On Saturday we have a very special movie night event. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐲𝐬: 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧.
“How 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 (it’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 “earn this” is a message for all of us. It’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.” -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.
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"
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.
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 didn’t like dick jokes!
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 didn’t just disappear from a wife and 6 kids / he was a German Nationalist sympathizer….. the whole family divorced him the sons changed/ shortened the name - I was confused especially as my offspring are asking what’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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
This would be hilarious if it were not so terrifying
“Well you know, brother, in the wrestling business, when you’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, ‘You know something? This Robert Kennedy Jr, he’s onto something with nutrition.’ But if you tag team us up as the mega powers, you know — the MAGA powers, there you go, MAGA powers, RFK Jr. and Hulk Hogan — he can get them eating the right food and I can get all of our kids in shape, brother.”
– Hulk Hogan, when asked about Trump giving him a position.
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.
But Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was actually a good guy that had the best interests of the country in mind. These are just criminal idiots.
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
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
' 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, there’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.
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.
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
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.
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.
On Saturday we have a very special movie night event. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐲𝐬: 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧.
“How 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 (it’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 “earn this” is a message for all of us. It’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.” -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.
OG Antifa.
Now I have to find that photo from Holly's Mountain with Ziggy in it! Maybe she'll autograph it for me!
I've got a limited edition print of one of their photos and it's signed!
[blows on nails, polishes on eagle onesie]
Well, I have Bear and Harry on my refrigerator right meow!
Never heard of 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐲𝐬. Is that a midwest thing? (I'm on Boston)
Thought it was Pittsburg?
Bill Penzey is in Wisconsin, so I assumed the original store was there.
You can order online but Kamala famously shopped in one of their stores recently. Amazing spices.
Seriously? Penzey's are sponsoring this?
That's great. I need to order some stuff from them.
The order I placed a few days ago arrived today. :-)
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"
That's so amazing! I'm very grateful for you and all the other amazing folks that make this place so special.
Pretty damn cool, Ziggy. We will get to say we knew you when XD
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.
Although there will be trumpers there I'm guessing.
Lookit you! You're a celeb now!
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 didn’t like dick jokes!
* Top that
Swaggers around
That person was in the wrong place.
Oddly enough, that person became one of my favorite commenters, I haven’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
LOLOLOL! I remember that, fucking hilarious.
What a terrific way to get rid of an old dildo!
Yeah, Id only been commenting for about three weeks I was like what??????
blink, blink, blink
Oh this is just magic. Congrats!
Thank you Fukui. I am super excited and really want to do my best writing on this one.
I feel like it would be time for a ....
FAMOUS! /fangirlscream
But it's been a day and I am too tired
I’ve been bouncing up and down since the announcement.
This is a Big Fucking Deal!!
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
Haven't seen this movie, and I have a library card, so will watch on Saturday night!
Bless all of you.
Wow, how lucky are we?
I am very proud that our little Movie Night is showing we can be much more.
This is an incredible partnership!
And goes to shows you never know who’s out there lurking with us!!!
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 didn’t just disappear from a wife and 6 kids / he was a German Nationalist sympathizer….. the whole family divorced him the sons changed/ shortened the name - I was confused especially as my offspring are asking what’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
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.
"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.
OT ( but one could call it horror ) - How JD Vance "thinks" about babies:
Link: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic
This is scarier than QAnon, not least because it is real:
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗥𝗙𝗞 𝗝𝗿. 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗲 𝗜𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗢𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗳 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2024-election-live-updates_n_671eda18e4b03aa5c1cd83ad/liveblog_6724288ae4b00acf55d95ac5
He is becoming the Jared of the planned new administration.
One of the greatest horror movies of all time, 1981's 'Student Bodies.' Here's a clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7uVcmx9tw0
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.
A feature of this movie was a caption that showed the running body count.
Ah, the old rubber chicken…
It's versatile!
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
Reminds me of the movie "Rubber."
I loved Rubber. Hilarious.
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?
I dunno, but I'd be making some bomb-ass chilaquiles for breakfast with that fresh enchilada sauce.
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.
All in a good cause.
Yes indeed!
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
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.
THANK YOU, FREN.
From the people of the United States of America, and The World.
For serious.
ouch, on hard surfaces the whole time also, too, I bet.
Almost done, Wanderer. Also, thank you for your help in that :hugs:
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.
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...
This would be hilarious if it were not so terrifying
“Well you know, brother, in the wrestling business, when you’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, ‘You know something? This Robert Kennedy Jr, he’s onto something with nutrition.’ But if you tag team us up as the mega powers, you know — the MAGA powers, there you go, MAGA powers, RFK Jr. and Hulk Hogan — he can get them eating the right food and I can get all of our kids in shape, brother.”
– Hulk Hogan, when asked about Trump giving him a position.
Gonna wrestle sickness and aging with the Camel Clutch.
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.
Hogie will PED them right into infertility baldness and liver cancer...
"Shrunken testes! It's what all the cool kids are into!"
Steroids at the top of the food pyramid
This clown took too many blows to his head....
lol, this from the same people who screamed about Michelle wanting kids to eat veggies
Roids and roadkill. It's what the body craves.
Whale juice. It's got electrolytes.
What plants crave
It has begun, the idiocracy.
But Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was actually a good guy that had the best interests of the country in mind. These are just criminal idiots.
Thing is, the eugenicist ideas at the core of that are exactly what the right believes.
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
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.
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
Still all I can see now is the eugenics. It overshadows anything else the movie might want to say.
"Go away, 'batin!"
Because you used to tell kids to eat their vitamins? Get the fuck out of here.
Nothing more hilarious than a roided-up balloon animal doing that
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, there’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
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.
Biden is trying to get ahead of local candidate, Dylan!
https://substack.com/@bobathonic/note/c-74124188?r=2kpbl7&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
When he is not eating babies Joe Biden is sending his agents to raid our homes for our pets!
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.
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
Raided? Why not...call him up or knock on the door or something?
SVU: Squirrel Victims Unit.
DOINK DOINK.
I am all for protecting animals. But the dude put this online. They could have reviewed the vids and seen the treatment for themselves
Also I just checked, the avg Squirrel only lives 6 years in the wild, if that! Peanut beat the odds already!
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.
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.