"Fargo stars Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrud, John Carroll Lynch, and Steve Reevis. Directed by Joel Coen."
Despite the symbol in the credits, Prince was not in this movie. That was someone's idea of a joke. A pretty good one, actually.
No, it isn't. Someone used his symbol in the credits albeit sideways. It was a great joke!
But Prince wasn't in this movie.
Also - and this one hurts because I believed it for a long time - the two people who wrote "Let It Go" were NOT inspired by Prince's song of the same name; Prince did not supply the line "the cold never bothered me anyway"; and in fact, the song authors never spoke to Prince.
Media: We didn’t talk about Joe Biden’s age enough even though we literally ran him off the ticket with our coverage of it.
Also media: Fact checking Trump’s lies or talking about his convictions would be too biased. Besides, everyone already knows he’s a lying criminal. We don’t need to keep talking about it.
Whether it’s Obama giving the Queen of England an iPod or Trump receiving a $400 million dollar plane from Qatar, both sides have been involved in controversial gift corruption.
Last night, I slept 8 hours. It's been a few weeks since I got a full night's sleep, and it feels really good. Today is a lazy day, so I will just do the minimum adult daily requirement.
Mr Room is watching the Sunday political shows and is already grumpy.
I fell asleep last night around 2:30, and had to put on a yt vid to knock me out. Algorithm took me to a video by this guy who was formally a teacher and a corporate employee, but ended up working at Home Depot at the age of 66. I wondered why, and he said that was another story, and then I fell asleep, and I had this long convoluted dream where he was in my bedroom while I was sleeping, and he was still talking to me and he was assembling furniture from Home Depot in my bedroom. It was more restful than it sounds.
According to different cultures seeing a praying mantis is a harbinger of all good things that will happen. You have some really good stuff coming atcha.
Once when I was hitchhiking I met a praying mantis on an interstate ramp in Ohio who came up to my knees, really, it was HUGE and had the most intelligent-looking eyes.
Welp, in the last few weeks tornadoes have hit both St. Louis area neighborhoods where I grew up. Even though tornado season is about 11.5 months long now, it’s hard not to feel like they’re out to get me.
Corridor moves up and down the West/East line of the US by decades. There was a twenty year period where every small town in SW Minnesota was devastated. Those little towns just cleaned themselves up, mourned the dead, dusted themselves off and rebuilt, mostly without help from anywhere. We hardly knew we had any governments that weren't city or county....
One of Assface's strengths is conning people to think everything is rigged, which in some cases is correct. He has way of making people believe with his simple and crude word construction (and appeal that I don't get) that he alone can fix it. Joe Biden actually tried to do something about inequities, so the Democrats' failure isn't policy or inaction, it's that their messaging doesn't work in the modern media landscape. One example of many things they can point to, they could start with this below and then loudly and repeatedly point out that the GOP and Assface are doing nothing about it. "Rent too high? That's not your fault. We did this about this problem, we said we would do more (provide short, concrete examples), what are they doing? What did they say they were going to do? Why haven't they done this?" Attack, attack, attack. People are more likely to believe a negative thing about a group then pick the other side to be on rather than seeing a positive thing and wanting to be in that group. That seems to be our culture now, and it is up to Democrats to find the ways to get the message out. Modern mass media doesn't reach the audience they need to.
<The Harris-Walz plan also focuses on “corporate landlords using private equity backed price-setting tools to collude with each other to jack up rents dramatically in communities across the country.” Last month, the Biden-Harris Justice Department sued RealPage for algorithmic rent pricing that it alleges violates antitrust laws. “By feeding sensitive data into a sophisticated algorithm powered by artificial intelligence, RealPage has found a modern way to violate a century-old law through systematic coordination of rental housing prices — undermining competition and fairness for consumers in the process,”> https://nhc.org/the-harris-walz-housing-plan-detailed-serious-and-impactful/
Also, modern media, being a profit driven corporate enterprise, often owned and controlled by diversified capitalists, are straight up not incentivized to treat democrats fairly. "They want to regulate our negligence and malfeasance, and tax our illegitimate wealth? Naw, fuck 'em!"
Major League Baseball is showing all their games online for free this weekend. Except that the game I want to watch is only available on Roku. Damn them!
By the way - Everett, Washington has a minor league team called the Aquasox. Great name!
But their radio announcer - his name is Pat Dillon - sounds so much like Vin Scully that it's mind-boggling. And he calls the games solo, just like Vin did!
"Fargo stars Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrud, John Carroll Lynch, and Steve Reevis. Directed by Joel Coen."
Despite the symbol in the credits, Prince was not in this movie. That was someone's idea of a joke. A pretty good one, actually.
I have a full size poster of this movie in my house!
I haven’t read all 1900+ of the comments so apologies if someone already posted this bit of trivia: the body in the snow in that picture is Prince.
No, it isn't. Someone used his symbol in the credits albeit sideways. It was a great joke!
But Prince wasn't in this movie.
Also - and this one hurts because I believed it for a long time - the two people who wrote "Let It Go" were NOT inspired by Prince's song of the same name; Prince did not supply the line "the cold never bothered me anyway"; and in fact, the song authors never spoke to Prince.
That was a great rumor, though!
Local Nurse Hates Everybody and Everything (with the possible exception of all you wonketteers)
"Fargo was written by the Cohen brothers"
Copy editors, anyone?
Yes I made a mistake, the second time I wrote it I got it right. Screw ups happen.
Media: We didn’t talk about Joe Biden’s age enough even though we literally ran him off the ticket with our coverage of it.
Also media: Fact checking Trump’s lies or talking about his convictions would be too biased. Besides, everyone already knows he’s a lying criminal. We don’t need to keep talking about it.
Other than to formally identify him as "Disgusting liar Dumold Trumpf" in every news item...
"We don’t need to keep talking about it." "But we can go on about how if he isn't lying his policies are similar to other successful people."
It’s amazing how after 10 years of Trump lying they can still take his word at face value.
I understand today the NYT was "We understand that Trump is corrupt, but he is not the first corrupt politician."
Whether it’s Obama giving the Queen of England an iPod or Trump receiving a $400 million dollar plane from Qatar, both sides have been involved in controversial gift corruption.
NYT
Obama got a free ticket to Hamilton!
Then they should know better.
They do. That's what makes it unforgivable.
Last night, I slept 8 hours. It's been a few weeks since I got a full night's sleep, and it feels really good. Today is a lazy day, so I will just do the minimum adult daily requirement.
Mr Room is watching the Sunday political shows and is already grumpy.
I fell asleep last night around 2:30, and had to put on a yt vid to knock me out. Algorithm took me to a video by this guy who was formally a teacher and a corporate employee, but ended up working at Home Depot at the age of 66. I wondered why, and he said that was another story, and then I fell asleep, and I had this long convoluted dream where he was in my bedroom while I was sleeping, and he was still talking to me and he was assembling furniture from Home Depot in my bedroom. It was more restful than it sounds.
I met a member of our friendly garden helper contingent this morning.
https://substack.com/@sayitwithwookies/note/c-118141727?r=2kw0pf
According to different cultures seeing a praying mantis is a harbinger of all good things that will happen. You have some really good stuff coming atcha.
They are non-denominational preyers. They'll eat leaves, bugs, butterflies. They're the quiet honey badger of the insect world...
I have altered the garden... pray I don't alter it further
I hope your mantis grows big and strong.
Once when I was hitchhiking I met a praying mantis on an interstate ramp in Ohio who came up to my knees, really, it was HUGE and had the most intelligent-looking eyes.
Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh is 75 years old today. Here's the full album of EZ Listening Muzak versions of Devo songs, produced by Devo themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tWQewxXHy0
I know of Mothersbaugh through Devo; my kids know of him through his work on "Rugrats". Truly a man for all ages!
I decided it's ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST day
https://substack.com/@paxpax/note/c-118141280?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=3ixr3
Why, say, what a good idea! Be right back!...
Yes!!!!!
I mean, when is it not?
Biden was too old to downgrade America’s credit rating.
Biden was too old to crash the economy... he couldn't do it in 4 years and Trump did it in 100 days.
I couldn't love this man more. I'm just a tad smitten with him...it's a secret...please don't tell Paul.
https://bsky.app/profile/wutangforchildren.bsky.social/post/3lpfn5dngvc22
There’s a good reason Pedro is everyone’s internet boyfriend.
He's all of everything anyone could possibly want.
Fierce and unwavering be our rebellion.
Mark Hamill and Pedro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypz5JeUZupw
That is just heartwarming and adorable.
𝗣𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2x02l95zno
Welp, in the last few weeks tornadoes have hit both St. Louis area neighborhoods where I grew up. Even though tornado season is about 11.5 months long now, it’s hard not to feel like they’re out to get me.
Corridor moves up and down the West/East line of the US by decades. There was a twenty year period where every small town in SW Minnesota was devastated. Those little towns just cleaned themselves up, mourned the dead, dusted themselves off and rebuilt, mostly without help from anywhere. We hardly knew we had any governments that weren't city or county....
One of Assface's strengths is conning people to think everything is rigged, which in some cases is correct. He has way of making people believe with his simple and crude word construction (and appeal that I don't get) that he alone can fix it. Joe Biden actually tried to do something about inequities, so the Democrats' failure isn't policy or inaction, it's that their messaging doesn't work in the modern media landscape. One example of many things they can point to, they could start with this below and then loudly and repeatedly point out that the GOP and Assface are doing nothing about it. "Rent too high? That's not your fault. We did this about this problem, we said we would do more (provide short, concrete examples), what are they doing? What did they say they were going to do? Why haven't they done this?" Attack, attack, attack. People are more likely to believe a negative thing about a group then pick the other side to be on rather than seeing a positive thing and wanting to be in that group. That seems to be our culture now, and it is up to Democrats to find the ways to get the message out. Modern mass media doesn't reach the audience they need to.
<The Harris-Walz plan also focuses on “corporate landlords using private equity backed price-setting tools to collude with each other to jack up rents dramatically in communities across the country.” Last month, the Biden-Harris Justice Department sued RealPage for algorithmic rent pricing that it alleges violates antitrust laws. “By feeding sensitive data into a sophisticated algorithm powered by artificial intelligence, RealPage has found a modern way to violate a century-old law through systematic coordination of rental housing prices — undermining competition and fairness for consumers in the process,”> https://nhc.org/the-harris-walz-housing-plan-detailed-serious-and-impactful/
Also, modern media, being a profit driven corporate enterprise, often owned and controlled by diversified capitalists, are straight up not incentivized to treat democrats fairly. "They want to regulate our negligence and malfeasance, and tax our illegitimate wealth? Naw, fuck 'em!"
It's only getting worse. The next generation and us in the older generations need Tik Tok style quick hits about these things.
Major League Baseball is showing all their games online for free this weekend. Except that the game I want to watch is only available on Roku. Damn them!
And it was a great game! The Astros' Isaac Paredes hit a ninth-inning 3-run bomb to dispatch the Arlington Rangers!
You can probably watch it on your computer if you don’t have a Roku box
Eh, I can always just listen to the radio feed. I can get more done that way anyway.
By the way - Everett, Washington has a minor league team called the Aquasox. Great name!
But their radio announcer - his name is Pat Dillon - sounds so much like Vin Scully that it's mind-boggling. And he calls the games solo, just like Vin did!
I think you can listen to him here: https://www.milb.com/everett/fans/how-to-watch