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September 23, 2019
At Itsy's Café...
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I really, really hope that's a stock photo, and not something in your back yard.
Charlotte, is that you?
Fall came in like a cliche today--after barely a trace of rain for the month, it was moist and eventually rainy this morning, and a decade cooler at least.
My wife, a most determined walker, will sometimes be out at 10 or 11pm making her fitbit work hard, and without fail runs into and through spider webs. The next morning she displays wens, welts, swellings, sores, and inflammations on whatever skin--usually arms and/or head--was favored.
She has a peculiar body chemistry, we figure, one that reacts strongly to tiny doses of venom.
Narr
Venom, and spidey side-eye
Here is a WSJ article on the Brewers.-
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-milwaukee-brewers-survived-the-loss-of-an-mvp-11569261613?mod=hp_major_pos7
That’s my photo of our orb spinner.
Will we see a rat eating a spider or visa versa some time?
Are you sure that it isn’t an orb weaver? I’m not an expert but I think that an orb spinner is an exercise machine.
Here's David Leonhardt of the NYT giving a laundry list of every horrible thing Trump has done. I apologize for the length (here's only half), but it is so feeble and embarrassing, it deserves a full reading:
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated America’s closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He has repeatedly denigrated a deceased United States senator who was a war hero.
blah, blah, blah
Not the Itsy Bitsy spider song but....
“A "Friends" fan, distraught over the news that his beloved show is leaving Netflix, performs the theme song like it's an 80s ballad.”
https://digg.com/video/singing-the-friends-theme-in-minor-key-transforms-it-into-an-intense-ballad
Apologies if it’s been posted before.
"Here is a WSJ article on the Brewers.-"
I just took a look to see if the blogger has ever taken notice of Front Row Amy. And she has. I noticed yesterday that Amy is still going strong.
That is a nice picture of an orb weaver spider. I have always found spiders fascinating and beautiful.
Leonhardt left out the most outrageous thing, Trump leaves the seat up in the gold-plated toilet.
It has a fleur-de-lis on its abdomen.
PS - if you want to see a scary looking spider, run across a Carolina Wolf spider with about a 100 babies riding on her back. They are predatory hunters so they don’t form a web. Nothing like trimming some plants and see one staring right at you with its wizard face.
if you hear faint cries of "Help me!!"
...smash it with a rock
Found shopping list, abandoned at Kroger in the egg section
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhhardin/48784262633/sizes/o
upscale diet
amega 3, the friendly fatty acid.
Here's David Leonhardt of the NYT giving a laundry list of every horrible thing Trump has done.
Speaking truth to facts.
I like Spiders but not in close-up.
is this how they all skate by?
Jeffrey Epstein Was Reportedly Tipped Off Whenever Investigators Closed In
https://truepundit.com/jeffrey-epstein-was-reportedly-tipped-off-whenever-investigators-closed-in/
The mayor of one of the smaller Santa Clara Ca adamantly opposed renaming the access road to the county dump in honor of Barrack O'bama. He was concerned his town would become a laughingstock once the story hit Drudge and right wing media.
He lost the vote. So, now, take 880 to Obama Blvd off ramp and follow your nose to one of the largest dump in the SF bay area.
Sean Connery wasn't much of an actor but he had his moments. One if from "Dr. NO" - maybe i forget which movie - where he wakes up to find a poisonous spider crawling up his body headed for his neck. Connery aka James is Sweating with fear. Finally it gets near his neck and Bond swiftly sweeps it off and beats it to death with a shoe. The determination to smash that spider aka tarantula aka whatever to death couldn't have been played better by Larry Olivier.
So, yeah spiders are cool - when they're SMALL or not poisonous.
Creepy! What a tangled web
MI6 fears Russia can link Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein abuse
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mi6-fears-russia-can-link-prince-andrew-to-jeffrey-epstein-abuse-wc995nj7x
I hate spiders, I dispatched a black widow in my garage with Hot Shot Friday night.
We have a wolf spider about 4 inches in diameter. His name is Henry. He was on family room wall last evening and today he was in the garage. Two years ago we had one 6 inches in diameter that was probably a parent. No babies, though.
I turned up some links connecting porochenko with the oligarch, the initial investigation in 2015, and a canceling in 2017, the first two come from the local paper kiev post.
R Ocean : I loved Sean Connery in The Man Who Would be King- his bouncing off of Michael Caine for most of a great John Huston movie is a treat.
Tonight I received a sad note from Pete Terranova.
I regret to inform you of the passing of our beloved daughter, Rachel, at the age of 27. Here's a link to my blog to the posts I'd tagged her to with the hope it'll remind you of who she was. http://peteterranova.blogspot.com/search/label/Rachel
Who Shredded Buttigieg’s Campaign Records, And Why?
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/exclusive-who-shredded-buttigiegs-campaign-records-and-why/
Could the mayor of Bend South be hiding something??
So sorry to hear that, someone you know personally?
Here is a really loopy proposal from our dear loopy cousins across the pond:
Labour's manifesto for the next general election will contain a pledge to abolish all private schools by bringing them into the state system. Delegates at the party's annual conference in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to "integrate" them by scrapping tax breaks and seizing their assets. It also demanded that universities only admit 7% of students from private schools, to reflect the proportion of all pupils who attend them. The motion also called for "endowments, investments and properties held by private schools to be redistributed democratically and fairly across the country’s educational institutions". The move to scrap private schools was spearheaded by the Jeremy Corbyn-supporting campaign group Momentum.
On the other hand, it's hard to argue against their rationale:
Campaigners hailed the move as "a huge step forward in dismantling the privilege of a tiny, Eton-educated elite who are running our country into the ground".
Pete Terranova was a long time commenter here going back before I showed up.
Guildofcannonballs said...
"---Little cock, little cock let me in.
Not by the hair of your chinny chin chin.
Little cock, little cock let me in.
Not by the hair of your chinny chin chin.---
Attribution known but not acknowledged.
6/28/19, 6:31 PM "
Wathing "Patriot" on Prime.
Great, but...
I would be so so better.
Ha.
Billions I could have added a poignant extra gesture.
Patriot I can only admire the effort, work, and result.
It's clearly an homage to everything American B.T.
AT is all we: ain't nobody getting left out of Our Beloved Success never again.
Thanks to Donald John Trump. Oh, and, yeah, Althouse for allowing this all to take place under her watch.
The game has changed my friends.
It never Changed Slew McCain's grandson: he was always the way he was. Makes me unable but to hate to think that institutue was:
Perfect gamer start to finish.
Other people died but, ya know, people die. Can't blame Slew's grandson for tha.
Pouring rain, road covered in dead frogs as I was driving home, MNF on DirecTV fading in an out due to the rain, it would be nice if it were about twenty degrees cooler so I could light a fire.
For every criticism of you that I post, Althouse, I refer a half dozen people to your site or to a specific post.
Thousands of tarantulas migrating across Colorado roads
https://kdvr.com/2019/09/22/thousands-of-tarantulas-migrating-across-colorado-roads/
During peak season, though, lucky tarantula viewers could spot dozens in a short time.
Like dr. Jeckyll/mr hyde, eight months apart
https://mobile.twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1176266758996426753/photo/1
I hope Famer and Iran love Patriot more than I do, but if not, other things have, will, and as far as we can see, always will.
THer is little room, not a fine line, betwist Iran and the USA.
little room knows, what else, small lines.
Not Little rooms.
The Great Satan is Easily Stupified, with Dumb Trump Ganged Up.
Tonight's episode of Ken Burns Country Music had a part I'd never seen of Bob Dylan playing Girl From the North Country in a duet with Johnny Cash. Good stuff.
I think that she is "with eggs". So to speak.
It's that time of year, for spiders.
Around here, male wolf spiders (Lycosidae) are coming indoors looking for love. In the wrong place, according to my wife.
If it's just me and them, I try to catch them and let them go outside. If Mrs. Phidippus is present, I must use the vacuum cleaner. (The bag must be removed from the premises immediately, needless to say.)
Sad.
The phobia is real, and may well be instinctive. It is probably one of the reasons why they are not so well understood, even today.
Not to say that if they were better understood, they would be better liked.
Bliold up, evil just is cuased by USA.
EVerywhere otherwise great happinness.
THey appy!
But USA ruin all everyowhere eggress ghreed nhap.
UNNAPPT!
I am reddish compared to all of you.
Beard.
Pupes.
I've an acknowledged abundance of hair. Red.
In normal times, which for a red-head are much rarer than they are or ever were for you, I forget how absolutely red I was defined by every kid and adult I ever met.
My subsequent domination was, ergo, precluded given my IQ.
“Tonight's episode of Ken Burns Country Music had a part I'd never seen of Bob Dylan playing Girl From the North Country in a duet with Johnny Cash. Good stuff.”
Order the DVD of the best of the Johnny Cash show through the Amazon portal. I recall most if not all of those performances being included. Dylan, Clapton, and Mitchell for sure. Cheap but I would have paid twice the price and been happy.
Cash, Clapton, and his idol Carl Perkins:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGF6WPuSpM
I have an orb spider in the patio. I discovered her by running into her web three or four times in a row very early in the morning still dark when I'd go put water into a hanging plant. I finally started to automatically duck but still hit one of the support strands. Then after a week or so I stopped hitting the web. I noticed that was because she changed the side of the pillar she was building her web. Damn thing is smarter than me.
"a huge step forward in dismantling the privilege of a tiny, Eton-educated elite who are running our country into the ground".
And turn it over the a privileged tiny elite in the Labour party. Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, and Ed Millibrand all went to Oxford. Gordon Brown went to U of Edinburgh. No elitism there!
The problem with the Labour party is problem is the problem with all Left-wing parties. If they'd just focus on giving their members what they wanted, namely support for Unions, a fairer tax law, supporting the poor and working class against the rich, they'd stay in power forever.
But they've always been led by middle-class gits like Corbyn. These weirdos are always motivated by a hatred of their own country, or they hate Christianity, or they love globalism, or want LBQT rights, or whatever. Usually, they hate their bourgeois neighbors - so they joined the Left-wing part. So the average workingman doesn't get some economic fair play, which is all he cares about, instead he gets all this marxist/feminist/athiest crap.
Still using the Xs.
I suppose that makes sense. (Especially if Meadehouse is saving for a 911).
Even I thought it seemed a bit much (not that that stopped me) because these were another set of phones getting close to two grand w/ the top line and the fancy apple care that covers theft (had one stolen in Ireland a year (or so) ago, so it does happen) and tax for each x4. But the camera and battery upgrades are very legit. Lawprof dough seems like it'd cover the cost x1 (Meade is on his own). We're not talking about a jet for F's sake.
IMHO.
P.S. The real reason I held back (for a few days after the announcement) was cause I think it's stupid to not have USB C. Pad = yes. Laptop = yes. Phone = no!?
Anywho, I like the green.
Anyanywho, on Oct 2 MS best make the C switch. I can only take so much disappointment.
P.P.S. It also seems to be dumb to have a card that can be stained by denim and leather. But I got that too.
Dumb is as dumb does. Doh!
Here's Why Convertibles Are Called Spiders
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a20685360/why-convertibles-are-called-spiders/
a car labeled by an Italian car manufacturer as "Spyder" or "Spider" is intended to be simply a "speeder" or a sports car. Contrary to popular belief, the first car to be officially called a "spyder" was not the Porsche 550 Spyder. Aston Martin produced a spyder in the same year.
Drudge is reporting "TRUMP INSISTS HE DIDN'T ASK UKRAINE FOR DIRT TENSION MOUNTS"
???
I don’t get what is going on with Drudge.
Midlife crisis, back in 97, he was the hot shot rebel, now hes the Man.
G.O.C. is off his/her meds this evening.
Or perhaps on some not prescribed.
Again.
"Blogger narciso said...
I turned up some links connecting porochenko with the oligarch, the initial investigation in 2015, and a canceling in 2017, the first two come from the local paper kiev post."
I think it is safe to say that the president of the Ukraine, regardless of his party, is corrupt. It is that kind of place.
The Ukrainians have a genius for agriculture, and for industry, and for science, but they have no genius for government or statesmanship.
Re Drudge:
I have "dirt tension mounts" in my backyard, but I thought it was moles. I certainly didn't ask for them.
That must be why the firecrackers didn't work. What does, I wonder.
I don’t get what is going on with Drudge.
maybe this??
https://www.libertynation.com/the-drudge-report-statistics-dpm/
Sleeping With The Enemy
It’s essential to have good intel on the opposing side in any battle. Information on your opponent is one thing, but giving them frequent license to broadcast and propagandize is another story altogether. This is where some conservatives are beginning to jump off the Drudge platform.
"I don’t get what is going on with Drudge."
Maybe he thinks it's evil to have empty words and thereby allow a POTUS to spend, at least, hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars to fund a candidate's re-elect. And, maybe this is especially bad if the dough doesn't get spent on American hack jobs.
Thats why they picked a comedian a real life dave, from the kevin kline filn but im just indicating the bag of horse poop they have selling us for two days. Hes had trouble sacking his deepstate remainders and implementimg a new anti corruption law.
If they'd just focus on giving their members what they wanted, namely support for Unions, a fairer tax law, supporting the poor and working class against the rich, they'd stay in power forever.
Left-wing as in libertarian? Libertarians support unions (in marriage) and the workplace as another party in the market. Libertarians support fairer tax law, beginning with resolution of progressive prices forced by monopolies and practices (e.g. redistributive change). Libertarians do not support class conflict, but they do support the rights of people, including public smoothing functions ("welfare") that are not first-order forcings of catastrophic anthropogenic progressive corruption. The American center, or conservative, shares a common perspective, with, perhaps, some greater allowances. Libertarians are not diversitist (e.g. racist, feminist, "=") on principle. Libertarians are a bit wobbly on progressive policies including selective-child, where they prefer to go along to get along.
"Midlife crisis, back in 97, he was the hot shot rebel, now hes the Man."
Midlife crisis? Time to buy a Spyder.
I have been watching old Star Treks on Netflix and have noticed a couple of things. Uhura got raped on Triskellium. She took it like a soldier and it didn’t bother her the rest of the episode, but really, the guy goes into her cell, a lot of screaming goes on, and he adjusts his tunic on his way out the cell door.
Another thing, and this is from “The Trouble With Tribbles” Klingons don’t speak “Klingon” they speak “Klingoni” as in “Why is the galaxy leaning Klingoni!"
That certainly went over my head back in the day!
At one point, they were redoing the TOS eps by keeping the original cast shots but adding CGI for the ships, battles, and effects in general. Is that what Netflix is showing, or is it the TOS eps as originally broadcast?
Even a little thing like a spider has a nerves, eyes, muscles, and a central organ that makes them all work together. A cubic centimeter of carbon contains 6 to the 23rd power carbon atoms, or sixty thousand billion billion carbon atoms.
Atoms are really small :) but very stable. Of all of the billions of billions of billions atoms that make up any human body, only a very few have changed from one kind of atom to another in billions of years. They just kind of hum away, occasionally absorbing and emitting a photon. Atoms don't age. They don't wear out, like people and other organisms do. All of the atoms that make up your body will still be around, unchanged, a billion years from now.
Honesty is the last things progs will (ever) encounter.
I remember when i first saw the space seed that probably 1978 in syndication then i saw wrath of khan on laser disk (the best of the series) a year after its release.
Reminds me of a classic bit from A. E. van Vogt's The Monster, which is possibly his best short story, and is available online here. It's short and worth your time for a classic bit of Campbellian Golden Age SF.
. . . . Out of the shadows of smallness, life grows. The level of beginning and ending, of life and -- not life; in that dim region matter oscillates easily between old and new habits. The habit of organic, or the habit of inorganic.
Electrons do not have life and un-life values. Atoms know nothing of inanimateness. But when atoms form into molecules, there is a step in the process, one tiny step, that is of life -- if life begins at all. One step, and then darkness. Or aliveness.
A stone or a living cell. A grain of gold or a blade of grass, the sands of the sea or the equally numerous animalcules inhabiting the endless fishy waters -- the difference is there in the twilight zone of matter. Each living cell has in it the whole form. The crab grows a new leg when the old one is torn from its flesh. Both ends of the planarian worm elongate, and soon there are two worms, two identities, two digestive systems, each as greedy as the original, each a whole, unwounded, unharmed by its experience. Each cell can be the whole. Each cell remembers in a detail so intricate that no totality of words could ever describe the completeness achieved.
The text predates the discovery of DNA, and is a bit of handwaving in front of a very important plot point..
Peter David made the interesting point years ago that when Wrath of Khan came out, it was judged against other recent SF movies, and compared very favorably, but that at some point after that, new Trek movies started being compared only to other Trek movies.
The same goes for Bond movies. You judge the latest against previous entries, not other actions flicks in the theaters the same season.
Curious.
The position they are capable of playing matters more than there posture however there posture for now is paramount: The best of little of nothing we have to work with.
Yes but it still stands out, thats why there should be a fatwa on jj abrams for trying to reinvision it with into darkness.
I grew up on the roger moore films, then i saw the connery ones on tv, pluto has the whole set up ro tomothty dalrin
The old bond movies are ridiculous by modern standards.
A villain who builds an artificial volcano in Japan to conceal a space port?
A 6'2" hairy Scotsman in yellow face passes for Japanese? And the locals can't figure it out?
A submarine that shakes when the "pressure doors" are slammed shut?
A spy who gives himself away by ordering chianti with fish? (And it takes bond several minutes to figure this out?
To timothy dalton, that was a serious detour.
In retrospect moore was too silly (he was parodying himself in cannonball run and one of the last pink panthers) and dalton too dour.
Well they were pulp fiction, by the time of 'you only live twice' they had abandoned the particulars of the plot. Soectre was the third force driving the superpowers to collision, by the time detente rolled around, the powers were almost auperfluos.
"Uhura got raped on Triskellium. She took it like a soldier and it didn’t bother her the rest of the episode, but really, the guy goes into her cell, a lot of screaming goes on, and he adjusts his tunic on his way out the cell door."
That is one of the sexually weird episodes of STOS. So is "The Menagerie." There are large sexual undercurrents in both. Roddenberry was a horn dog, obsessed with sexual dominance by men over women and sometimes women over men.
Years ago, on the interwebs, I found a bunch of scans from a Vegas audition book of dancing girls/prostitutes/actresses from the 60s. I swear Roddenberry did his hiring of bit players and actresses from that book.
Diamonds discarded the serious research fleming had done for a story about what was supposedly onassis as blofeld and hughes as willard whyte. The last played by jimmy dean. The former trope was in spy, but he became swedish, hugo drax wss a nazi werwolf like jochen pieper but he became anither arrigamt frenchman
Those last magnates werent motivated by greed aa much as environmental megalomania. In eyes the villain is a much more traditional one, a greedy smuggler with kgb ties, steven berkoff chewed the walls as the megamaniacal russian general.
I am heading to wisconsin this week to visit family. The only waunakee in the world to be specific. I will try not to judge the countless fatties I will see And will cheer on the Badgers and packers cuz that's all these peeps have. And go to some hideous apple orchard in Richland center and pretend to be impressed Mom wants to go to door county for the night and thinks it like the cape. Dear god are you there it's me Titus heading to where he was born and hated for 17 years. You cheese heads. Door county is totally not the cape. And I will see Grindr profiles of fatty whites with a fish or deer head or in a boat in some random Wisconsin lake. I am looking forward to it. It is my upbringing and I know it well but am grateful to be a gay liberal big city coastie. All other gays are weird.
You see how typos can inadvertently enter, they tried to be a little topical with the last with louis jordan, as a rogue afghan prince hanging out in india?
I saw "Diamonds are Forever" a few nights ago on one of the streaming services. It's still a good story, but only if you know Bond. Otherwise it is weird, with this guy who commands the respect of everyone although he just introduces himself as "James Bond of Her Majesty's Secret Service" (he never shows ID). The atmosphere of "Diamonds are forever is eery and otherworldly. James Bond was a super hero, not a "secret agent,' we just didn't know that back in 1971.
"Uhura got raped on Triskellium. She took it like a soldier and it didn’t bother her the rest of the episode, but really, the guy goes into her cell, a lot of screaming goes on, and he adjusts his tunic on his way out the cell door."
Quit lying. Network Censors would never allow anyone to be "raped" on Star Trek TOS. Uhara couldn't even kiss Kirk without a massive NBC exec intervention and discussion. And Do you like Gladiators JOey?
And y'know why Mary Ann and Ginger were so asexual? Because the Professor raped them in episode 2 of Gilligan's island. Check it out.
After Trek Roddenberry did a TV treatment for Tarzan. The first thing he did was kill off Jane so Tarzan could be sexually free..
Of course that one never sold.
Well the subtext is what apparently was goimg around, and as a brit maybe they felt urked about the moon landing. You woukd think every sioervillain would have bonds picture and cv by now, as walker had in view,
Via Lucianne:
...All told, roughly 20% of the $500 billion in government spending each year on disclosed contracts is in the fiscal year’s last month, according to watchdog groups....
"A spy who gives himself away by ordering chianti with fish? (And it takes bond several minutes to figure this out?"
Robert Shaw doesn't give himself away. BOnd just says "I should have known you weren't right. Red wine with fish." and shaw says "you may know the right wine, but I'm the man with the gun". Or something like that.
You only live twice marked the beginning of the end for the Connery Bond films. Its a ridiculous movie and Connery didn't want to make it. Although, "Diamonds are forever" isn't much better.
Supervillain, lets skip the timothy dalton films that tried to return to a degree of realism (well beside using a violin case as a sled) and i left out the thunderball remake kevin mccrory was allowed to make after 20 years)
One wonders what the hell this protester was thinking, but the motion of his hand brings forth a bit of Kipling.
"And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire."
That list of Trump's iniquities developed by a reporter and posted above by Bay Area Guy 6:46 was strange. It was as if someone read the lead story on the NYT front page every day and gasped and reeled with horror but never read the corrections, retractions, and admissions of lack of sources. Heard of collusion, never heard of the Mueller Report. Believes Hillary Clinton, Stormy Daniels, Jerry Nadler, and anonymous. What a life. For the reporter's sake, I just hope the list was an entirely cynical attempt to curry favor so as to keep a needed job. Otherwise this is one of the sadder cases of advanced TDS I've seen.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2005-12-26
Gene Roddenberry was actually Jewish. He kept that a secret because he felt that Hollywood antisemitism would hold him back.
Why donald grant is a thug, he couldnt pretend to be otherwise, i saw that one perhaps in the last 15 years, the villains leave something to be desired. But kronsteen was a typical soviet drone.
Just finished reading about Claude Bowers, Ambassador to spain during the Spanish Civil war. Terrible book. The guy was a complete idiot. Like Joe Davies in the USSR. Even worse than "Mission to Moscow". Good there was no movie.
I Think you are wrong about "The Gamesters of Triskelion", RCOcean.
Checkov was raped by a transexual-looking man. The gorgeous green-blonde creature that Kirk paired up with was an actress/stripper/dancer with the stage name of "Angelique Pettijohn."
Actually, some people like red wine with fish. depends on the fish. And the wine. James 'Shaken not stirred' Bond should have known that.
Funniest line in Bond films:
My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!"
Bad Kirk tried to rape Yeoman Rand - but Spock gave him the shoulder pinch. Kirk was always being split into multiple personalities. Good KIrk vs. Bad Kirk. Female vs. Male Kirk. Bizzaro World Kirk vs. Normal Kirk.
Anything for Shatner to hog the camera.
Funniest line in Bond films:
Did
"Something he disagreed with ate him."
Make it from the book into the movie?
Crazy Green girl on Star Trek TOS turned out to be Batgirl. Freaky. Good thing I saw Batman Reruns AFTER Star Trek Reruns.
That totally reminds me of something I saw on Youtube;
Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud. Epic Rap Battles of History
I guess a song by: They Might be Giants called ‘Spider’ will suffice.
From the Apollo 18 album.
Do I get html link permission as of yet ?
Or do I have to read, permission for dummies ?
Thanks in advance, although a few eons behind.
Excellent (full screen/speakers up)
Shatner is like Mike Love.
You can argue about talent, ego & level of, eh, "goodness", but without him up front it doesn't work.
That was a great album, unequaled in the TMBG canon. "The Guitar" is the high point. (I'm partial to the outer planet remix as well).
Hi,
Techno skills to make a clickable link are as follows:
If you are using "smart quotes (apple)" turn that shit off.
Start your clickable link with:
<a href="
put your link after it thusly:
<a href="https://youtu.be/O90Obu5PqRY
Put this after it: "></a>
like so:
<a href="https://youtu.be/O90Obu5PqRY"></a>
Between the >< put some fancy words describing the link.
like so:
<a href="https://youtu.be/O90Obu5PqRY">*big sloppy kiss*</a>
done.
*big sloppy kiss*
Lotta old people in Pasadena.
Lotta old people in Pasadena.
But parked in the rickety old garage is a brand new shiny superstock Dodge..
One thing about 'never' is it does suggest connery at 50, is at his limit in the role, he had done outland the year before and was some kind of scientist in meteor (anybody else see th that.
Don't forget abortion chambers. We need competent leftists to operate these clinics and to properly sequester the unprofitable human remains. Out of sight and out of mind. Progress.
Is President D. J. Trump really infringing on a copyright by Billie Pirate Eilish ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o61BiBCXMCI
He did a few more action roles up through 1996's The Rock.
Hard to believe he's 89 now..
Shiney red!
Lyric Nazi!
Thanks for that link a wee bit up thread.
Good demo re shit re not shit. Trash re not trash. Wasted up re not washed up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI
IMHO
Btw, is it cool that cancel culture on this blog means I am deleted if I question?
Who gives any F what I type here? = meadehouse
Ha ha.
Oh
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/23/five-women-botched-notre-dame-car-bomb-terror-plot-using-wrong/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
"Blogger rcocean said...
Bad Kirk tried to rape Yeoman Rand - but Spock gave him the shoulder pinch. Kirk was always being split into multiple personalities. Good KIrk vs. Bad Kirk. Female vs. Male Kirk. Bizzaro World Kirk vs. Normal Kirk."
Hadn't thought of Kirk that way. Thanks. Kirk was definitely a standin for Rodenberry.
Lewis Wetzel observes: The old bond movies are ridiculous by modern standards.
But haven't they always been played 'tongue in cheek', rather like Tarantino movies?
"Diamonds are Forever" was 1971, "Outland" was 1981, "Zardoz" was 1974, your youth is showing Narciso.
Never in my life watched an episode of Star Trek. Did I really miss anything?
Soecially when you consider he based spock on william parker, his boss at the lapd, khan was named after he flew with in world war 2, this theme of asian battlefields was in his final projects 'earth final battle' where the hero was a veteran of the sino indian war
I didnt reference zardoz, good grief i referenced outland 'high noon in space'
"Quit lying. Network Censors would never allow anyone to be "raped" on Star Trek TOS”
Watch it again, it’s on Netflix. It’s pretty subtle, but it’s there.
Now the piers brosnan were reasonably faithful tk the style, maybe a bit of cheek like moore, except die that was a mess.
Mockturtle,
Yes, but about 50% of the 79 episodes aren't worth watching, but the ones that are are truly classic Sci-Fi. It is probably the television series of which I have the oldest memories- my mother tells me that I liked the series a lot at the age of 5 (probably in the first round of its syndication). Of course, it ran in syndication, off and on, through my elementary school years. Then I got to see it again when we got a satellite dish when I was in high school- it used to run on WPIX from New York at 11 p.m. for a few months every year or so.
The first of these referenced tolstoys revelation re operation keelhaul, of course jean bean doesnt fit at someone who would have the son of liensk cossacks.
“What’s going on in there!” - Kirk
Yancey you young thug
When I picked up my date for the Prom, Star Trek was on the teevee.
Later, when I fixed 8-track players for a living, we all watched the reruns.
Some distant relative of JK Galbraith was my boss.
The actual novel “For Your Eyes Only” would make a great Tarantino movie. She stalks the man who killed her family over the mountains, and finally crawls through a field of goldenrod, with a bow and hunting arrows, and finally (spoiler alert) puts an arrow through his chest while he is in the middle of a swan dive into his swimming pool at his remote mountain lair. Once the blood starts flowing up and his henchmen realize what has happened, a nice bloody shootout ensues with all kinds of firearms at play. I guess the movie makers didn’t find Vermont exotic enough so they changed the setting.
Indeed:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/britain-france-germany-blame-iran-for-attacks-on-key-oil-facilities-in-saudi-arabia
I remember that was the only one i actually owned in vhs
I have only read three of the Bond novels, but in two of them, the women have much more ‘agency’ than in the movies, and aren’t dominated by Bond like in the movies, and the third “The Spy Who Loved Me” was basically a ‘bodice ripper.” Fans hated it, but it was the most popular of the series with women.
Chilling with your side chick- what could go wrong?
Never in my life watched an episode of Star Trek. Did I really miss anything?
Apparently not!! Cuz....I always assumed you were a Trekkie.
On the disconnect between what the media thinks we’ll believe and what we believe: do you think they know the jig is up and they are are just playing along or do they not know we know what they are up to?
Good lord, look at that thing! I might just pass out if I happened upon that fella. Have I mentioned I've got a serious thing about spiders? Well, I do.
The Boston Globe continues today to push the Trump must be Impeached narrative for his attempt to extort Ukraine into investigating US political corruption, or something, without nary a mention of the well documented Biden incident. I have yet to come across someone in my local travels that does any more than roll their eyes about this newest outrage from Trump. And I live in solid blue MA. Though, I haven't queried my MIL on the topic...
Looks like a bumper crop of acorns this year, at least where I live in Northeastern MA. Too bad they don't taste good.
I love this time of year.
Morning Joe going absolutely crazy about impeaching Trump. A Goldwater moment coming according to them.Thinking that some GOP Senator will ask Trump to resign. As if.
Thousands of tarantulas migrating across Colorado roads
https://kdvr.com/2019/09/22/thousands-of-tarantulas-migrating-across-colorado-roads/
Key sentence from that article:
"they are emerging from their burrows and traveling an unknown distance in search of a mate."
The "migration" was fake news a month or so ago, and it generated some funny fake headlines (note the phrases "through Colorado", and "descending": both are completely false):
Tarantula migration Colorado: Spiders expected to crawl through Colorado
Tarantula migration expected to move through Colorado
Colorado wildlife officials say [no, they don't say that] thousands of tarantulas are expected to start their annual migration through the state
Colorado wildlife officials say thousands of tarantulas are expected to start their annual migration through the state soon.
Thousands of tarantulas to descend on southeast Colorado
Not fake news:
The annual event is often mistaken as a migration because the nocturnal animals are more visible than normal and appear to be walking with a destination in mind.
"They’re not truly migrating. And it’s only the males that walk around. You don’t see the females at all."
Skylark said...
I have been watching old Star Treks on Netflix and have noticed a couple of things. Uhura got raped on Triskellium. She took it like a soldier and it didn’t bother her the rest of the episode, but really, the guy goes into her cell, a lot of screaming goes on, and he adjusts his tunic on his way out the cell door
Mind, blown! Which ep? Might watch it on AMZN Prime.
I was a fan of the original ST and we watched ST:TNG some when my son was young. They're kind of the base-line of modern American TV scifi, and about all I could take. "We Make Things" is still a punchline here.
Make of this what you will, but my favorite character was Spock, the objective observer, and when I got into Heinlein one of his most interesting ideas was the Fair Witness.
The funniest line in any Bond film is not Bond's:
No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die.
Narr
As only Frobe could
Apple is going after the hole phobia people again. this time in a big way.
"The Gamesters of Triskelion"
My guess is it's a spotted orb-weaver (Neoscona sp.) of some kind. The patterning is apparently pretty variable from one to another.
They tell us that only the females build webs.
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