Friday Ephemera (763)
Incoming. || Ladies look away, I bring secret manly wisdom. || When justice is swift. || Those crunchy waves. || You want one and you know it. || An unlovely monkey. || All part and parcel of life on the range. || Retreat seems in order. || A fare to remember. || A mere $1.7 million. || Close enough, I think. || Scenes of sporting innovation. || Inauthentic goods. || Tongue action. || Question asked. || In heavy irony news, she demanded respect. || Australian Robin. || Orson Welles’ Macbeth, 1948. || The best they could find for the job. || Parking scenes. || Terms and conditions apply. || The progressive retail experience, part 622. || Anti-matter and other expensive substances. || Playmate declined. Note the weariness of Dad. || Adding face. || Those fat blues. || I fear for his upholstery.
To enable extra commenting options – including @username mentions, upvotes, and live notifications – scroll down to the black ‘Meta’ box at the very bottom of the page and click register. It’s free and quite painless.
This blog is kept afloat by the tip jar buttons below.
And yet forgot about lifting the seat.
A classic: Cat doesn’t like your pronouns, girl.
Why Canada sucks.
Where to put the entrance?
When California gets DOGE, it must include tar and feathers…or something worse.
What the hell?
‘Honey, the cat’s clean.’
It’s only a matter of time before something gets jammed. And then what?
No. This is fat blues.
Imagine that device with toddlers (or teens) in the house.
Is that SOP, the location of the hydrant? Or was the fireman being innovative?
Making fire fighters as effective as the constabulary.
At the link, one of my pet peeves: “robin bird.”
Oh, is a robin a bird? Who knew? Thanks for the clarification.
Turns out a lot of different kinds of birds are called “robins.”
Some collected here.
In Mary Poppins, there’s a scene of her singing to a robin perched on her finger.
Except the robin is Turdus migratoris, a thrush, found only in America. The kind of robin that lives in England is a whole different species: Erithacus rubecula, an old-world flycatcher.
And I am ever so proud of myself for recognizing that mistake.
I thought it was probably a joke, impractical, and kinda stupid. After reading so many sour grapes comments on that thread about it being somehow immoral because you should be dragging laundry baskets up and down stairs…well…dammit, not only do I want one but I’m willing to invest in the company. I wonder if they’re hiring…
Holy moly, my first thought as well. And how many toys will the toddler feed it, too?
“An unlovely monkey. “
Or a H&S conscious monkey, wondering what sort of idiots take a baby up a stepladder in the first place?
Just how accurately anotomically correct IS this statue?!
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1910481190148333634
Can you blame them?
Morning, all.
As someone quips in reply, the homeless will be inspired.
I suspect she indulges in a theatre of blaming other people, all those seemingly endless external things, because the obvious alternative is to, well, lose weight. And that would entail addressing the actual issue head-on. This sorrow of which she is the principal author.
Preparation is everything.
Isn’t that obstruction?
So for women to be seen in public art — for once! — they present a giant nekkid woman.
We’re not fooled by the flowery language, dude. You were looking for an excuse to make big pr0n.
Ah, but it’s all about her and her Magic Blackness, you see. That’s what matters when there’s a stabbing or a bomb threat in a school.
If the words affirmative action hire come to mind, I’ll quite understand.
But it’s the first time a naked woman has been seen in the entire history of art.
and
Huge pet peeve of mine: women who can’t figure out how to dress appropriately. They choose things too skimpy or too dressy for the occasion.
Going to the firing range? A spaghetti-strap camisole is just the thing!
Out for a hike? These cute spangled heels are just the thing!
Though in the case of the mechanical bull, I suspect modesty wasn’t ever the goal.
Geolocked.
It was a struggle of awesome forces.
Bugger. I suppose I could enact the whole thing. Give me a minute.
[ Rummages in hamper for period costume. ]
There’s a breastplate in here somewhere.
Not in fact a vase.
“Scholars”
When your school is the kind of place where reports of fights, stabbings and bomb threats occur – such that the police are accustomed to visiting – then the word scholars does, I think, take on a certain irony.
But apparently the word students was felt to be insufficiently inflated.
Is London being vibrant again?
LOCAL MAN stabbed by other LOCAL MEN
New York Harbor was unavailable for comment.
Speaking of California, headed to Coachella, this DJ is taking the electro-dance world by storm.
Well!
Now THAT was a Friday morning reading delight!
Speaking of California, headed to Coachella, this DJ is taking the electro-dance world by storm.
It’s all fun and games until The Island of Doctor Moreau becomes a reality.
“Ed . . . ward.”
(IYKYK)
We have been lacking in Indigenous Ways Of Knowings™ and Art!™, so let us travel to The South Seas.
OK so far, I guess, all origin stories have quirks, let us read on…
Say again all after hello, what’s all this then?
Of course, “queering evolution” because clownfish are totes the same as humans. You only have till August 3 to get over to Sainsbury Centre, Norwich to catch “Darwin Drag”.
So many euphemisms.
I grew up in a house with a laundry chute on the second floor leading to the the basement laundry room. Low tech, about 10″ square so nothing ever got stuck.
Central vacuum cleaner systems still exist, although they were more common before electric motors became more compact and powerful.
It was the long silence… 🤣
[ Recalls this movie. ]
And Dad’s slightly weary No.
Guess Mr Turkey will have to be an outside friend.
I was rather charmed by the implication that things of this kind have happened before.
I didn’t realize the market was that large.
“You can’t say that Mickey”, a meltdown ensues.
Oh I dunno. Busty maidens, burly chaps, axes, dragons and whatnot…
My God, it’s Thing from The Addams Family!
The Unspanked encounter pushback.