Althouse: Sunrise — 7:29, 7:30.

December 29, 2024

Sunrise — 7:29, 7:30.

35 comments:

Clyde said...: Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2024 - Part 14 of 16

#3 Anna Waronker - "I Wish You Well" - Anna - 2002

Anna Waronker got her start with the L.A.-based rock band 'that dog.', which formed in 1992, disbanded in 1997 and reunited in 2011. Waronker started her own record label with her sister-in-law Charlotte Cafferty (of Go-Go's fame), and her self-titled album was the first of her solo efforts. This song was written by Waronker and was originally used in the 2001 movie Josie and the Pussycats, with Kay Hanley (of the band Letters To Cleo) performing the vocals. The song starts off with a pair of drum licks and then kicks into gear. I'm not sure exactly how this song came my way, but I'm glad it did.

Anna Waronker - I Wish You Well; 12/29/24, 5:36 PM
Jaq said...: A few days ago Althouse made a comment about people eating with refined table manners. I have a theory...

A while back I read a book, which I don't recommend, it's not a gripping read, but it has taken a lot of mind space with me since I read it, The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hess, anyway, the story is about a young man's journey and education, and his mentor invites him over to begin teaching him meditation. And when the boy shows up, he offers him a glass of milk before he starts, and says to drink it slowly. Why did Hess make a point about drinking the milk slowly? Why did he even mention the glass of milk? And it occurred to me that by mastering his boyish urge to gulp down the glass of milk, this was the first step to learning meditation. After that I have tried to eat more deliberately as a kind of meditation. My mother, being European, always ate with her fork in the left hand, and the knife in the right, and so I began trying to eat like this, because to eat in an unfamiliar way forced me to eat more deliberately; it was not about anybody watching. Also I reasoned that it would cause me to eat more slowly, and to therefore eat less, which is important because with every decade we age, our need for calories drops, and we need to be aware of it and eat less.; 12/29/24, 5:39 PM
Jaq said...: Three airline accidents today. South Korea, Air Canada, and KLM. All Boeing aircraft.; 12/29/24, 5:50 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1647037835780685825; 12/29/24, 5:53 PM
tcrosse said...: I had been taught to cut my food with the fork in the left hand and the knife in the left, and then to put both down and pick up the fork in the right to propel it mouthward. Then I saw how Brits ate, using the downward curved fork in the left and the knife in the right. Immediately I adopted this as more efficient. I ate like this in front of my Dad, and he immediately saw the wisdom of it and became a convert. Then when I married, my very well-brought-up wife did the same.; 12/29/24, 6:06 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1873021087857913924; 12/29/24, 6:28 PM
narciso said...: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/29/syrias-de-facto-leader-says-holding-elections-could-take-up/; 12/29/24, 6:39 PM
BG said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/29/24, 6:52 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: So, the Clintons are at it, funneling the migrants for $$$$$. What sleazes!; 12/29/24, 6:53 PM
BG said...: I've always eaten with the fork in my right hand (somewhat dominant hand) and cut with the knife in my left hand (a little less dominant hand, not quite ambidextrous). I grew up on a farm with an older brother. I needed to be super efficient at the table. Plus, it just seemed logical to me.; 12/29/24, 6:53 PM
Big Mike said...: @Jaq, point of information. If you mean Air Canada flight 2259, the plane in question is a DeHavilland DHC-8.; 12/29/24, 6:57 PM
BG said...: I read that the Canadian one was a Bombardier Q400.; 12/29/24, 7:00 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The big question among democrat insiders is whether to invite Jimmy Carter to his funeral.

That's a bad joke. I'm sorry. I should wait until tomorrow.; 12/29/24, 7:11 PM
Dixcus said...: Diversity is our strength. Some may die, but that's a price I'm willing to let you all pay.; 12/29/24, 7:34 PM
Dixcus said...: They're only shooting at Trump. So Trump is the only one going to change.; 12/29/24, 7:35 PM
Jaq said...: Sorry, the Air Canada flight was a De Havilland DHC-8-402 per the news story. I will take the blogger I got the story from off my list of "quote him without checking," and to be honest, and this is on me, it's his second strike.

Still, two Boeing accidents in a single day is not a good thing.; 12/29/24, 8:14 PM
Dixcus said...: In the future, there will be a human representative who presents himself as the leader of the Free World on Earth to all other planets in our galaxy.

That President will be Jimmy Carter.

Sigh.

So yeah, we have that going for us.; 12/29/24, 8:20 PM
Dixcus said...: AP Headline Tomorrow:

Jimmy Carter will not attend Donald Trump's inauguration; 12/29/24, 8:27 PM
Jaq said...: Musk is right about one thing, in Europe, if you are not 100% with the globalists, not 99%, but 100%, your political party will be labeled "far right" even if you are to the left of Karl Marx. That's what "far right" means, that you oppose the globalists.; 12/29/24, 8:28 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, perhaps it’s my imagination, but it seems as though since the election your pictures have taken on a very gloomy cast.; 12/29/24, 9:37 PM
Christopher said...: Singer Joan Osborne posted a long-for-Facebook review of the Dylan biopic, and I think many fans will be interested, including our host if she hasn't seen it already. An excerpt:

I also know there are a lot of historical inaccuracies in “A Complete Unknown”, (and I dutifully whispered the correct biographical details into my sister’s ear as they went by), but who can fault the filmmakers for doing their best to pack a huge, sprawling story into a multiplex-friendly time slot? No, Pete Seeger wasn’t at Woody’s bedside when Dylan visited him, nor was Suze Rotolo (given a different name in the film) at Newport in ‘65 when Dylan went electric, but I’m not bothered by that. I could complain that the hundreds of nights playing gigs in the Village, the hard work of Dylan becoming who he was through trial and error and hard work, were not acknowledged and that it seems in the film as if he were born like Athena out of his own skull completely formed. As someone who knows about the years and years of effort that go into an ‘overnight success’, that was a disappointment. But I like that Suze Rotolo’s influence on Dylan, the political and artistic consciousness he absorbed from her, was given its due. And I love Ed Norton’s heartbreakingly earnest Pete Seeger, his subtle rendering of the thrill of witnessing Dylan’s genius unfold as those early songs were born, his quiet paternal grief as he watches Bob slip away from the folk scene into the wider world ...

She gives it a big thumb's up. Those with FB can follow the link below (I won't try embed coding since it doesn't look like I can check/correct). Don't want to post the entire review due to length and because I assume she uses her page to help promote her work. 1.6k comments!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MNJqai2Yp/; 12/29/24, 9:57 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: Nah, you're good!; 12/29/24, 11:22 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: That, or maybe it is winter in Wisconsin.; 12/29/24, 11:23 PM
Big Mike said...: @TaeJohnDoe, it may startle you to learn that there were winters in Wisconsin prior to November 2024.; 12/30/24, 3:20 AM
gadfly said...: Sunday Night Football (good game!) had a feature describing how the U.S. Capital had given a shiny new update by Congress which incidentily included using saved mahogany from way-back-when, redesign of crushed doors, windows and new security and repair of statues, etc. This, of course, was caused by the Jan 6 "riot." Our generous legislaters committed $300 million to the fixes, but the real costs, if collected properly will be somewhere "North of of Richmond."; 12/30/24, 5:21 AM
Dixcus said...: "If fully investigated, it would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in office because the Russians interfered ...on his behalf."

President Jimmy Carter

Remember that while they're all paying homage to this sore loser.; 12/30/24, 5:22 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: I really like the stump on the right in the top photo. It reminds me of some very tall Siamese cat sculpture my late MIL had. Even the head tilt as it looms over the photographer is the same.; 12/30/24, 5:26 AM
Breezy said...: US flags will be at half-mast during the inauguration. When presidents die, 30 days of half-mast is the norm. I think an exception should be made during the inaugural ceremony or better all day Jan 20. Surely, or Shirley, ex presidents would understand.; 12/30/24, 5:31 AM
Breezy said...: Peaceful transfer of power, and all that.; 12/30/24, 5:34 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Saw it Thursday in California when I went west for a funeral and Christmas with the family. Well done movie that draws you in and makes the two hours fly by like two songs. I recommend it heartily. Maybe if we increase its impact Hollywood will make more movies like this, where the setting is an interesting slice of time without modern phobias forced into the film.

It conveys the story well. All allegory and metaphor and foreshadowing is used to illustrate the story being told. An instant classic.; 12/30/24, 5:35 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "... it seems as though since the election your pictures have taken on a very gloomy cast."

Why should I be gloomy if I control nature?; 12/30/24, 5:41 AM
wendybar said...: Repair of statues?? I thought it was Democratic to knock them down and destroy them. Opps...my bad. Wrong party.; 12/30/24, 6:09 AM
Narayanan said...: maybe Jimmy like being corpse in inauguration?; 12/30/24, 6:23 AM
Enigma said...: From what I've heard, table manners follows from class pretense. Many people in the middle class want to be perceived as upper crust. Many in the lower class want to be perceived as middle class. They thereby overcorrect and present a cartoon version of what they perceive as "snobbery." Also see the flim "My Fair Lady" regarding language/accents.

The focus on class distinction has declined as many "lower class" technology savants, athletes, actors, and musicians holding the most powerful roles in modern society.; 12/30/24, 6:35 AM
Enigma said...: There are only two big-plane passenger airplane manufacturers worldwide: Boeing and Airbus. Boeing has a lot of planes in circulation, so if there are any accidents many of them will be with Boeing aircraft.; 12/30/24, 6:39 AM