Schlossberg is the daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and yet I am not making fun of her. This video is actually really good! The story and the animation are credited to Scholossberg, and it's a funny journey into nostalgia and what we're really missing from pre-COVID times:
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Can't the Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes and Obamas just go away? Like forever?
Maybe I'm too impatient these days, but that NPR-voice was a complete turnoff. I couldn't make the 1-min mark.
This depresses me. It was a Times Video. As in NYT. God, how could I fail to appreciate a young (?) woman's humor in NYT. Don't tell anybody please!!
Talking about the before times means you aren’t Taking It Seriously Enough and is disrespectful to the 300,000 dead and the exhausted health care workers. Or so I’m told.
I miss my pre-covid Serbian warlord activities too.
The voice was annoying. I would have to tell her to shut up if she was nearby in person and insisted on monologuing in a voice like the delicious Schweddy Balls routine.
Hugs are overrated, like Kennedys.
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"Stan Doffisch"
I also couldn't take more than 40 seconds because of her voice. Question for those who could plow through_____>
Does she ever question why we are missing normal life?
Who is making us do these things?
Why do people allow this?
What can we do about it?
Is there ever going to be an end to this?
It's all very...precious
Sounds like everybody needs a hug...
It's the NYT, Ann. I miss the before times when the health "experts" actually did their jobs, rather than dump on Trump and Republicans. When we had more honest elections. When antifa and BLM didn't trash Portland and Seattle. When officials of said cities actually enforced the law and prosecuted shoplifters, thieves and rioters. When officials kept the parks open for residents instead of the homeless.
Those were the good ol' times.
Can't we just have 1 Kennedy/Clinton/Obama/Kerry/Bush free year? Just one. No kids, no parents, none of them at all?
I'm sure we could fine one or two fine people around America who are not from the same Elitist families who have been handed their wealth for reasons no one can actually fathom. Heinz ketchup?
Is a hug worth a dead grandmother, Althouse????????? Unlike you I CARE ABOUT OTHERS.
The old world was shattered, not by a virus, but the flailing response to the virus by incompetent, self-interested politicians.
In New York we see what the corrupt Cuomo does when he is given power over all of the lives of New Yorkers.
In Cali we see what the lap-poodle Newsom does when he is given power over all of the lives of Californians.
This is not people reacting to a crisis in the best way that they can; it is their id revealed: what is not forbidden is mandatory. Every interaction with your fellow citizens must be filtered through the mandates of venal, psychotic politicians.
This world is heaven to the American Left.
Yeah the hugging I can do without. That seemed to start up in the 90s. What gives.
I was thinking yesterday that we need a "You're doing a good job during a hard time, America!" speech.
Since March we've been shut away to varying degrees, watched our livelihoods dwindle, watched people suffer both with illness and with the effects of the lockdowns. WE've been told to stay away from our loved ones for our major family holidays. We have plexiglass barriers everywhere we go and marks on the floor to stand away from others.
And yet all we hear is "You aren't masking hard enough! People are getting sick! You are doing something wrong! This is your fault for not staying away from your grandma!" It's wearing. It's divisive. Yeah, there are people who aren't following the rules. That's how it goes. There is no such thing as 100% of the people doing what they should do. But for those of us who are, who have seen the toll its taking, can't we get a little "thank you"?
And I don't mean the empty crap from my Governor who says stuff like "I know this is hard. I too would love to be able to do xyz again" Because she's the one making the rules, I don't want to hear from her how sort of sorry she is.
It's tiring and we're tired and we're demoralized and we just keep getting schlock and "try harder!"
The Roaring twenties are poised to come back bigly. Cougar town on steroids.
Maybe I'm too impatient these days, but that NPR-voice was a complete turnoff.
I hate npr but I listen to it and enjoy making fun of their weird voices; sometimes this results in mysterious external forces shutting the door to the Data Analysis Center.
It's tiring and we're tired and we're demoralized and we just keep getting schlock and "try harder!"
And they can't understand why more and more people are saying "whatever. get bent."
Question for those who could plow through_____>
Does she ever question why we are missing normal life? NO
Who is making us do these things? NO
Why do people allow this? NO
What can we do about it? NO
Is there ever going to be an end to this? NO
NO, she mildly wonders if our old life was actually all that great. With a picture of her lying alone in a double bed.
I went back to it. I had prepared better. Yes, it is utterly Precious. Fey. Simpleminded. "I just wish I could hug a friend."
But it achieves its purpose. It makes you feel you belong to the club. The club that includes a Kennedy granddaughter who is just.like.you. really.
Our elites certainly do seem to be invested in this idea of a New Normal, don't they? We're constantly being asked to question how good the Before Times actually were. Well, fuck you and your New Normal! I liked my Old Normal just fine and have every intention of going back to it, as soon as possible. Now, if you'd be so kind as to get your asses out of the way, that would be great.
Oh, yeah, the sisterhood of the people who wear the same sweatpants for a month straight!
DBQ asked...
Does she ever question why we are missing normal life?
Drinking soup, from people's Dirty Hands... is "normal life"?
PLease! what's next missing the olden days?
Back when psychosomatics didn't feel they HAD wash their sneakers after every run?
We are in The NEW Normal;
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a mask strapped on a human face—for ever
There could be DISEASE! It Might Kill US! Something WILL Kill US! AHHHHHHH!
okay, Serious Question
Could there BE a safer place to be with people? Than in a Sauna?
A Sauna is what 120 degrees? and REALLY Humid? And you stay in for HOW long?
JesusFuckingGODdamnMotherFuckingGODdamnCHRIST! people! PLEASE tell me that people are NOT wearing masks in saunas? It's JUST a deadly virus, it's not like AIDS
speaking of which; in our New Normal, when you let someone bareback you; do you wear a mask?
Mary Beth said...Oh, yeah, the sisterhood of the people who wear the same sweatpants for a month straight!
What?!?! That's only until 10 am because I have no where to go and it is cold outside and there is still coffee available. Don't judge me! 😊
Ozzy Osbourne used to bite the heads off of live chickens during live concerts.
He would feel right at home in Wuhan.
What's your point?
Oh, dear. I never, ever wanted to do any of those things before. I had to stop watching. Queasy.
Covid killing sense of humor or something else?
When Caroline Kennedy was US ambassador to Japan, we belonged to the same club in Tokyo.
I saw her working out at the gym once with a trainer.
Not a big fan of the Kennedy's (an understatement), but the consensus was that she was a nice enough lady, even though on the dumber side...
I didn't even enjoy the sex and violence fantasy, that's how awful it was!
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"Queasy" is the mot juste
Glad you folks enjoyed the charming animation. I'm gratified to have brightened your day.
Ann Althouse said...
Sounds like everybody needs a hug...
"I think I need a hug."
That sounds a trifle put out. Tastes can differ, Ms. Althouse. The voice, the treacliness of it all. Even beyond that issue -- the creepy feeling of the Club NYT tentacles encircling one can wreak havoc with the most charming animations. I would enjoy being in the Club NYT with Tatiana Kennedy. And for part of those three minutes, as that voice went sing-songing along, I sorta was, courtesy of the Althouse Blog. Thank you.
But -- when the curtain falls, and the lights come back on, I am somehow reminded that Tatiana's bank account has at least two more digits than mine. Maybe three! Should that matter? It has to, because during the charming animation I had realized that what she missed about life Before was much different from what I miss about life Before. I don't really care about singing in public or dancing in a crowded club. I do care about having trouble seeing my children and their significant others. Not to mention friends, neighbors, and the rest of the human race. She didn't seem to notice that aspect. She made more points about missing the crowded anonymity of Manhattan, it seemed to me. And my desire to return to my life Before and not accept servitude After is different from all Tatiana's sweet nothings.
Alas, no Club NYT jazz can change that fact. And Tatiana will never have to feel what the people who run Tavern on the Hill here, for example, have to feel -- that years of work are being vaporized. She can make cutesey videos on NYT and people who want to imagine they have something in common with her can appreciate them. And good for them. But include me out.
If my FB feed is any indication, there will be quite a few leftists who will be reluctant to give up their Covid dystopia. They're enjoying it way too much. So much virtue signaling, so much government control! It just gives one the shivers!
As for me, I still hug friends, I still go to restaurants, and in two months I plan to resume my normal pre-Covid travel routine. Life goes on for the living.
Cross my heart: back around 1973 or so my wastrel friends and I enjoyed a movie at the Skylark Drive-In in Corinth (that's CORE-inth) Missippi. It was a low budget semi-porn campus farce and one of the characters was a wispy young clergyman whose answer to every problem was a hug.
His catchphrase: After all, Hitler just needed a good hug.
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Maybe he was right!
Maybe this will brighten your day: I put out a basket of snacks and cooler full of drinks for delivery drivers this time of year and today the UPS driver did a comical arm pump when he rummaged around and found a red Powerade. I saw it on the doorbell cam and it definitely brightened my day.
The last four years have been a nonstop rollercoaster of indignity and outrage. There's even an indication that the chaos hasn't reached its denouement...
Forgive those of us, Ann, if some of us haven't regained our sense of humor.
"Schlossberg is the daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg..."
In the most polite and respectful way possible let me say - you're wrong.
The voice was grating
The story line was schlock
The animation was unoriginal and boring (except when it was just gross)
The message that the old pre-COVID reality was perhaps not normal is defeatist and demoralizing
Other than that, it was pretty good, I guess
Anticipatory parody?
https://m.xkcd.com/2391/
---in the most polite and respectful way possible let me say - you're wrong.
Is that right? Tala Schlossberg is not a nickname for Tatiana Schlossberg? And both T. Schlossbergs work for NYT?
That would be funny, if so.
gilbar said...
"...We are in The BRAVE NEW ABNORMAL;
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a mask strapped on a human face—for ever...
FIFY.
I object far less to his sad penis than to his sad commentary.
"Is that right? Tala Schlossberg is not a nickname for Tatiana Schlossberg?"
My neck is on the line, so I better be right.
It was the voice that clued me in. That's not a Kennedy talking.
Tala Schlossberg, Animator at The New York Times, is on Linkedin (like so many). No apparent Kennedy connection.
From her higher education and early career, would not appear to be American. Must get that Kennedy thing a lot=.
She misses sharing ice cream cones with... strangers?! Ewww! Was that ever a thing?
it's a joke. Keep going.
Who shares an ice-cream cone with a fucking stranger?
Minnesota is one of the hottest hotspot states in the country.
Her is some useful information on where the virus is contracted from the Minnesota department of Health:
Residence Type Number of Cases
Private residence 216,205
Hotel/Motel 216
Long-term care facility/Assisted living (LTCF) 14,333
Residential behavioral health (RBH) 2,606
Homeless (sheltered) 456
Homeless (unsheltered) 110
Jail/Prison 5,198
College/University/Camp Dormitory 1,453
Work dormitory 36
Other 385
Unknown/missing 140,843
The New Normal, but masks instead of glasses:
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/gettyimages-53376252.jpg?w=800&quality=85
Tatiana Kennedy
Isn't Tatiana a RUSSIAN name? Hmmm...
Anticipatory parody?
Probably where she got the idea. Great filmmakers -- like Quentin Tarantino -- steal from other filmmakers all of the time.
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