Our next movie is ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ (๐๐๐๐) ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ!
I know there are slightly different edits of the same movie available, just watch whichever one you want, they are all basically the same film. If Star Wars peeps want to discuss the differences, go for it in the non-comments.
I am watching/listening to a documentary about the Ravensbuck concentration camp, the camp built immediately after Auschwitz intended for female prisoners. The horror and suffering that occurred there makes my blood run cold.
It also make me extremely angry and aggressively resentful regarding too many filthy fucking Nazis goose-stepping arrogantly and threateningly among us right now.
Something else that's haunting me at the moment is something my mother did when I was about 14 or 15 years old when I began studying the history of the camps and learning the details of the nightmares deliberately instigated within.
One afternoon my mother looked over my shoulder curiously where I was curled up on the couching intently studying one of the LIFE WWII hardcover history books I'd taken down to read from our big bookcase in the family room. After perusing the page headers and pictures of Ravensbruck in front of me my mother patted me on the shoulder and said, "That's where the Nazis would have sent YOU".
I don't know why, but that has always bothered me.
Nice day yesterday. Morning drove daughter around to run some of her errands, and then in the afternoon drove son around for his (neither of them drive, for various good reasons). Son and I picked up groceries and he carried everything upstairs for me, then we made dinner together. He cut, pounded, and breaded wienerschnitzel while I made potato salad and Caesar salad. His boss gave us a nice bottle of Gewรผrztraminer because some of his errands were for her, so we drank it. First time I've made wienerschnitzel with panko, works just fine.
Then he went off to do whatever he does on Saturday night with his buddies, and I had another glass of wine and slowly cleaned up while listening to podcasts.
I wish my health was a little better, but otherwise, my life is close to perfect.
"Look, Governor- I won't lie. Things are looking bad for you right now."
"The puppy thing?"
"...Well, yes. Fucking obviously 'the puppy thing'. You shot a fucking puppy. People don't like that."
"Strange."
"So here's what we're gonna do to try and fix things. We're going to put you in a zoo with a bunch of other baby animals that are... and I can't believe I have to say this... cuter than puppies."
"Like what?"
"Baby tapirs, baby sloths, baby... is that a hammer?"
"It is a hammer."
"Then not the baby panda, that could spark an international incident."
"Baby ocelots."
"Governor, you haven't blinked during this entire conversation."
"[EMITS A LOW HUM LIKE A MALFUNCTIONING NEON LIGHT]"
A good walk around the flea this morning, yielded a new 6qt electric White Mountain ice cream maker for $20. And a spigoted, graduated 10 gallon stainless pot someone had used for melting candle wax for $10.
I am having a really hard time processing the fact that the literal thing action movies and Garth Ennis comics have their villains do to show the audience that they don't need to get all bogged down in the complex reasons "evil" exists and the multifaceted causes of crime to know THIS CHARACTER IS FUCKING EVIL is something a current candidate for VP for the Republican Party is boasting about having done.
Nancy Mace in an interview this morning demonstrating how MAGA shitgibbons won't answer questions about their king of the shitgibbons:
Q: What do you think about Trump's lawyers at the Supreme Court saying "it depends" in response to the question that a president could legally order the assassination of a political rival"?
N.M.: WHAT IS THIS, A CLICKBAIT INTERVIEW?
(no answer to the question)
Q; What do you think about Trump being on trial for his porn star payoff?
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability. Today, we've learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned that Tesla's massive recall to fix its Autopilot driver assistโwhich was pushed out to more than 2 million cars last Decemberโhas not actually made the system that much safer. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/feds-concerned-some-of-teslas-autopilot-recall-was-opt-in-reversible/
There was a very well written, and excellently performed, sitcom in the UK called Yes, Minister.
It was a satire on politics, which largely boiled down to the inefficiency and control of the unelected bureaucracy that is the Civil Service- with some satire also directed at the vanity of the titular minister (later Prime Minister).
It is excellent, in the manner of classic set up and payoff gag sitcoms, and, again, the cast was note-perfect throughout.
It was also quoted by politicians including Margaret Thatcher, and cited as one of their favourite programmes.
There is another sitcom, beautifully written and terrifyingly well performed, called The Thick of It.
It mocked the culture of New Labour and the spin doctors who drove its policy.
It was savage, brutal and delivered some of the greatest insults ever shown on television.
Politicians started to say they liked it. Ed Miliband quoted it in the House of Commons.
The writers ended it.
If you are satirising politicians and they start quoting you and joining in, you are no longer effective. You aren't their critic, you are their joster. Jester. Sorry.
Our next movie is ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ (๐๐๐๐) ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ!
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-may-4-star-wars?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I know there are slightly different edits of the same movie available, just watch whichever one you want, they are all basically the same film. If Star Wars peeps want to discuss the differences, go for it in the non-comments.
Another one to remember 'round these parts: I saw last night somewhere that Lizzo's b'day is 4/27. So there's that.
I am watching/listening to a documentary about the Ravensbuck concentration camp, the camp built immediately after Auschwitz intended for female prisoners. The horror and suffering that occurred there makes my blood run cold.
It also make me extremely angry and aggressively resentful regarding too many filthy fucking Nazis goose-stepping arrogantly and threateningly among us right now.
Something else that's haunting me at the moment is something my mother did when I was about 14 or 15 years old when I began studying the history of the camps and learning the details of the nightmares deliberately instigated within.
One afternoon my mother looked over my shoulder curiously where I was curled up on the couching intently studying one of the LIFE WWII hardcover history books I'd taken down to read from our big bookcase in the family room. After perusing the page headers and pictures of Ravensbruck in front of me my mother patted me on the shoulder and said, "That's where the Nazis would have sent YOU".
I don't know why, but that has always bothered me.
Nice day yesterday. Morning drove daughter around to run some of her errands, and then in the afternoon drove son around for his (neither of them drive, for various good reasons). Son and I picked up groceries and he carried everything upstairs for me, then we made dinner together. He cut, pounded, and breaded wienerschnitzel while I made potato salad and Caesar salad. His boss gave us a nice bottle of Gewรผrztraminer because some of his errands were for her, so we drank it. First time I've made wienerschnitzel with panko, works just fine.
Then he went off to do whatever he does on Saturday night with his buddies, and I had another glass of wine and slowly cleaned up while listening to podcasts.
I wish my health was a little better, but otherwise, my life is close to perfect.
"Look, Governor- I won't lie. Things are looking bad for you right now."
"The puppy thing?"
"...Well, yes. Fucking obviously 'the puppy thing'. You shot a fucking puppy. People don't like that."
"Strange."
"So here's what we're gonna do to try and fix things. We're going to put you in a zoo with a bunch of other baby animals that are... and I can't believe I have to say this... cuter than puppies."
"Like what?"
"Baby tapirs, baby sloths, baby... is that a hammer?"
"It is a hammer."
"Then not the baby panda, that could spark an international incident."
"Baby ocelots."
"Governor, you haven't blinked during this entire conversation."
"[EMITS A LOW HUM LIKE A MALFUNCTIONING NEON LIGHT]"
"Oh. You're having one of your moments."
A good walk around the flea this morning, yielded a new 6qt electric White Mountain ice cream maker for $20. And a spigoted, graduated 10 gallon stainless pot someone had used for melting candle wax for $10.
I am having a really hard time processing the fact that the literal thing action movies and Garth Ennis comics have their villains do to show the audience that they don't need to get all bogged down in the complex reasons "evil" exists and the multifaceted causes of crime to know THIS CHARACTER IS FUCKING EVIL is something a current candidate for VP for the Republican Party is boasting about having done.
Nancy Mace in an interview this morning demonstrating how MAGA shitgibbons won't answer questions about their king of the shitgibbons:
Q: What do you think about Trump's lawyers at the Supreme Court saying "it depends" in response to the question that a president could legally order the assassination of a political rival"?
N.M.: WHAT IS THIS, A CLICKBAIT INTERVIEW?
(no answer to the question)
Q; What do you think about Trump being on trial for his porn star payoff?
N.M.: DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO BILL CLINTON WAS?
(no answer to the question)
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
~ Elwood P. Dowd
Simba taking a break from his astrophysics lessons.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F67556eb8-30d8-4f8c-9df5-a6ed31c40571%2Fb2e31e4a-6375-4070-a76f-d39952227426.jpeg
Do you know that I love you?
Well, I do.
I don't have anythere for you.
But, I do love you.
Even you.
Good the night, loved ones.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฒ '๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฃโ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ'
https://www.rawstory.com/comer-biden-impeachment-2667929762/
The hed is the TL,DR, but there's a good photo of a Tesla that auto parked itself under a firetruck...
๐ ๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐๐๐ โ
๐ง๐ฒ๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐
Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability. Today, we've learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned that Tesla's massive recall to fix its Autopilot driver assistโwhich was pushed out to more than 2 million cars last Decemberโhas not actually made the system that much safer. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/feds-concerned-some-of-teslas-autopilot-recall-was-opt-in-reversible/
You all are something Something.
.
Can't you all be kind?
Yup, pretty much.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ
๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ป๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ-๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ-๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐บ.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-new-york-times-can-piss-up-a?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
There was a very well written, and excellently performed, sitcom in the UK called Yes, Minister.
It was a satire on politics, which largely boiled down to the inefficiency and control of the unelected bureaucracy that is the Civil Service- with some satire also directed at the vanity of the titular minister (later Prime Minister).
It is excellent, in the manner of classic set up and payoff gag sitcoms, and, again, the cast was note-perfect throughout.
It was also quoted by politicians including Margaret Thatcher, and cited as one of their favourite programmes.
There is another sitcom, beautifully written and terrifyingly well performed, called The Thick of It.
It mocked the culture of New Labour and the spin doctors who drove its policy.
It was savage, brutal and delivered some of the greatest insults ever shown on television.
Politicians started to say they liked it. Ed Miliband quoted it in the House of Commons.
The writers ended it.
If you are satirising politicians and they start quoting you and joining in, you are no longer effective. You aren't their critic, you are their joster. Jester. Sorry.