In the 19th century following major archeological discoveries of richly adorned mummies in pyramids in Egypt mummy bandages became a popular "cure" for a variety of maladies. People would pay a steep price for what they were told were bits of mummy wrappings that possessed healing properties.
I am damned grateful for having been born just past the mid 20th century.
My maternal grandparents owned and ran a dry cleaning shop for a while when my mother was small. My grandfather, Poppy, often complained about all of the padding in the shoulders of those suits getting in the way of his presser when he was ironing the wrinkles out after the cleaning process.
I went to the University of Pittsburgh more years ago than I care to think about. The DA there at the time was named Robert “Bobby” Dugan. Who later wound up married to Bunny Mellon, but that’s another story.
Anyway, Dugan was obsessed with prosecuting Pitt students for low level crimes like weed use, underage drinking and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. Guilty on all counts, she sez.
There was a chant we used…”No more rapin’. No more muggin’. As long as we got Bubbie Dugan.”
You know that saying, Don’t sweat the small stuff? Bubbie Dugan only sweated the small stuff.
WE LOVE SCARLETEEN.COM and all its works and all its ways! And we should be telling all our young friends and their parents and concerned grands about it all the damn time, YES!
I wouldn't worry too much about Biden losing the youth vote. Most of the under-thirties refuse to even register and the ones who did chose to for specific reasons like women's healthcare and stopping fascism.
Okay, I'm an old so have pity on me please but in my limited experience with progressives, isn't that sort of similar to being MAGA but on the other end of the spectrum? So far at the end, in fact, that they're nearly the same?
It's the progressive youngs who are promoting Hamas and their "any means necessary" protest signs.
I'm definitely left leaning but the progressives generally sound like a bunch of lunatics with unrealistic expectations and demands. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the difference between the people here that call themselves progressives and the very loud ones that are always in the news or on social media. But as a Dem, if I'm confused about this then I imagine a lot of others are as well.
There was an article elseweb that I won't bother to look up now, but the headline was like "Jewish progressives realize that their comrades would gladly watch them die"
I consider myself a progressive. I believe in forward progress toward equality, equity, and a fairer future for all. I do NOT believe in Hamas and their "any means necessary" approach. I do not believe in violence of any kind for any reason, in fact.
However, I will stipulate that I also consider myself a socialist, so maybe my views aren't the same as other progressives' views.
I got a flame colored Le Creuset sauce pan about 20 years ago for a birthday, and now also have 3 of their casserole dishes (including a GIANT one with lid, used about 5 times a year) that I got for our wedding and I do love them, but it would be weird to have a whole kitchen outfitted by one thing, right? I mean, I just was raised where your kitchen is made up of stuff you got along the way.
That big mother casserole is used for baked ziti, lasagna (when I go all out), steak and stout pie, and one time when I got carried away and made about 10 lbs of hashbrown casserole.
Probably talking to myself here, but things are looking up with a woman I met Sunday at a very eclectic live music show. It was radio silence on Monday, but she texted back yesterday and we chatted by text a lot. She suggested dinner Friday week, saying this week is very busy for her.
I thought I might have stepped in it after she said she liked all poetry, and I sent her the Vogon poem the AI wrote for me. I tried to tease her a little and told her my ID on a certain liberal mommyblog I like to hang out on. That was the end of the text exchange, I wondered if she found the L word offensive, or my attempt at clever conversation landed badly or what.
She's back in touch this morning saying her schedule isn't as busy as she thought and proposed going for Thai food this weekend.
This Saturday's movies and it's a Halloween zombie party.
Wonkette Movie Night Oct. 28: ZOMBIE DOUBLE FEATURE
Day Of The Dead(1985) and Train To Busan(2016)
"The Dead have waited. The day has come."
Day Of The Dead (1985) starts at 6pm PT/ 9pm ET. There will be a fifteen minute break between movies. Train To Busan (2016) will start at 8pm PT/ 11pm ET.
Day Of The Dead is available for free on YouTube.
Train To Busan is available for free with ads on Tubi, Pluto TV, Vicki, The Roku Channel, Plex, Kanopy and Prime. With subscription on Peacock, Sling TV and Hulu. It’s everywhere.
Heard a podcast the other day between two, otherwise literate, adults (1M/1F) that was so punctuated with “Like, you know…” as to be almost unlistenable. Can still hear late Mom growling, “No, I DON’T know!”. I blamed such grammatical lapses on Maynard G. Krebs.
The GOP came for Black people and the BLM movement started and many white people joined up and called the police brutality out for what it is. And we showed solidarity and started unfucking some gerrymandering.
Next, the GOP came after 'slutty' women who get abortions and this started a movement in which people realized that abortion is the standard of care for many pregnancy conditions. And we showed solidarity and started getting voter resolutions on the ballot to protect access to abortion.
Every week, children in America get shot at schools and we showed solidarity and we know how the money flows into GOP pockets to keep these miserable laws on the books.
Then, Russia attacked Ukraine and we saw the GOP stand up for Russia. And we showed solidarity with Ukraine.
Now, Hamas attacks Israel...and we're knocked back on our asses. FOLKS!! Wake up, it's another psychological operation being funded by the same oligarchical assholes who funded TFG, the GOP, the NRA, the SCOTUS, etc. We have to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and Israel. This is how they're dividing those of us who are liberals - because we figured out their playbook on many other issues.
I agree with Bill Maher rarely now, since he lost his mind on vaccines. But he has been adamant in his support for the nation of Israel, Israeli Jews, and innocent Palestinians not related in anyway to Hamas; while also expressing displeasure with Netanyahu. And I think liberals are smart enough to hold all of these complex opinions at once.
But I have been disturbed by the American Left’s seemingly increased support for the side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that subjugates and humiliates women, kills gays, considers all non-Islamic faiths (or lack of faith) as inferior or possibly evil, and does not tolerate modern thought like science and reason.
So, Texas versus Arizona in the World Series. This should be interesting.
Greg Abbott has announced that managers will be prohibited from pulling a starting pitcher if the umpire detects a heartbeat, and any fan can sue Torey Lovullo for $10,000 plus attorneys fees if he even makes a mound visit. (He has, however, pre-emptively pardoned Bruce Bochy if he needs to pull Max Scherzer under the "save the life of the franchise" exception.)
Meanwhile, Kari Lake has already congratulated the DBacks on their four-game sweep of the Rangers and refuses to accept any other announced outcome.
I am watching this this morning, and I'd like to give all yall a heads up on it if you haven't seen it -- "An Evening with Heather Cox Richardson." Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbAayPUjtM
Si , it’s “ La maldición de la momia azteca,” in your hed gif. Definitely a Saturday afternoon creature feature staple from my youth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/aztec-mummy-coming-atcha-from-mexico
Chiller Theatre on WPIX would show it at midnight along with the classics.
Si, si
Mummies have played far less a role in my adult life than I was led to believe. Also quicksand, snake pits, alligators, and lava
I've actually stepped in quicksand a bunch of times.
Once I sank a whole inch!
Yeah the whole 'villain into the quicksand' trope has completely failed me.
Fuck that quicksand! Like so many other things there is never any quicksand around when we really need it!
What about piranhas?
Voodoo dolls also too.
Wait, what? [slowly puts down pin, hides voodoo doll under desk]
In the 19th century following major archeological discoveries of richly adorned mummies in pyramids in Egypt mummy bandages became a popular "cure" for a variety of maladies. People would pay a steep price for what they were told were bits of mummy wrappings that possessed healing properties.
I am damned grateful for having been born just past the mid 20th century.
We still have homeopathy!
oh, even worse, they would grind up the bodies and put them in a solution (alcohol?) as medicine. To be drunk.
Even worser! Ground up mummy dust blended with oil and used by snooty French artists in their paintings!
Paris art supply houses had catalogs listing 'Mummy Brown'. and it was very expensive.
The floor is lava!
You mean like this:
https://www.snorgtees.com/products/pompeii-floor-is-lava-championship-mens-classic-tee?variant=41530401947780
Or this:
https://www.snorgtees.com/products/the-floor-is-lava-mens-classic-tee?variant=41591247208580
Well in Pompeii it was more like "The Air Is Lava" to be fair
Forecast: dark, with raining pumice, followed by a heat wave
Both good!
LIKE!!!
It looked like la momia azteca released the caustic vapors.
Is that the name Rudy Giuliani is using now?
(fart)
I love looking at the clothing in old films; those big, boxy suits on the men were a lot of fun.
My maternal grandparents owned and ran a dry cleaning shop for a while when my mother was small. My grandfather, Poppy, often complained about all of the padding in the shoulders of those suits getting in the way of his presser when he was ironing the wrinkles out after the cleaning process.
Jaysus but I miss that man. I adored Poppy.
All shoulders and lapels. And the pantaloons!
(Playing “Mac the Knife” in my head)
Nah, Psycho Killer
https://www.hleatherjackets.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/David-Byrne-Big-Suit.jpg
OK, so true story.
I went to the University of Pittsburgh more years ago than I care to think about. The DA there at the time was named Robert “Bobby” Dugan. Who later wound up married to Bunny Mellon, but that’s another story.
Anyway, Dugan was obsessed with prosecuting Pitt students for low level crimes like weed use, underage drinking and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. Guilty on all counts, she sez.
There was a chant we used…”No more rapin’. No more muggin’. As long as we got Bubbie Dugan.”
You know that saying, Don’t sweat the small stuff? Bubbie Dugan only sweated the small stuff.
Good times.
WE LOVE SCARLETEEN.COM and all its works and all its ways! And we should be telling all our young friends and their parents and concerned grands about it all the damn time, YES!
I wouldn't worry too much about Biden losing the youth vote. Most of the under-thirties refuse to even register and the ones who did chose to for specific reasons like women's healthcare and stopping fascism.
"Jury duty sucks!"
/eyeroll/
"Michigan Dems working on banning deep fakes in political ads. That seems [ like it *shouldn't* be ] necessary, [ but it is ]!"
Okay, I'm an old so have pity on me please but in my limited experience with progressives, isn't that sort of similar to being MAGA but on the other end of the spectrum? So far at the end, in fact, that they're nearly the same?
It's the progressive youngs who are promoting Hamas and their "any means necessary" protest signs.
I'm definitely left leaning but the progressives generally sound like a bunch of lunatics with unrealistic expectations and demands. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the difference between the people here that call themselves progressives and the very loud ones that are always in the news or on social media. But as a Dem, if I'm confused about this then I imagine a lot of others are as well.
There was an article elseweb that I won't bother to look up now, but the headline was like "Jewish progressives realize that their comrades would gladly watch them die"
I consider myself a progressive. I believe in forward progress toward equality, equity, and a fairer future for all. I do NOT believe in Hamas and their "any means necessary" approach. I do not believe in violence of any kind for any reason, in fact.
However, I will stipulate that I also consider myself a socialist, so maybe my views aren't the same as other progressives' views.
I got a flame colored Le Creuset sauce pan about 20 years ago for a birthday, and now also have 3 of their casserole dishes (including a GIANT one with lid, used about 5 times a year) that I got for our wedding and I do love them, but it would be weird to have a whole kitchen outfitted by one thing, right? I mean, I just was raised where your kitchen is made up of stuff you got along the way.
That big mother casserole is used for baked ziti, lasagna (when I go all out), steak and stout pie, and one time when I got carried away and made about 10 lbs of hashbrown casserole.
Admittedly, the quality of their products is highly superior.
That Le Creuset full kitchen set is absurd! Over the top! An egregious example of modern hyper-abundance!
Now if it came in a nice orange....
Probably talking to myself here, but things are looking up with a woman I met Sunday at a very eclectic live music show. It was radio silence on Monday, but she texted back yesterday and we chatted by text a lot. She suggested dinner Friday week, saying this week is very busy for her.
I thought I might have stepped in it after she said she liked all poetry, and I sent her the Vogon poem the AI wrote for me. I tried to tease her a little and told her my ID on a certain liberal mommyblog I like to hang out on. That was the end of the text exchange, I wondered if she found the L word offensive, or my attempt at clever conversation landed badly or what.
She's back in touch this morning saying her schedule isn't as busy as she thought and proposed going for Thai food this weekend.
This Saturday's movies and it's a Halloween zombie party.
Wonkette Movie Night Oct. 28: ZOMBIE DOUBLE FEATURE
Day Of The Dead(1985) and Train To Busan(2016)
"The Dead have waited. The day has come."
Day Of The Dead (1985) starts at 6pm PT/ 9pm ET. There will be a fifteen minute break between movies. Train To Busan (2016) will start at 8pm PT/ 11pm ET.
Day Of The Dead is available for free on YouTube.
Train To Busan is available for free with ads on Tubi, Pluto TV, Vicki, The Roku Channel, Plex, Kanopy and Prime. With subscription on Peacock, Sling TV and Hulu. It’s everywhere.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-oct-28-zombie?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Heard a podcast the other day between two, otherwise literate, adults (1M/1F) that was so punctuated with “Like, you know…” as to be almost unlistenable. Can still hear late Mom growling, “No, I DON’T know!”. I blamed such grammatical lapses on Maynard G. Krebs.
My personal peeve is "cause" in place of "because". Cause its ignernt!
The GOP came for Black people and the BLM movement started and many white people joined up and called the police brutality out for what it is. And we showed solidarity and started unfucking some gerrymandering.
Next, the GOP came after 'slutty' women who get abortions and this started a movement in which people realized that abortion is the standard of care for many pregnancy conditions. And we showed solidarity and started getting voter resolutions on the ballot to protect access to abortion.
Every week, children in America get shot at schools and we showed solidarity and we know how the money flows into GOP pockets to keep these miserable laws on the books.
Then, Russia attacked Ukraine and we saw the GOP stand up for Russia. And we showed solidarity with Ukraine.
Now, Hamas attacks Israel...and we're knocked back on our asses. FOLKS!! Wake up, it's another psychological operation being funded by the same oligarchical assholes who funded TFG, the GOP, the NRA, the SCOTUS, etc. We have to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and Israel. This is how they're dividing those of us who are liberals - because we figured out their playbook on many other issues.
I agree with Bill Maher rarely now, since he lost his mind on vaccines. But he has been adamant in his support for the nation of Israel, Israeli Jews, and innocent Palestinians not related in anyway to Hamas; while also expressing displeasure with Netanyahu. And I think liberals are smart enough to hold all of these complex opinions at once.
But I have been disturbed by the American Left’s seemingly increased support for the side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that subjugates and humiliates women, kills gays, considers all non-Islamic faiths (or lack of faith) as inferior or possibly evil, and does not tolerate modern thought like science and reason.
All the people whining about Joe Biden standing up for Israel are wrong.
So, Texas versus Arizona in the World Series. This should be interesting.
Greg Abbott has announced that managers will be prohibited from pulling a starting pitcher if the umpire detects a heartbeat, and any fan can sue Torey Lovullo for $10,000 plus attorneys fees if he even makes a mound visit. (He has, however, pre-emptively pardoned Bruce Bochy if he needs to pull Max Scherzer under the "save the life of the franchise" exception.)
Meanwhile, Kari Lake has already congratulated the DBacks on their four-game sweep of the Rangers and refuses to accept any other announced outcome.
I am watching this this morning, and I'd like to give all yall a heads up on it if you haven't seen it -- "An Evening with Heather Cox Richardson." Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbAayPUjtM