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Am I too much of a creature of habit?, I wondered as I put up this post, capping off another day of blogging by putting up an open thread. It made me think of a line from "My Dinner With Andre" (which as you know I rewatched last night):But ROC used to practice certain exercises, like for instance, if he were right-handed, all today he would do everything with his left hand. All day, eating, writing, everything — opening doors — in order to break the habits of living. Because the great danger, he felt, for him, was to fall into a trance, out of habit. He had a whole series of very simple exercises that he had invented just to keep seeing, feeling, remembering. Because you have to learn now. It didn't used to be necessary, but today....
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See how you fare! Check a few items.
Those people on the Left who are willfully ignoring - they can’t be THAT stupid - the corruption of THEIR deep state, Democrat leadership and the Biden-Harris junta had better wake up and smell the catfood. You single women and low-T quislings are headed for a fall this Fall.
Far from being the solution, this government, specifically the Biden administration, has revealed itself to be THE PROBLEM.
Too much? NIMHO. I enjoy an evening cafe' myself, even if I have nothing much to say. Like right now . . . except I hope the late lash of winter spares all Althousers. It's just chilly and windy here.
"Because the great danger, he felt, for him, was to fall into a trance, out of habit. He had a whole series of very simple exercises that he had invented just to keep seeing, feeling, remembering. Because you have to learn now. It didn't used to be necessary, but today...."
If you like. Personally, I think habits can be liberating- they free you from thinking about trivial things and allow you to devote the time saved to something more important or productive.
NY Supreme Clerk's office rejected Trump's bond filing because he didn't include necessary documents and didn't fill out the forms properly. These are the same attorneys who don't know how to demand a jury trial and who don't know how to put a document into evidence.
The Breitling chronograph I’m trying to restore is fighting me. I’ve tried to milk all the amplitude I can out of the Venus 170 movement that was in it and now a donor movement from an old Chronograph Suisse. The time side of the donor will run but well below an acceptable 280 degrees and when I add the stopwatch it falls off dramatically though not unexpectedly. I don’t think it will keep time. I’ve been fiddling with both movements with different mainsprings new and old, attacking the bridges with the staking set and trying the Ranfft secret pallet pin oil. No go…
Tomorrow I’m going to see what can be done with the old movement- the pass thru hour wheel was kind of loose so that and an alloy spring. If that doesn’t work maybe I’ll keep digging and look for another 170. They were sold at the airports to tons of Swiss tourists in the 50s and 60s so there’s still many out there…
The zipper on my winter coat broke. So I guess winter coat-wearing is done. This weekend I'll buy a new zipper contrivance, and if I fix things, I'll feel very proud. This is something I've never done, so I'll be outside my Creature Of Habit zone.
The older I get the more I become a creature of habit and routine. I find it helps me to keep from forgetting things, like zipping up my pants! (I kid)
"ROC"'s practice sounds like Opposite Day at school; or the Contraries among American Indians (is that term allowed anymore?)
Mutaman said...
NY Supreme Clerk's office rejected Trump's bond filing because he didn't include necessary documents and didn't fill out the forms properly.
Well Trump can hope that they've learned from their mistake and the next time the left convicts him of a victimless crime they'll get it right.
There will be a planetary alignment tomorrow morning. Look east before sunrise and you'll see Venus, Saturn and Mars lined up to the naked eye, and you may also see Neptune with a telescope. All of this is weather permitting, of course.
Dismal time to be a leftist in Wisconsin...
Brette Blomme'a favorite butt boy Ben Wikler must need several congugal visits with Adam Westbrook now...
-Both referendums against the democrats' Zuckerbucks racket passed by large margins
Wausau's loony left Mayor goes down against a conservative.
-Kenosha (the city that leftist antifa and imported Chicago thugs burned down while Evers fiddled) sent the democrat Mayor candidate down in flames.
Vivek asks...
Congress owes our nation a straight answer to a simple question: what will the next $100 billion to Ukraine accomplish that the first $100 billion didn’t? I’ll wait…
Here is the final scene from My Dinner with Andre which left me confused about why it is wrong to live through and accept phases and changes in life but is righteous to always question our humanity. These kinds of mental gymnastics can be dangerous - possibly resulting in a long walk off a short pier. Kindness suggests that we just let all this nonsense go away.
Some habits are good to have. I often see these open comments as an opportunity to give back. I'm not the practiced blogger, and I don't necessarily have topics. Yet when I can come up with something, and more often when I see others provide good topics; I think it adds just a bit more to the overall blog.
I do wish the open thread wasn't so often used by both sides to dump political messages. Sadly, this seems the role of comment sections all over the internet.
Am I too much of a creature of habit?
They say History repeats... so.
Speaking of lousy metaphors. How lousy is "the world is going to hell in a handbasket"? I mean, what kind of handbasket would even get close to hell, without burning up and failing the mission of getting the world into hell?
I suggest we say, "the world is going thru a hole in the handbasket."
Everybody knows what would happen; the world falls thru a hole and ends up on the ground where microbes and other creatures get to it. Have you seen flesh eating decease? There are way more of them, than us. It's like comparing Russia to Ukraine.
Just don't call it a 'black hole', because of all the obvious connotations. And who want to hear Neil deGrasse Tyson chime in about anything? Please, listen to Lem the artificially intelligent.
BTW the change for the metaphor above, came to me as I thought, 'Here's the world going to hell in a handbasket and Althouse is watching "My Dinner With Andre" one more time'.
Café is more cachet.
While I was observing Lent by not commenting on any blogs, I also was undertaking a kind of Benedictine-light rule (which I'm still trying to stick with). I agree with Mason G about the function of routine in freeing your mind for other things, but also - depending on the routine - for focusing your mind on things you actually believe are important and worth your attention.
Based on our host's observed behavior, I'm suspecting she finds value in routine as well.
'NY Supreme Clerk's office rejected Trump's bond filing because he didn't include necessary documents and didn't fill out the forms properly. These are the same attorneys who don't know how to demand a jury trial and who don't know how to put a document into evidence.'
Well, your lord and savior Hillary didn't know enough to campaign in WI even though her much smarter rapist husband advised her to do so...
New York's fish wrap paper reports that TFG and MBS talked very recently. Nothing happened as a result, so the Saudi Prince must have said "no" when asked to provide the half-billion-dollar deposit to allow for the appeal of the NY civil fraud judgment.
Fascinating...
"Making people believe there isn't enough space for trans women in sports is white supremacist patriarchy at work" - National Organization for Women.
Testicles for Title Nine!
When I hear the word 'routine,' I think of Denzel Washington's Equalizer character. Routine seemed to work pretty well for the guy, even if he's fictional.
Did Joe Biden pay Mexico their 20 BILLION dollar ransom?? You decide....
Is Mexico doing more to secure our border than the Biden administration, and if so, why NOW??
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Mexico is bringing legions of immigration officers into Juarez to keep migrants away from the U.S. border in El Paso.
Mexico has massively increased enforcement on their side of the border after record high numbers in December, and a meeting in MX w/ Secretary of State Blinken.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1775548522252964161
A tweet (an X?) from Victor Davis Hanson...
https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1775272720252760080?s=20
Pete Buttigieg explaining why nobody wants to buy an electric vehicle: “I feel like it's the early 2000s, and I'm talking to some people who think we can just have landline phones forever.""
Yo Pete, an electric vehicle requires a land line.
"Because the great danger, he felt, for him, was to fall into a trance..."
Look into my eyes... you are getting sleepy... sleepy... sleepy...
My Dinner with Andre, one of those transformative "you must see" things that I've never seemed to have time for and consequently remain untransformed. The closest I've come is recently re-watching Waiting for Guffman. The end credits are interspersed with glimpses of the main characters later post-unGuffmaned lives. Corky St. Clair deserts Blaine for NYC where he opens a theatrical memorabilia shop that offers for sale a My Dinner with Andre action figure set, a not-so-subtle dig at a movie without motion.
I suppose my real reason for ducking My Dinner is the fact that Siskel & Ebert jointly gushed over it. Because I came to jointly despise those two insufferable movie prigs, it followed that any film they both heartily enjoyed was probably harmful to my transgressive integrity.
Shut my mouth wide open!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUdXOR-Oa9Q&t
Is the Night Cafe facing the Dustbin of History?
One simple yet stubborn pattern to break is which shoe one puts on first. Once you are aware how consistent your habit is you will catch yourself putting one down and picking up the other because it was the “wrong” shoe to put on first.
Depends on whether they are good habits or bad habits and what type of creature you are or want to be.
I make it a habit to always drive on the right side of the road.
Works for me.
Well, LOOKY HERE.....Judge Merchan who put a gag order on Trump about Merchans family is hiding MORE little secrets. It seems his wife worked for the NY State Attorney General from 2009-2022 as a special assistant, which means she worked for......LETICIA JAMES for a few years.
No wonder why he imposed a GAG order. Trying to keep his family ties secret...
These radical Progressives infiltrated everything.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-merchan-2b369659/
Jersey Fled said...
“I make it a habit to always drive on the right side of the road.”
Agreed. I ALWAYS drive on the right side of the road. Even when in India or Britain when it’s on the left.
Do habits become traditions?
I mean. You do you, but some of us look forward to these as a place where we don't have to be political and find out what other posters have been up to.
Or is that just me? IDK.
This place is a little over 100 miles southeast of Madison and we share the same weather for the most part.
Still no Morels, but half the fun is looking. We have purple Trillium here with very rare patches of white Trillium. Trillium and Mayapple have just started to come up. All the daffodils that were planted by the previous owners of trhe forrest preserve are in full bloom and are nice surprises as I wander through the underbrush. They outline long disappeared porches and sidewalks.
“I feel like it's the early 2000s, and I'm talking to some people who think we can just have landline phones forever." - Mayor Pete
This is why I question his purported high IQ.
Color me shocked that NYS has erected new barriers to a Trump appeal that they thought that they had already prevented by their 8th Amendment mocking fine. It's almost as if they are afraid to have to defend their conviction in a different court...
Naah!
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
What would be "excessive" in these guys' world?
Pete Buttigieg explaining why nobody wants to buy an electric vehicle: “I feel like it's the early 2000s, and I'm talking to some people who think we can just have landline phones forever.""
We are being ruled by stupid incompetent people.
I went to the airport yesterday because my life was too peaceful. There I encountered a new way to torment travelers: Clear. Apparently it is a concierge type of precheck that includes people who will escort you to the front of the TPS Precheck line, cutting in front of the slobs who didn't buy Clear. As I reached the front of the line, a woman approached with a couple of Clear customers in tow. "Step aside" she said - not even a "please."
"Fuck off" I replied. No response. Good.
Mayor Pete Buttiplugin.
"We are being ruled by stupid incompetent people." Don't forget crooked.
tim in vermont said...
" Color me shocked that NYS has erected new barriers to a Trump appeal that they thought that they had already prevented by their 8th Amendment mocking fine. It's almost as if they are afraid to have to defend their conviction in a different court..."
The requirement of a bond has nothing to do with being a "barrier to an appeal".
The bond is to stay enforcement of the judgment pending appeal.
Its like you guys all got your law degrees at Trump University
tim in vermont said...
" Color me shocked that NYS has erected new barriers to a Trump appeal"
The whine of every incompetent attorney who had his papers rejected by the clerk's office because he didn't file them properly.
@wendybar ..
maybe an X-pression?
Mutaman
I suggest you look up the word, 'impropriety'.
I eagerly await your lecture on ethics and lawyers.
Rusty said...
"Mutaman
I suggest you look up the word, 'impropriety'. "
I suggest you look up the meaning of the word "cracker".
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