The Wasp Woman is one of my favorite MST3K riffs. It is a deeply weird film that, despite its' low budget mediocrity in many respects, addresses the evils of vanity quite directly.
If I remember correctly the star of this film, Susan Cabot, died not long after this film was shot.
But I didn't sleep again last night so I may well have my wires crossed...again.
LOVE these masterpieces of tab snark gifs, esteemed Martini Glambassador!
Not sure I'm on board with the one actress's choices there--the shot of her face when she sees the wasp woman is not what I would have done, but...
I love to imagine that I could have had a career back in the day (had I been around) in all of these kinds of films. I'm not going to lie and pretend that I'm beautiful enough to be in top films, but kind of little inexpensive ones? I could have been a contender!
Thank you as always, Martini--you are the very first smile of most of my days!
Nice time at Scary Oke last evening. Costumes were encouraged, but all I brought was this sort of plague doctor / Mardi Gras / Eyes Wide Shut beaky mask. At one point I overheard one of the bar backs say to this beautiful woman standing near the bar, "Where have you been all my life?" A couple of minutes later she sat down on the empty bar stool next to me, and started a conversation. She picked up the mask from the bar and tried it on. I snapped a pic, as one does. She told me she was Puerto Rican, and I confessed to finding her slight accent charming. I asked if she was planning to sing, and she said she was. I asked what she was singing, and she said she wanted to do the song Picture by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, but she needed me to sing it with her. Never having sung it, or really listened to it, I nevertheless happily agreed.
I asked if she knew of a place to find decent PR food, and she shook her head, saying she cooks every day. I asked about a few better known PR dishes, and she said that she cooks them, correcting me that a couple of them are Cuban, but she does cook them. I think I was looking for a pic of something I had cooked, and she said, "you want to take a picture?", hopped up and stood behind my barstool, with her head next to mine and her arms around me. Of course I wanted to take a picture.
She said she used to date quite a bit, but is reading the Bible more now, and doesn't want to fornicate. And something to the effect of not having anyone to accompany her when going out. I was happy to volunteer for this, if the need arose.
When one of the regulars announced that it was the wedding anniversary of the DJ, and her roady man, and called everyone to the dance floor, I asked her to dance, a lovely slow number I managed without trampling her feet.
I asked if she wanted the pic I took of her in the crazy mask, and she did. Gave her my phone ready to forward, and she entered her number, and hit send, showed me on her watch that she'd received it.
When the ride she had called, she gave me a hug and told me, "Goodbye, Baby".
I know the most likely ending to this story would be 'then I woke up', but it took me a while to wind down enough to get to sleep. A swizzle made with Decaboxylated CBD-rich hemp flower, muddled in Tito's may actually be a love potion.
Not on todays list, but Roger Waters has remade Dark Side of the Moon with all of Gilmour's guitar cut out of it, because he's pissy that way. The reviews are .. not good. He's also now touring and annoying his fans quite a bit by spending part of the concert time reading from his forthcoming book (https://www.mensjournal.com/news/pink-floyd-fans-leave-concert-roger-waters). Reviews of that also not good.
and just think, with all the new headlines Roger will be able to further enlighten his fans with his deep thoughts on the situation in the Middle East.......
...Already from age 65 and onwards, centenarians displayed more favorable biomarker values in commonly available biomarkers than individuals dying before age 100. The differences in biomarker values between centenarians and non-centenarians more than one decade prior death suggest that genetic and/or possibly modifiable lifestyle factors reflected in these biomarker levels may play an important role for exceptional longevity..."
Not sure how going in and killing children is going to get people to listen to your side of things. I get that it’s complicated but if Hamas’ point was to unite the world against their presence in Gaza and harden views against the Palestinians then they succeeded. Whether they claim they were provoked or not you don’t just massacre kids at some music festival and claim it was some great deed.
On a yearly average, Israel hurts ans kills more children and women than Hamas, but somehow most Western democracies have come to listen to "their point of view".
It's all the stranger because just 30 years ago the western democracies (with the notable exception of the US) were fairly united in condemning Israel's brutal policy of occupation and colonisation. 30 years on, those policies not just endure but arguably have gotten worse, yet you won't find a western leader daring to criticise Israel.
None of which, of course, makes murder and rape an acceptable response.
Agree. But tell me what he said that is wrong. Israel( the government, not the people) has systematically worked to eradicate the Palestinian people. The world tried to some fairly toothless fixes and Israeli leaders noticed. Terrorism in any form is wrong. We should apply this to both sides in this situation
No, the Palestinian people are not being "eradicated": this is pure projection. It is the Palestinian side which has a policy of total genocide, and has for a century. If they have generally failed to kill as many as they used to, that is because their power to do so has been sharply restricted, something I am unapologetically all in favor of.
The natives have been parked into water-poor reservations and the settlers are steadily encroaching onto the better parts of what's left. What end result do you see in your crystal ball?
I don't where to go from here, not possessing any crystal ball. But I am sick of hearing the false narrative about which side has persistently pursued genocide as a matter of policy.
Palestinian opposition to irrigation started during the Egyptian occupation of the early 19th century, when it was noticed that the agricultural productivity went only to feeding the army. It became customary to attack farmers who undertook irrigation works as trying to put themselves above their neighbors, and some of the early outbreaks of violence against Jewish immigrants were because of irrigation. Even as late as 1964, an upstart named Yasir Arafat gained fame and advanced into leadership by blowing up Israeli irrigation systems. They are water poor because they have chosen to be.
Plan C. Pretend it's not so bad, and what can you do about it anyway? Them natives are just shifty. Also known as the Dixie solutions, works well if you have a racist framework to sustain your basic inhumanity.
Plan B. Push the natives into ever-shrinking reservations. Slowly starve them down. It's been done, but it works better when the population ratio is strongly in favour of the invaders.
Something something justice something something renouncing force and brutality something something get the United States to actively push a peace plan instead of inconditionally supporting fascists and colonialists fir reasons best left unspoken. Maybe re-elect Jimmy Carter?
Find me any example in history of someone behaving like Palestinians. In all the centuries that Poland was occupied, did Poles ever slaughter Russian schoolchildren or blow up German dance parties?
Should I stick to slaughter commited by the colonised or can i include slaughter commited by the colonisers? The list is endless in any case.
Beslan.
Wounded Knee.
King David Hotel, 1947.
Deir Yassin.
Sabrah and Chatilah.
Srebrenica.
The Israeli response to the 1st and 2nd intifadah.
Tulsa.
The partition of India.
Oradour.
The Indian rebellion of 1857
Any number of Native American attacks against European settlers during the 19th century.
I could list hundreds of massacres during the colonisations of Asia and Africa, if you're really interested in that sort of things, and if we stick to the past two hundred years.
"Colonizing" is not the proper term for an indigenous population returning to their homeland. Suppose some of the Oklahoma Cherokee decided to return to the lands in west North Carolina and northern Georgia, where some Cherokee have maintained a presence all this time, and began buying homes there: would you be in favor of the white people burning them out?
I notice you have nothing to say about my very short and selective answer to your request for groups of people who have behaved no better than Hamas in recent history. Including, obviously, groups of European heritage in Israel, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
That's bullshit, mate. You're not "indigenous" to a place your ancestors left 1,850 years ago and never returned to. By that measure, I could lay claim to all the lands from the North Sea to the Indus and Mongolia.
And to answer your question: would you be in favour of the Cherokee displacing all North Carolinans and north Georgians to a midling sized tract in the least fertile part of that region, and keeping them penned there with limited civil rights? And at that, the Cherokee only left 2-300 years ago, not 1850 years.
"How many hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been forced into exile to live in squalid refugees camps" About five hundred thousand were expelled from the Arab countries in 1948, compared to eight hundred thousand Palestinians who fled or were chased out of Israel. Both Jews and Arabs were living in refugee camps in the immediate aftermath; Israel recalls it as a sorry time of austerity. The difference, of course, is that the Jewish diaspora around the world helped to contribute funds, and the people in Israel worked hard, to build up a society; while the Arabs contributed funds for useless violence and did nothing whatsoever to help Palestinian living conditions.
"Israel--the overwhelmingly superior power in all respects--has been the proactive actor from the beginning (going back to pre-independence 1881)" This is insane. In 1881 the balance of power was entirely the other way: Jews were not legally allowed to own weapons under the Ottoman government, which nobody back then expected to fall anytime soon, and this restriction continued in the first years of the Mandate. Not a square centimeter of land was "stolen" in those days: Jews purchased homes and expected to be able to live in them, and the Muslim authorities responded by launching pogroms, like KKK members burning out the "wrong people" who moved into the neighborhood.
We are having an out of this world time camping at Roswell, Bottomless Lakes, #D13 is the best spot in the park for tents. I have been peeing in the woods plenty but yesterday was yelled at by a man for it who thinks nature is not covered in piss and shit. I mean, does he let his grandkids swim in the lake? Anyway, the bathrooms are locked this AM, so I am free to do all the outdoor peeing I wish.
We took the dog into town yesterday in his little dog bag and we were welcome in all the places with him. He has been such a little trooper but he is so annoyed. Says he is a condo dog. Pics:
Dinner last night was Roswell Apizza: fabulous pizza, perfect crust. Our bench was ransacked by raccoons and skunks who did get the hotdogs buns, and were SO ADORABLE. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today we plan to visit a pistachio farm and also buy a bag from a guy roasting them on the side of the road. We have a few more sites to visit on the strip so we will hit those as well. Most of today's plan is to relax for the long day of driving to Albuquerque tomorrow.
Miss you all. Seems we have a date with babe paley Saturday, which I am so excited about!
The horror of what Hamas has done is beyond words. What Israel is currently doing in Gaza is also horror beyond words. Both of these things can be true at the same time. The only heroes are the people on the ground who are trying to help others survive.
I don't accept your analogy. We are talking about military action against civilians that constitute war crimes. And terrorist action against civilians that would also be war crimes if Hamas were a real military. Dead children, dead babies, dead women, dead men on both sides. I'm not going to act like one is ok and the other is not.
The military action is not directed against the civilians, and Hamas is as responsible for putting Palestinian civilians in harm's way as for murdering Israeli civilians. For example, Hamas has vast underground vaults and tunnels beneath Gaza, NONE of which civilians are allowed to take shelter in.
Basically your position is that mass murdering may be bad, but it is also bad to try to stop it.
But the choices have for a long time been peculiar, regionally slanted - and late. I mean, the committee keeps missing out on giving it to people who die and so aren't eligible (Graham Greene, Javier Marías, Marguerite Yourcenar, James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to name a few).
I got the date wrong for the Lone Soldier’s funeral. But there’s another one-a Special Forces soldier who was KIA. There will be a lot of funerals this week.
It’s the Wasp Woman, eieeeee! More info about your hed gif here, bzzzz! https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-wasp-woman
`For some reason that scene has a heavy Lesbo vibe to me at the beginning, not that there is anything wrong with that!
Oh!
Wasp Woman gets all the love? Yet when does Joan Crawford get some sugar!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait-Jacket
Took quite an unexpected turn there
You mean this woman?
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1000,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/if_ar_lt_1.0/c_fill,g_auto,ar_1:1/if_end/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f44c90d-8ccf-4ba9-829e-a6e96cc791ec_864x1132.png
Was the wasp woman named Karen?
She should have been.
The Wasp Woman is one of my favorite MST3K riffs. It is a deeply weird film that, despite its' low budget mediocrity in many respects, addresses the evils of vanity quite directly.
If I remember correctly the star of this film, Susan Cabot, died not long after this film was shot.
But I didn't sleep again last night so I may well have my wires crossed...again.
LOVE these masterpieces of tab snark gifs, esteemed Martini Glambassador!
Thanks for the compliments!
Susan Cabot did pass away in a tragic manner, although it was a good many years later after the movie. I wrote about it in my accompanying article, if you you are interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-wasp-woman
Died not long after? No, her life had barely begun!
First, the CIA introduces her to the 24 year old King Hussein of Jordan, asking her to sleep with him: https://www.thejc.com/news/world/cia-files-reveal-jordan-s-king-hussein-fathered-a-child-with-jewish-hollywood-actress-susan-cabot-1.451960
She said 'no' to that, but went to his party anyway, and, and some point, she did. They had an affair for 7 years, and a child - Timothy Scott Roman.
She developed mental health problems. In 1986, she apparently attacked Timothy, he hit her with a metal bar, and killed her. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/11/29/Actress-Susan-Cabots-son-gets-probation-in-her-death/5166628318800/
The child was not by Hussein
Thanks for the extra info!
Was that the one that prompted Tom Servo to sing "Montana" by Frank Zappa? Wait, maybe that was the Leech Woman.
It was Leech.
Anyone else think the pre-transformation Wasp Woman looks like Emily Blunt?
I'll see your WW and raise you Queen Bee, humna humna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8fMyB3NCIY
Not sure I'm on board with the one actress's choices there--the shot of her face when she sees the wasp woman is not what I would have done, but...
I love to imagine that I could have had a career back in the day (had I been around) in all of these kinds of films. I'm not going to lie and pretend that I'm beautiful enough to be in top films, but kind of little inexpensive ones? I could have been a contender!
Thank you as always, Martini--you are the very first smile of most of my days!
Roger Corman on line 1 ... and yes, he's 97 and still alive.
Quick! Give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom thing!
But is he still working?
IMDb says he was executive producer of The Jungle Demon in 2021 but hasn't directed since Frankenstein unbound in 1990.
Holy heck, he has 500+ producer credits, and most of the titles are gold, Jerry, gold!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/
Yes, but how does she feel about bad puns and dick jokes?
I dunno, she seems a little WASP-y for that kind of humor.
Now we're getting somewhere ...
I love low-budget, bad horror movies. They are so fun to watch. This one is on Prime!
Sometimes, the constraints of a low budget force them to be really creative.
You made me snort. Loved it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Wait....I thought you said it'd be a BAD joke?
Thank you very much, ladies and germs. Try the veal.
(groans)
“What In The Actual Hell: CVS Abortion Med Mixup Led To Black Woman's IVF Termination“
Black lives don’t matter to people who overlook heinous actions that they would otherwise prefer to criminalize if they were personal choice.
What, no tab on the man who trained his Ring cameras to identify badgers and foxes in his garden, and then to harass them with annoying sounds?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67053171
Myself, I accept that wild critters are going to shit wherever they want.
Def clicked this for the headline!!
Nice time at Scary Oke last evening. Costumes were encouraged, but all I brought was this sort of plague doctor / Mardi Gras / Eyes Wide Shut beaky mask. At one point I overheard one of the bar backs say to this beautiful woman standing near the bar, "Where have you been all my life?" A couple of minutes later she sat down on the empty bar stool next to me, and started a conversation. She picked up the mask from the bar and tried it on. I snapped a pic, as one does. She told me she was Puerto Rican, and I confessed to finding her slight accent charming. I asked if she was planning to sing, and she said she was. I asked what she was singing, and she said she wanted to do the song Picture by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, but she needed me to sing it with her. Never having sung it, or really listened to it, I nevertheless happily agreed.
I asked if she knew of a place to find decent PR food, and she shook her head, saying she cooks every day. I asked about a few better known PR dishes, and she said that she cooks them, correcting me that a couple of them are Cuban, but she does cook them. I think I was looking for a pic of something I had cooked, and she said, "you want to take a picture?", hopped up and stood behind my barstool, with her head next to mine and her arms around me. Of course I wanted to take a picture.
She said she used to date quite a bit, but is reading the Bible more now, and doesn't want to fornicate. And something to the effect of not having anyone to accompany her when going out. I was happy to volunteer for this, if the need arose.
When one of the regulars announced that it was the wedding anniversary of the DJ, and her roady man, and called everyone to the dance floor, I asked her to dance, a lovely slow number I managed without trampling her feet.
I asked if she wanted the pic I took of her in the crazy mask, and she did. Gave her my phone ready to forward, and she entered her number, and hit send, showed me on her watch that she'd received it.
When the ride she had called, she gave me a hug and told me, "Goodbye, Baby".
I know the most likely ending to this story would be 'then I woke up', but it took me a while to wind down enough to get to sleep. A swizzle made with Decaboxylated CBD-rich hemp flower, muddled in Tito's may actually be a love potion.
"She said she used to date quite a bit, but is reading the Bible more now, and doesn't want to fornicate"
Don't walk away, run.
Not on todays list, but Roger Waters has remade Dark Side of the Moon with all of Gilmour's guitar cut out of it, because he's pissy that way. The reviews are .. not good. He's also now touring and annoying his fans quite a bit by spending part of the concert time reading from his forthcoming book (https://www.mensjournal.com/news/pink-floyd-fans-leave-concert-roger-waters). Reviews of that also not good.
and just think, with all the new headlines Roger will be able to further enlighten his fans with his deep thoughts on the situation in the Middle East.......
They're better at getting older...
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝟯𝟱-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁
...Already from age 65 and onwards, centenarians displayed more favorable biomarker values in commonly available biomarkers than individuals dying before age 100. The differences in biomarker values between centenarians and non-centenarians more than one decade prior death suggest that genetic and/or possibly modifiable lifestyle factors reflected in these biomarker levels may play an important role for exceptional longevity..."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00936-w
Not sure how going in and killing children is going to get people to listen to your side of things. I get that it’s complicated but if Hamas’ point was to unite the world against their presence in Gaza and harden views against the Palestinians then they succeeded. Whether they claim they were provoked or not you don’t just massacre kids at some music festival and claim it was some great deed.
On a yearly average, Israel hurts ans kills more children and women than Hamas, but somehow most Western democracies have come to listen to "their point of view".
It's all the stranger because just 30 years ago the western democracies (with the notable exception of the US) were fairly united in condemning Israel's brutal policy of occupation and colonisation. 30 years on, those policies not just endure but arguably have gotten worse, yet you won't find a western leader daring to criticise Israel.
None of which, of course, makes murder and rape an acceptable response.
FUCK HAMAS
Agree. But tell me what he said that is wrong. Israel( the government, not the people) has systematically worked to eradicate the Palestinian people. The world tried to some fairly toothless fixes and Israeli leaders noticed. Terrorism in any form is wrong. We should apply this to both sides in this situation
No, the Palestinian people are not being "eradicated": this is pure projection. It is the Palestinian side which has a policy of total genocide, and has for a century. If they have generally failed to kill as many as they used to, that is because their power to do so has been sharply restricted, something I am unapologetically all in favor of.
The natives have been parked into water-poor reservations and the settlers are steadily encroaching onto the better parts of what's left. What end result do you see in your crystal ball?
I don't where to go from here, not possessing any crystal ball. But I am sick of hearing the false narrative about which side has persistently pursued genocide as a matter of policy.
Palestinian opposition to irrigation started during the Egyptian occupation of the early 19th century, when it was noticed that the agricultural productivity went only to feeding the army. It became customary to attack farmers who undertook irrigation works as trying to put themselves above their neighbors, and some of the early outbreaks of violence against Jewish immigrants were because of irrigation. Even as late as 1964, an upstart named Yasir Arafat gained fame and advanced into leadership by blowing up Israeli irrigation systems. They are water poor because they have chosen to be.
Yo, à real problem solver.
as I'm not part of the Problem Solver's Caucus, I'll await your solution......
Plan C. Pretend it's not so bad, and what can you do about it anyway? Them natives are just shifty. Also known as the Dixie solutions, works well if you have a racist framework to sustain your basic inhumanity.
Plan B. Push the natives into ever-shrinking reservations. Slowly starve them down. It's been done, but it works better when the population ratio is strongly in favour of the invaders.
Something something justice something something renouncing force and brutality something something get the United States to actively push a peace plan instead of inconditionally supporting fascists and colonialists fir reasons best left unspoken. Maybe re-elect Jimmy Carter?
I think they figure they are all doomed and something something 72 virgins.
It doesn't take 72 virgins to push the brutally downtrodden to respond with brutality of their own. Or so says history.
Othering comes so easily to us.
Find me any example in history of someone behaving like Palestinians. In all the centuries that Poland was occupied, did Poles ever slaughter Russian schoolchildren or blow up German dance parties?
Should I stick to slaughter commited by the colonised or can i include slaughter commited by the colonisers? The list is endless in any case.
Beslan.
Wounded Knee.
King David Hotel, 1947.
Deir Yassin.
Sabrah and Chatilah.
Srebrenica.
The Israeli response to the 1st and 2nd intifadah.
Tulsa.
The partition of India.
Oradour.
The Indian rebellion of 1857
Any number of Native American attacks against European settlers during the 19th century.
I could list hundreds of massacres during the colonisations of Asia and Africa, if you're really interested in that sort of things, and if we stick to the past two hundred years.
"Colonizing" is not the proper term for an indigenous population returning to their homeland. Suppose some of the Oklahoma Cherokee decided to return to the lands in west North Carolina and northern Georgia, where some Cherokee have maintained a presence all this time, and began buying homes there: would you be in favor of the white people burning them out?
I notice you have nothing to say about my very short and selective answer to your request for groups of people who have behaved no better than Hamas in recent history. Including, obviously, groups of European heritage in Israel, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
That's bullshit, mate. You're not "indigenous" to a place your ancestors left 1,850 years ago and never returned to. By that measure, I could lay claim to all the lands from the North Sea to the Indus and Mongolia.
And to answer your question: would you be in favour of the Cherokee displacing all North Carolinans and north Georgians to a midling sized tract in the least fertile part of that region, and keeping them penned there with limited civil rights? And at that, the Cherokee only left 2-300 years ago, not 1850 years.
It really does.
Especially when both sides think it's a good long term strategy.
"How many hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been forced into exile to live in squalid refugees camps" About five hundred thousand were expelled from the Arab countries in 1948, compared to eight hundred thousand Palestinians who fled or were chased out of Israel. Both Jews and Arabs were living in refugee camps in the immediate aftermath; Israel recalls it as a sorry time of austerity. The difference, of course, is that the Jewish diaspora around the world helped to contribute funds, and the people in Israel worked hard, to build up a society; while the Arabs contributed funds for useless violence and did nothing whatsoever to help Palestinian living conditions.
"Israel--the overwhelmingly superior power in all respects--has been the proactive actor from the beginning (going back to pre-independence 1881)" This is insane. In 1881 the balance of power was entirely the other way: Jews were not legally allowed to own weapons under the Ottoman government, which nobody back then expected to fall anytime soon, and this restriction continued in the first years of the Mandate. Not a square centimeter of land was "stolen" in those days: Jews purchased homes and expected to be able to live in them, and the Muslim authorities responded by launching pogroms, like KKK members burning out the "wrong people" who moved into the neighborhood.
If you need something to read.
https://dianemartingutel.substack.com/p/the-prayer-book-dea
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We are having an out of this world time camping at Roswell, Bottomless Lakes, #D13 is the best spot in the park for tents. I have been peeing in the woods plenty but yesterday was yelled at by a man for it who thinks nature is not covered in piss and shit. I mean, does he let his grandkids swim in the lake? Anyway, the bathrooms are locked this AM, so I am free to do all the outdoor peeing I wish.
We took the dog into town yesterday in his little dog bag and we were welcome in all the places with him. He has been such a little trooper but he is so annoyed. Says he is a condo dog. Pics:
https://substack.com/@dianeslesshostileusername/note/c-41603304
Dinner last night was Roswell Apizza: fabulous pizza, perfect crust. Our bench was ransacked by raccoons and skunks who did get the hotdogs buns, and were SO ADORABLE. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Today we plan to visit a pistachio farm and also buy a bag from a guy roasting them on the side of the road. We have a few more sites to visit on the strip so we will hit those as well. Most of today's plan is to relax for the long day of driving to Albuquerque tomorrow.
Miss you all. Seems we have a date with babe paley Saturday, which I am so excited about!
Hey holler at me if you have a moment when you come into town?
Where ya at?! We will be at the Fiesta AM and PM on Thursday!
Special shapes day? I could be persuaded to be rousted for that. :-)
You can email to queenellenenterprises at the gee-mail
The horror of what Hamas has done is beyond words. What Israel is currently doing in Gaza is also horror beyond words. Both of these things can be true at the same time. The only heroes are the people on the ground who are trying to help others survive.
What Jeffrey Dahmer did was beyond words. But locking him up in a cage was also a horror?
I don't accept your analogy. We are talking about military action against civilians that constitute war crimes. And terrorist action against civilians that would also be war crimes if Hamas were a real military. Dead children, dead babies, dead women, dead men on both sides. I'm not going to act like one is ok and the other is not.
The military action is not directed against the civilians, and Hamas is as responsible for putting Palestinian civilians in harm's way as for murdering Israeli civilians. For example, Hamas has vast underground vaults and tunnels beneath Gaza, NONE of which civilians are allowed to take shelter in.
Basically your position is that mass murdering may be bad, but it is also bad to try to stop it.
thank you. The vitriol I have received in other places for saying this is off the cahrts
I was really looking for the article about the slow cooker.
It won't be ready until later.
But the chatcave will smell really good in the meantime.
leave the door to your locker open after you clean it out.
I have never seen a single episode of the Simpsons. Am I weird?
I wasn't allowed to watch it. I have seen maybe two episodes.
"The Nobel Prize for literature is weird."
Amen, and that's no knock on Jon Fosse.
But the choices have for a long time been peculiar, regionally slanted - and late. I mean, the committee keeps missing out on giving it to people who die and so aren't eligible (Graham Greene, Javier Marías, Marguerite Yourcenar, James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to name a few).
I was hoping for César Aira this year.
I got the date wrong for the Lone Soldier’s funeral. But there’s another one-a Special Forces soldier who was KIA. There will be a lot of funerals this week.
I awoke with a massive headache. I don't recommend it.
Hot shower.