Friday Ephemera (724)
Thin blue line. || At last, a third thumb. || Hollywood magic. || Sandals of note. || Just resting his eyes. || Prehistoric Women, 1950. || The progressive retail experience, parts 554, 555, and 556. || A miracle has occurred. || Arachnoid encounter. || Quality credentials. || A life of necessary extravagance, 1968. || Not yet, you bastards. || Niche entertainment. || Go with what works. || Meet the Glaswegians. || A G.I., his wife, and Hitler’s cloak. || Bureaucratic drag. || Long-nosed goblins befuddle Japanese, 1543. || The genre of Christian ska was previously unknown to me. || The thrill of calculation. || The thrill of thrust. || Not sure who’s winning. || Falkirk scenes. || A family night in. || And finally, “The infant should be tested for telekinetic ability at the earliest possible opportunity.”
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She can subdue criminals by sitting on them.
A miracle has occurred.
More like medical emergency. The idiot is asking for advice. Ok, here’s some: If a 67-year old human is bleeding from “down there” – anywhere “down there” – seek medical attention ASAP. Male or female – blood coming out that area at that age is a bad sign.
Do these assholes even know how a woman’s body works? It’s not rocket science – it’s basic biology. Or is he doing a Dylan Mulvaney and thinks he’s a pre-teen girl?
A definite nail-biting experience.
I’m not used to watching parts of a space vehicle disintegrate during re-entry.
A refreshing break: old school lunacy.
Please someone find this kid and give him a contract.
Bureaucratic drag.
The next Prime Minister of Canada. God Willing. He’s not perfect but he’s far from woke and progressive.
And by God Willing, I mean most voters are both math challenged and stupid.
Note the standard of dress among the financially underprivileged.
Here’s your ninepence.
A life of necessary extravagance, 1968.
I imagine that’s exactly how an interview with the young Karl Marx would have gone. Thus was Socialism born.
Ignorance can be underrated.
Better, 1980’s women. Well, not much better. But better. Because it’s shorter.
Food chain privilege; Identifying Agency As Cultural Mediators
Hope I’m not giving too much away.
Another life-enhancing performance from FloridaMan….
He must be having some crazy dreams.
Morning, all.
Remember, dear reader, wherever you are, you must always do it.
While watching it, earlier this week, I was thinking along similar lines.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
That’s the sort of madness you want.
In my town a scruffy fella rides around on a push bike playing a recorder.
Acceptable and harmless.
Good work
It’s pleasing in a way that’s quite hard to pin down. I’m still not sure why the G.I. didn’t mention a certain, somewhat significant detail to his wife. But it conjures the image of the poor woman wafting around town, shopping, and chatting with friends – and feeling fabulous and stylish – while utterly oblivious to the garment’s previous owner.
That link is broke my end, could just be me.
It’s still there. I think you may have to be logged in to X to see it. It features, um, incongruous gyrations. In a gas station.
Involving the kind of ladies who get terribly upset if you disrespect them.
blokeinashed, I think you are the lucky one. I made the mistake of clicking, so advise you not to. Yes, yes, I know, no refunds, but surely a warning would have been a gracious act ?
Enrichment, much vibrancy.
That.
Hey, I’m bringing you foreign cultures, a taste of the exotic.
I’ve got a tenner that says one of his influences was the late, lamented Michael Hedges. Though that kid takes his technique and turns it up past 11. Wow.
Forgive me for spelling this out, but they freeze tomato sauce in cylinders and use them as suppositories. For the full experience. Whilst being madly aroused.
Why minor crimes can matter quite a lot.
Previously and very much related.
They suspected it would happen.
Some primitive behavior I can understand. Like trashing a place, running amok screaming your head off. Letting go of all restraint.
But the twerking thing makes no sense. It doesn’t even look fun.
[ Scandalised gasp. ]
Here’s the guitar kid’s YouTube channel
And because the tone can always be lowered further, an interview with a human toilet.
He likes “the submission part.”
Don’t even.
[ Practises scandalised gasp, face clutching. ]
Three and a half hours – informative and surprisingly entertaining hours – on the Chinese Revolution.
Previously and related.
That’s exactly how I would’ve done it.
“Being several inches shorter than Hitler, she trimmed some of the material off the bottom and hemmed the cloak… and wore it for several winters around Oklahoma City in the 1940’s.”
Okay, that was funny.
Unwittingly Hitlerian fashion was not a concept I’d previously considered. And the item being given a woman’s touch is, I suppose, the icing on the cake.
So, scrolling down on that…Am I now expected to believe that even Muslim immigrant women are no longer safe from Muslim immigrants in the UK? Really?
Do backing vocals or finish bag of Wotsits? WHY CHOOSE? DO BOTH!
Would watch.
I love this kid. This is my newest entry in the guilty pleasure of IG reels. He gives hope for the future.
The cheesy goodness seems to be resulting in some, er, harmonic discrepancy.
“Why?” she asks.
Or, when the concept of consequences is utterly alien.
Or, “Why are you being so randomly mean to me? It’s so unfair. I was only stealing your stuff, like I did that other time…”
I paraphrase, but barely.
Yes. And that development model (rapid cycles of try it, see what fails, improve it, try again) seems to have advantages over the excruciatingly slow NASA way of doing things.
Parasites. Not by accident.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”
I like the Second Amendment, “no duty to retreat”, and the Castle Doctrine.
Also the “don’t touch me!” battle cry, which seems to be an ever more frequent feature of arrests. These “kings!” and “queens!” truly seem to think they are above the law.