Our next Movie night is 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬. A 2009 beautifully animated fantasy drama film about the making of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript from the 9th century.
At 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Sunday in Chicago, open up a tab for the great show 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯 on wdcb.org/internet-stream.
Here is WDCB's program description: "Host René Ávila carries a long tradition of Sunday afternoon Latin Jazz on WDCB into the future as he brings you along on a weekly trip to the 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯. Tune in every Sunday from 4 - 6pm for 2 hours of jazz with clave, as Ávila reaches back to the classic Afro-Cuban sounds of the '40s & '50s and explores Latin Jazz styles along the way to the current sounds of today."
John James is running for re-election because as a failed, terrible Senate candidate, he settled for a seat in a ruby-red Michigan district. What is he running on? Shit is too expensive and deregulation will fix it. Because of course it will.
I will always hate the man. He is an Iraqi war veteran, but when he first ran for office, he used gun-cam footage from his AH-64 Apache helicopter of him mowing down a bunch of people in a public square. I'm sure in his debrief they were all bad guys, but I just saw a man proud of launching bullets the size of your forearm into a crowd of people, killing at least a dozen. I always closed my eyes and yelled before the commercial finished.
Oh, and 4 years ago, he said not-so-nice things about TFG, but last month spoke at the convention and full-throatedly (ahem) endorsed him. Because of course he did.
Edit. "See, it's like poetry, it rhymes" - Some movie hack
I posted earlier about JD Vance breaking all norms by speaking at a police department. I also posted a previous bit from comedian Kyle Kinane. Here's Kyle's take on cops and couches, of all things!
Okay I can’t put it off much longer—I have an envelope here I have been avoiding, which likely holds bad news and I’m scared but it’s not going to be better tomorrow so I might as well.
I can feel my blood pressure going up and my chest tightening but there’s nothing to do but see and deal with it instead of worrying what it might be.
It's amusing to me. My coworker is from Indonesia. She lives in the US now. She loves engineering (software and mechanical) and loves cars. She drives three pedal.
I'm working with her to deliver quite possibly the hardest project that the company we work for will have accomplished. I manage, she does technical delivery. We work very well together.
AND she's coming to Thunderhill with me. We're going to blast around a track in a full on race car.
I saw a real-deal Mercury Milan last night! The crossword clue of "Late-model Mercury" always fucks me up because I never believed that a Milan existed. Color me shocked.
My husband left to move his dilapidated travel trailer/hunting cabin, The Mallard, from where it has sat for two years to our property, purportedly for repairs. Every time he moves it, I get this mental image of it disintegrating as they travel down the road. I thought he'd sell it, since he doesn't need to stay overnight where he'll be hunting, but he's decided to tow it there, after said repairs, and use it as their headquarters. It won't have electric power or water, but whatever. He's looking at solar generators to keep the lights on.
And I know that while it sits here, people will come by every day wanting to buy it. I hope he pulls it where nobody can see it. Why anyone wants a beat up 25 year old travel trailer is beyond me, except to use at deer camp.
That's why I don't go. I went a few times when they were out around San Angelo. Look that up. There is NO-THING around there. Great night skies, absolutely no man made noises and the clearest night skies I've ever seen. Great photos ops around the ghost towns. I stopped going because my husband's hunting partner is a trump humper and obnoxious in general, would sometimes be there and he'd ruin the weekend with his drunken assholeishness. They haven't hunted together in about three years. My husband has been hunting with his brother, and I like that.
I haven't hunted in almost forty years. Fish and Game here carved up the zones and it was a crap shoot getting tags where you could actually hunt on a weekend or after work, so I quit. That said, if San Angelo wasn't in Texas, I could live somewhere near it, maybe. Never in town though, I don't like people well enough to be surrounded by that many of them. I like living remotely.
I loved Michele Mouton in the 80s. She drove Group B rally cars. My mother loved her because fuck you, guys, she's beating you.
Now I spend a lot of time mentoring and coaching young women in tech. Or older women. Doesn't matter. My friend H who we got out of Stanford is a VERY accomplished machine learning expert now, for instance.
I am proud of this. Many men aren't. Apparently engineering should be male. Fuck that. Software engineering, mechanical engineering, driving - fuck yeah, I want to help women with all of this.
Fucking antediluvian cockmonkeys try to fuck it up for everyone and they can fuck off.
I had the unmitigated luck and pleasure to have been married to a woman that was way cleverer than me for 40 years. Miss her wit and perspicacity every damn day.
This reminds me of the book "Nisa" by anthropologist Marjorie Shostak about the San people of the Kalahari Desert. Marjorie asked a man if he'd be willing to marry a woman smarter than himself. He enthusiastically replied, "Yes! Then she could teach me to be smart."
Reminds me of the bit where someone tells an annoying character to shut up and the annoying character starts a long speech about how when anyone else tells him to shut up he shuts right up.
Border collies are my favorite breed. They are SO damned clever!
Our oldest daughter and her husband have a border collie named Stephen and that dog is just too damned smart for his own good. I just LOVE him to bits.
My dad had one named Duchess, that he got from his brother, who raised and trained them. She was such a cute puppy, but we kids couldn't touch her. She was Dad's dog, and he fed her and took her everywhere with him. He'd have hay bails piled up in a pyramid on his pickup and she'd be right on top. They had a language. She could look at him and know what he wanted her to do. She'd watch his eyes and go where they pointed, herding those cows, and going after strays. She was amazing.
I got a new waffle iron about 2 weeks ago but just got around to using it today. I made the best blueberry waffles with cinnamon honey butter and maple syrup and now I'm so stuffed, I can barely move.
LOL - I also made a delicious fruit salad with grapes, strawberries, Honeycrisp apples, bananas, and kiwi. Along with some cold orange juice and 3 slices of bacon.
Our next Movie night is 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬. A 2009 beautifully animated fantasy drama film about the making of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript from the 9th century.
"Pangur Bán" is an Old Irish poem written in the 9th century at or near Reichenau Abbey, in what is now Germany, by an Irish monk about his cat. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/48267/pangur-ban
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I'm posting this early because WonkMeet.
At 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Sunday in Chicago, open up a tab for the great show 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯 on wdcb.org/internet-stream.
Here is WDCB's program description: "Host René Ávila carries a long tradition of Sunday afternoon Latin Jazz on WDCB into the future as he brings you along on a weekly trip to the 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯. Tune in every Sunday from 4 - 6pm for 2 hours of jazz with clave, as Ávila reaches back to the classic Afro-Cuban sounds of the '40s & '50s and explores Latin Jazz styles along the way to the current sounds of today."
In case of streaming difficulty, go here: https://wdcb.org/streaming-support
Ok. I gotta start getting my shit together for DnD. It's amazing how much stuff you need to play a game based on imagination
John James is running for re-election because as a failed, terrible Senate candidate, he settled for a seat in a ruby-red Michigan district. What is he running on? Shit is too expensive and deregulation will fix it. Because of course it will.
I will always hate the man. He is an Iraqi war veteran, but when he first ran for office, he used gun-cam footage from his AH-64 Apache helicopter of him mowing down a bunch of people in a public square. I'm sure in his debrief they were all bad guys, but I just saw a man proud of launching bullets the size of your forearm into a crowd of people, killing at least a dozen. I always closed my eyes and yelled before the commercial finished.
Oh, and 4 years ago, he said not-so-nice things about TFG, but last month spoke at the convention and full-throatedly (ahem) endorsed him. Because of course he did.
Edit. "See, it's like poetry, it rhymes" - Some movie hack
I posted earlier about JD Vance breaking all norms by speaking at a police department. I also posted a previous bit from comedian Kyle Kinane. Here's Kyle's take on cops and couches, of all things!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAi23EQbgx0
Okay I can’t put it off much longer—I have an envelope here I have been avoiding, which likely holds bad news and I’m scared but it’s not going to be better tomorrow so I might as well.
I can feel my blood pressure going up and my chest tightening but there’s nothing to do but see and deal with it instead of worrying what it might be.
Yeah, gotta rip off the band-aid.
Nice knowing ya, anyway.
It ended up better than I supposed.
Yay?
The speakers slated for the DNC will be phenomenal!
Me jelly, won't be there... ;>(
One more and I'll shut up.
It's amusing to me. My coworker is from Indonesia. She lives in the US now. She loves engineering (software and mechanical) and loves cars. She drives three pedal.
I'm working with her to deliver quite possibly the hardest project that the company we work for will have accomplished. I manage, she does technical delivery. We work very well together.
AND she's coming to Thunderhill with me. We're going to blast around a track in a full on race car.
I do rather enjoy my life sometimes.
Please don't try to speak Chinese to her.
I already made that mistake.
I mean, she handled it well though. Other than kinda lauging at you, anyway. :) Better outcome than being offended.
Earlier you mentioned something wrong with you.
The Republicans have now made it clear that having fun and laughing is bad.
Clearly what’s wrong is that you have waaaay too much fun in your life!
I've got a Sena device which allows communications between people wearing helmets.
I'm currently running through the corners in my mind. "We're on the out lap. Feel that? Tyres aren't at temp yet"
"OK we'll go for this now. We're at about 115. We have aero and tyre temp. Car should do it. You'll feel it slide"
"This one is interesting. Downshift and over the top. Car will feel unsettled but it'll do it."
How long you been here? TIRES. EYE NOT WHY.
Revel in every minute of it, charmer.
It's gonna be wild. We're living our best lives.
feels! feels! i got to 'ride with reg' at one of pridmore's CLASS trackdays. velvet at insane angles. green eyes, indeed!
I saw a real-deal Mercury Milan last night! The crossword clue of "Late-model Mercury" always fucks me up because I never believed that a Milan existed. Color me shocked.
You mean it's not spelled Mélange?
Sure, if that is French for last-gasp Taurus Repackaging.
That’s a bad clue, because they stopped making them 13 years ago.
To be fair, it was the "latest"
Usually they will use a clue like 'last Oldsmobile' because "Alero" is all of the juicy crossword letters.
Pesky permission issues aside, thinking this might be the ideal T/V 2025 campaign song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_oMD6-6q5Y&pp=ygUQaSBhbSBub3QgYSByb2JvdA%3D%3D
link?
My husband left to move his dilapidated travel trailer/hunting cabin, The Mallard, from where it has sat for two years to our property, purportedly for repairs. Every time he moves it, I get this mental image of it disintegrating as they travel down the road. I thought he'd sell it, since he doesn't need to stay overnight where he'll be hunting, but he's decided to tow it there, after said repairs, and use it as their headquarters. It won't have electric power or water, but whatever. He's looking at solar generators to keep the lights on.
And I know that while it sits here, people will come by every day wanting to buy it. I hope he pulls it where nobody can see it. Why anyone wants a beat up 25 year old travel trailer is beyond me, except to use at deer camp.
Deer camp!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q57eWfaZmM
That's why I don't go. I went a few times when they were out around San Angelo. Look that up. There is NO-THING around there. Great night skies, absolutely no man made noises and the clearest night skies I've ever seen. Great photos ops around the ghost towns. I stopped going because my husband's hunting partner is a trump humper and obnoxious in general, would sometimes be there and he'd ruin the weekend with his drunken assholeishness. They haven't hunted together in about three years. My husband has been hunting with his brother, and I like that.
I haven't hunted in almost forty years. Fish and Game here carved up the zones and it was a crap shoot getting tags where you could actually hunt on a weekend or after work, so I quit. That said, if San Angelo wasn't in Texas, I could live somewhere near it, maybe. Never in town though, I don't like people well enough to be surrounded by that many of them. I like living remotely.
I traded a 1980 Mercedes 240D with no floorboards for my camper trailer, which I use as a tool shed. I still wonder who got the best of that deal.
Maybe you can sell it and make some $$, then, when he asks you if you know what happened to it you can go 🤷♀️?
"The County towed it away as a fire hazard!"
Ha. I was about to offer my condolences, when I figured out that did NOT say "My husband left to move TO his dilapidated travel trailer"
A thing what I will write.
I loved Michele Mouton in the 80s. She drove Group B rally cars. My mother loved her because fuck you, guys, she's beating you.
Now I spend a lot of time mentoring and coaching young women in tech. Or older women. Doesn't matter. My friend H who we got out of Stanford is a VERY accomplished machine learning expert now, for instance.
I am proud of this. Many men aren't. Apparently engineering should be male. Fuck that. Software engineering, mechanical engineering, driving - fuck yeah, I want to help women with all of this.
Fucking antediluvian cockmonkeys try to fuck it up for everyone and they can fuck off.
Not only is this total truth, we get Antediluvian Cockmonkeys as a band name out of it too. Cheers!
Amen. 100%.
Whenever I hear "engineering should be male", I tell them to look at who was calculating the trajectories for the Apollo missions.
After mansplaining the Brontë sisters to her, an old man says to Emily,
“No man would want to marry a woman more clever than he.”
I say a smart man would elect her president.
The smart men here know it!
Bringing back hope, soon to be president, Kamala Harris.
Haven't men made enough of a mess? I say let the women have a try at it.
I had the unmitigated luck and pleasure to have been married to a woman that was way cleverer than me for 40 years. Miss her wit and perspicacity every damn day.
I learned a new word, thanks!
Forward!
https://obeygiant.com/kamala-harris-forward/
This reminds me of the book "Nisa" by anthropologist Marjorie Shostak about the San people of the Kalahari Desert. Marjorie asked a man if he'd be willing to marry a woman smarter than himself. He enthusiastically replied, "Yes! Then she could teach me to be smart."
The wonderful singer-songwriter Maurice Williams (of the Zodiacs) died last week at the age of 86.
Here are The Diamonds performing their famous cover of Williams' doo-wop classic, "Little Darlin'" almost 50 years after it first topped the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pit5dNkEGZE
LOVE that song!
Won't you stay just a little bit longer?
https://youtu.be/3ZURFDbDgSk?si=wer3wcLdccbo12HA
OMG, this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is just sending chills up my spine!
The music is truly AGELESS!
That's mainly cause you have been the "Little Darlin" for so many over the years.
This morning's entertainment has largely been watching videos of people mocking His Diapership. Meidas, BTC, clips from MSNBC, just mock, mock, mock.
It brings me joy.
I've read that his most recent hate-rally was even worse than the previous ones. I'm waiting for Aaron Rupar to put together the clip track.
Assmouth brings up that he is accused of rambling and then proceeds to ramble incoherently for his answer to the charge.
Reminds me of the bit where someone tells an annoying character to shut up and the annoying character starts a long speech about how when anyone else tells him to shut up he shuts right up.
"Shaddup shuttin' up!"
It's really close to that.
"Let the Ketchup Fly!"
Let The Bottles Hit The Floor.
LOL, FTW!
A+ reference
Thanks be to doG someone gets it. I'm in bad need of validation. Lulz.
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https://youtu.be/uguXNL93fWg
ZOMFG. I hadn't seen this.
Also, sheepdogs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnmgYBaKNMk
Border collies are my favorite breed. They are SO damned clever!
Our oldest daughter and her husband have a border collie named Stephen and that dog is just too damned smart for his own good. I just LOVE him to bits.
https://youtu.be/Ud5CZ0Ic9Qo
My dad had one named Duchess, that he got from his brother, who raised and trained them. She was such a cute puppy, but we kids couldn't touch her. She was Dad's dog, and he fed her and took her everywhere with him. He'd have hay bails piled up in a pyramid on his pickup and she'd be right on top. They had a language. She could look at him and know what he wanted her to do. She'd watch his eyes and go where they pointed, herding those cows, and going after strays. She was amazing.
I love sheepdogs but I am also intimidated, as they are smarter, faster, and stronger than I am.
They are SO SMART. I love watching them work because they think it's the best game ever ;)
I got a new waffle iron about 2 weeks ago but just got around to using it today. I made the best blueberry waffles with cinnamon honey butter and maple syrup and now I'm so stuffed, I can barely move.
I thought about making waffles this morning but Mr. V went on some kind of epic bike trek and by the time he got back I was to hungry to mess with it.
I'm not sure I could be more aroused at the moment, after reading your food porn.
LOL - I also made a delicious fruit salad with grapes, strawberries, Honeycrisp apples, bananas, and kiwi. Along with some cold orange juice and 3 slices of bacon.
You're totally speaking my love language!
This is the way.
That seemed like an odd question when I read it as Eric Carmen.