Key line: "Oh, and: It’s a 90-minute show about blow jobs."
And I like "a fire hose of frank postulation about sex."
I didn't think I'd find an occasion to use that so soon. I'd stumbled across it as I was writing the first post of the day — "Trump defeated Ron DeSantis. We all know that. But how gendered was it?" — and quoting DeSantis saying "If Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head."
I didn't think I'd find an occasion to use that so soon. I'd stumbled across it as I was writing the first post of the day — "Trump defeated Ron DeSantis. We all know that. But how gendered was it?" — and quoting DeSantis saying "If Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head."
I said: "I like 'summon the balls.' Oh, balls!"
But I wanted to convey a comic inflection in calling out "Oh, balls!" — as if you didn't have balls but needed to summon them into your presence. All I could think of was Olive Oyl summoning Popeye: "Oh, Popeye!" You know, how she calls out to him when he's far off. I never found that GIF, but I made a mental note of Popeye and the firehose.
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"Oh, and: It’s a 90-minute show about blow jobs."
Yep. It's a chick-flick alright. And the largest ratings demo will be gay dudes. Watch.
A visual metaphor depicting Popeye wielding a high-capacity hose to impregnate a widow (sic) with a "burden". Sex in sociopolitical discourse. #ToxicMasculinity #PenisEnvy
I like how everything else that is exspecially pleasurable and exciting is often said to be the most fun you can have, with your clothes on.
The flip side is nothing is so boring as talking about sex.
#PenisEnvy
"Honey, with one of these I can get all of those I want."
That joke dates back to a time when men were, ah, men.
Popeye's time.
Trump and the left are over-joyed the person who could actually beat Biden and keep promises.... was defeated.
Now to the Trump V Biden shit show.
Why are white leftists allowed to obsess over sex?
The white left lose their minds over old Christmas songs from the 1950's about cuddling and keeping warm because it's cold outside.
"The flip side is nothing is so boring as talking about sex."
Unless you're gettin' some. Yeow!
I cannot think of Olive Oil without thinking of the actress Shelley Duvall, who played Olive Oil in Altman's Popeye, an underrated bizarre film, and also starred in Altman's Three Women, an extraordinary tragedy of the sexes worth watching but put me off shrimp cocktail for life.
Wait’ll you see what Popeye does with that hose after he eats his spinach.
Later on, the Clash offered this scenario:
Baby, baby, drove up in a Cadillac
I said, "Jesus Christ, where'd you get that Cadillac?"
She said, "Balls to you, daddy"
She ain't never comin' back
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball(s) if that’s all there is.
A decade and a half ago there was a humorous YouTube video helping women prepare for a career in porn, the blow job preparation being smashing a single-serving mayonnaise pouch between your hands so as not to flinch at surprising face spatter.
Seeing as the trump vote was largely female in iowa how does that work
Oh my God, if I have to listen to one more woman telling me how great it is to give random BJs...
There is a short book (available through the Althouseblog Amazon portal!) entitled Lube Jobs, which takes a tack with which I can agree: it starts from (1) You're in a loving relationship. It moves logically to (2) You and your partner want to make each other happy, and then to (3) But you don't always "feel like it."
Then it hits its stride with (4) But look back at 1 and 2, and do it anyway - and here are a bunch of ways to go about it, all while remembering that the reason you're doing this is for your partner's happiness, which will in turn enhance your own.
It's playfully illustrated with Rosie-the-Riveter- and old gas station- (hence Lube Jobs) style line drawings. It's cute and fun and light, and it acknowledges the realities of a long relationship.
I stand w Isreal. Leftists, Mullahs, Hamas-Palistinian terrorists can suck it: "Trump and the left are over-joyed the person who could actually beat Biden and keep promises.... was defeated."
DeSantis would have lost with Romney-like numbers. It would have been over by 11PM ET.
Male comedians tell jokes. Female comedians talk about their sex holes.
I heard an interesting analogy of the election (assuming a Biden vs Trump run off): it's a choice between two bad apples, one is rotten to the core and the other is beyond its sell by date.
With Trump vs Haley, the Republicans are given a clear choice between someone who has proven time and time again to be crazy, divisive, chaotic, mean, basically every bad thing you can think of, and someone who while no saint, is definitely much more "normal". If even in this situation the Republicans choose Trump, there is something collectively very wrong with them.
Drago - DeSantis is nothing like Romney.
Also - no way to know. One thing for sure is Trump is going to lose.
enjoy, drago. At least you can keep your Trump Happy meal prizes and lide-size Trump cardboard cut outs and trophy mugs.
Rich says: “ . . . there is something collectively very wrong with them.”
Do you hear yourself? If Republicans disagree with you “there is something collectively wrong with them.”
I keep saying Democrats, you need to fix your party. But before you can do that, there needs to be some self reflection.
Nothing that is prurient is foreign to me. My spidey sense tells me that this Netflix special will be about as sexy as Chelsea Handler discussing her fantasies of a three way with Joe and Jill......Did anyone see Saltburn? It got some buzz for its explicit scenes. It deserves credit for introducing at this last date a new level of ickiness to sex scenes. I couldn't tell if it was the horror or parody version of Brideshead Revisited. Whatever it was, it wasn't much.....What really annoys me is when they flash that warning about nudity, and all you end up seeing are naked men.
That's a high-capacity splooge stooge.
I have not seen her show. Is it pro or con? Right, how could it be con? She used to talk about food because she liked food. French fries, pizza.
So, considering this from a purely academic, analytical, policy-driven perspective, I believe her policy is one that should be encouraged. For the greater good of our society.
I never noticed Popeye's right arm to be bigger than his left, but maybe i never paid attention...
Popeye is just using good fluid mechanics. He opens his left hand to allow the hose segment to fill with water, then closes his left hand to seal it like a valve. Then he compresses the hose segment to force the incompressible water out at high pressure. So Popeye can put out the fire without a mechanical pump. Kind of like a water machine gun.
Some people think everything is about sex, actually just almost everything is about sex.
And I am glad that Popeye has become more active after the deep diving accident that gave him his nickname.
Accio balls!
I stand w Isreal. Leftists, Mullahs, Hamas-Palistinian terrorists can suck it: "Drago - DeSantis is nothing like Romney."
The big money globalist backers and DC staffers that worked for DeSantis and are aligned with the Bushes and Romney types disagree with you. Just because you have never had any idea or the first clue about the DeSantis campaign infrastructure, originally put together early in 2021, doesnt make me wrong...it just makes you...you.
I stand w Isreal. Leftists, Mullahs, Hamas-Palistinian terrorists can suck it: ""Also - no way to know. One thing for sure is Trump is going to lose."
Yes, the combined corrupted forces of your beloved GOPe/dem uniparty + plus weaponized fed govt does pose an awesome challenge for Trump, which is why I believe your GOPe/Dem team will be successful in removing Trump from the campaign.
So, once again, early congratulations to you, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
I lets 'em finich,
'Cause I eats me spinach.
“Popeye chuckled and scratched his balls.”
“She narrates an early episode of teenage experimentation in an unfinished basement as Nabokov would.”
I very much doubt that.
Wasn't it Freud who famously said:
"Sometimes a fire hose is just a fire hose."
--- Did anyone see Saltburn? [William]
Yes. LOL. Looked good pictorially, what a downer!! Finally turned off sound so I didn't have to cope with the dialogue and watched the last half-hour or so that way.
Years back, I had a friend at work get in a bit of trouble for watching porn videos on his work computer during office hours, and being seen doing so by a supervisor. The Costanza defense combined with the Wookie defense and his other, more valuable attributes saved him from firing. Shortly after that, he saw Fatal Attraction on HBO and the next day was talking and talking about THAT scene. I had to ask him why, when he'd been so obviously watching much more vile and explicit stuff at work before seeing this revelatory but brief moment on screen. He stopped and thought for a moment and said, "I liked it so much because EVERYONE who sees the movie saw it, too!" Netflix now wants to exploit that mentality.
What a boring world it would be, were we all the same. But thank the stars I ain't him.
Meh. What about the divine joy of muff diving?
I couldn't help but think of you when she described the boyfriend's father as "a pig in shorts!
These type stories are the reason WaPo lost $100million dollars last year.
And it's good Popeye's magic vegetable wasn't asparagus.
I am not familiar with this artist's oeuvre, but interrogating discourses in anything is unlikely to be a hoot. There is something that people find funny, or at least humorously entertaining, about previously, supposedly respectable women being raunchy for performance. Watch how quickly female comedians descend to this, wherever they start out. Taylor Tomlinson was funny, and still sometimes is. My theory is that audiences like deflowering them, the women in the seats as much as the men. For the women, it is not the seduction in the physical sense, but the "See? She's no better than I am" self-justification. Iliza Schlesinger was funny, became raunchy-funny, and then backed off once she had a child. Nikki Glaser used sexual shock to as good a comic effect as it has ever been done, but when she got sober, started expressing regret very soon thereafter.
It is unfair that our culture still does this to women, yes. Perhaps there might be something accomplished that overrides the evolutionary psychology of our pleasured shock in one direction more than the other. But lauding the women who embrace this unfairness in order to have fame doesn't seem to have accomplished that, even Joan Rivers-years later.
Realize also that at this time in history, two other factors mattered. One, Popeye ate healthy foods at the behest of agencies powerful in Hollywood encouraging more diverse diets; two, people didn't in any way as we do associate male strength wth sex alone. Spinach was still hard to transport from warm states to cold ones, and was thus canned.
Blame Hollywood pervs for some of this, but don't displace the food shortages and federal efforts to get people in cities to eat better.
It's called history. Like, accurate. Every fucking thing isn't a metaphor for sexually neurotic minds.
Of course, this takes more than two minutes of an historical rumination. Grow up.
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