I feel like if I read that ANI link all the way to the end, I might find out you weren’t joking about the song, maybe even the hand motions. So I’m gonna need more coffee first.
"..the underside of the great urinal cake of the American populace..."
MAGA is all that - and I like that descriptor better than "basket of deplorables". Maybe we can get MAGA to adopt that phrase, and be proud of it, as they are over Hillary's words.
Yesterday's Tabs from Marcie: Meow, meow, meow, meow NYT: “Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized, Architects Say It Shows.” (New York Times)
Evan, today: Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom design: As much of a tacky, classless piece of shit as you’d imagine. [New York Times]
"Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom design: As much of a tacky, classless piece of shit as you’d imagine...."
As it is, Trump now claims the ballroom is just a "shed" to hide the "massive secret military complex" being built under the ballroom. I guess Trump was not impressed by the bunker he ran and hid in during his first term while protestors were outside the WH.
I can see a "bunker" and some support area, but why does the military get to build a "massive" complex under the People's House ( which the East Wing was part of ). Never mind the "planning committees, Congress should investigate how this military construction project came to be, 'cause it sure sounds illegal as hell to this "not a lawyer".
He just wants a big tomb like the pharaohs got. So if he wants to be buried there with a thousand of his loyal retainers (make up your own list) and MAGAs (they can have a contest!), I’m fine with it. Just pave it over and rebuild the Rose Garden and shit on top.
The migratory songbirds have begun their vernal passage through Chicago. I see them out my study window as they dart through the gangway. The local birds pretty much stay out of the gangways.
A couple of days ago I said the trump ballroom was a cover for a massive data center and I got so much shit for being "pARanOid" from the peanut gallery in these here comments.
Here's a little wake-up music for you all. A long time ago (I won't say how long!), I was browsing through the stacks at a local record shop. Some pleasant-sounding symphonic music was playing on the store's stereo... and then this music came on. Everyone in the store stopped what they were doing and listened. When it finished, we were all, like, "What just happened???" It was Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.
That was lovely. I don't remember it at all - doesn't mean I haven't heard it but my brains are leaking out of my ears and I forget a lot - but I've saved that link to listen to again and probably again after that. I also found the conductor, fascinating. Thank you for that little wake up.
Following the war, the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1922 to 1945, Wilhelm Furtwängler, was required to submit to the denazification process. The young Sergiu Celibidache thereby became the top orchestra’s interim conductor, from 1945 until 1952. Following that, Furtwängler was once again on the podium. In 1954 the Philharmonic selected not the predestined Celibidache to be Furtwängler’s official successor – but rather Herbert von Karajan. Sergiu Celibidache was so incensed by being passed over that he vowed to never again conduct the famous orchestra. It took 38 years before a collaboration could once again take place: the concert of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 happened only at the instigation of the German president at the time, Richard von Weizsäcker. In the intervening years, Celibidache had become an internationally sought-after conductor.
That's Sergiu Celibidache. Personal note: he is a dead-ringer for my favorite ballet teacher from my dancing days - same face and physique, same mannerisms, same commanding persona. He was an *awesome* guy.
Last night on Rachael Maddow she brought up something that never crossed my mind. About those ICE buildings they bought, how come they paid over twice the asking or valued price for them. Could that be how Lewdski and Gnome made their money? We shall see.
Last night a former friend texted to tell me that I was right about Rump and WW3. I pointed out that I was also right about women’s reproductive health and the Dept of Education yet she voted for them. And then she said oh well what can I do now? I gave her a pretty good list asking her to please vote DEM. Oh but she nobility issues due to an injury at home. I said how about mail in. Oh we cannot do that. Looked it up and NC absolutely allows mail in voting. Sent her instructions so that she could do so.
In response: A. "You'd do it for Randolph Scott!" But not Rick Scott.
II. The DOJ is a careful steward of seized evidence. See: from AI "In May 2009, FBI Special Agent Frederick Kingston crashed a recovered, stolen 1995 Ferrari F50 into a tree in Lexington, Kentucky, causing significant damage. The car, part of a 2003 theft investigation, was being driven by the agent during a "short ride". The US government later gained immunity from paying for the damage." There are - were - 58 Ferrari F50s in the US.
Hey! The founders saw the military as a source of mischief. Explains why they were big on State militias. The only good to a standing army is if it’s standing over there.
A “Cuban tody” sounds like a cocktail, but it is in fact the adorable bird in your hed gif: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/the-cuban-tody
And your meme chat is here: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/ce3d76ce-b898-481c-a5e8-088835357126?utm_source=share
Just as long as Ricki Ricardo doesn't show up and start singing it's all good.
You got some 'splainin' to do!
Babaloo!
It might be the closest bird to the Hungarian flag, in color at least.
Cuban Toady? Rubio?
EDIT - Haha, really late to the party on this one!
Bird by Lilly Pulitzer.
Cuba has some swell birbs, in fact!
That reminds me, time, time to put up the hummingbird feeder. Just in case one of them shows up too early.
Funny, it doesn't look Cuban to me!
The wee bird! Adorbs!
Not to be confused with Little Marco, the Cuban Toady
Haha, beat me!
“Cuban tody” not to be confused with Cuban 𝘵𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘺, like that unctuous fellow who holds the Commandant's ashtray...
Techno colored Birbs!
A bird made for Kodachrome. Alas, Kodachrome is no more. Paul Simon was prescient.
Muppets version.
https://youtu.be/6_01zRwJOPw?feature=shared
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D8rlDTK6QI-w&ved=2ahUKEwjOkeyUhsqTAxWV1fACHRq0F-cQ78AJegQIGRAB&usg=AOvVaw2euhcSOXl5kOENhQ7L8SgN
Thanks for the music.
He and Julio predicted this, down by the schoolyard.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEzHv-Aq2htM&ved=2ahUKEwjOs4jQi8qTAxWJjokEHZSgBKMQo7QBegQIFBAE&usg=AOvVaw1zE9aBTChFXXG1mvjGaBct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiXrd-R68U
But what about Cecilia?
I grew up being seranaded by that song.
Cecelia is my middle name. It was my paternal grandmother's name and the only aspect of my given name that I actually like.
Jubilation!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Da5_QV97eYqM&ved=2ahUKEwiunO7WicqTAxVtl4kEHdSmJEUQ78AJegQIFxAB&usg=AOvVaw3kxhIwektJ-3DDv4NUI5Hb
He left her, in 50 different ways.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXtWqmArUU&list=RDABXtWqmArUU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUbNTAgd2F5cyB0byBsZWF2ZSB5b3VyIGxvdmVyoAcB
Wow. An Easter bird. All in pastels. I wonder what kind of eggs they lay?
Cadbury?
Not to be confused with Marco Rubio, Cuban Toady
So much for what I thought was my original brain cramp.
What a splendid birb. The name sounds like something Hooper, our bartender would come up with.
Punk rockin Robin
I feel like if I read that ANI link all the way to the end, I might find out you weren’t joking about the song, maybe even the hand motions. So I’m gonna need more coffee first.
Brb.
"..the underside of the great urinal cake of the American populace..."
MAGA is all that - and I like that descriptor better than "basket of deplorables". Maybe we can get MAGA to adopt that phrase, and be proud of it, as they are over Hillary's words.
Ok, Wonkette::
Yesterday's Tabs from Marcie: Meow, meow, meow, meow NYT: “Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized, Architects Say It Shows.” (New York Times)
Evan, today: Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom design: As much of a tacky, classless piece of shit as you’d imagine. [New York Times]
"Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom design: As much of a tacky, classless piece of shit as you’d imagine...."
As it is, Trump now claims the ballroom is just a "shed" to hide the "massive secret military complex" being built under the ballroom. I guess Trump was not impressed by the bunker he ran and hid in during his first term while protestors were outside the WH.
I can see a "bunker" and some support area, but why does the military get to build a "massive" complex under the People's House ( which the East Wing was part of ). Never mind the "planning committees, Congress should investigate how this military construction project came to be, 'cause it sure sounds illegal as hell to this "not a lawyer".
He just wants a big tomb like the pharaohs got. So if he wants to be buried there with a thousand of his loyal retainers (make up your own list) and MAGAs (they can have a contest!), I’m fine with it. Just pave it over and rebuild the Rose Garden and shit on top.
SOYLENT GOLD IS PEOPLE!
But it's the Peoples' Shed.
LOL - if the People wanted a shed with stairs that don't lead to an entrance.
Missed you Evan!
The migratory songbirds have begun their vernal passage through Chicago. I see them out my study window as they dart through the gangway. The local birds pretty much stay out of the gangways.
The question we need to ask is “what will Orban do when he loses?” Because he’s more than capable of doing J6 times infinity.
A couple of days ago I said the trump ballroom was a cover for a massive data center and I got so much shit for being "pARanOid" from the peanut gallery in these here comments.
https://substack.com/@erisunveiled/note/c-233462038?r=2ll74g&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Anyway smash cut to yesterday
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-ballroom-project-include-massive-military-complex-2026-03-30/
No need to apologize. Just eat shit
Republicans in 2024: well lower gas prices and keep us out of wars.
Republicans in 2026: you should love high gas prices because of the war we started.
Trump’s plans for presidential library skyscraper include two gold statues of himself.
But of course.
Here's a little wake-up music for you all. A long time ago (I won't say how long!), I was browsing through the stacks at a local record shop. Some pleasant-sounding symphonic music was playing on the store's stereo... and then this music came on. Everyone in the store stopped what they were doing and listened. When it finished, we were all, like, "What just happened???" It was Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.
https://youtu.be/Dv1zx0mqBUs?si=gFeg6V0ZBVjEhxqY
That was lovely. I don't remember it at all - doesn't mean I haven't heard it but my brains are leaking out of my ears and I forget a lot - but I've saved that link to listen to again and probably again after that. I also found the conductor, fascinating. Thank you for that little wake up.
I find myself fascinsated with the conductor.
Following the war, the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1922 to 1945, Wilhelm Furtwängler, was required to submit to the denazification process. The young Sergiu Celibidache thereby became the top orchestra’s interim conductor, from 1945 until 1952. Following that, Furtwängler was once again on the podium. In 1954 the Philharmonic selected not the predestined Celibidache to be Furtwängler’s official successor – but rather Herbert von Karajan. Sergiu Celibidache was so incensed by being passed over that he vowed to never again conduct the famous orchestra. It took 38 years before a collaboration could once again take place: the concert of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 happened only at the instigation of the German president at the time, Richard von Weizsäcker. In the intervening years, Celibidache had become an internationally sought-after conductor.
That's Sergiu Celibidache. Personal note: he is a dead-ringer for my favorite ballet teacher from my dancing days - same face and physique, same mannerisms, same commanding persona. He was an *awesome* guy.
Higher math.
https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/03/31/teacher-accused-trying-sell-drugs-near-school-grounds-coworker-said-she-reeked-marijuana/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=organicclicks&tbref=hp
Last night on Rachael Maddow she brought up something that never crossed my mind. About those ICE buildings they bought, how come they paid over twice the asking or valued price for them. Could that be how Lewdski and Gnome made their money? We shall see.
Last night a former friend texted to tell me that I was right about Rump and WW3. I pointed out that I was also right about women’s reproductive health and the Dept of Education yet she voted for them. And then she said oh well what can I do now? I gave her a pretty good list asking her to please vote DEM. Oh but she nobility issues due to an injury at home. I said how about mail in. Oh we cannot do that. Looked it up and NC absolutely allows mail in voting. Sent her instructions so that she could do so.
Roadblock and goalpost-moving - her words are those of embarassment not reform.
In response: A. "You'd do it for Randolph Scott!" But not Rick Scott.
II. The DOJ is a careful steward of seized evidence. See: from AI "In May 2009, FBI Special Agent Frederick Kingston crashed a recovered, stolen 1995 Ferrari F50 into a tree in Lexington, Kentucky, causing significant damage. The car, part of a 2003 theft investigation, was being driven by the agent during a "short ride". The US government later gained immunity from paying for the damage." There are - were - 58 Ferrari F50s in the US.
Eh. The F50 is one of the ugliest cars ever made by Ferrari.
And by ugly I don't mean for a Ferrari, I mean by any objective measure the F50 is pig ugly.
The F40 and F60 are orders of magnitude more attractive.
Hey! The founders saw the military as a source of mischief. Explains why they were big on State militias. The only good to a standing army is if it’s standing over there.
I propose we lock up all the killers and men who think killing solves problems