I really hope there's a cartoonish family of them that follow him around, dancing and generally drawing a lot of attention to themselves, then immediately hide the moment he turns round.
I will point out that the name of McLachlan's tour "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" seems to have been lifted from a poem by WWI poet Wilfred Owen, from a very different context:
From "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
> Of course, he didn’t use words quite that strong, but nobody does.
You do, and thank all the gods for that! Without Wonkette, I'd seriously wonder if I was going crazy. It's really disorienting to live for years in a low-grade panic, occasionally flaring into angry horror, while all around you people act as if there's nothing unusual going on.
Oh look everybody, HuffPost says that it's Pres. OHJB who is making "ominous comments". HuffPost needs to be exterminated from the planet"
BIDEN REACTS TO RULING WITH OMINOUS COMMENTS President Joe Biden slammed the "dangerous" immunity ruling. Get the latest with our live updates here. [HuffPost]
I have this barely tamped-down terror gripping my innards that has its origins in the fact that no matter who wins the upcoming presidential election there’s going to be a major upheaval in our society. It might be a good idea to have provisions on hand in the event that chaos is unleashed. I just don’t see a peaceful outcome.
While I totally agree with you and am scared, I remind myself that I truly believe that the racist systems entrenched in our country do need a complete overhaul in order to provide equity to our citizens. Perhaps this is the needed yet truly terrifying beginning of that overhaul?
"We are currently wearing the High Horse and layering Cowboy on top of it"
I like this idea of layering fragrance, and that seems like the right order.
I see that there's a Ranger Station in Tiburon, so I can dress in layers to take the ferry over, layer on some fragrance, and then on the ferry back layer that with salty sea spray.
I belong to a FB group called View From My Window. People from all over the world post pictures of things that they can see from where they live: a garden in Tennessee, a prowling street cat in Istanbul, a sunset over a fjord in Norway, a bustling street scene in Accra, a village with the Himalayas in the background in Pakistan, that sort of thing. People also will post views that they see while traveling if they follow the "from my window" format. Last Sunday wife and I decided to stay at a hotel in Manhattan after going to see the Linda Thompson show, and our room was on the 35th floor with an amazing view of the Empire State Building, which was lit up for the Pride parade that happened earlier that day. I posted a picture to the group and was sadly surprised to see how many haters crawled out of the woodwork to complain and spread negativity.
I belong to a FB group called View From My Window. People from all over the world post pictures of things that they can see from where they live: a garden in Tennessee, a prowling street cat in Istanbul, a sunset over a fjord in Norway, a bustling street scene in Accra, a village with the Himalayas in the background in Pakistan, that sort of thing. People also will post views that they see while traveling if they follow the "from my window" format. Last Sunday wife and I decided to stay at a hotel in Manhattan after going to see the Linda Thompson show, and our room was on the 35th floor with am amazing view of the Empire State Building, which was lit up for the Pride parade that happened earlier that day. I posted a picture to the group and was sadly surprised to see how many haters crawled out of the woodwork to complain and spread negativity.
Is there a word for the video screen they are putting in elevators these days? Anyway, where I work it occasionally puts up pictures called View From My Office. Don't know if it is related to VFMW.
"Can we trust them to hot dog? Fuck, probably not."
I gave up hot dogs decades ago, but prior to that I knew only the Southern mode of cooking them: Spilt lengthwise so that the two halves still held together, then pan-fried in butter with the cut sides down until they were charred. Served on a toasted bun with ketchup and mustard.
"Can we trust them to hot dog? Fuck, probably not."
There is a very very VERY bad movie that came out recently called "Snack Shack". Do not, under any circumstances, watch it.
One of its gags - and I use the term "gags" very generously - is when one of the teenage losers that runs the Snack Shack starts writing "FUCK" in ketchup on the hot dogs and charging $0.75 more for a "Fuck Dog".
The moronic film maker then thinks that having 20 or 30 5- and 6-year-old kids start screaming "I want a Fuck Dog!" over and over constitutes comedy.
Oh - and whoever told me a couple weeks ago that Big Tobacco can't pay for product placement in movies? They're still doing it, and have actually never stopped doing it. Of this, I am 100% certain.
It's the "Paid For Gratuitous Cigarette" and I'm tired of it.
After watching ***CANCER SURVIVOR*** Tig Notaro play a cigarette-smoking helicopter in "Army of the Dead", I tracked down her publicist and posed the question to them, "Really? How does a cancer survivor justify glorifying smoking, when there was absolutely no reason or value in her character smoking?"
Unsurprisingly, I never got a reply. You can guess how I feel about Tig Notaro.
Thanks. I really DO, but you are right, I made the choice, and it gets better every day. I could have bought smokes yesterday but did not. Luckily I was not a heavy smoker (2-4 per day, usually 2), but I could sense it treadmilling.
OT: Okay, you can substitute "handy circle" for "circle jerk" in WaPo's comments and it won't get immediately deleted... we'll see if offended readers catch it.
Here's a shocking gap in humanity's knowledge: there is no known data on the angle of repose for the ash of cannabis flower. I'd better go study that for a few minutes.
ABV (already been vaped) flower is closer to torrefied biomass than ash, of course, depending on your temperature setting. I have a Hybrid with a water bubbler, as well as a Classic. I haven't used them much since prototyping a pipe with cigarette filter. It will facilitate repose at a comfortable angle for its user.
I'm going to suggest imbibing in a different strain, maybe I'll need to as well after reading about your dream I had visions of Mitch McConnell Soylent Green, I'm going to need something stronger than what I've got!
Take a breather with some snow leopard action (hed gif source info, etc): https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/catch-the-tiger-by-the-tail-or-leopard
I love watching snow leopards play. Snow leopards are the Tiggers of the big cats.
If I had a tail like that, I'd want to catch it too!
Thank you so much for the fluffy leopard. A cuddle from that leopard would be a worthy death. 😂
Don’t let it eat your face.
It must be so weird to have a body part that you don't understand is your own.
Contemplates bellybutton.
That's a CAT 1 Tabs pic, that is.
Here, kitty kitty kitty.
"I knew snow leopard. Snow leopard was a friend of mine. You're snow leopard."
There is a German Snow Leopard, too. Cool lady.
https://x.com/sabi_ri
Looks intriguing.
LOL!
My work is done here.
But, will it eat my face?
Given the chance.
Best lynx of the day!
🎵 There's 𝙣𝙤 leopards like 𝙎𝙣𝙤𝙬 Leopards, 𝙣𝙤 leopards at all! 🎶
Apologies to Irving Berlin...
But can you do the Ethel Merman voice?
You say snowleopard, but then you clearly provide lynx.
Oh you!
Hot Snow Leopard Action! You won't believe the sizable appendage on this cat!
Had a friend whose job in Peace Corps was to count snow leopards in the mountains of Morocco. His count during 2 years: 0
I'll gladly take the job in Moorea where all I have to do is wander around and count North American moose.
Truly, the epitome of the American volunteer spirit.
I really hope there's a cartoonish family of them that follow him around, dancing and generally drawing a lot of attention to themselves, then immediately hide the moment he turns round.
Enough acid and voila!
Yes.....thank you!
Snep!
I will point out that the name of McLachlan's tour "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" seems to have been lifted from a poem by WWI poet Wilfred Owen, from a very different context:
From "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
> Of course, he didn’t use words quite that strong, but nobody does.
You do, and thank all the gods for that! Without Wonkette, I'd seriously wonder if I was going crazy. It's really disorienting to live for years in a low-grade panic, occasionally flaring into angry horror, while all around you people act as if there's nothing unusual going on.
If you don't know where your gun is at all times, you should not own one. No one accidentally brings one anywhere.
Oud Ranch is the best of the Ranger Station fragrances.
More perfumery references! GREAT way to make me (and others, perhaps) forget about OMINOUS things!
Oh look everybody, HuffPost says that it's Pres. OHJB who is making "ominous comments". HuffPost needs to be exterminated from the planet"
BIDEN REACTS TO RULING WITH OMINOUS COMMENTS President Joe Biden slammed the "dangerous" immunity ruling. Get the latest with our live updates here. [HuffPost]
I have this barely tamped-down terror gripping my innards that has its origins in the fact that no matter who wins the upcoming presidential election there’s going to be a major upheaval in our society. It might be a good idea to have provisions on hand in the event that chaos is unleashed. I just don’t see a peaceful outcome.
Don't bother. The living will envy the dead.
While I totally agree with you and am scared, I remind myself that I truly believe that the racist systems entrenched in our country do need a complete overhaul in order to provide equity to our citizens. Perhaps this is the needed yet truly terrifying beginning of that overhaul?
Yes. And the Weimar Republic had it's issues as well, but everything got sorted out by 1945.
"We are currently wearing the High Horse and layering Cowboy on top of it"
I like this idea of layering fragrance, and that seems like the right order.
I see that there's a Ranger Station in Tiburon, so I can dress in layers to take the ferry over, layer on some fragrance, and then on the ferry back layer that with salty sea spray.
I belong to a FB group called View From My Window. People from all over the world post pictures of things that they can see from where they live: a garden in Tennessee, a prowling street cat in Istanbul, a sunset over a fjord in Norway, a bustling street scene in Accra, a village with the Himalayas in the background in Pakistan, that sort of thing. People also will post views that they see while traveling if they follow the "from my window" format. Last Sunday wife and I decided to stay at a hotel in Manhattan after going to see the Linda Thompson show, and our room was on the 35th floor with an amazing view of the Empire State Building, which was lit up for the Pride parade that happened earlier that day. I posted a picture to the group and was sadly surprised to see how many haters crawled out of the woodwork to complain and spread negativity.
Dang, just missed snapping a pic of my neighbor, Lars Thorwald, carrying a couple big suitcases out of his apartment.
I belong to a FB group called View From My Window. People from all over the world post pictures of things that they can see from where they live: a garden in Tennessee, a prowling street cat in Istanbul, a sunset over a fjord in Norway, a bustling street scene in Accra, a village with the Himalayas in the background in Pakistan, that sort of thing. People also will post views that they see while traveling if they follow the "from my window" format. Last Sunday wife and I decided to stay at a hotel in Manhattan after going to see the Linda Thompson show, and our room was on the 35th floor with am amazing view of the Empire State Building, which was lit up for the Pride parade that happened earlier that day. I posted a picture to the group and was sadly surprised to see how many haters crawled out of the woodwork to complain and spread negativity.
Is there a word for the video screen they are putting in elevators these days? Anyway, where I work it occasionally puts up pictures called View From My Office. Don't know if it is related to VFMW.
"Is there a word for the video screen they are putting in elevators these days?"
It's more than one word, but how about "latest fucking outrage"?
Yup, that captures it nicely.
"Can we trust them to hot dog? Fuck, probably not."
I gave up hot dogs decades ago, but prior to that I knew only the Southern mode of cooking them: Spilt lengthwise so that the two halves still held together, then pan-fried in butter with the cut sides down until they were charred. Served on a toasted bun with ketchup and mustard.
"Can we trust them to hot dog? Fuck, probably not."
There is a very very VERY bad movie that came out recently called "Snack Shack". Do not, under any circumstances, watch it.
One of its gags - and I use the term "gags" very generously - is when one of the teenage losers that runs the Snack Shack starts writing "FUCK" in ketchup on the hot dogs and charging $0.75 more for a "Fuck Dog".
The moronic film maker then thinks that having 20 or 30 5- and 6-year-old kids start screaming "I want a Fuck Dog!" over and over constitutes comedy.
Oh - and whoever told me a couple weeks ago that Big Tobacco can't pay for product placement in movies? They're still doing it, and have actually never stopped doing it. Of this, I am 100% certain.
"The Gratuitous Cigarette" pretty much sums up American cinema from the 30's to the present.
It's the "Paid For Gratuitous Cigarette" and I'm tired of it.
After watching ***CANCER SURVIVOR*** Tig Notaro play a cigarette-smoking helicopter in "Army of the Dead", I tracked down her publicist and posed the question to them, "Really? How does a cancer survivor justify glorifying smoking, when there was absolutely no reason or value in her character smoking?"
Unsurprisingly, I never got a reply. You can guess how I feel about Tig Notaro.
I quit three weeks ago, but you guys talking really got me wanting a smoke. ;-)
You don't want a smoke. You've made the choice to be a winner; keep it up!
Thanks. I really DO, but you are right, I made the choice, and it gets better every day. I could have bought smokes yesterday but did not. Luckily I was not a heavy smoker (2-4 per day, usually 2), but I could sense it treadmilling.
OT: Okay, you can substitute "handy circle" for "circle jerk" in WaPo's comments and it won't get immediately deleted... we'll see if offended readers catch it.
Here's a shocking gap in humanity's knowledge: there is no known data on the angle of repose for the ash of cannabis flower. I'd better go study that for a few minutes.
How does my Volcano figure into this?
ABV (already been vaped) flower is closer to torrefied biomass than ash, of course, depending on your temperature setting. I have a Hybrid with a water bubbler, as well as a Classic. I haven't used them much since prototyping a pipe with cigarette filter. It will facilitate repose at a comfortable angle for its user.
I like the Volcano but have been firing up joints lately in my effort to quit smoking tobacco. I have a hand-held vape that works well, too.
Good idea
Sneaker companies are are attaching designer/celebrity names to shoes and selling out limited editions at huge prices. This nation seems truly doomed.
This pair of little beauties sold out at $1,200+ a pair.
https://www.highsnobiety.com/static-assets/dato/1714746347-cq5dam-web-he7e3da-2400-2400-2.jpg?fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&cs=srgb&ar=1600%3A1067&w=1600
Something, something about the economy and grocery prices being too high...but plenty of disposable income for celeb endorsed shoes...wtf?
Last night I dreamed there was an advertisement for Canned Turtle (not that one), endorsed by Taylor Swift. WTF was that about?
I'm going to suggest imbibing in a different strain, maybe I'll need to as well after reading about your dream I had visions of Mitch McConnell Soylent Green, I'm going to need something stronger than what I've got!
Pretty bland - which celeb signed onto those?
They are from the Miu-Miu design house.