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On Saturday we have a very special movie night event. ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐’๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ณ๐ž๐ฒ๐ฌ: ๐’๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐‘๐ฒ๐š๐ง.

โ€œHow do we relate this election to something in our history that most will understand and in a way that makes an actual impact? We still have that customer (itโ€™s really more his daughter now that is our customer) who is a living veteran of D-Day. He paid the cost for freeing us from fascism eighty years ago and he has paid it every day since. I think this election lives with him.

That Republican voters are not only throwing away the incredible sacrifice so many Americans made for freedom, but they are condemning us to face those same unbearable costs yet again. It is just too much.

His message of โ€œearn thisโ€ is a message for all of us. Itโ€™s up to us to make the incredible sacrifices of those who came before us worth something. It is a message America could use to have echo in this moment.โ€ -Bill Penzey

Saving Private Ryan will be starting an hour earlier than our usual movie start time due to its length.

5pm PT / 8pm ET

Available with subscription on Paramount +. With library card on Kanopy and hoopla. $3.99 in the usual places.

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Meccalopolis's avatar

OG Antifa.

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Land Shark ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ's avatar

Now I have to find that photo from Holly's Mountain with Ziggy in it! Maybe she'll autograph it for me!

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I've got a limited edition print of one of their photos and it's signed!

[blows on nails, polishes on eagle onesie]

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Well, I have Bear and Harry on my refrigerator right meow!

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Oy!'s avatar

Never heard of ๐๐ž๐ง๐ณ๐ž๐ฒ๐ฌ. Is that a midwest thing? (I'm on Boston)

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

Thought it was Pittsburg?

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Land Shark ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ's avatar

Bill Penzey is in Wisconsin, so I assumed the original store was there.

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ziggywiggy's avatar

You can order online but Kamala famously shopped in one of their stores recently. Amazing spices.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Seriously? Penzey's are sponsoring this?

That's great. I need to order some stuff from them.

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SterWonk's avatar

The order I placed a few days ago arrived today. :-)

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ziggywiggy's avatar

Yep! Bill Penzey wrote to Rebecca requesting we do this and giving Wonkette a bonus donation. He was "thrilled" that I agreed to do it and wanted us to say that it was "Proudly Sponsored by Penzeys"

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Alternative Dog's avatar

That's so amazing! I'm very grateful for you and all the other amazing folks that make this place so special.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

Pretty damn cool, Ziggy. We will get to say we knew you when XD

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ziggywiggy's avatar

What till I report back from the big Substack party on the 12th where I hope to meet Liza Donelly, Ruben Bolling and many other Substack bestsellers. I am kind of blown away by all the things that are happening.

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ziggywiggy's avatar

Although there will be trumpers there I'm guessing.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Lookit you! You're a celeb now!

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

I just want to say I knew ziggy back before they became famous back in the disqus days,

when we were laughing in the comments about a dildo going around the baggage claim carousel at the airport and getting badgered in the comments by someone who didnโ€™t like dick jokes!

* Top that

Swaggers around

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Meccalopolis's avatar

That person was in the wrong place.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Oddly enough, that person became one of my favorite commenters, I havenโ€™t seen them for a while. I think they were just having a bad day?

But I remember it because it was really probably the first interaction I had with a lot of Wonk peeps after i delurked

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ziggywiggy's avatar

LOLOLOL! I remember that, fucking hilarious.

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Beanz&Berryz's avatar

What a terrific way to get rid of an old dildo!

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Yeah, Id only been commenting for about three weeks I was like what??????

blink, blink, blink

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Oh this is just magic. Congrats!

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ziggywiggy's avatar

Thank you Fukui. I am super excited and really want to do my best writing on this one.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

I feel like it would be time for a ....

FAMOUS! /fangirlscream

But it's been a day and I am too tired

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Iโ€™ve been bouncing up and down since the announcement.

This is a Big Fucking Deal!!

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

IT IS

But I am being a grumpy pants. Lots of things. The news from this morning is most of it, but some work shit too. I should prolly go play the sims

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Haven't seen this movie, and I have a library card, so will watch on Saturday night!

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WomanInThePersistence's avatar

Bless all of you.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Wow, how lucky are we?

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ziggywiggy's avatar

I am very proud that our little Movie Night is showing we can be much more.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

This is an incredible partnership!

And goes to shows you never know whoโ€™s out there lurking with us!!!

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Kerry Bart-Raber's avatar

Wow?! Love the animation!! And Saving Private Ryan?!

My great uncle served in the west / Oacificand the Philippines a medic and a photographer- his photos are amazing / all black & white . Then on a recent visit to family - I discovered that great Grandpa didnโ€™t just disappear from a wife and 6 kids / he was a German Nationalist sympathizerโ€ฆ.. the whole family divorced him the sons changed/ shortened the name - I was confused especially as my offspring are asking whatโ€™s the story with you people ? Well we we were all running away is the best thing I could come up with and Great grandma was from Alsace Lorraine - possibly were Jewish ? No one could exactly define - it depended on whoever won whatever war

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Danny Sapko would argue that a band named Boobs and Murder would consist of nothing but female "behs" players.

I missed this movie, but I've seen it repeatedly anyway. A classic. Of note, one of my clickbait articles recently was "the 10 best original soundtracks of all time." Guess which one was number one?

https://youtu.be/gqVyois9mp4?si=3EYC2hwrjs1JvQpo

Not bad for a guy who's mostly known as a director.

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Lawyers, Guns 'n' Money's avatar

"They got little Timmy. They ate him all up."

https://youtu.be/Z14hGKjn5sA?si=Koxm5IbjGryHHfvf

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a tragically underrated horror film.

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Bupkus231's avatar

OT ( but one could call it horror ) - How JD Vance "thinks" about babies:

Link: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic

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paperlesstiger's avatar

This is scarier than QAnon, not least because it is real:

๐—ง๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฝ ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐—ฅ๐—™๐—ž ๐—๐—ฟ. ๐—ช๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—•๐—ฒ ๐—œ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ข๐—ณ ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ปโ€™๐˜€ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ต ๐—œ๐—ณ ๐—˜๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2024-election-live-updates_n_671eda18e4b03aa5c1cd83ad/liveblog_6724288ae4b00acf55d95ac5

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

He is becoming the Jared of the planned new administration.

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The Wanderer's avatar

One of the greatest horror movies of all time, 1981's 'Student Bodies.' Here's a clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7uVcmx9tw0

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twinsbrewer's avatar

I like the goofy title because it's a triple entendre. "Student body" like "student body council president." Also "body" as murder victim, and as 1980s cheesy movie brief flash of boobies.

Triple entendre titles are clever, even if the movie's silly!

My favorite triple entendre title is Tom Petty's "A Higher Place." The song's about floodwaters rising, best to get to higher ground. It's a metaphor for getting through a rough relationship patch, too. And, Tom just liked smoking a ton of weed, so a higher place.

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The Wanderer's avatar

A feature of this movie was a caption that showed the running body count.

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Nancy Naive's avatar

Ah, the old rubber chickenโ€ฆ

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The Wanderer's avatar

It's versatile!

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JCfromNC's avatar

I think this is a horror movie you're gonna want to watch while drinking with friends.

Trailer, "Carved"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLu0FoIgGCs

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Reminds me of the movie "Rubber."

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Zyxomma's avatar

I loved Rubber. Hilarious.

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WasX's avatar

Made some pretty, pretty okay enchilada sauce yesterday, during the varied and optimistic, resulting positive cooking labors. Very authentic, scratch, punchy sauce. This will earn accolades and appreciation, I think. Next will be preparing the juicy chicken and steak fillings for the different varieties, with specific vegetables added to each. Will be freezing in meal portions for 3 per package, the sauce separately to preserve the enchiladas in proper form, about 4 packages per variety, and then to make the sides of pink Mexican rice and confetti corn (with julienned-then-mini-diced red pepper & chives as confetti). Enchies to be baked under foil, some sauce inside but only cheese on top, then frozen & to be sauced after defrosting.

Any recommendations for other options?

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It'sAllYourFoucault's avatar

I dunno, but I'd be making some bomb-ass chilaquiles for breakfast with that fresh enchilada sauce.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Okay, the furry art and story chapter are uploaded, Green Boxes and the crossword puzzle are done, the laundry's in the dryer and my breakfast is being consumed.

(sighs) If my feet would stop hurting, life would be good right now.

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

All in a good cause.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Yes indeed!

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

Mine also too. Commiseration.

It would not be so bad if I did not work on my feet. By the end of yesterday I was limping again :k

Bursitis or whatever that is called this time, not the plantar, so I suppose this is a progress

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The Wanderer's avatar

I've been standing and walking around for eleven out of twelve hours every other day since 10/21, helping out with early voting in my county. Saturday's my last day, thankfully.

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WasX's avatar

THANK YOU, FREN.

From the people of the United States of America, and The World.

For serious.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

ouch, on hard surfaces the whole time also, too, I bet.

Almost done, Wanderer. Also, thank you for your help in that :hugs:

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The Wanderer's avatar

Oh yeah. Hard tiled floors, concrete or asphalt.

Yep, almost done. Sunday I plan on starting with coffee and a nice hot foot soak, followed by brunch at a place downtown.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Hmmmm, I've uploaded squat. I don't know what a Green Box is, and crossword puzzles? But my breakfast is poured and my feet don't hurt...

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

This would be hilarious if it were not so terrifying

โ€œWell you know, brother, in the wrestling business, when youโ€™re getting ready to draw some big money, you got to shoot an angle, put some hot spice on the feud. And when I had Trump in the back at the Garden, I said, โ€˜You know something? This Robert Kennedy Jr, heโ€™s onto something with nutrition.โ€™ But if you tag team us up as the mega powers, you know โ€” the MAGA powers, there you go, MAGA powers, RFK Jr. and Hulk Hogan โ€” he can get them eating the right food and I can get all of our kids in shape, brother.โ€

โ€“ Hulk Hogan, when asked about Trump giving him a position.

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Gonna wrestle sickness and aging with the Camel Clutch.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

Public health, medicine, it's a scam, a racket, see? You gotta work an angle, a spice. OK, now I know supplements and Bobby there he knows nutrition. Got it. Fresh air, bowel cleansing, and Fletcherism - that's how we get kids in shape! Who needs Obama Care if you don't get sick, and you won't get sick if you take the right supplements. There is no such thing as good health without pills.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Hogie will PED them right into infertility baldness and liver cancer...

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Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

"Shrunken testes! It's what all the cool kids are into!"

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

Steroids at the top of the food pyramid

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Miss Grundy's avatar

This clown took too many blows to his head....

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

lol, this from the same people who screamed about Michelle wanting kids to eat veggies

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C&A Bongo Man's avatar

Roids and roadkill. It's what the body craves.

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

Whale juice. It's got electrolytes.

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bnateAZBuckeye's avatar

What plants crave

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Meccalopolis's avatar

It has begun, the idiocracy.

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MRK's avatar

Thing is, the eugenicist ideas at the core of that are exactly what the right believes.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

When I first saw that movie, I did not appreciate it for the cautionary tale, ala Handmaiden's Tale or 1984, that it really is. Perhaps the jokes blinded me

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MRK's avatar

It's a 'cautionary tale' built on 'stupid people are outbreeding us,'. Which is eugenics, not genetics. It's what Elon Musk believes.

It's a funny movie, but taking it as more than means accepting some terrible ideas.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

There's also the bit that people got stupid because they were too distracted by the next big shiny fun thing to bother caring about science or the world in general

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MRK's avatar

Still all I can see now is the eugenics. It overshadows anything else the movie might want to say.

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It'sAllYourFoucault's avatar

"Go away, 'batin!"

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MRK's avatar

Because you used to tell kids to eat their vitamins? Get the fuck out of here.

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Tecolote's avatar

Nothing more hilarious than a roided-up balloon animal doing that

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memzilla's avatar

Your tax dollars at work:

' US authorities seize Instagram-famous squirrel '

The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) raided the home of Mark Longo on Wednesday following complaints of potentially unsafe housing for the animal.

"To the group of people who called DEC, thereโ€™s a special place in hell for you," Mr Longo said in an Instagram post announcing the seizure, adding that he did not know if the ash-coloured rodent had been euthanised.

Mr Longo took Peanut in seven years ago after he spotted the baby squirrel by his mother who had been hit by a car.

He cared for Peanut until he was strong enough to be released, but said he found Peanut back on his porch the following morning with "a chunk of his tail missing".

Peanut's Instagram account has amassed more than 500,000 followers in the time since.

A petition for the animal's return had more than 20,000 signatures on Friday morning.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33e75z83l0o

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Lefty Wright's avatar

Over 40 years ago I took in a baby squirrel who must have fallen out of his nest and his mother did not retrieve him. This was before there were animal rescue groups or info on what baby squirrels ate so I had to feed him with condensed milk out of a little doll bottle. Which worked. This was in the fall and and I kept him inside over the winter, but when I took him outside in the spring he took off across the yard. I realized then that it's hard to distinguish one squirrel from another and although he would climb all over me in the house he had nothing to do with me after he went outside. Yes, he had the run of a small bedroom and a wooden box as a nest to sleep in. I guess he lived a normal squirrel life in the neighborhood. At that time I had a lot of plants wintering over in the same room he usually stayed in and soon after he left and I took the plants outside they started sprouting peanut plants and pecan sprouts he had buried in the pots.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

When he is not eating babies Joe Biden is sending his agents to raid our homes for our pets!

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

There is also a celebrity beaver who suffered the same fate. You can't really return her to nature because she has been with the humans for so long.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

honestly, I am 100% against people taking on wild animals as pets, for so very many reasons...but rescuing a couple of nuisance species? Not on the naughty list! Hell, government people regularly trap and kill beavers because they create such merry hell on installations with any water. Go rescue some hunting dogs, DEC, leave the squirrel dude alone

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

Raided? Why not...call him up or knock on the door or something?

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memzilla's avatar

SVU: Squirrel Victims Unit.

DOINK DOINK.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

I am all for protecting animals. But the dude put this online. They could have reviewed the vids and seen the treatment for themselves

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Tza's avatar

Also I just checked, the avg Squirrel only lives 6 years in the wild, if that! Peanut beat the odds already!

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I had a pet squirrel when I was 14, her name was Farrah Fawcett Minors. By the time she was a year old she wasn't happy and friendly anymore and she returned to the wild, I have pictures I'll post when I find them.

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Tza's avatar

I mean. It's a squirrel. They're pretty good at not staying when they don't feel like it, and coming when they do. See: men who build squirrel ninja warrior style courses in their backyards and the squirrels seem to fucking LOVE it.

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memzilla's avatar

They really do! "Thank you for building us this thrilling challenge"!

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JCfromNC's avatar

"Ha! You think *this* will keep us from enjoying those delicious nuts at the goal? Nice try, hooman."

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tek's avatar

52% of Palm Beach County's registered voters have voted already.

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Land Shark ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ's avatar

"If he isn't elected, maybe he'll go back to NYC!"

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Daniel's avatar

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1852209432878342308#m

I am constantly irritated by how Trump supporters have latched onto "context" as an excuse for whatever shit he says or does, and how, apparently, that bait is regularly taken by the media covering said shit.

"The context" here is, admittedly, not that he is calling for Cheney to be shot. "The context" here is that he, a repeated draft dodger, is insulting her for being a war-hawk (which... fair enough), while calling for her to be put in the line of fire to see if that changes her mind- completely ignoring that he himself has repeatedly insulted soldiers who have, that he has frequently (and in public) insulted soldiers who have been injured in the course of war and that he has frequently called for and celebrated violence against other politicians and other US citizens. "The context" for the right is literally the rest of this answer AND ONLY THAT. His other comments and his years of behaviour are not "the context". Therefore it's unfair to judge him because "the context" here is something they like.

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Tza's avatar

WaPo has a whole article yesterday about Trump supporters deciding what they want about what he says, even in ways contradictory to each other. He's a fucking Rorschach test running for president.

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

I am waiting for the moment when the press realize that the participants of the cleti safaries just tell the press what they think the press wants to hear.

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

A key feature of fascism is that "truth" ceases to exist. There is only what the Great Leader says, right this moment, that determines reality.

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MRK's avatar

Note also that no one cared about the context for Biden's recent remarks.

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WasX's avatar

First set done, 375reps ballet barre battement butt bullshit, booyah. Lotta stretching first & after, shoulders, arms, back, and mostly hams & calves. I do it til it hurts, kids.

Before I have an egg and some berries with non-fat yo, I should get going on the abs.

Been listening to some nice, pounding, fast post-grunge happy times tunes. Work out harder!!

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

You have inspired me to do ten arm-lift push-ups.

Taylor Swift has inspired me to resume jogging. Maybe if I follow through I can actually get into decent shape again.

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WasX's avatar

Brother, your hiking endeavors make me have sweaty nightmares, but okay.

Rah, Tay Tay!!!!!!

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

Some more encouraging news: https://xcancel.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1852291016977527081#m

(Gallup just released a poll suggesting Harris could mirror Obama's 2008 victory, in which he won 365 electoral votes. Expect polling aggregators to adjust their models over these last few days)

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Tza's avatar

Could be fun. Could even help us hold the Senate (dear lord if Allred beats Cruz the jubilation at work will be SO huge). But I'm not hoping for anything more than a slightly quicker squeaker than last time.

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tek's avatar

It would be most excellent if Rafael and Batboy ended up drowning their sorrows in Cancun.. when a hurricane comes through..

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Tza's avatar

I've seen better odds for booting Cruz than Scott, sadly.

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tek's avatar

yeah, I'm a dreamer..

though with the Haitian and Puerto Rican stuff going down lately, it isn't clear that Florida polls have any basis in reality at all..

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Tecolote's avatar

Youโ€™re not the only one.

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Tza's avatar

Tbf, Fl has a TON of demographics to track--Cuban Americans, Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, white people who grew up in Fl vs. whites who just retired there, Jewish Americans, and more recently a decent amount of Americans from Eastern Europe who all disagree with each other

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Comp-Jen-stator Class's avatar

who all disagree with each other

you'd think there'd be more Democratic voters then. That is like our stock in trade

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tek's avatar

yep, twiddle with the fudge factors pulled out of their asses.

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