Friday Ephemera (720)
On cyclists, an illustrated poem. || The Electrocula, 1962. || Careful who you hire. Related. || 131,000 historical maps. || He’s 43 and entering his Club Ho phase. || Alcohol may help. || The progressive retail experience, parts 549 and 550. || Road obstructed by wrong ‘uns, cue dairy product. || The Greens. || Big gulp. || Glittering, dazzling, etc, and so forth. || Go with the black number, it’s slimming. || Hear the voices of the marginalised. || Hard to know where to start. || It was the Seventies, everyone was doing it. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || A meal and a show, they said. || “Tasty and versatile python meat.” (h/t, Rich Rostrom) || Progressive anthropology. Related. || I’m sensing a little tension. || Dumbass detected. || Man with fake nails issues ultimatum. || And finally, no, you first.
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I’m still struggling with the whole mango chutney thing.
Ooh, 23°.
[ Sits in garden, waits for squirrels. ]
Could your Green and Pleasant Land do with a little bit of global warmening?
David,
I believe that clip was filmed for portrait-orientation social media viewing on smart phones. It’s the world we live in now.
[ Continues raging against aesthetically inapt camera orientation. ]
I forgot how much I disliked that show. Not that I ever watched it but the promos were ridiculous. She always looked so incredibly awkward doing athletic things. I really never understood the appeal. Charlie’s Angels or Police Woman or whatever were at least somewhat believable as far as the women’s physical movements went. WW looked like every scene was done in one take.
As a very long-time cyclist, few things piss me off more than other cyclists behaving boorishly.
Also, I will be cycling a bit in western England in a few months. I PROMISE to be a considerate gentleman.
Solid theme tune, though.
[ Fetches binoculars, fault-listing notepad. ]
Oh, and speaking of Wonder Woman, I’d forgotten about this.
The perennial question, why would anyone willingly attend such a “performance”?
I really never understood the appeal.
Here’s a couple of reasons…
And, if lively enough, deadly.
Yeah but Lynda Carter, hubba hubba.
[ Keeps spray bottle on hot standby. ]
Silicon Valley and autism?
I see what you did there.
It sounds plausible but doesn’t take into account the massive expansion of the welfare state starting in the mid-1960s.
I don’t read esr as often as I should
Well, he also wrote The Cathedral and the Bazaar, so I’ve always taken everything he says with a mountain of salt. As the last six months or so have demonstrated, open source turns out to, well, not work.
Continues raging against aesthetically inapt camera orientation
There are multiple domestic Chinese TV shows – professionally produced – that are directed and shot in 9:16 format for viewing on smartphones because that’s where they’re consumed.
I really never understood the appeal
People really don’t grasp the impact the 1966 Batman TV show had. It was massively popular and massively profitable, and the goofy deadpan tongue-in-cheek tone impacted everything WB/DC did for decades afterwards. The first season of Wonder Woman (set in WWII) never gets aired, but it’s very obvious there. And there’s a lot of it in the 1978 Superman movies, even after Puzo’s script doctoring.
I still haven’t watched the iPad video that seemingly everyone hates.
[ Watches video. ]
Oh. It’s… er, open to interpretations that I’m guessing weren’t intended.
It brought to mind the recent, eye-widening, marketing misfires by John Lewis.
Apropos of nothing I’ve been watching a bunch of Korean TV lately. It’s charming and completely free of the West’s current neuroses, although certainly formulaic (so much so Viki made an entire series lampooning the fact).
I find the production values interesting. There’s virtually no sets, everything is filmed on location, lighting is very natural and I’m pretty sure they’re filming at 24fps, all of which makes it feel like you’re watching a film rather than a TV show. And since it’s Korea, everyone has the exact Samsung flagship phone which is the size of an iPad.
There are apparently Korean version of Suits, Leverage, and Life on Mars and I am now obsessed with tracking these down.
A few years ago, we went through a phase of watching Return of Superman, a Korean reality show in which ill-prepared husbands were deprived of their wives and tasked with solo childcare. The episodes with the triplets, Daehan, Manse and Minguk, were quite entertaining.
Damn it, David, get yer nan home, she got loose again!
…she got loose again!
They need to reopen the Tower of London for shitheels like that.
How to create a low-trust society, part 246.
Well as I said there were other attractive women, many in fact, in action shows back then. Yes, she had the physical features but I can’t think of a more Amazon looking one. I mean, if that’s your thing…I promise not to draw any unspoken assumptions…
I was a huge Batman fan. Campy fun. WW just seemed dumb. Maybe I’m gay. Who knows. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. I kinda doubt it though. But those Amazon…whatever…
Something I’ve noticed in recent protests is how many of the women behave. Boys growing up constantly tussle, fight, climb things, and challenge each other (“bet you can’t hit that tree with a rock”, “bet you can’t jump over this fence”) so by the time they are adults they have a grasp of the true level of their own strength vs other guys and realize that fighting another guy would mostly just get both of them injured with no clear winner. Guys therefore learn to control their anger, at least suburban guys. Girls do not do this stuff and worse they are spoiled because guys around them have been taught to never hit girls. Girls further do not grasp just how much stronger guys are. In protests, I think this leads to them raging all out of proportion to their actual physical strength and going nuts when a cop just picks them up and carries them away, like they can’t believe it. Or hitting a cop who turns and knocks them out with a single punch (vid I’ve seen). It also spills over domestically–women are more likely to be the initiator of a physical altercation with husband/boyfriend. Lesbian couples suffer more physical fights than hetero couples, excepting the henchlesbians of course.
Heh.
I’m guessing no cars of any kind will be permitted come the glorious revolution.
A “Christian minister” and a retired teacher”. Both female. Maybe senile, definitely demented.
I’m guessing no cars of any kind will be permitted come the glorious revolution.
Typo, illiterate, or were they driving at excessive speed and last minute braking to scare the rozzers to break through the lines?
“Other than having the snot beat out of us for no reason whatsoever things were swell. You weren’t there man!” Ole added.
And I noticed some time ago that he tends to express his opinions with an air of absolute certainty.
Well, there were a couple of things many male viewers enjoyed.
EDIT: Mr. Muldoon beat me to the punch. Oh well.
The highlight was squishing the emoji.
By Jove, I think he’s got it!
As I said earlier at Insty, I didn’t get what the omgomgomg was about. And I’m more conscious than most people , “conservatives” even, about these sometimes not so subtle cultural brainwashing games than most. I was waiting for something else and all I could come up with was the rainbow thing. Not too long ago there were a lot of videos about crushing stuff that were kinda cool in an early-adolescent sense. I didn’t view those as being anti-whatever-was-being-crushed. I just saw it as saying they compressed all that stuff into one device. Which, granted, is an old point but not completely out of the ballpark.
I get where one can see it as offensive or whatever but the OMGOMGOMG HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE IT YOU MUST BE A COMMIE bit from more than a few people is…odd. Almost in an overcompensating way.
While we’re in the gutter of meretricious appeals to men’s baser natures…
…Who’s interested in a Peter Jackson adaptation of Bored of the Rings?
“Do you like what you doth see? said the voluptuous elf maiden…but first you must give me your Ring. I must have the Ring…”
this is passive-aggressive narcissism on steriods. This pink-haired freak is the cry-bully always at your office door (when you’re the supervisor) with the latest whine about whomever is on her sh*tlist (and it’s almost always a her. I know a project leader saddled with a trans-identified man who acts just like Ms. Pink). She get’s unfriended on FB by the gal two cubicles over? She wants YOU to “talk to her” about the hostile work environment that creates … and when you don’t do it, she runs straight to HR to complain about you.
Damn, I’m so glad I retired 4 years ago.
Heh.
Even simpler, fundamentally I know “trans” girls aren’t girls.
So…if I might share this…my wife posted to a FB group up here in red, red, red Appalachia, a cute photo of one of the previously mentioned deer poking its head around a tree (attached) and…oh, I knew there was going to be trouble for her saying this… felt it in my bones…mentioned that she might need to reapply Deer Scram because the recent rains may have washed the previous stuff out. Well, the outrage. She dared to clarify (I should have warned her) that she loved the deer but just wanted to protect her plants. No. Can’t have that:
The thing that strikes me about this crap isn’t the nut job BSCW and AWFLs, it’s the cowardice of the many conservative…”conservative” people up here in red, red, red flyover country. I know they’re out there. I see and even speak with many on occasion around here. They big, big talkers in their safe spaces at the barber shop and hardware store, on more specifically conservative posts on FB, and (I presume) church. However lacking any critical mass of other conservatives, they’re scarce as hen’s teeth in a more hostile environment. But hey, get a lynch mob going over some stupid crushing device advert for a new iPad and up they pop again.
I’m not a commie, and I don’t understand the controversy. It was uncreative, and painfully sloooow to get to the obvious conclusion. It’s that it?
Help…?
Floop said the tar pit.
“Floop suggested the tar pit” perfectly summarizes my attitude towards Peter Jackson further milking the Tolkien franchise. The Hobbit was pretty bad. But now The Search for Gollum? Goddam. Perhaps I should take up scrabble.
I can only bow in admiration to this level of creative spite.
It’s been rather a while since I read the book.
I walked out halfway through the second of the The Lord of the Rings movies – Jackson’s . . . emendations . . . became too much to tolerate. Didn’t bother with the next movie & had no interest in whatever he did with The Hobbit.
Brilliant.
Lucy Lawless, OTOH, looked like she might really have been landing hard blows against burly dudez. She looked like she loved every minute of it, too. Pity the show was ruined by Gabrielle and all the other tiny, willowy chicks who I was supposed to believe were badasses.
Around here they all enjoy the challenge of cycling up the 2-lane canyon roads, which mostly have wide enough shoulders to accommodate them.
On the way down they can manage a goodly pace, but they’re going so fast they don’t dare ride in the margins, which contain enough debris that it would send them flying if they hit even a small rock. So they ride in the middle of the lane. Yippee.