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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To tell if our relationship’s sororal or sapphistical
That one’s a great example of the inability of most fans to distinguish between an actor and their character. Lawless insists that Gabrielle and Xena were gay lovers and “are married” after the end of the series. The actual writers and producers, on the other hand, have always been pretty clear that that wasn’t the case.
What happened was that when they found out that Xena was the number one show in women’s prisons and the LGBTQWERTY cohort had latched on to it, they started slipping in scenes intentionally to tweak those viewers (there’s an episode where Xena and Gabrielle literally drop the soap while bathing in a hot tub). Because in 1997, “we’re going to poke fun at the fact that bunch of weirdos and/or criminals are taking our action comedy show way too seriously” was something you could get away with.
Man, I haven’t thought about this show in years. I really wish the Joxur Takes a Level in Badass script had gotten filmed.
If you’re poor and criminally inclined, you commit blue-collar crimes such as burglary, assault, carjacking, murder.
If you’re middle-class and criminally inclined, you commit fraud and embezzlement.
If you’re in the 1% and are criminally inclined, you engage in insider trading and securities fraud and all sorts of other crimes that the rest of us don’t have the ability to commit.
And yet the only crime statistics that seem to matter are the crimes committed by the poor. Those crimes are scarier because they can involve bodily harm and property damage.
Fraud and the other crimes also negatively affect the populace but the effects are distributed and invisible, so they don’t go into the stats.
I’m just going to leave that there, I think.
I have a question for you. Should I allow myself to be taken out for a pub lunch again?
I mean, I won’t be corrupted by the pampering, will I? You will still hold me in the highest esteem?
I remember that, but didn’t accept it, as a more muscular girl would have been far more plausible. But Hollywood wants its cute girlish protagonists because us men like the way they look.
And yet these nerds think of themselves as super-rational beings.
Short answer, yes.
Longer answer, yes, I too have no idea other then Lynda Carter what any of this refers to, but leave the phone, I am not sure this TV/movie superhero is good for anyone.
I have decided, selflessly and heroically, to risk it.
[ Books table, prepares self for heavy gorging. ]
Meanwhile, WTF Ireland?
Great-great grandpa Muldoon must be spinning in his grave like a runaway gyroscope.
Bambi Thug tells us why she is special.
Even weirder example: The female science fiction fans I knew in the 70’s who were obsessed with gay Star Trek fan fiction, which they called K/S (for Kirk/Spock). Lots of extremely explicit sado-masochistic sex scenes between all the male Star Trek stars, but especially Kirk and Spock. Creepy and disturbing to be given, un-asked-for, such a glimpse into someone’s dark obsessions. Some of the fans even insisted that the evidence for such relationships could be discerned in the TV shows, demonstrating the fan-world tendency to confuse wish with reality. So much, again, for those intellectually superior nerds.
Enjoy your pub lunch.
Back at the Eurovision Song contest, of course the winner was “non-binary” but “Swiss Rapper”? Right…
Enjoy the videos. Of course the Israeli singer got booed because these are classy people.
Said – band name
It Has To Be Said – album name…can’t decide if it should be the debut album or perhaps the third one. Could work as a come-back album name tho.
It Has To Be – racehorse name. Possibly drop it to just Has To Be.
You’ve got to have serious doubts about everyone running this contest.
Well considering what they did to Ann-Margaret…
Here’s a couple of reasons
But if they are supposed to be Amazon women, ought they to have only one reason chest-wise?
Well when you consider that they now have Australia in Europe…maybe they meant Austria?
Me neither but this is exactly the sort of slippery slope a society falls into once it tolerates explosions going boom in a vacuum.
It has to be said – band name
Ah, I screwed up the grammatical construction there. I was considering Seriously Scraped Scrotum as the candidate band name.
I see you’ve been busy in my absence.
It is pronounced Sa-Eed, a rapper out of the UAE who will be entered in the next Eurovision along with the European countries of Australia and Israel, and I thought Brexit would have made the UK a non European country also.
I see you’ve been busy in my absence.
Someone has to maintain the disrepute.
AI meets The Who.
Female super-heroes: it is ok if the woman is some sort of demi-god like WW, but if you consider Black Widow, she gets thrown 30 ft and slams into a wall and just gets up. She would be dead. She has no super powers. Oh well–if you accept The Hulk you really can’t complain.
There are poor populations that do not commit crime. I was dirt poor in college. Could not afford movies or eating out at all. Interestingly the black population in let’s say 1940 when racism was truly bad did NOT commit an unusual number of murders, and had low % single mothers. Perhaps those two things are related.
You will leave the keys to the cellar within easy reach?
Don’t care.
Only special in the sense of “special needs”. Needs massive dose of Haldol.
Did anyone figure out where he hides the good toothpicks?
Did anyone figure out where he hides the good toothpicks?
The last Swiss Army knife with a blade in the UK is chained to a metal fitting in the concrete at the end of the bar. You have to whittle your own out of the bar stool.
We have an Agony Booth?
Was about to ask how a knife without a blade could be a knife but then I remembered the era we’re living through.
In other news…
Outrage as usual ensues.
Bambi Thug on repeat.
Openly. As if there might otherwise be doubt.
Or, cross-dressing father of three not in fact a woman, bad wig notwithstanding.
Somewhat related.
The words “basic decency” have taken on absurdist connotations that I’m guessing weren’t intended.
Was about to ask how a knife without a blade could be a knife…
That’s not a knife.
That would be even worst than Vogon poetry.
And in entertainment news.
Would you play this game?
Dr Seuss does Tolkien
You really feel that bass.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who will think this is real and will want it.
Quelle surprise.
Meanwhile at a graduation…
Oh, well that explains it.
Stewardesses need to issued tranquilizer darts.
When you’ve a moment could you poke the Link-No-Mor (Ausf. G)?
Spasiba…
As previously mentioned, am planning UK trip. Latest customer review info re: possible lodging near Oxford: “Small but comfortable rooms, with large soap dispensers.”
Ok. I’m just a provincial American. What does this mean?
Shippers are the worst part of any fandom, which is why girls shouldn’t be allowed unless they swear an oath to renounce slashfic and all its evil works.
[ feels chill of horror run down spine ]
That might imply that every fandom has shippers. Doctor Who? Battlestar Galactica? Lost in Space? Starsky and Hutch? Sherlock Holmes? All Creatures Great and Small? My God, what ugly madness have I escaped only by accident?
Either that’s the nicest thing they can say about the establishment, or it’s upstairs from the Wrestle a Live Nude Student emporium . 😮
I hate those places. You never end up wrestling the student you imagined.
Considering the state of academia, should I have written “Wrestle a Live Nude Oxford Don”?
The joke came to mind because I’d just listened to a Michael Franks album, one track of which was “Wrestle a Live Nude Girl”. Very strange.