Friday Ephemera (836)
Something in the air tonight. || Beasts of the sea. || Critical beer breakthrough. || Big snow. || About your spleen. || Mr Eakin has the world’s largest collection of bedpans. (h/t, Neatorama) || “We’re not inebriated,” says obnoxious, lying drunk. || Wild mushroom with bionic arms plays synthesiser in woods. || On the upside, it’s only a little one. || Lighters. || The thrill of liposuction. || The thrill of Windows. || Taxi driver of note. || On erasing ethnicity. || Churchly scenes. || Multitasking. || Plenty of meat on that puppy. || The progressive retail experience, parts 761 and 762. || The thrill of fingernails. || Unattractive fonts. And they’re downloadable. || Phone retrieval of note. || Tiny irritation. || The machine uprising, day 14. || His is bigger. || Oh, and Professor O’Flannery’s guide to China’s communist revolution.
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Captures the dynamic, I think.
I’ve known people, self-imagined sophisticates, who mouthed the fashionable pieties about enrichment and vibrancy being so terribly good for us, while quietly making plans to relocate to a neighbourhood, or city, somewhat distant from such things. And very much not appreciating any enquiry as to why.
It’s so gloriously pathological.
They grow up so quickly.
Knowledge is passé, attitude all. This is what all elevated institutions inculcate.
[ Bags up fifteen portions of freshly made chili, emits manly roar. ]
Note to self: Wash hands thoroughly before going for a pee.
I fear what you’ll emit about 10 hours from now…as do all climate scientists.
[ Strokes fifteen bagged portions of chili. ]
First Contact.
… which has led composers and conductors to quip that singers have empty heads – especially the tenors.
The sharks aren’t being delivered until next week, but I promise you the koi are very, very hungry.
The most enthusiastic adherents of Catharism were the wives of the nobility.
It was one of those in-person exchanges in which the phenomenon is clearly revealed, but clearly not up for discussion.
Expose yourself to art.
Ian Fleming: in WWII he led a raid on a Nazi post to try to get secrets. It was a disaster. So on the one hand, he did have war experience. On the other hand….
Expose yourself to art: I imagine that to be Gal Gadot, based on the hair (and my wish)…
He’s not wrong.
This has been known for a long time.
The Government is Keeping a List of People Who Question its Policies
“I’m starting to have violent thoughts about this man”
An excerpt:
There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don’t see how it can be denied that, net-net, white Europeans have made a better job of running fair and stable societies than any other group.
Even nonwhites acknowledge this in unguarded moments, for example, an American high school student in this exchange with his teacher:
(end excerpt)
Contrast this with the 1965 play Day of Absence, (made into a 1971 TV movie) in which a small Southern town is thrown into disarray by the mysterious disappearance of all their black residents. No maids, gardeners, etc. The message, of course, is that white people cannot get along without blacks. The truth, however, is that an America without blacks would quickly adjust and thrive while an America without blacks would degenerate into a Western version of South Africa.
Is there a way to accomplish double indentation, when one has a quotation which itself contains a quotation?
At least nobody mugged him or vomited on him.
I watch entirely too many bodycams and one thing that always seems to prove true is anyone a cop calls ‘boss’ is guaranteed to wind up in cuffs.
What strange powers did these Ancient Africans possess?
Fangirls, amirite?
…you do not have the right to stab them.