Friday Ephemera (730)
I do hope there’s a word for this. || Honest hairdressing. || He didn’t want to taste it. || Niche appetites. || Impossible mission. || I have questions. (h/t, Julia) || And in the world of “queer studies.” || Watering hole. || Calm blue ocean. || Big chest. || Fit birds. || Her baking is more hardcore than yours. || GROW CUBE was a browser game, circa 2005, and still is. || Nottingham’s last wash house, 1977. || More lead-sink excitement here. || Always eat your mushrooms. || Learning environment. || Loud dandelion. || Unsuccessful dine and dash. || Reinvention underway. || Scenes of enrichment. || It’s possible she hasn’t thought it through. || A beginner’s guide to foot massage. || The glamour of flight. || Not unlike a fried egg. || And finally, the world’s first “cold-storage banquet,” Chicago, 1911.
Update, via the comments:
When you livestream your getaway chase following some carjacking and a spot of armed robbery. With your girlfriend and two-month-old baby in the getaway car. But remember, dear reader, the habitually criminal class is just like you in every way, differing in no significant respects. None whatsoever.
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Observation.
I do like the song.
Third time’s a charm.
‘Canadian viniculture’ elicits a cautious interest.
They actually make some decent wines. They tend to be overpriced and we have some fairly draconian inter-provincial trade barriers that make it even more expensive, so I’m more likely to buy an import.
Though, I was making a reference to my fruits and nuts comment from the other day.
The BBC, with hard hitting stories of the suffering of the oppressed and downtrodden.
“Drag Race” should take a page from Forged in Fire, to save the poor dears from the ravages of blowing $$.
Every session opens with presentation of fabric remnants, plastic model parts, kitchen notions, and children’s toys.
Pick a box!
3, 2, 1, Go!
“oppressed and downtrodden” WTF? No, seriously, WTF? Not just drag queens but all the oppressed and downtrodden in the US/Europe. Sure, there are oppressed groups around the world. In the US? Hardly. Almost all the oppression is self-inflicted bad decisions or fantasies.
I missed that stunt. Thanks.
Also: Anyone who wears a pussy hat cannot be regarded as an adult human.
Also the northern Midwest, Wisconsin and Minnesota. But mostly made from apples or berries, not grapes.
[ Canadian bureaucrat reads comment. Vows to increase tariffs. ]
Inter-provincial trade barriers? I didn’t realize they existed. Astonishing.
I’ve heard of apple cider, apple jack, and brandy but not apple wine.
Wine from berries makes me think of elderberry wine which puts me in mind of Arsenic and Old Lace which recollection doesn’t incline me in favour of berry wine.
It’s rare, but can be very tasty.
But are you elderly and thus in need of euthanasia?
I’ve tasted some very good wine made from strawberries or cherries or cranberries or plums. Blueberry was okay but didn’t impress me. Rhubarb wine (not a berry, I know) can be very good. The berry wines were all sweet or semi-sweet. Rhubarb both dry and semi-sweet. The oddest wine I saw (but did not taste) was pumpkin.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some digging to do in the cellar.
Correia’s rants have shifted me to rooting for mutually assured destruction, leading to detente
Here’s the thing: cancel culture has always existed. It was deployed repeatedly against modern-day followers of a certain Austrian corporal, whose Internet domains, businesses, bank accounts, credit cards, etc. were ruthlessly eliminated from the public sphere. People who decry “cancel culture” are missing that the tactic has always existed. It’s the reason it’s so successful: accuse someone of being a follower of the Austrian corporal, and the mechanisms are already there to have them ostracized from public life.
The problem is the left has broken the basic compact by turning this cannon on anyone who annoys them by existing. The correct response to cancel culture is not to “take the high road”, or “be better than that”; it’s the Prisoner’s Dilemma (or more prosaically, the Chicago Way). The Bezmenovites need to be destroyed just as ruthlessly, just as arbitrarily, just as completely until they flee begging for mercy and a return to “civility”.
And I’m going to point out again that the tactics Correia describes being marshalled against him are not unfamiliar.
menacing little old ladies who are just trying to cross a road.
Point of order; I was there for that. They weren’t crossing a road, the entire incident occurred in a parking lot behind the venue. It looks like a crosswalk because of the painted lines marking pedestrian paths from the parking spots to the back door. The fact that the protest and ensuing sociopathy occurred on private property was one of the reasons the police used as an excuse to do sweet f-all about it.
‘Canadian viniculture’ elicits a cautious interest.
Niagara Icewine is an interesting delicacy.
It’s always good to have a man on the ground.