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Awesome new Netflix Original movie - A stupid and futile gesture "
If you grew up laughing at Mad Magazine and then transitioned to the uproarious National Lampoon in the 70s, then you will love this little flick. I didn't fully realize that "Stork" from Animal House (Doug Kenney) was such a huge comedic influence. Poor guy died young at 33, after "Caddyshack".
Make sure to support the slightly-threatening Chinese economy through Amazon!
I recommend the Chinese 7artisans 35mm 1.2 lens for APS-C, available in most mirrorless mounts, direct from China, on Amazon. Its very cheap for what it is ($145 delivered). If you want max bokeh or a large aperture in a "normal" focal length for your mirrorless, you can't do better.
Watch out for long delivery times, mine took @4 weeks. Also there may be QC issues like infinity not quite on, but this is easily fixed on such a simple lens. Hex screws.
Its a very retro-modern setup especially for "street", and it adds next to nothing in bulk to your mirrorless body. A Cartier-Bresson outfit for this millenium. Also, sharpness is overrated.
In my mind, there is a lot more snow in Wisconsin than that photo indicates.
I gotta hop in the car and set it for north.
@oso
There is now. The photo is yesterday.
As much as I criticize journalists, every so often I come across an excellent and compelling example of reporting - like this, the tragic story of one time NFL player turned homeless addict Jackie Wallace:
"His bed was overlaid with cardboard and tucked into a cleft of piers and brush. He was covered in a sheet of thick, clear plastic. His head rested on a wadded yellow jacket, also wrapped in plastic. Alongside the bed lay two discarded automotive floor mats, a five-gallon bucket for bathing, a pair of neatly-arranged sneakers, a clean set of clothes, a jug of water and a carefully folded copy of The Times-Picayune. He slept in the fetal position in only his briefs and undershirt.
We talked for a minute or two, about my editor’s idea and journalism in general. After a brief pause, he said, “You ought to do a story about me.”
I’ve heard this line many times before, and many more since.
“And why would I want to do that?” I said.
“Because,” he said, “I’ve played in three Super Bowls.”
http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2018/02/jackie_wallace_ted_jackson.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news
I gotta hop in the car and set it for north.
I love winter. It's beautiful and peaceful to walk outside in the snow.
But polar votex is coming soon, down from Canada. Warm air moved north and displaced the coldest stuff at the poles, and the coldest air is now headed south over North America.
Depending on your destination, you might want to wait a week or so till the Arctic air goes back to the Arctic, where it belongs!
I bought 'microspikes' (although not those pointed to) last winter at some point. It wasn't icy or snowy after that, not once. This year, so far, not a flake of snow or patch of ice anywhere here in Eugene; indeed, apart from a week in mid-November there haven't been below-freezing temperatures at all except for a few one or two hour periods in the early morning hours (60s every afternoon this week, they say): but I still congratulate myself for buying those spikes. Better to be prepared than flat on my back.
Traditionally there's also a mailbox ten feet up marked Air Mail.
We bought beautiful fossil at the Tucson mineral show yesterday.
Not available on Amazon but Amazon has nice books on them.
This is the type.
I looked at fossil sale sites expecting to find them cheaper on line but was happy to see we got a bargain.
Reading Tai-Pan and ran across a particularly vivid simile:
"Cooper's mind was working like a keg of weevils."
It was reminiscent of the line from Jim Morrison:
"There's a killer on the road.
His brain is squirming like a toad". Also vivid.
I love cow mailboxes.
Years ago I worked on a home in Eldorado Springs and they had a cow mailbox. It wasn't as huge and deluxe as that one, but it was charming and made it easy to find the hidden driveway.
Black Earth, Mazomanie, Spring Green. A nice part of the world out there. Mazomanie used to have a "fun run" that I would run in. Except not so fun because it started out right up a steep hill. No way to start out at an easy pace with that challenge.
Mostly is very pretty in the summer. Fertile and orderly. Cows.
Appears the udder is a newspaper receptacle. Cool.
I've visited Spring Green once. It really is a lovely area. Frank Lloyd Wright thought so, too.
*insert standard warning clause on any visit to *House On The Rock*. That place is whack.
Funny shit from CNN last October.
The bigger issue -- at least to me -- is that Trump is suggesting that the dossier itself was funded by some combination of a foreign power, the opposition political party and a federal law enforcement agency.
It's easy to roll your eyes at the very suggestion and dismiss that idea as just Trump being Trump. "You guys always take him literally," Trump's supporters will say. "You shouldn't!"
OK. But here's the thing: President Trump is, um, the President. Which means he is held to the same standard every past president is held to. And by that standard, this tweet is crazy.
Port yourself six years back in time. It's 2011. President Barack Obama takes to Twitter to say that the stories over his place of birth are the result of a joint China-Republicans-CIA operation designed to discredit him.
How do you think that one would sit with the average American?
The point here is that it is deeply irresponsible for a president of the United States to even flirt with this sort of conspiracy talk. You can love Donald Trump and still believe that the idea that the Russians, the Democrats and the FBI co-funded a dossier designed to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign is totally bonkers.
Or you could hate Donald Trump and still admit that time has shown that it’s mostly true!
Oh, BTW, Trump didn’t say the Russians paid for the dossier, he just asked the question, who paid for it? Russia, the Democrats, the FBI, or all.
It was a pretty good question, and two out of three ain’t bad!
Tim:
Who were you quoting at CNN?
Chris Cizilla(sp?)
LOL - CNN - the Bonkers News network. In the tank with one political party does that to a network.
This is so weird....Google is not allowing me to choose which account I want to use to post here. I am using Typepad instead. But this can't continue....I don't want to use my other Google account to comment here, and I don't want to jump through hoops to use typepad to comment here. I want to use MayBee!!
We get just as much snow as Wisconsin does. It just melts on the way down and runs down the storm sewers.
There was a mailbox near Clyde, Wisconsin (Highway 130 south of Lone Rock) that read "Bonnie in Clyde".
Nothing like ruining the run up to the Super Bowl by putting up Rachael Maddow’s mug. It’s like when the Golf Channel was running twenty seconds of Morning Joe bashing Trump every 20 minutes.
Well, since BAG led off with a vid recco, I'm going to jump in with one of my own. Babylon Berlin on Netflix is fantastic (at least the three episodes I've seen so far). Quite apart from the story, the attention to detail in the sets, props, and costume is like nothing I've seen before. The Inspector, is carrying a freakin' Dreyse, for crying out loud!
Looks like the commercials are going to be preachy preachy preachy because America, you’re deplorable!
You can count on Audi for some of that leftist preach.
Muting every commercial.
Uma Thurman in Be Cool outtakes is constantly stalling the car she's driving and is complaining about it each time (It stalled again).
I had to skip to the end owing to awful acting all around. The screenplay was okay probably but the realization wasn't.
Appears the udder is a newspaper receptacle.
It is? I was trying to figure out what the udder was, but I can’t see the resemblance to a newspaper receptacle.
Around here we have regulations concerning mailboxes. The cow would not pass muster. We have boring mailboxes.
PS Thought the blue butterflies were a nice touch.
Interesting article by Andrew McCarthy that details the weakness of Dem Rep. Nadler's response to Nunes' memo.
An OK piece of signage, except for the udder. That amorphous pink mass is utterly repellant. Where are the teats? What's the point of an udder without teats? Looks like Mickelson is breeding some kind of post-apocalypse cattle fit only for lactose-intolerant zombies.
The udder is the best part. It's udderly bubble gum
Galentine's Day should be a celebration that all women have. I'll leave that truth there.
Many, many hours spent trying to fool brown trout with a fly on the namesake creek.
That's a unicorn. You can tell by the horn.
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