Althouse: At the Vivid Warm Cafe...

January 31, 2020

At the Vivid Warm Cafe...

... you can talk all night.

70 comments:

Josephbleau said...: "It must be vivid because the dead weeds are red." an engineering graduate.; 1/31/20, 7:42 PM
Original Mike said...: "It must be vivid because the dead weeds are red."

Early spring shrubs are already starting to flush.; 1/31/20, 8:02 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Warm Vivid"

an original song titled “Warm Vivid” composed for solo 6 string guitar in dropped D tuning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3SaaImr-xM; 1/31/20, 8:21 PM
Mark said...: So. Watched The End of The Good Place.

And, yep, just like I suspected/feared when last we discussed this -- they ruined it. Not merely the ending, but the entire series is tainted.

They took what was an interesting concept and utterly ruined it with their despairing materialistic nihilism. If that's the way they were going to end it, what was the point of stopping the judge from erasing the universe?? Same result.

Does Hollywood always have to end up shitting in people's mouths? Can't they do anything good anymore?; 1/31/20, 8:26 PM
Mark said...: I said last week, "Then again, the show did hint at the right answer. And the characters have even recognized and voiced what that answer is in this latest episode and past episodes."

The right answer was love. But these atheistic progressive Hollywooders had to go and eff that up too.

This is why we can't have nice things.; 1/31/20, 8:31 PM
Seeing Red said...: Finally! Someone gives the correct response to these twits, Via Lucianne:

The Times (London), by Ben Webster Original Article
Posted by DaddyO — 1/31/2020 1:42:50 PM Post Reply
How do you respond when placard-waving students occupy your 15th-century quadrangle and refuse to leave until you sell the college’s shares in oil companies? (snip) They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell. Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off."; 1/31/20, 8:34 PM
alanc709 said...: Reminds me of the way they destroyed Joan of Arcadia.; 1/31/20, 8:35 PM
narciso said...: If you cant even understanding what the other side thinks

https://mobile.twitter.com/thelastrefuge2/status/1223404266687209472?s=21; 1/31/20, 8:38 PM
mockturtle said...: There was an old man of Thermopylae
Who never did anything properly...; 1/31/20, 8:39 PM
mockturtle said...: Last night I watched [on DVD] the Korean film, Parasite. Good flick. Bizarre, as Korean movies typically are, but well done.; 1/31/20, 8:42 PM
traditionalguy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/31/20, 8:53 PM
traditionalguy said...: The Dems' desperate need to eliminate Trump is not explainable by American politics. And it is not explainable by their habitual ways of raking in corrupt cash kickbacks from foreign aid. It arises from Trump's unreserved support for the Jewish Homeland of Israel. Political bragging rights and cash money are big motives but they are only temporary. The Eternal win or loss is the Jewish Nation being at peace in Jerusalem. And the stable genius figured that out.; 1/31/20, 8:53 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: You say 'Hell no'
But we say 'Goodbye'!!

Brits taking their flag from EU

https://twitter.com/i/status/1223334525230411776; 1/31/20, 8:55 PM
Mark said...: The show's answer was basically the same as Sol walking into the suicide center in Soylent Green.

No wonder so many people in entertainment kill themselves.; 1/31/20, 8:55 PM
Seeing Red said...: Now the DNC is trying to take down Bernie.

Not tired of winning and I need more popcorn.; 1/31/20, 8:57 PM
narciso said...: Yikes, and kirsten bell is usually pretty good, they made veronica mars too dour too; 1/31/20, 8:58 PM
Josephbleau said...: Korean war films are ok "Tai Guk Gi" is a good one. My uncle 1lt c company 1 btn 38 inf 2inf div lived to tell me about bunker hill and the chicoms.; 1/31/20, 8:58 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/31/20, 8:58 PM
mockturtle said...: The Dems' desperate need to eliminate Trump is not explainable by American politics.

I've long believed it was his threat to drain the swamp and expose the very depth of the Deep State. He hasn't yet scratched the surface, if a swamp surface can be scratched, but it seems apparent thus far the the FBI, CIA and the Pentagon [military-industrial complex] are all controlled by globalist interests, to which the Democrats and Neocons are wholly devoted.; 1/31/20, 8:59 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Weinstein accuser says his gentails look like a vagina.; 1/31/20, 8:59 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: ...and the crowd goes wild !

https://twitter.com/i/status/1223361725254205442

...now they kinda know how we felt in '76; 1/31/20, 9:01 PM
narciso said...: That was a good part of the opposition to nixon by the ivy league bureau and the west point and annapolis pentagon on the right; 1/31/20, 9:07 PM
Mark said...: I've been meaning for weeks to go see A Hidden Life in the theaters. But, being a Terrence Malick movie, it will require some energy to last three hours, and I've been sick the last three weeks.

Luckily it's still here, but this surely will be the last week. So it's now or never to see it on the big screen.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/12/review-hidden-life-terrence-malick-franz-jagerstatter/603607/

https://mises.org/wire/franz-j%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter-conscientious-objector; 1/31/20, 9:09 PM
traditionalguy said...: The college football recruiting's late signing day comes Wednesday, and lo and behold UGA is at #1 rated class so far. Wisconsin is at #25 so far. Now if they will not have to play the games, Bulldogs will be happy. The 3rd game is at Alabama in Tuscaloosa. But that pesky LSU is off the regular season schedule.; 1/31/20, 9:10 PM
alanc709 said...: I managed to catch the countdown clock on 10 Downing for Brexit. Happy Brexit Day, Chuck.; 1/31/20, 9:15 PM
wild chicken said...: Narciso why the pentagon?; 1/31/20, 9:18 PM
narciso said...: The moorer welander spyring (re hougan spooks and kolodnys silent coup (they didnt stomach his approach to mao (they were probably right. In the long ryn; 1/31/20, 9:21 PM
narciso said...: But they didnt have an viable alternative.; 1/31/20, 9:22 PM
wildswan said...: Looking at the corona virus figures and they are wild. Eleven days ago there were 279 cases in Mainland China and now there are 11, 221. I really hope that this represents China acknowledging cases they knew about but were hiding so that this increase isn't the actual rate of spread but is, instead, a cover-up ending and statistics quickly being brought into line with reality.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6; 1/31/20, 9:30 PM
narciso said...: Thats a 40 fold increase, a similat progression would 460000; 1/31/20, 9:34 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Ah, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?
Funny how my memory skips
While looking over manuscripts of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

I look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground
Look around, leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground.; 1/31/20, 9:40 PM
narciso said...: From the less than zero soundtrack, where rbd jr really annoyed me then.; 1/31/20, 9:41 PM
William said...: I'm still trying to process my grief over the passing of Monique Van Vooren. This impeachment nonsense completely overshadowed the news of her death. Attention was not paid, but her life and career offer many edifying lessons on the vicissitudes of fate. In her life, she was completely overshadowed by Mamie Van Doren and, as it stands now, Mamie is destined for more lasting fame. Monique's best known film "Tarzan and the She Devil" was a fine showcase for her talents, but perhaps it was too subtle for those who preferred the broader strokes of Mamie Van Doren in "Sex Kittens Go to College". In any event, Mamie lives on literally and figuratively as a cult favorite whilst Monique is laid to rest and oblivion. No TMC week for you Monique....Well, on the plus side, she lived to be 92 and had only one, successful marriage. Mamie has had five marriages so, perhaps in that area of human endeavor, Monique may be counted as the greater success. It is interesting to note that both of these B bombshells lived longer and happier lives than their A list contemporaries, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. Such are the uses of adversity. Neither Monique nor Mamie lost their balance and fell while reaching for things beyond their limits.; 1/31/20, 9:56 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: re: music @8:21
by coincidence, on Jan 31, 2020
Althouse posts 'Warm Vivid' cafe
Jesse Theademan posts "Vivid Warm'; 1/31/20, 10:02 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: pics of Biden, Trump rallies* same day in Iowa

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPkqdBOW4AYaFRd?format=png&name=360x360

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPkqdBQXUAA4iDp?format=jpg&name=small

(* ok--Biden's was his wake rehearsal, but still...); 1/31/20, 10:14 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/31/20, 10:33 PM
narciso said...: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wuhan-virus-key-33613588?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=postshare&fbclid=IwAR1AIw-5RhjwiPqieEWHuKrnJHUUdLeP-xJRnkD4nqt5k0rgKFqtoicm_dI; 1/31/20, 10:38 PM
Josephbleau said...: Blogger mockturtle said...
There was an old man of Thermopylae
Who never did anything properly

The banister broke so he doubled his stroke
And finished her off in the air.

Oh, ay yai yai yai,
Freshmen never...; 1/31/20, 10:39 PM
StephenFearby said...: New coronavirus spreads as readily as 1918 Spanish flu - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-01-29/china-coronavirus-china-likely-originated-in-bats

However:

"...Yet, despite the numbers and alarm, the virus pales in comparison to the impact of the ebola virus — and even more so — influenza.

The latter killed more than 61,000 people in the U.S. alone during the 2017-18 season according to CDC estimates. And since the beginning of the current flu season on Oct. 1, there have been more than 8,200 deaths so far.

The influenza virus was also the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which was responsible for the deaths of 50 to 100 million people — the worst in recorded history."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/31/how-the-coronavirus-compares-with-sars-ebola-and-other-deadly-viruses/

You read about deaths either being associated with old age or health problems.

Deaths from flu in the United States seem to be widely associated with lung issues (Asthma, COPD).

One (potentially /probably) useful intervention is the amino acid n-acetylcysteine:

Multidiscip Respir Med. 2016 Feb 3;11:8.
N-acetylcysteine in COPD: why, how, and when?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26855777

Eur Respir J. 1997 Jul;10(7):1535-41.
Attenuation of influenza-like symptomatology and improvement of cell-mediated immunity with long-term N-acetylcysteine treatment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=PMID%3A+9230243

Because:

Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Sep;94(3):847-53.
Deficient synthesis of glutathione underlies oxidative stress in aging and can be corrected by dietary cysteine and glycine supplementation.

CONCLUSIONS:
Glutathione deficiency in elderly humans occurs because of a marked reduction in synthesis. Dietary supplementation with the glutathione precursors cysteine and glycine fully restores glutathione synthesis and concentrations and lowers levels of oxidative stress and oxidant damages. These findings suggest a practical and effective approach to decreasing oxidative stress in aging.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155927/; 1/31/20, 10:41 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: CNN's Jeffrey Toobin gets hit with a lightning bolt of succinct common sense:

"Trump won," Toobin replied. "You know, he's gonna win this trial. He won on the issue of witnesses, he's gonna get acquitted, and that's how history will remember what went on here."; 1/31/20, 10:53 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...
Weinstein accuser says his gentails look like a vagina."

Well, of course. He's a Democrat, isn't he?; 1/31/20, 11:04 PM
effinayright said...: There was an old man from Thermopylae
Who never did anything properly
When his condom it broke he doubled his stroke
And finished her off oh so sloppily; 1/31/20, 11:05 PM
eddie willers said...: Weinstein accuser says his genitals look like a vagina

Do we call him They now?; 1/31/20, 11:09 PM
eddie willers said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/31/20, 11:09 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: A 1985 clip of Bernie Sanders praising Fidel Castro.

The lazy, unemployed slacker slept thru the entire Cold War, and now wants to be President?; 1/31/20, 11:17 PM
JaimeRoberto said...: Toobin is so wrong about so many things that I get worried when he says that Trump won.; 1/31/20, 11:22 PM
narciso said...: Blind squirrel finds a nut; 1/31/20, 11:28 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Dems' Talking Point:

"How dare you hold a sham trial to thwart our sham impeachment!"; 1/31/20, 11:38 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Whoa! OK, Schoomer! Somebody's touchy!

Kamala Toes the Line after admonishment from Chuck

now in convenient GIF format for your viewing pleasure

https://twitter.com/i/status/1223311670392643585; 1/31/20, 11:41 PM
Yancey Ward said...: That's the original version of "Hazy Shade of Winter" as written by Paul Simon. The Bangles version deleted the part about unpublished rhyme, manuscripts, and the vodka and lime. Probably because that section is kind of difficult to sing.; 1/31/20, 11:42 PM
eddie willers said...: That's the original version of "Hazy Shade of Winter" as written by Paul Simon.

Aside from the music itself, that Columbia album, Bookends, was incredibly recorded and reproduced. I am talking about the actual vinyl record. It was better than most Mobile Fidelity Half-Speed Masters I paid big bucks for.

I don't know what it was about the Columbia releases at that time. Blood Sweat & Tears' Blood Sweat & Tears was the same impeccable sound.; 1/31/20, 11:53 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: And Bridge Over Troubled Water was put out in vinyl quadrophonic..; 1/31/20, 11:55 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: some Kung Flu tidbits

Coronavirus In Chicago: 21 Under Investigation

Coronavirus Prompts First Quarantine Order in Over 50 Years — on 195 Who Flew Back From China to California: ‘We are Preparing as if This Were the Next Pandemic’

Dow Tumbles 603 Points Amid Coronavirus Fears, has Worst Day Since August

Coronavirus Contains "HIV Insertions", Stoking Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon | Zero Hedge
Men more prone; 2/1/20, 12:02 AM
Seeing Red said...: The HIV thing may be meh.; 2/1/20, 12:23 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I would only worry about the HIV angle if the new virus specifically destroyed the immune system in the same way.; 2/1/20, 12:59 AM
Lewis Wetzel said...: "Blogger StephenFearby said...
New coronavirus spreads as readily as 1918 Spanish flu - Los Angeles Times"

Tales of the Early 20th Century!
In 1917 my grandmother became engaged to my grandfather. He was a non-com at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (he took care of officers' horses, that is, he was a groom, which was a step up from a mule skinner), and she was a nurse at the military hospital at Fort Snelling.
Grandpa got his orders and was sent to the East Coast to await boarding a transport to Europe to fight the Huns.
Grandpa was gone a long time, in New Jersey, without ever shipping out -- getting US troops to Europe was a clusterfarg.
While Grandpa was gone, Grandma married a Swede name Peterson. A few months later, Peterson died of the Spanish Flu. When Grandpa returned to Fort Snelling in 1918, w/o ever going over to Europe, she married him. She never told him about this Peterson fellow she had been married to for a short period of time.
Then grandpa got the bill for Peterson's burial.
He broke so many of my grandmother's ribs that she was in the hospital for days.; 2/1/20, 1:26 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Democrats... doing to America what they've done to title IX sports!; 2/1/20, 4:23 AM
gilbar said...: It's Clear, that CNN is a part of the DNC;
CNN analyst raises eyebrows for urging Twitter followers to 'help ensure Trump is defeated' in November
It's Clear, that MOST of the people that see CNN, see it at airports
MOST (all?) airports are owned by city or state governments

Serious Questions
How The HELL is this Legal?
Shouldn't the DNC have to be listing CNN as a paid contributor?
CAN governments LEGALLY support one party?
How are CNN screens NOT party advertisements?
How can governments OPENLY require the posting of party advertisements?

I'm not thinking that anything can be done about this; what with the fact that the DNC IS the government
But do they Have To be SO OPEN about it?; 2/1/20, 4:26 AM
tim in vermont said...: There was an old man of Thermopylae
Who never did anything properly
His products all sucked
But he was in luck
He’d been granted an airtight monopoly; 2/1/20, 5:30 AM
tim in vermont said...: "I would only worry about the HIV angle if the new virus specifically destroyed the immune system in the same way.”

It’s more about how it attacks cells, apparently. HIV takes too long to kill.; 2/1/20, 5:33 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Warm vivid" is just the name of the filter I put on this photo as I got it ready using only my iPad. I liked the way it made the vegetation brown (instead of the usual black) and gave the whiteness an aqua tone (instead of the usual blue).; 2/1/20, 5:56 AM
Nancy said...: Oh, Ann! I thought you said "vivid worm"!; 2/1/20, 7:10 AM
Fernandinande said...: HHS - and plenty of others - say(s) CDC lies about flu deaths:

"US data on influenza deaths are false and misleading. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges a difference between flu death and flu associated death yet uses the terms interchangeably. Additionally, there are significant statistical incompatibilities between official estimates and national vital statistics data. Compounding these problems is a marketing of fear—a CDC communications strategy in which medical experts "predict dire outcomes" during flu seasons.

...

Meanwhile, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), "influenza and pneumonia" took 62 034 lives in 2001— 61,777 of which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was flu virus positively identified.

Between 1979 and 2002, NCHS data show an average 1348 flu deaths per year (range 257 to 3006).; 2/1/20, 8:27 AM
Fernandinande said...: Link (sigh)
https://aspe.hhs.gov/cdc-%E2%80%94-influenza-deaths-request-correction-rfc; 2/1/20, 8:29 AM
Anonymous said...: William: I'm still trying to process my grief over the passing of Monique Van Vooren.

I had no idea who this person was, so I googled her and found this image.

I have no idea what the hell is going on there but it's awesome.; 2/1/20, 9:09 AM
tim in vermont said...: There was an old man of Thermopylae
Who never did anything properly
The Republican cuck
Of his wife begged a fuck
Well, he got but just seconds and slopply.; 2/1/20, 9:31 AM
Narr said...: There was an old man named Green
Who invented a whack-off machine.
The damn thing broke
And doubled the stroke,
And turned his balls to cream.

There was an old man named Dave
Who found a dead whore in a cave.
She was missing a tit
And smelled like shit,
But think of the money he saved!

Narr
These were read in remembrance (if I can trust his widow's report) when my friend RCC's ashes were released into the waters off Tybee Island; 2/1/20, 11:06 AM
Marc in Eugene said...: A Hidden Life was here in Eugene through a couple of days ago. Wonderful, beautiful film but Malick might've edited 30 or 40 minutes from it and it'd've been better; not Malick, however, I suppose. One of the reviewers I read suggested that it's more Malick 'doing Bergman' (something like that) than evoking some Catholic sensibility: watching with eyes already familiar with the story of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter et al, I didn't get the sense that Malick (like Scorsese in Silence) is telling us that apostasy is more civilized and humane than martyrdom but I can see how critics got there. First movie I've seen in a theatre in ages and am glad of the experience, in any event.; 2/1/20, 11:47 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: If you want to get scared: Coronavirus Contains "HIV Insertions", Stoking Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon

An Indian research team has identified four genetic insertions in the 2019-nCoV that are not present in any other Coronaviruses, including its closest relatives, and esp the bat Coronavirus it came from. What was surprising though is these new genetic insertions are found in the HIV-1 family. One insertion might be possible from someone with both viruses, but four is highly improbable. Making it even more suspicious, the Chinese have their Institute of Virology in Wuhan. If the Chinese were actually engaging in weaponizing genetic engineering, this would be one of the most likely places for it to be happening. Also interesting is that the virus apparently spreads much faster elsewhere in China, and even faster outside China. This would seem counter to normal viral mutations.

I should add that this article was published in ZeroHedge, that was just banned by Twitter.; 2/1/20, 12:18 PM
stephen cooper said...: Bruce, I read that article, which follows what I thought was the Sverdlovsk-Chernobyl analysis.

It has not been peer-reviewed - it is either true or not true, very very few people in the world are able to assess, and I am not one of them.; 2/1/20, 7:32 PM