a politically motivated AG supported by a black democrat chief of police. Is there a prohibition against leaving a crime scene in Texas? That sort of thing will get the ball rolling.
“he dindu nuthin”: defenders of criminals often say “it isn’t fair to kill a mugger/robber over a few dollars” but they ignore that such people will often enough just kill you for the few dollars or even for looking at them funny.
It is a curious blindness: The mugger brandishes a firearm, yet liberals “mysteriously” fail to condemn him for valuing property over his victim’s life.
I’ll say it again: Liberals are moral cripples. (Marxists are moral monsters.)
Glenn Campbell and the Wrecking Crew.
https://youtu.be/9nc1UWT06sw
My favourite wrecking crew recording albeit without Glen Campbell.
Hal Blaine’s drumming, particularly during the fade-out, is simply magnificent.
I laughed.
Not just transgender, but trans-child, too.
Thought you might have found another (and there are probably more than we know) but this bozo has graced, and I use that term loosely, these pages more than once, I do believe.
Glenn Campbell and the Wrecking Crew.
The documentaries “The Wrecking Crew” and “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” are both excellent films if you haven’t seen them. He was an incredible musician.
Ah, so it is a thing. I thought it odd that it wasn’t a thing but since it is a thing at least one tiny part of my world makes sense again.
The documentaries “The Wrecking Crew” and “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” are both excellent films if you haven’t seen them. He was an incredible musician.
Thank you! I’ve put them on my “borrow from library” list.
Looking back, I was almost the only one among the kids I knew in grade school and high school who liked Glen Campbell. They disliked him because he was country, not rock and roll. Also, I suppose, because he loved America. Some of them absolutely despised him and emphatically told me so.
FTM discuss relationship problems – unexpectedly. (Language)
I too am not believing this one from Megan’s husband.
I was almost the only one among the kids I knew in grade school and high school who liked Glen Campbell.
As a kid, I thought of him as an entertainer and knew him mostly from his TV show.
I recall an anecdote from Mark Steyn.
On one occasion Campbell was playing guitar in a session for Frank Sinatra and used the opportunity to carefully study the great man’s technique to the ultimate benefit of his own singing career.
Franks reported post session comment was to ask who was the f*ggot with the guitar who kept staring at him.
An illustration of the maxim that one should never confuse the artist with the art. Many great artists were er, ah, um…deeply flawed human beings.
[ Belatedly notices that I failed to italicize the quote. Hangs head in shame. ]
[ Quietly applies blockquote. ]
…then star of the spin-off series “Jason King”…
Thanks for that! I couldn’t remember where he’d starred, and was certain it was something James Leasor-esque. Off to check YT for Jason King.
[ Quietly applies blockquote. ]
[ Cancels other plans. Begins crawling to Canterbury on hands and knees. ]
Whoopsie! It is not fair when they do it to us!
For you 70’s nostalgia fans: Leonard Nimoy warns us of the coming ice age.
Leonard Nimoy narrates “In Search of Francis the Talking Mule”
“I require you to contact me for a voluntary interview.”
Kafka couldn’t have said it better.
Kafka couldn’t have said it better.
If I were to comment here that the UK police suck Hitler’s c*ck, would I be arrested the moment I set foot in England?
Black racist pseudo-scholar condemns the “racism” of black athletes suffering the majority of injuries when they are the majority of players.
I miss the days when Scientific American was not a propaganda organ of the left.
Just when you think they can’t get worse, they come up with a new nadir.
The moment the snake realized she wasn’t going to take any crap.
Begins crawling to Canterbury
Not the one in New Zealand I trust.
Respect.
Of course but glow ball warming killed it, donchaknow.
Being more of a math person than a language person, can someone help me with what that means? “*I* require *you* to contact *me*”. It’s passive aggressive at best but I would not take that as a literal obligation on my part to do anything were someone to address that to me. Is it a UK English thing? A legal language thing? Both? Neither?
I suspect it always was. They were just laying low for a while. Their economics guy was always left-leaning. With an AOL email address. Which I found amusing for a scientific…”scientific” magazine in the 21st century.