The Whitney Museum had a piece by a video artist featuring Kukeri coming into a restaurant, and it featured this one young boy who looked like he was just going to die then and there of fright. I saw it 35 years ago and still can't get it out of my head.
Someone called last night from Quinnipiac Poll (per the caller ID). I didn't answer, of course, because I never answer. Fortunately, they left a voicemail. "This is Quinnipiac Poll, herba-derba-flerba-dippity-doo!" Weirdest voicemail yet.
It would not have done any good. The message, other than the words Quinnipiac, and possibly poll(s), was completely unintelligible. I added a link above, in case anyone wants to try to translate it for me.
Oh hey, it turns out that SubStack lets us embed audio. I've uploaded what is now my favorite voicemail, even better than the one I saved years ago, where someone named Bubba was calling for Steve, letting him know he needed him bad.
Speaking of Henrietta Lacks, if you're looking for something to read and haven't gotten to Rebecca Skloot's book about Lacks and the HeLa cells, it's pretty amazing.
Oh dear. Conroe, Texas makes today’s Tabs. Conroe is in Montgomery County, just north of Harris County (Harris County = Houston, more or less). Unlike most of the more suburban counties that are adjacent to the big urban counties that are trending more Democratic , Montgomery is not. When I worked in Houston, several co-workers would do the absolutely brutal daily commute on I-45. When I asked them “why?”, the response was “none of the bad people live here”. That was 25 years ago. One can only imagine how bad it is now.
It's pretty right-wing. But there are good people there, too. I'd say that generally, it's a fine place to live no matter who you are. However, you're right about that I-45 drive. It's brutal.
Your regular reminder that the Krassensteins suck.
"Krassensteins Twitter Space with the QShamam begins with us being told that there will be a "lot of disagreements" but things will be respectful. We now have an intense discussion of cold/cough treatments. Shaman is all about warm teas with lemon. Cough Drops are Big Pharma."
Personally, I'm opposed to publicly-financed primaries; they're just taxpayer funded subsidies for the DNC/RNC whose only purpose is to reinforce our decrepit, dysfunctional, and increasingly unresponsive two Party system.
There are a number of long overdue, desperately needed reforms to how US elections are conducted. Top of the list (for federal elections) is abolishing the Electoral College and the 'first past the post' threshold for winning; and replacing it with a parliamentary system whereby Parties privately run (and pay for) their own candidate/slate selection process. Who then compete in a first round national election. If there is no clear winner (e.g., 50%+1), the top two vote getters have a runoff. Not only does this guarantee a clear-majority winner, it also encourages coalition building, which the current system discourages.
Of course there are other reforms: Abolishing the Electoral College (which increases turnouts in non-competitive states/districts); an official 6-8 week campaign season for the first round, followed four weeks later by a second round, if necessary; overturning Citizens United; federal standards for early voting, registration, and ballot collection; either outlawing superpacs outright, or just treating their revenue as taxable corporate income (say, 50%), while making donor disclosure mandatory; restoring the Fairness Doctrine/Equal Time Provision; etc.
Again, getting rid of publicly financed primaries that exclusively benefit not just the D's and R's generally, but their handpicked favorites particularly, is top of the list.
Your header gif source is a New Yorker short doco. You can learn more here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/bulgarian-kukeri?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
They look like the aliens from ST:OS that ate salt and could shape shift.
The Whitney Museum had a piece by a video artist featuring Kukeri coming into a restaurant, and it featured this one young boy who looked like he was just going to die then and there of fright. I saw it 35 years ago and still can't get it out of my head.
SWEET!
Bulgar sweet?
It’s not a Wookie Life Day celebration? :(
I was gonna suggest it was an Itt family reunion
They'd be wearing red robes.
I thought they were Afghan hounds. Now I'm sad.
Can we hire them to come here to the US of A? It’s worth a shot.
I love learning about creative traditions like this; thank you!
Not Morlocks?
I thought it might be a Banana Splits reunion tour.... I wish.
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
All bananas make a split, so do many more
And I thought it was a film made about the family origin of Cousin It.
I knew I would be too late when I posted...
[ Also, too - I thought it was Cousin "Itt" ]
Liz Phair does a dynamite cover of the Banana Splits theme song
La la la
La la la la
la la la
la la la la
(did you see that barmy horror film from a couple years back?)
Nope.
Good. You didn't miss anything.
So not Dr Who villains
Looks like a Scandinavian horror flick to me.
Abbabadook
Cousin Itt’s family reunion?
Damn - here's another one. I really need to learn to scroll down before I post ( as it is, your post came two hours before mine ). Sorry.
Hope you got a XXXL size for Lurch
And I’ve mentioned this before but no TV dad got more ass than Gomez 😉
That’s why Morticia always walked kinda funny
My guess was Swedish death metal band. Are you sure it's not?
I assumed it was something along those lines as well.
😂 🎸
I want to meet the family of the kid who was traumatized by seeing a picture of kids of different races holding hands.
I like this part of the Texas article
When asked if bible verses were also in violation of existing policy and should be removed, Dungan struggled to respond.
"Right? Would you agree?" trustee Datren Williams asked Dungan.
"I don't know," Dungan replied.
You can see the wheels in her head grind to a halt once she realized it goes both ways.
Waiting for some conservative idiot to claim the Hawaiian wildfire was related to Obamas long form birth certificate
It was caused by the Jewish space lasers.
Well that's one way to destroy the evidence.
I love that banyan tree! I hope it lives
I've been to Maui and Lahaina many times. I agree that the banyan tree was beautiful and enjoyed the shade!
Wonkzoom is clopening.
Someone called last night from Quinnipiac Poll (per the caller ID). I didn't answer, of course, because I never answer. Fortunately, they left a voicemail. "This is Quinnipiac Poll, herba-derba-flerba-dippity-doo!" Weirdest voicemail yet.
Message copied from voicemail to Substack below:
https://open.substack.com/pub/satanic/p/quinnipiac-swedish-chef-poll
I'd answer a Quinnipiac poll - they're actually pretty decent quality, compared with Harris and some of the others.
It would not have done any good. The message, other than the words Quinnipiac, and possibly poll(s), was completely unintelligible. I added a link above, in case anyone wants to try to translate it for me.
You know, I can deal with the herbas, and even the derbas, on occasion. It's the motherflipping flerbas that just drive me crazy.
Oh hey, it turns out that SubStack lets us embed audio. I've uploaded what is now my favorite voicemail, even better than the one I saved years ago, where someone named Bubba was calling for Steve, letting him know he needed him bad.
https://open.substack.com/pub/satanic/p/quinnipiac-swedish-chef-poll
Holy guacamole! That sounded like authentic frontier gibberish to me. Thanks for sharing it!
Up fist for Gabby Hays reference.
Hey, thanks! I love that movie. I'm halfway done adding dimes to my shitload collection.
𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂’𝒔 𝑫𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓, 𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒚 𝑻𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆 (𝑹-𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒎𝒂?) 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒂, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒎𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔.
Meh, po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to. 🤷🏻♂️
Speaking of Henrietta Lacks, if you're looking for something to read and haven't gotten to Rebecca Skloot's book about Lacks and the HeLa cells, it's pretty amazing.
I can't find the comment about going to see "Jules" but I went to see "Jules" last night.
It's OK but probably none of you should go see it. You won't like what cats are used for.
Is Jules just Alf in disguise?
I'm not sure. Jules never talks, whereas Alf never shut up.
Oh dear. Conroe, Texas makes today’s Tabs. Conroe is in Montgomery County, just north of Harris County (Harris County = Houston, more or less). Unlike most of the more suburban counties that are adjacent to the big urban counties that are trending more Democratic , Montgomery is not. When I worked in Houston, several co-workers would do the absolutely brutal daily commute on I-45. When I asked them “why?”, the response was “none of the bad people live here”. That was 25 years ago. One can only imagine how bad it is now.
It's pretty right-wing. But there are good people there, too. I'd say that generally, it's a fine place to live no matter who you are. However, you're right about that I-45 drive. It's brutal.
Your regular reminder that the Krassensteins suck.
"Krassensteins Twitter Space with the QShamam begins with us being told that there will be a "lot of disagreements" but things will be respectful. We now have an intense discussion of cold/cough treatments. Shaman is all about warm teas with lemon. Cough Drops are Big Pharma."
https://nitter.net/PokerPolitics/status/1689805014141673472
I just learned that the Ohio Democratic Party Chair is a woman. Should the old, white men running the state Republican Party be scared?
Personally, I'm opposed to publicly-financed primaries; they're just taxpayer funded subsidies for the DNC/RNC whose only purpose is to reinforce our decrepit, dysfunctional, and increasingly unresponsive two Party system.
The DNC/RNC are privately-owned and -operated, (allegedly) non-profit, corporations, that have no legal obligation to run their organizations in a fair or impartial manner. Even if doing so is mandated by their own corporate constitutions. If you don't believe it, here's the case which codified it: https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/reminder-dnc-lawyers-told-the-court-they-do-not-owe-voters-an-impartial-or-evenhanded-primary-election
There are a number of long overdue, desperately needed reforms to how US elections are conducted. Top of the list (for federal elections) is abolishing the Electoral College and the 'first past the post' threshold for winning; and replacing it with a parliamentary system whereby Parties privately run (and pay for) their own candidate/slate selection process. Who then compete in a first round national election. If there is no clear winner (e.g., 50%+1), the top two vote getters have a runoff. Not only does this guarantee a clear-majority winner, it also encourages coalition building, which the current system discourages.
Of course there are other reforms: Abolishing the Electoral College (which increases turnouts in non-competitive states/districts); an official 6-8 week campaign season for the first round, followed four weeks later by a second round, if necessary; overturning Citizens United; federal standards for early voting, registration, and ballot collection; either outlawing superpacs outright, or just treating their revenue as taxable corporate income (say, 50%), while making donor disclosure mandatory; restoring the Fairness Doctrine/Equal Time Provision; etc.
Again, getting rid of publicly financed primaries that exclusively benefit not just the D's and R's generally, but their handpicked favorites particularly, is top of the list.
About Aditya Pai, "...in third place in polling for the Democratic primary" - I thought Cali had moved to a top-two "jungle primary" ?
I am nearly 100% sure that it is still a jungle primary state.
RIP David Lindley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txL3Z4JlFeo
Damn
"Pai sent supporters an unusually confessional email in the morning to say he was calling it quits due to a “lack of joy.”"
See?! And you all laughed when I warned about where Marie Kondo was taking us.