Friday Ephemera (713)
I bring you art. || You are being educated. || Dating difficulty detected. || So, have you played dress-up with your robot vacuum cleaner? (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Incoming. || How to clean your bat. || Crocodile hairballs. It’s a thing, apparently. || Our betters assemble. || Celebrate Frozen Dead Guy Day at the International Cryonics Museum, Colorado. || The daring, and the disasters, of stratospheric ballooning in the 1930s. || You want one and you know it. || Step aside, peasants, make way for fashion. || A poet opines. || Another poet opines, with expressive accompaniment. || The progressive retail experience, parts 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, and 542. || A pattern is noticed. || The thrill of paint removal. || Because you demanded it, stimulated nipples. || And finally, note the lifting of the leg.
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The word ‘awe’ is either being used sarcastically or in a manner normally reserved for tree-ring data.
When the mountain won’t come to Mahound . . .
Saint Bredo’s frosty relics.
Must they keep abusing the corpse of belles lettres?
Good boy.
Poor bloke had to get through that with only the demons left in his stubby.
“You are being educated. “
I have to ask, in what, exactly?
the cocked leg got me.
Morning, all.
The icing on the cake, really.
Cross-dressing attention-seeker gets attention, complains. Wait for the chap in the red shirt.
It’s part of a series. Perhaps it’s the visible thong.
Oh, and speaking of art.
And in the world of filters.
The girl in the sweatshirt noticed something…
Oddly enough, we’re spared the front view, so we can only guess at what caught her eye.
His TikTok account is basically endless, repetitive clips of him applying makeup and pouting like a porn star, all through heavy filters, while commenters tell him how beautiful he is. Oh, and clips of him treating the street as a catwalk and then feigning persecution via staring (or announcing his imagined desirability, also via staring) when passers-by notice a very tall man in drag pretending to be a supermodel or hooker, complete with incongruous cocktail dress or visible thong.
It’s a bubble-world of preening and fishing for attention, repeated over and over again. As an expression of an actual personality, it’s… a little narrow.
Today’s word is parenting.
You are being educated.
The high pitched screeching confused my dog, who gave me a look.
Perhaps the performance art video will steady the dog’s nerves.
That wasn’t as bad as I thought.
Lots of comments pointing out that this is usually a sign of illness.
BUT: Then they take it as proof that the mysterious “it” is caused by Global Warming or some other human-caused environmental change. Because everything must be blamed on people. Remember when “everyone” was talking about global warming causing the extinction of coral reefs? And now only a few years later those reefs are doing fine? This is why I occasionally follow a link to Reddit to see something cool, but never stay because so many of the denizens are crazy or dishonest or just awful.
Worshipful “appreciation” of “indigenous” cultures.
So many “educators” waste kids time this way. Ladies and gentlemen, once again I give you “liberal women”. 🙁
On the podium: “Democratic Socialists of America national convention, 2019.”
I remember seeing that shortly after the event, probably courtesy of David. Less than 5 years ago but feels longer.
Further evidence that leftists are insane.
Possibly related: Sprockets.
Young communist unsettled to find hammer, sickle represent physical labour.
Sherwin-Williams.
Because without the filter he just looks like a man in a dress.
Yet Juul & Co get blamed for it.
Well, yes. There is that. What’s funny is how so many men of this type perform exactly the same manoeuvres:
Or,
And often rapidly alternating between the two.
As Winston Churchill might have put it, the following is a “remarkable example of modern art”:
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1768624248040391078
As Winston Churchill might have put it, the following is a “remarkable example of modern art”:
Michelle Obama?
This is probably the most important thing that I have seen in quite some time. I have long suspected this profound difference, but I have not until now seen it explored. It seems to a significant degree describe the difference between the memorizing types and the thinking types, the language people and the math people. Notice how relatively happy she is and how baffled the guy on the right is.
Video related to this article in the Guardian. Curious if any Guardian followers had seen it.
Pretty sure that’s math. Trigonometry specifically. I believe she’s saying “SOHCAHTOA” which is SIN=opposite/hypotenuse, etc. I think. I could be wrong because conservatives…’conservatives’ assured me that this nonsense would stop once it hits the STEM fields.
Actually were she not wearing a stupid mask, thus telegraphing her leftist politics, I would be ok with this. Anything to make Trig entertaining can’t be all bad.
Yes – I thought I could make out SOHCAHTOA in that… whatever it was. I was (and am) a math geek, so hearing / seeing the word once meant I could never forget it – it’s like Roy G Biv. I thought it was a little over-the-top, but if she thinks that’s what it takes to get students to remember, all the more power to her weird self. I think she’s wrong, though – it’s probably more useful to work through several right-triangles and identify which sides provide which ratios, using the mnemonic as required. Maybe that was the next part of the class.
[ Takes away bowl of complimentary peanuts, replaces with bowl of grated carrot and fatigued leaves. ]
[ Adds sign: “Free salad.” ]
Landscape paintings now deemed problematic, racist.
Yes. Even in context it’s over the top. A little injun talk is enough to make the point to high school kids. Going full hoka or whatever that was supposed to be would have felt rather insulting to my teenage self. God help her though if this was recorded to go after her for mocking indigenous peoples though.
Sounds like an episode from the rebooted “I Love Lucy.”
Well, that’s something I didn’t know about myself. I can’t “see” the star in front of me when I close my eyes, but I never thought that was unusual. But I can imagine the star and what it looks like, and I do dream in images. At least, that’s what my brain tells me. But what if it’s lying?
I may need a lie-down and a cuppa.
What was it I said the other day? Oh yes:
I should add that’s probably the most flattering angle from which to view the thing. The object’s creator, Tschabalala Self, appears to have difficulty depicting the human form, in any medium, and seemingly struggles to create anything with discernibly aesthetic properties.
Though the object chosen to inspire Londoners does call to mind the farcically pornographic cartoons of Robert Crumb.
Landscape paintings now deemed problematic, racist.
I”m surprised at the acknowledgement that English people do have a historical connection to the English land. It’s strong stuff – some people can look at those paintings and see a plausible picture of how their great^3 grandparents lived, and some people can’t, and need the paintings to be smeared with elephant dung so they don’t feel slighted. Yet it’s the dark nationalistic feelings of the former group that our betters are worried about.
“Only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong” – presented as indisputably immoral, QED How about its flip side – those with no historical tie have the right to turn up uninvited and the historical population have no right either to complain about it or separate themselves from it – is that obviously moral?
Though the object chosen to inspire Londoners does call to mind the farcically pornographic cartoons of Robert Crumb.
You’re more cultured than I, Landlord. My first thought was of a former US First Lady.
Before I stick myself in the ReGroover 9000, in my defense, she was worshipped here by Our Betters as being the epitome of fashion, beauty, etc.
Heh. Well deserved, after seeing too many direct or implied claims that he was a Serious Artist Who Deserved Our Serious Attention.
But she’s black, you hater!
Has anyone else had encounters at all like this?
Juwaun Terry Stewart raped and murdered Tammy Sue Coates when she declined his offer to clean snow off her car.
Hood rats sometimes get violent when people decline to donate to their fake charities or let them clean windshields. I have encountered such kids trying to sell badly used items who accused me of racism when I said “no”.
I can see the star clearly, it just pops in and out of appearance as I think about it. Though I suspect elephant dung might be partly to blame.
What was it I said the other day? Oh yes:
Indeed.
That, as the cool kids say.
My first thought was Sarah Baartman in a Chanel suit. I know, I know. I shall report for re-grooving immediately. Six hours ought to do it, as long as the nails in the baseball bat are sharp and rusty.
Whoever that is. With each passing year I become more pleased with my failure to keep up on pop culture.
Wasn’t it “Put a chick in it and make her gay”?
To be fair, it’s not much of a pop culture reference, not unless you were living in about 1810. She was a woman from the African Khoikhoi tribe with, um, rather large buttocks who tragically ended up having quite a miserable life as a freak show exhibit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman
I stand corrected.
I was more impressed that the good boy put the lid down.
What in the …? What happened with little kids doing this?
Landscape paintings now deemed problematic, racist.
The same people, of course, who insist on Indigenous Land Acknowlegements. Also the same people who demand the ME be Jew-free regardless of their history in the region.
It’s as if they have another agenda than inclusivity.
I work in a place that makes a point of land acknowledgements – which can be a real pain when every speaker on a province-wide Teams call feels that they have to provide one the first time they speak.
I would be more accepting of them if one of the indigenous participants made an acknowledgement – say for wheeled transport, steel, and streptomycin.
Godzilla sleeps. Do not disturb. Do not disturb.
If only this worked with land sharks.
Wasn’t there another Japanese monster movie featuring a giant tortoise?
Gamera: The Giant Monster
Thanks. I remember that name now.
Via Ace for the band name game aficionados.
I’m glad I do not, but if they ever started it up, I hope I would have the courage to complete the thought: “I acknowledge that I am on land stolen from [X], and I further acknowledge that we ain’t giving it back.”
Gamera is really neat! Gamera is filled with meat!
We believe in GA-MER-AAAAA!
Also, Galapagos iguanas are vegetarians. They scrape algae off the rocks. So not so scary.
Unless there is some hard physical evidence that the specific land under your feet or at least the land within a day’s walking distance was permanently settled and not just some temporary encampment, you have no basis to say it was “stolen”.
The problem, we’re told, is that eithteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape paintings are “leaving very little room for representations of people of colour.” And obviously, we must all pretend that our island’s population and cultural assumptions have always looked like those of, say, twenty-first century London. Which itself bears little relationship to the demographics of the country as a whole, even in the twenty-first century.
Apparently, museum visitors must be warned that the sight of a Constable landscape may trigger TERRIFYING BLOOD AND SOIL TENDENCIES. Or at least inspire thoughts of historical attachment and belonging that are very much frowned upon, if only by the – wait for it – keepers of our heritage.
Oh, and since you ask, yes, the museum in question is taxpayer-funded.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
Spoilsport.
If they breathe fire on it they are.
You could use Baby Godzilla as a paint stripper.
A Godzilla cigar lighter seems like a no-brainer. I see a few but they’re the flick/flame kind. A good Godzilla themed torch lighter would be awesome. My birthday is coming up, you know.
I bring you art.
The bloke with the beer is thinking, Christ, that’s a challenging wank.