'Samhain, aka All Hallows' Eve, aka Halloween. Pre-dating Christianity, the Celtic holiday was celebrated on the one night when the barrier between the living and the dead was the thinnest.'
Congrats! One of my very favorites--ugly cries til the VHS wore out.
And so apropros.
As a companion, one should stage a national compulsory viewing of Schindler's List: in interviews at the time of release, Holocaust survivors offered that, unlike any other accounting, it imparted just a hint of a sense of the deep, surreal, unrelenting horror of life in an advanced, industrialized totalitarian terror state. And since the last of the direct witnesses have left the stage, it seems that despite vast efforts through documentation and preservation to keep the warning alive, we have memory-holed the whole catastrophe into some sepia fog of ancient history--which will be repeated if it all goes wrong--But exponentially magnified by the ubiquirous surveillance technology of the techbro era.
When I place my order on their web site, I will have to look for a way to let them know I learned of them from Wonkette. They may not have started with the intent of gaining customers but they should know it turned out to be a consequence.
Congratulations, ziggywiggy, on sponsorship from one of the best American companies, bringing delights from all over the world to kitchens everywhere. I have a local spice shop I love, but I buy gift cards from Penzey's to share goodness with friends. Be kind! We have a Day of the Dead Musicians show planned for A Jet Age Sound from 10 pm to midnight eastern; if you're not watching the movie you can listen at wioxradio.org and click the "listen" button.
I am super excited about this BillE. The fact that Movie Night is known outside our little group is amazing to me. That I could be a part of this special thing feels like such a great opportunity.
Any one of the numerous pr0n actors. Just slather them down on orange and put them in an over sized suit. Get somebody with a small misshapen mushroom dick.
That's the one where all the kids go to the campground, but theirs a chainsaw wielding maniac there by the lake calling from inside the house or cabin in the woods!
I love this movie! Especially the stories about the cruel kids bullying the slow girl , and the story Anna Paquin and Rochelle Aytes appeared in. Rochelle is beautiful !🤩
for the 25th year, we will have ZERO trickortreaters this year, due to where we live. we are moving tho, so next year we will have - for us - the novel experience of kids demanding candy.
So the "republican strategist" lady on "Meet the republicans" this morning said Harris would win, but by less than she (Harris) expects. The way I heard it she meant the EC, but I wasn't following that closely so I may have that wrong. Anyway, it was fun and unexpected.
Some greasy incel with "evolutionary psychologist" in his blue-check twitter bio is going to show up to explain to you how "the post-menopausal feee-male" no longer serves a biological purpose, and thus traditional societies have no need of courting their interests. That's just science.
It's way past time for some competition. Someone needs to step up and start Chirper, hire all the fired Twitter employees, and compete against X. Then someone can buy the Washington Star name, hire all the Post writers and editors, leaving the billionaires' investments as an empty shell. They will learn that they paid all that money for just the rights to use a name, they don't own the employees, advertisers, or readers/consumers who are still free human beings with the right to make choices. While they're at it, why not start a competitor to Amazon. Monopoly capitalism is a bad idea.
They're terrified of what happens if he wins and they didn't offer him proper fealty. They don't worry about that if Harris wins.
"Bezos knows first hand the consequences of criticizing the former president. The Post’s 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton is widely thought to have led to him losing out on a $10 billion cloud computing defense contract awarded by the Trump administration."
Did the abs section of workout, so 2/3 done. 250reps. Stretched calves, quads, hams, lower back.
Then spouse being the scapegoating asshole he regularly is made me cry, despite telling him to stop. The only way it will, for good, is when I'm gone.
Then made my wildly exciting cucumber-tomato-tuna salad breakfast w/ a bit of non-fat Greek plain, but only managed a few spoons, b/c sad and upset. Also an oat cracker. Thanks for just listening.
I have BAD knees and my SO has to do a lot more than he used to (bad as in NO padding in one knee joint and about 5% in the other; and here I thought I was being the best I could be when doing the kind of work I did when young. Sigh. Oh, and btw, I can't have surgery yet cuz my blood is doing weird shit so they can't operate on me.) But I do feel guilty about "not pulling my weight" cuz we are oldsters now and *can't* do the things we used to do when we were younger. Getting old sux.
PS - your cuke-tomato-tuna salad sounds scrumptious.
Today I told myself I would be very industrious, and get everything tidy for when spouse comes home tomorrow, which would really delight him if I get the laundry I've been ignoring done...it's just that the laundry's down a bunch of stairs and I still feel sore and unsteady from my rib, so I'm considering just taking one armful of clothes down at a time so I feel more secure.
I've found that elevating my heels on a stable something, i have a block of wood that gets them up about 2", lets me do deep squats without my knees getting annoyed. It changes the angle your knee is at so from the knees perspective it isn't very deep while from the quadriceps perspective it's still deep and gets them stretched and working.
Hmmm, elevating the heels? Ah, my recliner does that! Good thinking. Now, where’s the remote?
When I began suffering heel spurs, which is actually the foot tendon shrinking, I bought cowboy boots with 2” heels. A bit ridiculous for a guy already 6’4”, but they worked like a champ.
I'm planning on hyaluronic (rather than more steroid) injections into my joints, possibly PRP also. Knees, hips, maybe shoulder. Platelet-rich Plasma. I've been advised the oral collagen & hyaluronic is much less useful, so I gave it up.
I do not do them. They're idiotic. And I wrecked my knees with dance training and high-speed ski crashes and track and jumping off roofs by college. Mine sounded like gristle [and bones] going through a meat grinder by then. But good luck.
Oh boy the PR coming out is not making the police look smart.
"Chief Brian O’Hara says that’s because Sawchak has a mental illness, and investigators have had trouble locating him due to his tendency to be a recluse in his home."
I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but did they try his house?
I realize that what they are probably trying to communicate is because he doesn’t have many friends and mostly strays home they have no idea who to ask or where to look since he is not answering the door but the way it’s worded makes it look like they are completely clueless.
Most likely. They had a murder suspect surrounded in an apartment building last week that walk out calmly and said, "Ope lemme scooch by you." He was caught 120 miles away after a high speed chase.
Starving student Ciaobella Jr donated fifty bucks to Kamala. Mrs. Ciaobella gave him some grief about spending his money that way but I’m proud of his political engagement. Also, his chamber group landed a paid gig so that’ll help cover it!
I remember it well. Life would be good again on Monday morning, with all the possibilities arrayed in front of me, and by 3 o’clock on Friday afternoon, the darkness would set in. Every time the phone rang…
The last job I got, which I’ve been at for (had to stop and count) 17 years and counting, I had already given up, and started another masters program. I was just kind of clearing the decks, and called this employer and said, “hi, I haven’t heard back from you, so I assume you filled the position. I’m just wrapping up loose ends…” or some such. I was, at that point, completely indifferent about the outcome. And I was told, oh, we were just talking about you, and invited down for an interview, at which I was just having a casual and enjoyable conversation. They asked me, if offered the position, when I could start? and I shrugged and thought about it and said Monday, and I did.
It can happen when you least expect it.
If you don’t mind my asking, what line of work are you in?
I’m a patent attorney and physicist. Part of the challenge is that I’m experienced. Lots of law firms want to hire baby lawyers. It’s harder to find a role as an experienced attorney.
Adults often have difficulty generating the requisite level of awe and good cheer at putting in 80 hour work weeks that fresh faced grads can generate. In the academic world, it’s all going over to adjunct professors. I suppose freelancing is out?
And we have a second special event, keeping the Movieboss busy. This one is a big fucking deal!
𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐙𝐄𝐘𝐒: 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧
Click on through to see the special message from Bill Penzey.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-nov-2-special?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
(if you would like to collapse this thread click on the thin grey line to the left.)
Congrats! One of my very favorites--ugly cries til the VHS wore out.
And so apropros.
As a companion, one should stage a national compulsory viewing of Schindler's List: in interviews at the time of release, Holocaust survivors offered that, unlike any other accounting, it imparted just a hint of a sense of the deep, surreal, unrelenting horror of life in an advanced, industrialized totalitarian terror state. And since the last of the direct witnesses have left the stage, it seems that despite vast efforts through documentation and preservation to keep the warning alive, we have memory-holed the whole catastrophe into some sepia fog of ancient history--which will be repeated if it all goes wrong--But exponentially magnified by the ubiquirous surveillance technology of the techbro era.
Bill’s comment about republicans over at his website is great! I’ll definitely be ordering. (Already a Martie customer too)
When I place my order on their web site, I will have to look for a way to let them know I learned of them from Wonkette. They may not have started with the intent of gaining customers but they should know it turned out to be a consequence.
Congratulations, ziggywiggy, on sponsorship from one of the best American companies, bringing delights from all over the world to kitchens everywhere. I have a local spice shop I love, but I buy gift cards from Penzey's to share goodness with friends. Be kind! We have a Day of the Dead Musicians show planned for A Jet Age Sound from 10 pm to midnight eastern; if you're not watching the movie you can listen at wioxradio.org and click the "listen" button.
Wow, this is fucking exciting! And this is a movie I can get mr. cc to watch on a Saturday night. Well done, Ziggy, Penzey's, and Rebecca!
Excellent!
Thank you.
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big fucking deal indeed!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
!!!!! Zig
And thanks to Bill Penzey.
And I've never seen it before...
I am super excited about this BillE. The fact that Movie Night is known outside our little group is amazing to me. That I could be a part of this special thing feels like such a great opportunity.
It certainly is a BFD! I'm so thrilled!
I've only seen the pr0n version--Saving Ryan's Privates.
Rule 34.
Edit: Speaking of which, you know there must be Trump parody pr0n out there somewhere.
Mushroom Dick Strikes Again?
Where would you find an actor who could pass as Orange Turd and still do pr0n?
Any one of the numerous pr0n actors. Just slather them down on orange and put them in an over sized suit. Get somebody with a small misshapen mushroom dick.
You can provide the reconnaissance report. We will wait here.
I'm not going looking for THAT!
Imagine what the recommendations you'd get from then on would look like.
how are they sponsoring, boss?
Bill Penzey wrote Rebecca asking for this, Penzeys gave Wonkette a bonus donation.
That's amazing. We are growing in unexpected ways.
Right? My mind was blown.
movieboss lassos endorsements hooray! :]
everywonk wins!
For 'Trix' rack!
(her spice rack you perverts)
What's the sense in having 30 or 40 spices in your kitchen if you don't have to hunt fur them, at least a little?
Well, Shy built it, so I can continue to marvel at Shy's rack.
Sounds spicey.
It is! Our little Movie Night doing bigger things than keeping Wonkers sane.
You're doing good.
Thanks BlueSpot
Put some brewers yeast on your popcorn.
Fun and scary stuff! We have a special event coming up. 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧! 𝟒𝐩𝐦 𝐏𝐓/𝟕𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐓 𝟏𝟎/𝟑𝟏 https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-oct-31-halloween?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
That's the one where all the kids go to the campground, but theirs a chainsaw wielding maniac there by the lake calling from inside the house or cabin in the woods!
No, no, no.
It's the one where all the kids go to the White House, but there's a hamberder wielding maniac there by the pool calling from inside the Capitol!
The sequel is the kids get an invite for a quiet weekend of golf at the camp for kewl kids.... Camp David.
I love this movie! Especially the stories about the cruel kids bullying the slow girl , and the story Anna Paquin and Rochelle Aytes appeared in. Rochelle is beautiful !🤩
for the 25th year, we will have ZERO trickortreaters this year, due to where we live. we are moving tho, so next year we will have - for us - the novel experience of kids demanding candy.
We don't get any either. Maybe 'cuz we live in Germany?
So the "republican strategist" lady on "Meet the republicans" this morning said Harris would win, but by less than she (Harris) expects. The way I heard it she meant the EC, but I wasn't following that closely so I may have that wrong. Anyway, it was fun and unexpected.
Surprise for her! I don't give a fuck how slim the margin is as long as she has a D next to her name.
Maybe us white ladies are finally stepping up?
https://youtu.be/t23dfKB0Aoc
Maybe ... the "white ladies" have figured out that their husbands can't see how they vote?
We aren't being polled.
https://19thnews.org/2024/10/women-voters-over-50-critical-group/
TY 💪🏽
The lament of the X’er, lol.
Some greasy incel with "evolutionary psychologist" in his blue-check twitter bio is going to show up to explain to you how "the post-menopausal feee-male" no longer serves a biological purpose, and thus traditional societies have no need of courting their interests. That's just science.
checkmate, libs
Excuse me, our purpose is to take a leave to care for our grandchildren. Do you even read Hillbilly Jethro Vance??!?
you left out making sammiches. But then, we're known for our mad multi-tasking skillz
And now I really want a sammich.
Balloon rally in Taos this morning
https://substack.com/@treehuggervotedearly/note/c-74307917?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lgfz3
OMG. So gorgeous.
Ok all. Heading for shower and hiking. Everyone have a great day and be kind to one another!
Seems like the wrong order to me, but I tend to hike solo and vigorously.
Have a good time, girl. AGREED, kind is the way. Love you, sweetheart.
In AZ, it's Shower, Hiking, and Ice Baths. (For the survivors.)
Hiking at 3am, lol. High five, survivor.
And don't forget to eat yr bananas and fuckin' hydrate, lol. Doesn't that get old?
Also too: You don't need the sunscreen that blocks that nice cooling convection.
But wear a hat with a 360° brim! Ears are the most common spot for skin cancer.
You can peel my Tilley Hat from my cold blistered noggin!
Right? :-D
I need to eat more bananas. I got a leg cramp a few nights ago.
My SO and his two sisters get these - seems to be a genetic thing for them....
I hate that. I sometimes get woken up out of a dead sleep with leg cramps so bad I have screamed. :(
I also sometimes get them on the *top* of my foot, which how in the *fuck* does that happen? It sucks getting old.
Democracy Dies in Bozos . . .
Democracy Dies in Bezos.
Same, same.
It's way past time for some competition. Someone needs to step up and start Chirper, hire all the fired Twitter employees, and compete against X. Then someone can buy the Washington Star name, hire all the Post writers and editors, leaving the billionaires' investments as an empty shell. They will learn that they paid all that money for just the rights to use a name, they don't own the employees, advertisers, or readers/consumers who are still free human beings with the right to make choices. While they're at it, why not start a competitor to Amazon. Monopoly capitalism is a bad idea.
"still free human beings with the right to make choices" ... for now.
-- Dementia Don
To preserve our neutrality we must give Trump a fair chance to take us off the air and throw us in jail.
By the MSM
They're terrified of what happens if he wins and they didn't offer him proper fealty. They don't worry about that if Harris wins.
"Bezos knows first hand the consequences of criticizing the former president. The Post’s 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton is widely thought to have led to him losing out on a $10 billion cloud computing defense contract awarded by the Trump administration."
The DOD has absolutely no business using non on prem computing.
Do you really want your nuclear codes processed by the same X86 CPU as some startup dog food delivery company's web site?
"Sir ... why does the abort web site go to crypto-bros.com?"
What’s ironic is they’re not being neutral. They’re actively helping him win.
They maintain the fake "neutral" image by rampant bothsidesism.
It’s an evil combination of bothsidesism, sanewashing, gaslighting, and normalization.
All financed by the Morbidly Obese Wealth Parasites (MEWPS).
Did the abs section of workout, so 2/3 done. 250reps. Stretched calves, quads, hams, lower back.
Then spouse being the scapegoating asshole he regularly is made me cry, despite telling him to stop. The only way it will, for good, is when I'm gone.
Then made my wildly exciting cucumber-tomato-tuna salad breakfast w/ a bit of non-fat Greek plain, but only managed a few spoons, b/c sad and upset. Also an oat cracker. Thanks for just listening.
I have BAD knees and my SO has to do a lot more than he used to (bad as in NO padding in one knee joint and about 5% in the other; and here I thought I was being the best I could be when doing the kind of work I did when young. Sigh. Oh, and btw, I can't have surgery yet cuz my blood is doing weird shit so they can't operate on me.) But I do feel guilty about "not pulling my weight" cuz we are oldsters now and *can't* do the things we used to do when we were younger. Getting old sux.
PS - your cuke-tomato-tuna salad sounds scrumptious.
Well, I do not like that one bit, my darling.
I'm sorry he made you cry, and he's wrong.
Try again with the food when you can.
Today I told myself I would be very industrious, and get everything tidy for when spouse comes home tomorrow, which would really delight him if I get the laundry I've been ignoring done...it's just that the laundry's down a bunch of stairs and I still feel sore and unsteady from my rib, so I'm considering just taking one armful of clothes down at a time so I feel more secure.
Jesus, those stupid ribs take so darn long to feel better, I know. I'm sorry. You're doing it the smart way, if you insist on doing it :-/
Thank you for the kindness, friend. You are such a good friend. I will keep trying.❤️
You reach out if you need to--I'll just be procrastinating!
Ok honey. XOXOX
When you do deep knee bends, are they supposed to sound like a goat chewing a beer can stuffed with celery?
I've found that elevating my heels on a stable something, i have a block of wood that gets them up about 2", lets me do deep squats without my knees getting annoyed. It changes the angle your knee is at so from the knees perspective it isn't very deep while from the quadriceps perspective it's still deep and gets them stretched and working.
Hmmm, elevating the heels? Ah, my recliner does that! Good thinking. Now, where’s the remote?
When I began suffering heel spurs, which is actually the foot tendon shrinking, I bought cowboy boots with 2” heels. A bit ridiculous for a guy already 6’4”, but they worked like a champ.
I haven't been having my morning collagen lately, and going down the stairs I hear that exact sound.
I'm planning on hyaluronic (rather than more steroid) injections into my joints, possibly PRP also. Knees, hips, maybe shoulder. Platelet-rich Plasma. I've been advised the oral collagen & hyaluronic is much less useful, so I gave it up.
It probably is less useful, but I have no excuse for having crunchy knees--no dance, no extreme skiing--so it seems silly to do anything more drastic.
YET.
Smrt, smrt. Those needles are huge and scary, lol.
I almost wish I was completely rid of that element of adrenaline-junkie/ risk-taking ....... but it can also be fun, haha. Oh, lord.
I do not do them. They're idiotic. And I wrecked my knees with dance training and high-speed ski crashes and track and jumping off roofs by college. Mine sounded like gristle [and bones] going through a meat grinder by then. But good luck.
Oh boy the PR coming out is not making the police look smart.
"Chief Brian O’Hara says that’s because Sawchak has a mental illness, and investigators have had trouble locating him due to his tendency to be a recluse in his home."
https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-man-shot-neighbor-says-police-were-told-threats-before
Chief O’Hara? Really?
Yep. Our next police commissioner better have the surname of Gordon.
I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but did they try his house?
I realize that what they are probably trying to communicate is because he doesn’t have many friends and mostly strays home they have no idea who to ask or where to look since he is not answering the door but the way it’s worded makes it look like they are completely clueless.
He is actually home. Seriously. Neighbors can see him in the house.
When he comes out to buy groceries, does he walk right past the police barricades because he's wearing a fake nose and glasses?
Most likely. They had a murder suspect surrounded in an apartment building last week that walk out calmly and said, "Ope lemme scooch by you." He was caught 120 miles away after a high speed chase.
And of course he blames the left and the media, saying if they *did* the police would be pilloried for “killing a mentally ill man”.
Well he isn't a sleeping Black man in the wrong apartment.
'Trix and the crew must be sleeping off last night's pfestivities.
Just put in a big order at Penzey's since they are supporting Wonkette!
plus, good spices!
Yes! My partner was upset that he didn't get input into the order so we're putting in another order right now, LOL!
Starving student Ciaobella Jr donated fifty bucks to Kamala. Mrs. Ciaobella gave him some grief about spending his money that way but I’m proud of his political engagement. Also, his chamber group landed a paid gig so that’ll help cover it!
How are you doing?
Day at a time, friend. Searching for work is utterly demoralizing.
I remember it well. Life would be good again on Monday morning, with all the possibilities arrayed in front of me, and by 3 o’clock on Friday afternoon, the darkness would set in. Every time the phone rang…
The last job I got, which I’ve been at for (had to stop and count) 17 years and counting, I had already given up, and started another masters program. I was just kind of clearing the decks, and called this employer and said, “hi, I haven’t heard back from you, so I assume you filled the position. I’m just wrapping up loose ends…” or some such. I was, at that point, completely indifferent about the outcome. And I was told, oh, we were just talking about you, and invited down for an interview, at which I was just having a casual and enjoyable conversation. They asked me, if offered the position, when I could start? and I shrugged and thought about it and said Monday, and I did.
It can happen when you least expect it.
If you don’t mind my asking, what line of work are you in?
I’m a patent attorney and physicist. Part of the challenge is that I’m experienced. Lots of law firms want to hire baby lawyers. It’s harder to find a role as an experienced attorney.
Adults often have difficulty generating the requisite level of awe and good cheer at putting in 80 hour work weeks that fresh faced grads can generate. In the academic world, it’s all going over to adjunct professors. I suppose freelancing is out?
Well I might do some contract work if needed. Yep, I've seen that in the academic world, adjuncts who get paid with Starbucks gift cards.
For me, the worst was the feeling that, having no job to report to, I was officially useless to society.
To be clear, this is not a sensible thought and it is to be rejected, stoutly.
Right on, Ciao Kid.
You taught Jr. well!