1. Two young girls encounter a landline telephone.
2. Experience an oranger orange than actually exists.
3. Is the bird oddly stoical or truly in love with the man and his piano?
4. Is morning beer a deplorable notion or something poignantly sublime?
5. When it comes to questions of politics, I wish more celebrities were like Elvis.
6. The ugliest piece of furniture or the most amusingly beautiful?
7. If this is the definition of a "toxic" person, then I am sure I know who is the most toxic person I have ever met.
8. The Corn Kid — 25 years later.
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Over a hundred people die every minute of every day of every year. No need to be cautious just because Queen Elizabeth died. She lived a full life and will be properly honored over the coming weeks. Let the Tik Toks continue.
You're really busted up about this dead imperialist. What are you gonna say when Bill Gates dies?
#3 Maybe the bird is deaf.
#4 From their looks/atire, I think it after 10 AM and only technically morning.
speaking from past personal experience.. Morning beer is Best, when you're Still Drunk
Find those girls a rotary phone.
That is an ugly chair. Even with room for single malt.
Does the bird associate banging keys with musical sounds?
Elvis was cool.
No more corn, please.
"If this is the definition of a "toxic" person, then I am sure I know who is the most toxic person I have ever met."
Well, there are people who try to wound you emotionally. And then there are people who kidnap you, rape you and kill you. So, toxic. Huh.
With the death of the Queen ... I was thinking we might get an all-Corgi lineup.
Elvis was spot on.
Toxic person sounds like what the book of Sirach 27:23 in the OT says about deceptive people.
It’s a very particular definition of toxic, not the worst person, who might never befriend you at all
Did it hit anyone else hard, precisely describing someone you welcomed into your life?
I've never been an Elvis fan, to say the least.
He just came up a whole lot of rungs on my Ladder of Regard.
Loved the orange, and the landline girls.
I was in a play a few years ago in which we had a young woman, about 20, in a lead role. The play took place in about 1925 or so. At one point, early in our rehearsals, the girl had to call a taxi.
We were rehearsing without props at this stage, so we were all just miming opening doors, picking things up, etc. The girl crossed the stage to the invisible sideboard where the phone would eventually be, mimed picking up a handset (credit to her for that!), and proceeded to boop-boop-boop the invisible buttons on it. All of us who grew up with mostly pushbutton phones but had experienced rotary phones in our childhood cracked up laughing and she had no idea why. It was adorable.
I stopped at the bird one because I was too angry to watch any more. I'll look at them later. People need to leave wild animals outside.
Thank God, I've never had a toxic friend as described. A toxic employee once, and the damage she did was epic, but I can't think of anyone I've loved or even liked who turned out to be toxic.
Uh oh. Does this mean I'm the monster?
A Toxic person can't be toxic to you if they have no impact on your life. I find that they are needy people who find reward in manipulating you. If you are never "befriended" they often cannot be toxic to you, though you could be impacted by them through Blogs, work, school or other environments where you cannot control whom you interact with.
I used to love a morning beer, but then I had to go to meetings.
Loved the girls using the phone for the first time. Not sure if a rotary would have been better or worse—they might not be willing to put up with the pain-in-the-assedness of it.
It is an ugly chair in your living room,, but brilliant in a clothing store.
#2 Yes, surprisingly the burst of vivid orange did show up.
Was that an alligator holding the morning beer? Nice harmonies!
Yay Elvis!!
Super orange!
Cute bird, great Rachmaninoff!
Thanks, Ann!
Elvis called the reporter, “Honey”.
LOL
#2 really worked!
Her death hit me quite hard, and I’m really at a loss to explain why. Perhaps it was that in a changing world she was a constant presence.
“ I stopped at the bird one because I was too angry to watch any more. I'll look at them later. People need to leave wild animals outside.”
Sounded like it was a dying baby bird that had fallen on the sidewalk
What are the rules about rescuing ordinary birds?
https://www.audubon.org/news/when-you-should-and-should-not-rescue-baby-birds
There are the rules
“ Wandering from the nest is exactly what fledglings—which are just learning to fly—are supposed to do, she says. It's a normal part of a bird's development, and though these chicks might appear abandoned, they’re likely under surveillance by their parents nearby. Of course, there is a chance that they could be injured, sick, or in danger, so there are some cases where a fledgling might require assistance. Nestlings, on the other hand, are almost always in need of rescue. Whether they fell or got pushed from their nest, they’re "not ready to go off into the world," says Rita McMahon, Co-Founder and Director of the Wild Bird Fund, a nonprofit animal rehab center in New York. How to help them, though, can vary.”
"Did it hit anyone else hard, precisely describing someone you welcomed into your life?"
Especially when coupled with the accusation of "envy", this strikes me as reasoning from emotion. "This person hurt my feelings, and therefore must have had the worst of intentions." Yeah, well, maybe. Or maybe they didn't really even notice you. They had their reasons for doing the things they did, and the impact on you was not among them. Imagining that it was just shows that you still haven't come to terms with the events, which were never about you.
Love the optical illusion of #2, but can’t beat the King in #5. It’s a shame he left the building.
I volunteer in a facility that houses historical archives. The other day a young man (I think a graduate student) was doing some research and come upon a document he couldn't decipher, so he asked, Can anyone here read cursive? That's handwriting. I guess handwriting has become a secret code.
Assuming, counterfactually, that Mr. Greene's idiosyncratic definition of toxic person were correct, who would be the most toxic person you've encountered?
Yep. That bird is going to die because he wanted views on tiktok.
I appreciate Elvis so much more now than I did when he was alive--my bad.
1 and 2
I got the burst of orange.
I'm watching Starsky and Hutch - they have to find a phone when they need to call and then dial; the call costs a dime; no seatbelts; questionable stereotypes; police respected. But the surprising thing is that Hutch has "21C liberal attitudes" and Starsky has "21C conservative attitudes" toward "21C liberal attitudes" but they are friends. I mean it was all there is 1975.
I liked Elvis. I also wish more celebrities (non-celebrities too) were like that. I do wonder if he was naturally that diplomatic or if he had been ordered to not to discuss politics or anything controversial.
I watched the Elvis movie on HBO the other night. Col. Parker was loathsome but the movie reminded me how much I appreciated Elvis. He seemed kind of old to me when he died (I'd just graduated high school). The movie reminded me he was only in his early 40s. That seems so young now.
Every few years I'll see something , usually one of his movies - this time the movie about him, and it reminds me anew how talented and charismatic he was. As a result, I've been subjecting my daughter to my Elvis playlist when we're in the car together.
Sounded like it was a dying baby bird that had fallen on the sidewalk
It was a fledgling. It wasn't dying until she took it home.
I guess we'll see. She did TikToks with it two days in a row and one without it today. And no mention of where it was or what happened to it. It probably starved to death.
If you are interested in birds, The Cornell Lab has an app called Merlin. It's free.
I've used it to identify birds by their song -my phone listens for a minute, then tells me what kind of bird it is. You can also take a photo of a bird and have it try to identify it. I remember discussions in the early 2000s about wanting an app that would identify a bird or a plant and, at that time, I was told that it was too complicated and would require a massive database for comparison. Now, just a couple of decades later we have it. Merlin for birds, Picture This (not free) for plants. Both have worked well for me so far.
Back in the '80s, a small Wisconsin beer-maker, Stevens Point Brewery, maker of Point Beer, featured T-shirts and local radio ads declaring:
"Point Beer, not just for breakfast anymore."
Amazingly the brewery has been in town since 1857.
I liked the land line phone. A rotary dial would be funnier.
I have the exact same fridge as shown in the morning beer vid. It's old, but works great so I can't replace it.
I thought it was funny that they were so amazed and it wasn't even a rotary phone. Yes, you can identify with someone who's confused by a phone dial, but what was so amazing about a landline — something about the handset working?
Okay -- that shoe as a chair was really well done. I wouldn't want it in my house, but I appreciate it.
gilbar said...
"speaking from past personal experience.. Morning beer is Best, when you're Still Drunk"
In the place I apprenticed when I was 17 or 18 there was a shot of schnapps, either on my bench or on the machine I was using, when I punched in. Most of the journeymen and masters being from northern europe. Of course I didn't drink so somebody got two shots. God forbid those guys ever put it back in the bottle.
Both my wife and I have several family members who fit that "toxic" definition to a T, and we avoid them when possible. I remember, years ago, my late aunt summarized one of these people (I'm paraphrasing): "[this relative] covets what others have accomplished, resents the sacrifices others made to get where they are, and puts them down for it whenever things don't go [his/her] way."
So we are wary of welcoming new people in our lives who exhibit these traits. And yet, even we have been fooled.
If you are a landlord, such people make lousy tenants.
I think such people may be guided mostly by their own appetites, moment to moment. They aren't thriving with this life strategy, are angry at others for seeming to do better, and are prone to use various kinds of emotional blackmail to retaliate or to get something out of you. Their envy has turned to malice. Even worse, they stubbornly cling to their own discontent.
Loved the Elvis vid.
"Did it hit anyone else hard, precisely describing someone you welcomed into your life?"
It made me pause and think. I had a very good friend disappear from my life about 15 years ago, and then she popped back in about five years ago. I don't think she was intentionally evil, but after a while I realized that she had become toxically envious of my life. Actually made a comment when The Crud first hit and we were worried about lockdowns: "I guess Joe (my husband) will never miss a paycheck." She coveted my relatively good health compared to her misfortunes; her covet-laser rays almost burned my skin. She refused to consider that my mild disagreements with "woke" could have been coming from a good place. She ended up hanging up on me abruptly when I asked nicely if we could stop discussing the unknown terror that accompanied the start of the pandemic because it was making me really anxious, and she never called me back.
It still bothers me. So confusing. But from what I hear, experiencing that confusion is one of the signs of a toxic relationship/person.
Hard to pick a favorite this time: I liked them equally. Nice roundup.
Beautiful singing, but a Tecate? That sh*t's disgusting.
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