Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

April 16, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

20 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: When the artist has to make sure his song is not misunderstood by the mob, thinking he's on the wrong side.

Link to Sting - Russians (Guitar / Cello Version)

Explaining songs to idiots.; 4/16/22, 8:02 PM
Joe Smith said...: I mentioned in a prior missive the fairly new phenomenon of companies (underwear, fitness, beauty) using morbidly obese women as models, and pushing a message of 'body positivity,' and 'fat is beautiful.'

The weird thing is, it always seems to be fat women and not men.

I believe that these companies are coddling women and playing to their insecurities.

When men are shown in these kinds of ads, they are almost always handsome and in shape. They look like, well, models.

As male-presenting, I can tell you that I don't mind this. It is aspirational...I want that 6-pack stomach too. It doesn't offend me at all.

Are women just weak in this regard?

And if they are, will the pandering lead to an ever-spiraling enabling of women getting even huger than they already are?; 4/16/22, 8:07 PM
Lurker21 said...: The other problem with House of Gucci, besides the accents is the use of Italian opera in the soundtrack. Sometimes that works well (remember A Room with a View?). Sometimes it just gives you a cliched, stereotypical idea of Italy and Italians (think of Nine, the musical based on the Fellini film, and its atrocious "Be Italian" theme). If I actually were Italian I might find something offensive in the movie.

Speaking of stereotypes, were Al Pacino and (the unrecognizable) Jared Leto trying to give realistic portrayals of Aldo and Paolo Gucci, or were they being deliberately lampoonish caricatures, or couldn't they tell the difference, or were the real Guccis that close to stereotypes and caricatures themselves that it didn't matter?; 4/16/22, 8:09 PM
Browndog said...: Two SU-35's going in after a missile strike on an oil depot in Odesa?

Paying too much attention to war?

Nah.

Spring time in Michigan, still cold as hell. Heart is full, as tomorrow He is Risen.; 4/16/22, 8:26 PM
farmgirl said...: Love the sunrise pics.
They both have individual things I love about them.
So much texture!; 4/16/22, 8:45 PM
Howard said...: Joe Totally misses the point of Fight Club:

Narrator : [to Tyler, while looking at a Calvin Klein-esque ad on the bus] Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?

Aspiration Man!; 4/16/22, 8:55 PM
FullMoon said...: This may break my anonymity but I hafta share it.

Three year old got a toy dinasour. It sings,and moves, and you put plastic eggs in a recess in its back. Push a buttun, dinosaur "lays" plastic egg beneath its tail.
The kid lay on the floor for fifteen minutes putting eggs in the recess and watching them come out its'ass.

I told him "Next time you see Aunties dog, check and see if it lays eggs"

He replied that it sounds like a good idea.

Can't wait!

Who knows, some good may come of it, kid may end up a proctologist.; 4/16/22, 9:33 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Joe Totally misses the point of Fight Club:'

Never saw it...it's one of those 'Bro movies' for NPCs...; 4/16/22, 9:53 PM
FullMoon said...: Speaking of obesity, Marlboro shut advertise itself as a diet aid.

Much less obesity in the good old days. Even kids in grade school were more fit due to second hand smoke.; 4/16/22, 10:30 PM
madAsHell said...: What's up with glueing oneself to a building?

I've seen two reports: the Guardian, and at an NBA event. Jump to 1:45 in the NBA video.; 4/16/22, 10:33 PM
StephenFearby said...: London Times April 17, 2022, 12.01am

WAR IN UKRAINE
Even a relic of the True Cross couldn’t keep the 12,500-ton Moskva afloat

'...The holy relic was purchased from a Catholic church in Europe by Russian Orthodox Christian businessmen and handed over to the cruiser in 2020. Just a few millimeters across, it was stored inside a 19th-century cross that was kept in the cruiser’s on-board chapel, the Tass news agency reported.

Alexander Nevzorov, a well-connected former Russian MP who is now a Kremlin critic, said the unnamed businessmen paid $40 million for the relic. He also claimed that Putin’s admirals believed that the Moskva was invulnerable to attack because the “magic sliver of wood was capable of deflecting missiles and torpedoes”.'

(From the comments section, by Giralduscambrensis:

Someone once, back in the 19th century, researched all the pieces of the True Cross that were spread around the world in various reliquaries, and estimated the sum total weight to be over seven tons.)

The article also includes this gem:

'...Last week, Margarita Simonyan, the head of RT, the Kremlin-funded broadcaster, urged the government to drop any pretence that Russia was a democracy. “Just look at China, do you like China’s economy?” she asked during a prime-time talk show. “I like it. But do they have any freedom?” No, they don’t and they never had it. Maybe that’s not bad, maybe that’s a good thing.”'

For Russians, if you have friendly broadcasters like Margarita Simonyanthis, you don't need enemies.; 4/16/22, 11:20 PM
Johhnybandit said...: Since things our going vertical, What is in your bug out bag?; 4/17/22, 12:29 AM
Ampersand said...: Sunrises remind me that each day is unique and irreplaceable. They also remind me that millions of sunrises preceded me, and millions will come after I no longer exist.
Happy Easter.; 4/17/22, 12:32 AM
farmgirl said...: Happy Easter!!
He is risen :0)
Alleluia!!; 4/17/22, 3:49 AM
Humperdink said...: It is not comforting to know the latest addition to the Supreme Court does not know what a woman is. Does she the difference between life and death? Does she know what a human being is? With these leftest Commies, everything is fluid. Or transitory. Or "that was then ..."; 4/17/22, 6:18 AM
gspencer said...: Glorious Easter.; 4/17/22, 6:20 AM
tim in vermont said...: No point discussing the war since careful, honest, and open minded analysis is verboten.

Weapons manufacturers doing great and everybody loves them.; 4/17/22, 6:49 AM
Lurker21 said...: "Plus size" male models are being packaged as "brawny," maybe "husky" or "beefy" would be another marketing strategy. Truly fat and flabby guys still don't make the cut. Hiring a stout or stocky guy with a size 40 waist apparently satisfies the need for large guys in modeling. Also, if you're tall enough, you can carry a lot of pounds without appearing flabby .; 4/17/22, 7:26 AM
Lucien said...: When you think about it, Duluth Trading Company ads have always featured plus size male models -- they're just animated. (they even do pole dancing); 4/17/22, 7:42 AM
wendybar said...: Oh look, just another black man committing mass chaos in South Carolina after shooting up a mall. Too bad the FBI is busy looking for all those White Supremacists and people that got ushered into the Capitol by the Capitol police during the Fedsurrection to do any REAL work in this country.....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10725777/Police-arrest-suspect-South-Carolina-mall-shooting.html; 4/17/22, 10:11 AM