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Happy new year’s eve from Denver, lizards! I’ve been in full on lurker mode since my tech company shut down and let everyone go (with a decent severance) in August.
They’d been prepping all year to relocate me from the Manhattan satellite office to San Francisco. So when they closed, the spouse and I decided to move back to Colorado instead. It’s where we met and married. Plus it’s much closer to all the adult kiddos in Santa Fe and LA.
Getting motivated for a grand 2024, ready to kick some fascist ass 😎🎊🥂
I was having a pretty rough New Year’s Eve six years ago tonight:
I wish all passive-aggressive net trolls, drunkards, dopers and other pop culture cultists a quick but fiery and painful death in drunk driving accidents on their high holy day of New Year’s Eve. Just please try to avoid taking the rest of us with you. Roast in peace.
I am feeling much, much better now so I would like to add MAGAts, Putin fanboys, book burners, insurrectionist conspira-liars, and Covid denying plague-rats to that list.
re: #3 wrenchwench
I am glad to hear that.
re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅
How many people do you recognize from Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Party?
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Sonny & Cher, the Marx Brothers, Lucy and Desi, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, WC Fields, Elvis, Liberace, John Wayne, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Burt Reynolds, Mae West, Rita Hayworth, Carol Channing…
When did it become common practice for journalists to tell us what a person “thinks” or “believes?”
You do not fucking know what they think or believe. All you know is what they say or do. Stop legitimizing horrible people by implying they’re honest.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
When did it become common practice for journalists to tell us what a person “thinks” or “believes?”
You do not fucking know what they think or believe. All you know is what they say or do. Stop legitimizing horrible people by implying they’re honest.
Journalism was last seen entering a black Town Car outside a ritzy restaurant, never to be seen again.
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
Every day she thinks about Cyrus the Great and Murasaki Shikibu. That’s just how deep she is. Havin’ those great thoughts all day, every day.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
You gotta wonder if Grimes thinks this is a documentary, LOL:
BTW, Eva Green was the highlight of that flick. She stole the show.
“What if humans just loved each other?”
Deep.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Heh…Shoq just followed me after I responded to that thread with you. I have been interacting with him over the past few months and just assumed we were already following each other.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Every day she thinks about Cyrus the Great and Murasaki Shikibu. That’s just how deep she is. Havin’ those great thoughts all day, every day.
It’s that school of trying to sound smart by popping out a bunch of random ass historical references like some old Dennis Miller routine.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Every day she thinks about Cyrus the Great and Murasaki Shikibu. That’s just how deep she is. Havin’ those great thoughts all day, every day.
Her train of thought runs on a toy H-O track
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
It’s that school of trying to sound smart by popping out a bunch of random ass historical references like some old Dennis Miller routine.
Followed by, “We should all just love each other,” which is an empty platitude that is supposed to sound inclusive and wholesome, but really it means, “Shut up and leave me alone!”
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
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You’d have to be a racist American to think there’s such a thing as “white culture.”
For the rest of us, there’s Irish culture, Italian culture, German, Spanish, French, English, Scottish, Polish, Swedish, Greek, Ukrainian, Dutch, and a dozen more.
Each of these cultures has a history, a language, a cuisine, a musical tradition, a distinct architecture, type of painting/sculpture, etc.
Also, and this should kind of be obvious, but Grimes is doing that not-so-subtle rhetorical framing thing where “white culture” gets praised overall, but any non-white contributions to humanity get attributed to specific individual actors. Who we are then allowed to infer are somehow outliers.
Not going to share the image. But I just saw a sponsored post on Elons hell site for a movie made by The Epoch Times purporting to tell “the real story of Jan 6th”.
🙄
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
Not going to share the image. But I just saw a sponsored post on Elons hell site for a movie made by The Epoch Times purporting to tell “the real story of Jan 6th”.
🙄
Republicans will stop at nothing to put Trump back in office to impose the Fascist dictatorship they have lusted for ever since the 30s!
Today, the world has lost a trailblazer, and Texas has lost one of its most dedicated public servants and iconic leaders.
Read my full statement on the passing of Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. pic.twitter.com/nZdFeQMecv— Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@RepJasmine) December 31, 2023
re: #23 sagehen
You’d have to be a racist American to think there’s such a thing as “white culture.”
For the rest of us, there’s Irish culture, Italian culture, German, Spanish, French, English, Scottish, Polish, Swedish, Greek, Ukrainian, Dutch, and a dozen more.
Each of these cultures has a history, a language, a cuisine, a musical tradition, a distinct architecture, type of painting/sculpture, etc.
And depending on where you are in European or American history a bunch of those cultures were not considered “white” or at a minimum considered inferior to the current majority culture.
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
Not going to share the image. But I just saw a sponsored post on Elons hell site for a movie made by The Epoch Times purporting to tell “the real story of Jan 6th”.
🙄
While driving to/from my brother’s for Christmas I saw a Epoch Times billboard mentioning their “Truthful Journalism”.
re: #32 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And depending on where you are in European or American history a bunch of those cultures were not considered “white” or at a minimum considered inferior to the current majority culture.
There are even American sub-variants of every one of those cultures, precisely for that reason - because an Irish-American is going to have a very different perspective on things than a native Irishman will.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
I always heard “I want to be Canadian”
one of those odd “maybe we should get the band back together” text exchanges where I just discovered the drummer absolutely…fucking…hates the guitarist. All kinds of backstory shit that I knew nothing about.
re: #41 Backwoods Sleuth
So nice of him to identify more targets for his sheep to harass with threats of violence. Lovely way for a presidential candidate to start the new year.
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
Not going to share the image. But I just saw a sponsored post on Elons hell site for a movie made by The Epoch Times purporting to tell “the real story of Jan 6th”.
🙄
I live in Nashville and a billboard on Gallatin Road (a main artery going NNE out of the city) at Briley Parkway (the main part of one of our main ring roads) has recently run two JewBelong ads (the last one was “Hamas is your problem too”) and now it’s got a fucking Epoch Times ad with some dude’s mug on it.
The fact those ads ran/are running on a billboard in a relatively diverse and liberal part of a city that’s a blue dot in a sea of red gives me pause, especially IRT the current Epoch Times ad; my area of town is being seen by multiple somebodies as a political battleground and they’re buying billboards where I’ve never seen anything other than standard commercial ads for decades in order to push agendas.
This year is going to be… interesting.
re: #40 EstebanTornado1963
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Was thinking of the Smothers brothers because of a post before about Carol Burnett.
I have this bottle that I’ve kept, even though it’s probably vinegar by now, I thought I was cool. Smothers brothers were always funny, yo-yo man etc.
A 1999 California cabernet?
Just a WAG, but the chances of it being:..
Splendid:………. <10%
Drinkable:……… c 60%
Vinegar:………… c 50%
(Percentages do not add up to 100 because it’s goddam WINE….)
My suggestion: find a corkscrew, pop it and drink to Tom’s memory: the least he deserves…..
Does someone want to tell me why Amazon is promoting “The Sound of Freedom” on our “Movies we think you’ll like”? No, I goddamn well will not like it. I don’t know why you think I would; I’ve never watched anything political on this account.
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
Their algorithm has a bug in it.
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
“No, no, you idiot! I said The Sound of Music!”
Speaking of that movie, I got into an argument with Mrs. Fish about it because she went and looked it up and read the right-wing propaganda about it. I admit I have a bit of a political bias, but that movie’s shady origins aren’t exactly hidden.
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
That is one of my favorite movies.
re: #49 Jay C
A 1999 California cabernet?
Just a WAG, but the chances of it being:..Splendid:………. <10%
Drinkable:……… c 60%
Vinegar:………… c 50%(Percentages do not add up to 100 because it’s goddam WINE….)
My suggestion: find a corkscrew, pop it and drink to Tom’s memory: the least he deserves…..
Think I might try it later tonight. BTW, had a great bottle of Austin Hope cab at dinner the other night.
hopefamilywines.com
re: #56 Backwoods Sleuth
What a way to end the year. Two deaths and a Queen who abdicates. Is there any good news today?
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
So nice of him to identify more targets for his sheep to harass with threats of violence. Lovely way for a presidential candidate to start the new year.
I fear that after one of the people Trump targets is killed the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press will do their damnedest to normalize that.
re: #56 Backwoods Sleuth
I remember seeing him on TV as a child.
re: #60 PhillyPretzel ✅
ehh. No thanks.
Steve Shives and Jason Harding are pretty good on Late Seating; their major complaints about SoM is that it’s overlong, repetitive in some of its musical numbers, and that the real Trapp family story, especially IRT Maria herself, is much more interesting than the fiction Robert Wise and company put on-screen (a common complaint about most “biopics”).
re: #64 TedStriker
Yes. She was an interesting character. And one of the executives of the movie called her too bossy.
re: #66 wrenchwench
Wonder what that makes pots and pans?
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
Does someone want to tell me why Amazon is promoting “The Sound of Freedom” on our “Movies we think you’ll like”? No, I goddamn well will not like it. I don’t know why you think I would; I’ve never watched anything political on this account.
Huh. We’ve gotten the same thing. Has it become a Christmas staple?
What did Dolly Parton have to say about who does her hair? “I don’t know. I’m never there.”
re: #58 TedStriker
If you like The Sound of Music, you might like a couple of braying jackasses taking the piss out of it ;-P
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Oh I can’t wait for them to go after the 1973 musical version of Lost Horizon…
Bought this on vinyl today, first time the album’s been pressed on plastic. Record Store Day release from April, just sat there until I got it today. Only 5,000 copies pressed.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Every day she thinks about Cyrus the Great and Murasaki Shikibu. That’s just how deep she is. Havin’ those great thoughts all day, every day.
Cyrus was very far from being the “First Emperor.” That was Sargon of Akkad, about 1800 years before Cyrus.
I think it’s time to bring back “Man in the High Tower” myself…..
re: #69 Ferdinand
Huh. We’ve gotten the same thing. Has it become a Christmas staple?
Maybe they’re paying to be promoted?
re: #74 teleskiguy
The “Veteran’s Day Poppy” on this album is almost unlistenable. Almost.
re: #23 sagehen
White culture - marshmallows in jello.
re: #79 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
… As a salad.
re: #79 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
White culture -
marshmallows in jelloLarks’ Tongues in Aspic.
re: #71 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh I can’t wait for them to go after the 1973 musical version of Lost Horizon…
That was actually given as a “not-recommend” at the end of the Late Seating episode reviewing Woody Allen’s Sleeper; Steve and Jason’s schtick is that they each recommend or not-recommend the movie being reviewed in the episode after the plot recap and giving their opinions/analysis, then, before saying what movie is on-deck for the next episode, each give another movie as an opposite recommend/not-recommend, with Jason doing his for a movie released the same year as the one in the review.
Well, in his not-recommend of the 1973 musical version of Lost Horizon, Jason dragged it over the coals hard for being a horrible remake and a even-more-horrible musical (listen at about 1:05:00):
Happy New Year from Czech Republic, where it’s now 1 January 2024.
Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy in the year ahead.
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
Happy New Year to you too.
re: #68 Backwoods Sleuth
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What idiots. Taylor and Dolly are great examples of the real power that comes from makeup when it is used to show a woman’s strength rather than something to just attract men. They use it as a shield/sword. AOC gave a great discussion of this a few years ago:
“There’s this really false idea that if you care about makeup or your interests are in beauty and fashion that’s somehow frivolous but I actually think these are some of the most substantive decisions we make and we make them every morning.”
“Our culture is so predicated on diminishing women and preying on our self-esteem, and so it’s quite a radical act—and it’s almost like a mini protest—to love yourself in a society that’s always telling you you’re not the right weight, you’re not the right color, you’re not the right, you know, whatever it is,”
They are not using makeup for men. They use it for themselves.
re: #85 wrenchwench
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Sunrises at the Sangre de Cristos are pretty much always good; I’ve been to Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron four times since 1993 and good sunrises and sunsets in and around the mountains are pretty mindblowing.
re: #81 Decatur Deb
And a wafer thin mint in top.
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
Anybody want to share an opinion or evaluation of Ranked Choice Voting? My first reaction is not to trust it. It’s catching on here.
This is one of the weirdest episodes in Israeli history:
re: #91 wrenchwench
Anybody want to share an opinion or evaluation of Ranked Choice Voting? My first reaction is not to trust it. It’s catching on here.
While it’s not perfect, and it takes some ‘splainin’ for most Americans who have lived with one-or-the-other ballots all their lives, I think it offers an improvement over that system. In particular, it solves our problem with third-party candidates who siphon off votes from main party candidates. With ranked choice voting, the Berniebros can vote for their useless idiot of choice, but when they inevitably fail, the votes can instead be counted for the Democrat, reducing margins for error in battleground states.
re: #38 steve_davis
one of those odd “maybe we should get the band back together” text exchanges where I just discovered the drummer absolutely…fucking…hates the guitarist. All kinds of backstory shit that I knew nothing about.
If rock bands didn’t all have some degree of the behind-the-scenes inter-personnel conflicts, all music would be categorized as yacht rock. Instead, we had the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, the Beatles, and so many others.
re: #95 sizzzzlerz
If rock bands didn’t all have some degree of the behind-the-scenes inter-personnel conflicts, all music would be categorized as yacht rock. Instead, we had the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, the Beatles, and so many others.
The deaths in Spinal Tap are highly suspect.
re: #96 Decatur Deb
The deaths in Spinal Tap are highly suspect.
How could I have forgotten the epic Nigel Tufnel/David St. Hubbins melt-down?
re: #38 steve_davis
one of those odd “maybe we should get the band back together” text exchanges where I just discovered the drummer absolutely…fucking…hates the guitarist. All kinds of backstory shit that I knew nothing about.
re: #95 sizzzzlerz
If rock bands didn’t all have some degree of the behind-the-scenes inter-personnel conflicts, all music would be categorized as yacht rock. Instead, we had the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, the Beatles, and so many others.
For example, for The Monkees, Michael Nesmith apparently fucking despised Peter Tork; whether that was from the get go or built up after years, I don’t know.
re: #91 wrenchwench
RCV is problematic. I’m afraid some people are glomming onto it just because it’s a fad.
There are some YouTube videos where previous RCV fans explain why they now think it’s not so good.
re: #66 wrenchwench
I reserve spoons for eyeball gouging. They’re perfect for that purpose.
re: #95 sizzzzlerz
If rock bands didn’t all have some degree of the behind-the-scenes inter-personnel conflicts, all music would be categorized as yacht rock. Instead, we had the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, the Beatles, and so many others.
And siblings. My favorite is Chris Robinson, after The Black Crowes, started a band called The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, without his brother and fellow Crowe, Rich Robinson.
re: #93 wrenchwench
And the question it’s asking is, “Can I eat that?”
re: #101 wrenchwench
And siblings. My favorite is Chris Robinson, after The Black Crowes, started a band called The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, without his brother and fellow Crowe, Rich Robinson.
Oasis and the Gallagher brothers is an epic tale of siblings in a band gone very, very wrong.
Tanerite in the Holler Y’all!
It’s going to be noisy out here tonight. I can feel it in my bones.
re: #104 Dave In Austin
I have a few neighbors that are shooting off fireworks.
re: #91 wrenchwench
My take is it won’t help much. It’s a poor workman who blames their tools.
That’s the problem. If the voters don’t take time to consider what they are voting for the style of voting makes little difference, and here in North America we have lazy voters.
Private equity shits all over a beloved pastime. My surprised face.
re: #91 wrenchwench
Anybody want to share an opinion or evaluation of Ranked Choice Voting? My first reaction is not to trust it. It’s catching on here.
Does it have “none of the above” as any of the choices?
Because I would really love to have that if Ranked Choice Voting ever shows up for the Republican primary in Kentucky.
Hell, I’d like to have that option right now on the usual GOP primary ballot here.
re: #109 Backwoods Sleuth
Does it have “none of the above” as any of the choices?
Because I would really love to have that if Ranked Choice Voting ever shows up for the Republican primary in Kentucky.
Hell, I’d like to have that option right now on the usual GOP primary ballot here.
Not yet. Maybe we can get that in there.
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