1. The "squirrel" is crazy about the trampoline.
2. Yeah, I'll back you up on that.
3. Joni Mitchell, in 1970, telling the audience they're "really a drag."
4. Orson Welles saying he puts loyalty to friends above art.
5. He just happened to find everything he was looking for at World Market.
6. The rigors of Chinese womanhood.
7. How to write about characters who are not autistic.
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Orson has his priorities straight.
I'll back you both up on that.
Orson Welles...what a voice!
Obviously not a squirrel. You tube "Squirrel launcher". The squirrels love, Love, LOVE it. Free treats AND a ride to the next yard. Over and over again.
Joni was my favorite. I saw her in a small club in New Orleans “a few years later.” She had great rapport & I have never forgotten the show!
Orson, then Chinese womanhood.
AA, did you catch the lyrics accompanying the "squirrel" on a trampoline?
Give a listen.....
NSFW
The allism one made me laugh.
I would have played the song "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the trampoline one. That made it doubly disappointing, but still cute.
Welles did not say, "The same thing we do every night, Bernard. Try to take over the world.". If he had, it would have been my favorite. (Actually, it was probably still my favorite.)
The whole interview is on YouTube. (The interviewer is Bernard Braden, if you're wondering why I wrote "Bernard" instead of "Pinky".)
Joni Mitchell, looking out at the huge audience is best. Then fart mufflers for Chinese women.
Orson Welles is the most fascinating person I've ever seen. I'd watch him read a Scottish phone book and find it captivating.
The "allism" is the best.
Good to see that not everyone knows what a squirrel is.
(That's a weasel, by the way.)
Hmmm - nothing jumps out dramatically tonight. As mentioned, #1 is obviously not a squirrel. For #5 (World Markey guy): serious question - was that ventriloquism? That's the vibe I was getting.
I guess I'll go with Orson Welles because I really like the way he speaks and converses.
Do any of them have the juice? Do any of them improve with butter? No? Well - disappointing .
I'm going to stipulate that Orson Wells never had allism.
Can somebody back me up on that?
Re Welles.
The traitors Burgess, McLean and Blunt made a fetish of the proposition that loyalty to friends transcended all other forms of emotional and political attachment. Unfortunately, people change, and the person toward whom you feel loyal today is likely to be different from the person who inspired your loyalty.
Pretty sure that's a stoat (the black tip on the tail) on the trampoline.
Also, did they find time travel that trampoline from the 80s?
I can also back her up on the inaudible dialogue problem. Audio mixing is a lost art and subtitles are a Godsend.
I pick Orson Wells -- for his honesty and the profound insight he offers into the world of "high art."
That's not a squirrel. It's a ferret.
The Allism guy was great, Welles was great, the not squirrel was great.
The Chinese woman shaming was interesting. Given that men outnumber women in China by a large margin (106/100 versus world wide ratio of 102/100 - which includes China. USA is 97/100). One would think that women would have the leverage.
I really enjoyed the bit on "Allism." I have no psychiatric or psychological expertise, but I wonder if society has pathologized what previously might have just been viewed as odd, or quirky behavior.
I hadn't seen the term "allism" before, but I see here that "There’s a common joke that’s been around since 2003 by which non-autistic people are said not to be non-autistic, but rather to have a disorder called “allism.” (That’s why you’ll sometimes see non-autistic people simply referred to as “allistic.”) People will write pieces about “allism” as a way to satirize what people say about autism."
Wiktionary explains the etymology:
"allo- + -ism, coined by Andrew Main (Zefram) in 2003, in contradistinction to autism, where 'auto-' refers to a self-integrated neurology and 'allo-' refers to an other-integrated neurology."
"AA, did you catch the lyrics accompanying the "squirrel" on a trampoline?"
Oh, it's just unintelligible background music.
Not Squirrel Lyrics:
“I can lick it, I can ride it while you slippin’ and slidin’
I can do all them little tricks and keep the dick up inside it”
Mary Martha said...
Pretty sure that's a stoat (the black tip on the tail)
I think you're right.
According to the internets, ferrets can have a black tip on the tail too, but stoats have a pale belly, while ferrets have a dark belly.
Welles was flip flopping more than the squirrel wannabe who would be a sublime genius if it could narrate with Welles' voice.
I saw Joni Mitchell in 1983 outside on Boston Common and she freaked out and left the stage after about 20 minutes.......was finally coaxed back about 1/2 later to finish the show. The story that went around was that she prefers a dark theater, that seeing and hearing the audience bothered her. Looks like that's what's going on here.
I haven't felt so chastened since my cousin entrusted me with the mission of buying a button — "badge" — that said "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," and I bought him one that said "Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Squeeze My Bollocks."
I didn't need his explanation of the sexual meaning, and he didn't accept my assertion that the button I bought was not importantly different from the one he wanted.
They're both pretty good, but I think Orson Welles plays quirky genius better than Jeff Goldblum.
The tag I used for the original post is "weasels," so I think the big category is correct.
I agree that the animal in the video is a stoat but a stoat is in the Genus: Mustela, and Mustela = weasel:
"Weasels /ˈwiːzəls/ are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae. The genus Mustela includes the least weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets and European mink."
"Weasel" is an inherently funny word, so that's another reason to choose to say "weasel."
I have only mention stoats once on this blog:
"What is happening to the weasel in "Pop Goes the Weasel" when the weasel pops? That question has a very interesting answer:
"'[T]here have been many suggestions for what... "Pop! goes the weasel" [means], including: that it is a tailor's flat iron, a dead weasel, a hatter's tool, a clock reel used for measuring in spinning, a piece of silver plate, or that 'weasel and stoat' is Cockney rhyming slang for "throat", as in "Get that down yer Weasel" meaning to eat or drink something. An alternative meaning involves pawning one's coat in order to buy food and drink, "weasel" is rhyming slang for "coat" "pop" is a slang word for "pawn.'...'"
To complicate:
"The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family". In the UK, the term "weasel" usually refers to the smallest species, the least weasel (M. nivalis),[1] the smallest carnivoran speciesThe family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family". In the UK, the term "weasel" usually refers to the smallest species, the least weasel (M. nivalis),[1] the smallest carnivoran species."
I feel as though I'd get in trouble if I casually dropped some Japanese culture stuff in a post about Chinese norms.
Looks not at all like a squirrel. Haven’t seen many this year in my nabe in NYC , but that looks more like a ferret. YMMV.
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