Yesterday, sleeping puppy and piglet and ducklings. Today, bright yellow, thrashing around of arms and legs! I take it you are feeling more energetic today?
I picked up a leather-clad original SX-70 camera at a yard sale a bunch of years ago. I don't know if it still works, film was pretty much impossible to buy for a while, although it's now being sold.
I was in Mamphis during the annual "death week" observances, when all of the Elvis fans came to town to engage in homage to the King. Aside from all of the impersonators, my favorite thing was a store selling Elvis bathroom mats in the shape of the chalk outline of his body that the police drew on the bathroom floor.
Maybe it was during this movie, but sometime in the '60s Ann-Margaret was in my parents' town to film something and they'd see her riding about on a motorcycle or scooter or something.
I think she's adorable and winning. Also showing why redheads should wear more yellow!
I took a long involved test today to see if I'm age-impaired yet. I'm sure I'm not! Part of the reason is that I did not ever join AARP which has such a decrepit sound. And the result is, when I saw Ann-Margaret jumping around there I knew I'd been right. Because this way I'm still Ann-Margaret's age. You better all agree.
We also have eels in Oregon in the sense of hose-shaped fish, but they are "technically" lampreys. They were an important food source for the local Ko-quel aka "Coquille" people and in fact the tribal name refers to the fish. I believe lampreys are still short-order food in Japan, but not around here, where harvest is severely restricted.
They are the scariest yet most poignant animals. What I remember hearing was that they'll hang out for years in one small area, maybe two of them together. Suddenly for a reason no one understands, the pair will set out-- after hanging around for 80 years-- they set out across the world-- well they head for a really distant place, after 80 years of 'provincial life.' They're just off across the world and they never come back.
I think if I still lived in Austin, I would go see RFK Jr and Shanahan, even though I haven't listened to any of his thoughts since Air America went under. I'm really curious how many of the people that swooned for Ron Paul back in the day are going to show up.
'Trix, there's no movement in the polls, but there's some in the TPM free linky thing. It comes up on the first attempt. But ONLY the first attempt. If I read something else first and have to reload TPM, it reverts to paywall. If that's consistent then it's probably more my problem than yours, I'm just updating you on how it behaves.
The polls are shit. But there's shit is consistent, which is one of the goals of accurate polling. So we are stuck with these proportional skews through the rest of the electoral cycle. In other words sienna nyt are now faced with screwing up in exactly the same way in this and future polls to win the last chance prize of at least making their polls comparable. But as measurement devices they are terribly damaged and inaccurate. The biggest issue is the oversampling of conservatives and the next biggest issue is the inclusion of voters who didn't vote in 2020 in the likely voter screen. I completely agree that the best approach is definitely not to ignore these polls, but to question them and examine them and discuss them. But the point is well taken that the editorial decisions of the New York times, headlines etc, regarding this series of polls is producing evidence that tends to show a bias against the president.
I think the fact that the eels all migrate to the Bermuda triangle to do all the babies is all the proof that we need that is the location of the ruins of Atlantis.
Also! This is bass akwards. If Mama Rebecca would start putting cat pictures in all of the article headings, word would get out, and her subscription base would spread like wildfire. Eventually, people would even start reading the articles who just came here to look at cat pictures, and they would be persuaded to vote blue, join unions, volunteer time at the local Food bank, hang pride, flags outside of their houses. And all it would take us a couple of silly little cat pictures to bring about the revolution.
All the articles about the polls, and they never mention that the Biden campaign definitely has internal polls that tell them things these dumb trash polls don't.
He's complaining about media coverage about this, and some might have been inaccurate, but he's not disputing that Musk rage-fired a 500-person division.
I saw on Morning Joe a reporter talking to voters in Georgia about whether Trump's criminal trials make them less or more likely to vote for him. Two were AA and one was a young white male, they said they were more likely because they knew of people who had been persecuted by the legal system, and they think he is too. So...I wonder if they had to look hard for those people or if there are a lot of them. I find it hard to believe that a rich white man being indicted for serious crimes against the country are equated with the plight of young and AA people. I'm not dismissing or minimizing those things but they are not even close to being the same.
I've given up on the media. They are incapable of finding a single Trump voter who won't vote for Trump because of his legal problems or a single Biden voter who s absolutely voting for Joe no matter what.
Re eels and the brimming hovercraft; I have a coworker. Former prison guard, sort of tough guy, terrified of snakes. Told us a story about fishing with his buddies on the banks of the Potomac when he caught something that put up quite a fight until he yanked it out of the water and it came flying right at him. He said he dropped his rod and ran screaming up the bank “like a little girl”.
I was happily shocked to find I have a huge credit in loyalty rewards at my marijuana dispensary. I signed up and forgot about it. They sent a notice the program was changing platforms and I was like I should check that, glad I did, I have $270 to spend! (Only $125 at a time but STILL, fuuuck that's awesome.)
It’s “The Swinger” sampled for yer hed gif. More here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-swinger
I might be strange, but I tried to hear the music sound track in my mind when first watching this TABS video snippet. Thanks again Martini !!!
Yesterday, sleeping puppy and piglet and ducklings. Today, bright yellow, thrashing around of arms and legs! I take it you are feeling more energetic today?
I've always considered myself a Beatnik Bohemian. Plus, I think Ann Margret is smoking hot.
AMAZING
For some odd reason I now want baked beans?
Ann Margaret is less than three years older than her 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘺 screen son, Roger Daltrey. Maybe why she was nominated for an Oscar...
Beans!
What they good for?
Everything!
Groovy!
I must admit that is one of my favorite aspects of the entire "Tommy" experience.
I also liked Tina as The Acid Queen, too!
THAT was a prime segment of that entire show. Ms. Turner just tore the world apart with that performance.
Ann Margret tries to throw away a wad of paper: https://youtu.be/Tm8r8FAQFXs?si=LCKMi3sFtqtfCi6C
was just about to post this. I can never look at Ann Margret without thinking of Kristin Wiig.
Thank you
I was Ann one year for Halloween, didn’t have the moves 😂
That is hysterically funny and Kristen Wiig is rocking those moves
Might be my favorite SNL skit ever the audience of the time was just meh on.
My father had a thing for Anne Margaret. For years he had a provocative poster of her hanging inside of his closet door.
The woman has always made me VERY proud of my auburn hair and nice set of gams.
Proud of myself for spotting Ann-Margret at least.
Another Swinger from that era..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9lvcFlUBxM
A black and white swinger!
I got one for my (checks math) 12th birthday. I was so thrilled with it.
We have one of those (the original roll-film) Swingers on the shelf in the livingroom.. also a later pack-film Swinger.
I worked my way through college fixing Polaroid cameras..
I picked up a leather-clad original SX-70 camera at a yard sale a bunch of years ago. I don't know if it still works, film was pretty much impossible to buy for a while, although it's now being sold.
I got one those things from my uncle, who was going to toss it. Man, what great piece of engineering. I ended selling on eBay for about $90, I think?
"Hey, I have an idea! Let's put Ann-Margaret in tight clothing and make an Elvis movie without Elvis! What could go wrong?"
She was decades ahead of her time, putting together that TABS dance sequence.
It had to get boring making Elvis movies. "Haven't we done this scene already?" "That was the last movie."
Fat, nihilistic people who are too old and a drain on society should just die on a toilet for the betterment of America.
I was in Mamphis during the annual "death week" observances, when all of the Elvis fans came to town to engage in homage to the King. Aside from all of the impersonators, my favorite thing was a store selling Elvis bathroom mats in the shape of the chalk outline of his body that the police drew on the bathroom floor.
Ummmmm, no Elvis and Ann-Margret wearing whatever she wants equals a great movie!
That's quite a little cultural time capsule.
Maybe it was during this movie, but sometime in the '60s Ann-Margaret was in my parents' town to film something and they'd see her riding about on a motorcycle or scooter or something.
I think she's adorable and winning. Also showing why redheads should wear more yellow!
I’ve always loved Ann Margaret even when I was a kid
Oh great, now I have "Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger" playing in my head.
Oh great, now I have "Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger" going through my head to the tune of the Patty Duke Show theme.
I took a long involved test today to see if I'm age-impaired yet. I'm sure I'm not! Part of the reason is that I did not ever join AARP which has such a decrepit sound. And the result is, when I saw Ann-Margaret jumping around there I knew I'd been right. Because this way I'm still Ann-Margaret's age. You better all agree.
I joined AARP last year. There's no age limit for joining (some of the discounts have age limits though).
We also have eels in Oregon in the sense of hose-shaped fish, but they are "technically" lampreys. They were an important food source for the local Ko-quel aka "Coquille" people and in fact the tribal name refers to the fish. I believe lampreys are still short-order food in Japan, but not around here, where harvest is severely restricted.
They are the scariest yet most poignant animals. What I remember hearing was that they'll hang out for years in one small area, maybe two of them together. Suddenly for a reason no one understands, the pair will set out-- after hanging around for 80 years-- they set out across the world-- well they head for a really distant place, after 80 years of 'provincial life.' They're just off across the world and they never come back.
I think if I still lived in Austin, I would go see RFK Jr and Shanahan, even though I haven't listened to any of his thoughts since Air America went under. I'm really curious how many of the people that swooned for Ron Paul back in the day are going to show up.
'Trix, there's no movement in the polls, but there's some in the TPM free linky thing. It comes up on the first attempt. But ONLY the first attempt. If I read something else first and have to reload TPM, it reverts to paywall. If that's consistent then it's probably more my problem than yours, I'm just updating you on how it behaves.
My brain has stopped working, I picked it up and I need some place to put it:
Someone else and I mentioned Wu-Tang, so
The three most influential, groundbreaking albums of all time:
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Energy by Operation Ivy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8RAJn_2zjU
There should not be a way that any of these bands did perfection on the first try.
The polls are shit. But there's shit is consistent, which is one of the goals of accurate polling. So we are stuck with these proportional skews through the rest of the electoral cycle. In other words sienna nyt are now faced with screwing up in exactly the same way in this and future polls to win the last chance prize of at least making their polls comparable. But as measurement devices they are terribly damaged and inaccurate. The biggest issue is the oversampling of conservatives and the next biggest issue is the inclusion of voters who didn't vote in 2020 in the likely voter screen. I completely agree that the best approach is definitely not to ignore these polls, but to question them and examine them and discuss them. But the point is well taken that the editorial decisions of the New York times, headlines etc, regarding this series of polls is producing evidence that tends to show a bias against the president.
I think the fact that the eels all migrate to the Bermuda triangle to do all the babies is all the proof that we need that is the location of the ruins of Atlantis.
Also! This is bass akwards. If Mama Rebecca would start putting cat pictures in all of the article headings, word would get out, and her subscription base would spread like wildfire. Eventually, people would even start reading the articles who just came here to look at cat pictures, and they would be persuaded to vote blue, join unions, volunteer time at the local Food bank, hang pride, flags outside of their houses. And all it would take us a couple of silly little cat pictures to bring about the revolution.
All the articles about the polls, and they never mention that the Biden campaign definitely has internal polls that tell them things these dumb trash polls don't.
Eels! I just watched Bodkin and there was this whole side story about eel smugglers. What are the odds?
There's a story about how Musk had a meeting with the head of the Supercharger division at Tesla, during which she pushed back on the layoffs planned for that group. Musk was so pissed off that he fired her and the whole division (https://boingboing.net/2024/05/15/elon-musk-impulsively-fired-tesla-supercharger-boss-after-she-pushed-back-on-layoffs.html). There's word most of them are now being hired back (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/). Whoa, nelly. This is what happens when you have an unstable megalomanic who is also dumb running things.
The Electric Viking speculates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNvqrcdc35o
He's complaining about media coverage about this, and some might have been inaccurate, but he's not disputing that Musk rage-fired a 500-person division.
I saw on Morning Joe a reporter talking to voters in Georgia about whether Trump's criminal trials make them less or more likely to vote for him. Two were AA and one was a young white male, they said they were more likely because they knew of people who had been persecuted by the legal system, and they think he is too. So...I wonder if they had to look hard for those people or if there are a lot of them. I find it hard to believe that a rich white man being indicted for serious crimes against the country are equated with the plight of young and AA people. I'm not dismissing or minimizing those things but they are not even close to being the same.
I've given up on the media. They are incapable of finding a single Trump voter who won't vote for Trump because of his legal problems or a single Biden voter who s absolutely voting for Joe no matter what.
Re eels and the brimming hovercraft; I have a coworker. Former prison guard, sort of tough guy, terrified of snakes. Told us a story about fishing with his buddies on the banks of the Potomac when he caught something that put up quite a fight until he yanked it out of the water and it came flying right at him. He said he dropped his rod and ran screaming up the bank “like a little girl”.
gotta cut that line!
catching eels is always a mess
I was happily shocked to find I have a huge credit in loyalty rewards at my marijuana dispensary. I signed up and forgot about it. They sent a notice the program was changing platforms and I was like I should check that, glad I did, I have $270 to spend! (Only $125 at a time but STILL, fuuuck that's awesome.)
Start investing today. You can open a DRIP account at Compushare for $250 and $50 a month. My advice is to buy Coca Cola.