Friday Ephemera (825)
You want one and you know it. || Why dogs don’t rule the Earth. || Frog washing scenes. || For ladies so inclined. || Not toilets, it turned out. || Mortal remains. || Mighty tash deployed. || Have you dried yours? || Some diversity occurred. || His rights, you hear. (Rights not specified.) || Scenes from Hemlock Drive. || Hopkins and Foster rewatch Silence of the Lambs. || Blowing bubbles from below, as you do. || His is bigger, and by some margin. || Obstruction detected, removed. || Secret revealed. || Incoming. || On Kubrick’s many takes, a belated and not implausible explanation. || Odd couple. Place your bets. || Pole dancing. || Pole dancing 2. || The progressive retail experience, parts 743 and 744. || Roadside assistance. || Not nailed down. || I’m guessing the relationship was not a success.
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He’s not wrong:
Riots in Switzerland after being eliminated from World Cup
A trip to the vet and a quick snip seems in order.
That used to be a very nice neighborhood. Unfortunately, it is now far too close to where the hood rats live.
I’ve never heard of a lobotomy described as a snip.
The preliminaries to another place-in-food-chain negotiation.
Shame on him, throwing trash on the sidewalk like that.
Paging Vlad Țepeș.
When there’s only an axon or two . . .
Lie back and think of diversity.
“Obstruction detected, removed.”
He wasted a lot of time in fruitless discussion.
“I don’t do a lot of takes when it’s good.”
Morning, all.
Parking is hard.
I believe the term is shade thrown.
Many years ago, I saw a documentary in which Malcolm McDowell was recounting his experience of Kubrick’s many takes. I forget the exact wording, but he described the exhausting nature of it and the way that, by halfway through take 30, some bit of adhesive tape that was holding something or other in place in the shot would finally give way and they’d have to start over again.
“Entropy would set in,” he said, with weary amusement.
I don’t think I want this mad woman emboldened.
And that smile in the background looks not unlike a smirk.
Why does she think people get evicted?
Indeed. The most common cause by far is habitual non-payment of rent. And eviction is a costly, time-consuming and often desperate attempt to limit further loss.
Landlords aren’t generally eager to evict well-behaved tenants who pay the rent on time. Which does raise questions regarding tenants who feel they should never be evicted, because eviction is “violence.” I mean, if your position is basically, “You shouldn’t be allowed to evict me under pretty much any circumstances,” I think we do have to wonder what kind of person we’re dealing with.
We’ve been here before, of course, when congresswoman Ayanna Pressley complained that activities warranting eviction – habitual freeloading, antisocial behaviour and property damage – have “stigma” attached to them.
As if they shouldn’t.
Turning is hard.
She loves to confuse people. It brings her joy.
Someone wants attention.
You mean you weren’t endlessly fascinated by how she experiences gender, and expresses gender, and does gender, and how she relates to her gender queerness…? Which is to say, to herself.
How could you possibly tire of that?
It’s all rather summed up, I think, by the way she says me.
She purports to be a Christian, and is the granddaughter of a Baptist preacher, and yet she somehow “forgets” about the Biblical injunctions against theft and covetousness.
But that forgetfulness is what endears her to her ne’er do well constituents.
Incoming. Oh, and on fire.
Senate primary candidate wouldn’t lie to the people.
[ Opens window to let out dense, choking clouds of irony. ]
Much like women don’t want to be assaulted in their spaces.
Never skip leg day.
Streisand effect forthcoming.
Ah, found out the accompanying graphic to my leg day comment is AI generated.
It dates back to 1916.
Didn’t want to waste the ice cream.
IIRC, Jeffrey Dahmer hoarded bits and pieces.
Cafeteria Christian – she picks out the bits that burnish her amour-propre.
Yet scarcely more unreal.
“Having your housing without having to pay for it,” says she.
She’s against “exploitation and domination,” you see. She just wants to exploit and dominate others. Say, by taking their property.
We’re going to need a bigger
helicopterfleet of helicopters.Infrastructure maintenance isn’t “sexy”. It doesn’t attract politicians eager for “I work for you” photo-ops. But it’s of life-or-death importance to civilization.
Karen Bass reaches for the book of matches . . .
Apparently, he also ovulates, menstruates via his anus, and claims that he has female “internal organs.”
But whatever you do, don’t mention the mental illness.
Es ist erstaunlich, wie schnell der Tag beschissen werden kann.
As I often say.
For ladies so inclined
EWWWWWW! Oh hell no!
Bad enough to sit where other exposed rear ends have sat – I sure as hell don’t want to be getting that up close and personal with other women’s bodily fluids and lady part hygiene or lack thereof. I don’t care if there is some kind of sleeve that may or may not go over the business end to “protect” the user from what other users may have deposited on it.
I know, no refunds, credit note only…here’s hoping for a brain cleanser in some of the other links.
“[T]heir god made me the way I am, and their behavior is going against their god’s wishes.”
Double-secret scans.
“FYI cats scans cant find a uterus and ovaries when they enter your gender as male, they use different scanning process for females” [sic]
[ I’d attached a screen-shot of the text but it wasn’t at all legible ]
His is bigger, and by some margin.
It pulses like a jellyfish!
Truly, I bring you the wonders of the world.
You could hose them off a bit you know.
[ Ups price of drinks. ]
[ Rolls eyes ]
My leftist relatives constantly crow about how stupid, stupid, stupid MAGATs are. Ignorant, uneducated, easily persuaded by the dumbest arguments.
But this they believe in wholeheartedly, without reservation. This creature is not only a woman, but she is smart. Really smart! Even though [she] talks like a fifth grader, and [her] posts read like someone with 65 IQ. But that makes [her] all the more [<{attractive}>] as a senate candidate.