Althouse: Sunrise — 5:17, 5:19.

June 9, 2024

Sunrise — 5:17, 5:19.

41 comments:

TickTock said...: Finally. I was worried there wasn't going to be a picture.; 6/9/24, 8:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Linda Fiorentino was in "After Hours". I think I must've known that, and I just forgot.; 6/9/24, 8:33 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Or, Fiorentino played a punk rock artist with short hair, in "After Hours", and that was not the look she later became notorious for. See "The Last Seduction".; 6/9/24, 8:39 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: A couple days ago, I watched the 2021 movie West Side Story, produced by Steven Spielberg. I enjoyed this movie very much.

Spielberg spent $100 million (one hundred million dollars) making the movie. Now having watched the movie, that expenditure does NOT seem excessive. The movie set seems to be an entire city.

I think that Spielberg must be the only person in the world who has the vision, money and other resources to make such an extravagant movie.

On my home television, I watched the movie "on demand" for free. I could not fast-forward the movie at all, but every second was well worth watching.; 6/9/24, 8:48 PM
charis said...: Thank you for the daily sunrise and for the observations and commentary.; 6/9/24, 8:57 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I’ve been watching movies in the Shirley MacLaine collection on the Criterion channel. I finally made my way through What Way to Go. Ever seen that one? I also watched The Apartment — that was great of course — and Postcards from the Edge.; 6/9/24, 9:02 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: What a way to go. what a crazy movie. Gene Kelly was pretty funny as "Pinky Benson". Robert Mitchum, IRC, was sorta boring. suprising given they were having an off-screen romance.

Paul Newman showed why he's not a comedian. Not bad, just adequate. Can't remember what Dean Martin was.; 6/9/24, 9:10 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'I also watched The Apartment — that was great of course —'

It's OK...seems to be a movie of its time that is kind of quaint now.*

MacMurray plays against type and Lemon is fine.

But he comes of like a gentile Woody Allen.

*I also watched 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' recently and it just might be the Seinfeld prototype; a movie about nothing. I couldn't tell if George Peppard was alive or if they stole him from in front of a cigar store.; 6/9/24, 9:40 PM
Old and slow said...: Rusty: Thanks for that! I loved the stuff about the antikythera mechanism. Also the making of springs. This guy is a serious craftsman. I've seen some jewelers who were comparable, but I love this precision.; 6/9/24, 9:45 PM
imTay said...: What was amazing to me about watching The Apartment recently, was the portrayal of what office work was like before computers.; 6/9/24, 9:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: The Internet is Disappearing

If that is true, that a lot of the early internet is gone, have they feed AI's all there is to know really Or, have they feed them what still remains accesible and nothing more.; 6/9/24, 10:04 PM
Kate said...: "It twirrrrled up!" My husband and I quote that all the time for any suspicious mistake.

That and, "There isn't enough mommy in the world ... " If money can become mommy, then so can pretty much anything.; 6/10/24, 1:58 AM
Money Manger said...: The Criterion channel is wonderful for true film fans. I really enjoyed About Dried Grasses, a new, but granted long Chekovian Turkish film.

Long ago a shared a beer with Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix, and randomly discussed old films. He is a true and knowledgeable fan, who notoriously started the firm after getting pissed off by Blockbusters late fees.

I’ve often thought he should bundle Criterion access into a Netflix subscription. It would cost him pennies, add movie cred to Netflix, (and allow me to only have one streaming subscription).; 6/10/24, 4:44 AM
Political Junkie said...: I posted this on another post.

Why is it that Rich, Chuck, Inga, RCook, Gadfly and other lefty posters never challenge/confront ROcean I and II on his Jew-hating views?; 6/10/24, 5:18 AM
rehajm said...: I used to see Shirley MacLaine walking her little dogs along 5th Ave. every morning. She must live in one of those tony old buildings what overlook the water…; 6/10/24, 5:27 AM
Political Junkie said...: rehajm - When was that? What kind of dogs?; 6/10/24, 5:51 AM
rehajm said...: rehajm - When was that? What kind of dogs?

Mmm..the mid oughts? I don’t recall the dogs- maybe mongrel or fox terrier. Little ankle biters. New York was still functional but the side walk was snowy one day and I yielded the narrow trampled path to the little crew. I had on dress shows and was focused on not falling…; 6/10/24, 6:34 AM
Meade said...: “ Why is it that Rich, Chuck, Inga, RCook, Gadfly and other lefty posters never challenge/confront ROcean I and II on his Jew-hating views?”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20688/palestinianism-began-with-nazism; 6/10/24, 6:46 AM
Rusty said...: Old and slow said...
"Rusty: Thanks for that! I loved the stuff about the antikythera mechanism. Also the making of springs. This guy is a serious craftsman. I've seen some jewelers who were comparable, but I love this precision."

It's not surprising. Chris is a certified horologist. Somewhere on line he has a course on how to make a clock. I've done a lot of intricate involved stuff, but he takes it to another level.; 6/10/24, 7:01 AM
Humperdink said...: Unlike the feds revising the inflation rate and the number of jobs created downward in the succeeding months, the Palestinians have revised the number of civilians killed upward in the rescue operation. The number killed has been changed from 247 to 24,700. They claimed the lower number was a typo.; 6/10/24, 7:11 AM
narciso said...: Well the brits hired haj amin despite he fought for the turks the husseini clan had their sinecure from 1843 but yes the nazis funded his gang from 1936 on the army of the pure was the predecessor to hamas izzat al qaddim the allies considered haj amin a war criminal but he had fled to syria then egypt; 6/10/24, 7:22 AM
Mr. Forward said...: The last time I saw the inside of a classroom was when my real education began. Your mileage might vary.; 6/10/24, 7:24 AM
Inga said...: “Why is it that Rich, Chuck, Inga, RCook, Gadfly and other lefty posters never challenge/confront ROcean I and II on his Jew-hating views?”

Meade,

You assume much when it comes to myself and the others mentioned in your quote. I am in no way pro Palestinian or Pro Palestinian protestors. I am not anti Israel, far from it. I am not anti semitic, I am not sexist, homophobic or against human rights.

I don’t bother with ROcean for the same reason I don’t bother with most of the Trumpists here, it’s futile and a waste of my time. Who knows what goes on in ROcean’s head? I don’t know. I do know he is not a liberal or aligned with my worldview and does not represent my opinion on the war between Hamas and Israel.; 6/10/24, 7:25 AM
narciso said...: You defend those who murder at a music festival who burst into home and slaughter and rape dont pretend you're a decent human being; 6/10/24, 7:29 AM
Jersey Fled said...: “ Why is it that Rich, Chuck, Inga, RCook, Gadfly and other lefty posters never challenge/confront ROcean I and II on his Jew-hating views?”

Because “Palestinians* are higher on their Opressed/Opressor totem. Higher than gays and women apparently too.; 6/10/24, 7:45 AM
Chuck said...: Inga, 7:25AM; e-x-a-c-t-l-y right. Thank you.; 6/10/24, 7:48 AM
wendybar said...: Dapper Detective
@Dapper_Det

UPDATE: it took only 3 days for DC US Attorney Matthew Graves to drop murder and kidnapping charges in the carjacking case that killed an elderly woman at the doorstep of his office.

Seemingly, Graves only prosecutes grandmas.

Not their killers.

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate

You can carjack a woman, kidnap, and kill her, and the charges will be dropped, but leave a skid mark on a street painted with a “pride mural,” and you get slapped with a felony.

This is your government.

https://x.com/i/status/1799979848976523267; 6/10/24, 7:49 AM
narciso said...: What do they call it hierarchy also anarcho tyranny like venezuela; 6/10/24, 7:53 AM
Humperdink said...: Inga said: "I am not sexist, homophobic or against human rights."

Funny, I have been labelled all of those (plus fascist). And all I want is to be left alone from people like you.; 6/10/24, 8:05 AM
narciso said...: Palestine has only shown us death from dawsons field to munich to entebbe to achille lauro lets not add the blood filled canvas of hamas from dizengoff square on; 6/10/24, 8:06 AM
narciso said...: Im not spending any more elucidating you Dave get back on the short bus at the Atlantic; 6/10/24, 8:12 AM
narciso said...: Dawsons field was when they blew up those passenger jets in the jordanian desert; 6/10/24, 8:32 AM
Iman said...: +10 narciso @7:29am…

Yes, it’s that simple.; 6/10/24, 8:55 AM
Meade said...: The Democratic Party’s Progressive “epistemic closure” problem:

https://open.substack.com/pub/theliberalpatriot/p/joe-biden-prisoner-of-the-progressive?r=2q01f&utm_medium=ios; 6/10/24, 8:57 AM
Wa St Blogger said...: It's a war between a mostly unarmed Palestine and Israel though.
Please keep up by reading the daily papers.

It's a war started by Palestinian people who attacked, with their "mostly unarmed", armed militants, totally unarmed civilians. They were not content to just murder them, they have to abuse the dead and rape the women, too.

The "mostly unarmed" people also send in the "mostly unarmed" rockets into civilian areas.

The Palestinians Chose this conflict. as Sun Tsu said: "Who wishes to fight must first count the cost.”

Palestinians are counting the costs. They might have has a math problem here, but I think instead, they chose these exact conditions on purpose. On purpose they chose maximum brutality in a civilian attack because they wanted a strong response from Israel. Their tactic of launching rockets on cities was not working.

Why did they want a strong response? Because they knew idiots like you would blame Israel no matter what. Israel's options were to either allow the brutalization of their people or try and prevent it. In trying to prevent it, they could respond proportionally, but be vilified anyway because no one will ever think their response was proportional, or they could try and totally prevent Hamas from being able to propagate such atrocities again.

In other words, the world will never be on Israel's side. They are Damned for everything they do except to surrender and die. That is your goal, and that is the goal of the Arab militants.; 6/10/24, 9:10 AM
tcrosse said...: Lovely pictures, but I have been reliably informed that if Trump is elected sunrises will be a thing of the past.; 6/10/24, 9:42 AM
Joe Smith said...: 'Lovely pictures, but I have been reliably informed that if Trump is elected sunrises will be a thing of the past.'

That was snow.

Tough to keep it straight...; 6/10/24, 11:03 AM
Chuck said...: Meade said...
The Democratic Party’s Progressive “epistemic closure” problem:

https://open.substack.com/pub/theliberalpatriot/p/joe-biden-prisoner-of-the-progressive?r=2q01f&utm_medium=ios

6/10/24, 8:57 AM

I'm not sure that I have ever read anything by Ruy Teixera that didn't come off as sensible. So props for that. (You probably know that he has an office at the American Enterprise Institute.) The interesting thing is how little he writes about what a dangerous monster Trump is, even though that is certainly his opinion. As it is with most of the fellowship of the AEI.

Ruy is tireless in his efforts to get Democratic leadership to moderate and to appeal to working class families, and I am fine with that. He is almost as tireless in his efforts to scold the far left progressives in the Democratic Party and I'm fine with that too. Those two things are his great mission above all. Almost to the exclusion of saying what he really thinks about Trump. Which I can well understand that you would find appealing.

Have I written anything so far with which you would disagree? I hope not, because I am certainly correct in these unremarkable observations.

Now, Laurence, here's the kicker. Democratic leadership has unquestionably done a better job of keeping its extremist wings at arm's length from policy, than has the TrumpGOP leadership. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is never going to get to the House floor with a motion to vacate Hakeem Jeffries' Speakership. The House Progressive Caucus isn't going to get away with the sort of fuckery that the Freedom Caucus has done. Democrats won't need 17 votes to get a Speaker, and they won't need a list of insane policy promises to get that vote completed.

Ruy Teixera, in an interview with Ezra Klein:
"But perhaps the most important secret weapon is, the other side is so screwed up. I mean, I don’t think I probably have to convince a lot of listeners to this podcast the Republican Party is kind of a wacky, dysfunctional party at this point. And given, in fact, how dysfunctional the Republican Party is and how weird they are and how vexed Trump is as a candidate, why is this even in question? Why aren’t the Democrats obviously going to kick their ass in 2024? And I don’t think that’s obvious at all at this point, and that concerns me quite a bit."; 6/10/24, 11:15 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Can't remember what Dean Martin was."

He was the rich man in town that Margaret Dumont wanted Shirley to marry before Shirley chose to marry the loser, Dick Van Dyke.; 6/10/24, 12:57 PM
Narr said...: When is that hanging branch that features in so many sunrise pix going to fall? It has been there for months.; 6/10/24, 3:18 PM
Old and slow said...: Chuck, you are dishonest, and even worse than that, you are boring.; 6/10/24, 3:19 PM