tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post385960996192059143..comments2024-03-19T01:52:00.810-05:00Comments on Althouse: At the Twilight Dreams Café...Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59263182307030931602017-09-12T22:12:58.706-05:002017-09-12T22:12:58.706-05:00"sweet" is not necessarily a good word, ..."sweet" is not necessarily a good word, by the way. You don't want a sweet martini and you don't want your police force - particularly the detective, but even, most of the time, the cops on the beat - to be too sweet. It is nice, though, to see a very old person - and 78 is old, the average 10 year old chihuahua is going to outlive the average 78 year old person, and 10 years old is old for a chihuahua - it is nice to see an old person realize he has been very very wrong about something very important for a very long long time. All of us will have to, one day, realize what we were wrong about, if only because God in Heaven wants us to join him there, but not without repentance for all our wrong affections and all our selfish ideas, that we coddled for too long. God bless Mr Posner. Maybe in a few weeks he will apologize for his racist pro-abortion efforts. Probably not, but maybe: God wants us all to improve as much as we can while we are still young and healthy.Bix Cvvvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310561030601576494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13390938880697226052017-09-12T22:04:31.616-05:002017-09-12T22:04:31.616-05:00Mr Majestyk - i agree, that is what is so sweet ab...Mr Majestyk - i agree, that is what is so sweet about it. Bix Cvvvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310561030601576494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57596096716703022452017-09-12T13:46:46.785-05:002017-09-12T13:46:46.785-05:00Beautiful.Beautiful.Jael (Gone Windwalking)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09719090195190122118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20311378030350562222017-09-12T08:28:46.207-05:002017-09-12T08:28:46.207-05:00A poster of Rackham's "Falling Leaves&quo...A poster of Rackham's "Falling Leaves" used to hang in my living room. I wonder if I still have it somewhere?Professional ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08283275602889823403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54452240778959330542017-09-12T08:15:09.345-05:002017-09-12T08:15:09.345-05:00but the one certain person who was the center of a...<i>but the one certain person who was the center of attention</i><br /><br />Yeah. The contestant trying to win money.Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277966379512526469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76794042939350590922017-09-12T06:11:23.887-05:002017-09-12T06:11:23.887-05:00Wait a second, Groucho's secret word was a sec...<i>Wait a second, Groucho's secret word was a secret and not obvious. The show was cheap</i><br /><br />Yeah, but everybody knew it but the one certain person who was the center of attention. At least that's how I remember the show. Maybe I am thinking of a different show.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22835253226321026612017-09-12T05:23:50.629-05:002017-09-12T05:23:50.629-05:00Imus reports the NYT reviews a play whose name the...Imus reports the NYT reviews a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/theater/suzan-lori-parks-scarlet-letter-signature-theater.html?mcubz=0" rel="nofollow">play</a> whose name they won't print.<br /><br />If they had, there could have been a discussion about whether fucking is a gerund or an epithet.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12484015771144598272017-09-11T23:33:40.438-05:002017-09-11T23:33:40.438-05:00In his NYT "exit interview," Posner is q...In his NYT "exit interview," Posner is quoted as saying that "about six months ago, I awoke from a slumber of 35 years." So after adjudicating literally thousands of pro se cases over more than three decades, he finally realizes that pro se litigants aren't getting a fair shake? And rather than stay and try to,persuade his colleagues to give these people a fair shake in individual caes, he ... quits. Uh huh.Mr. Majestykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083203043213179841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27346271373711491042017-09-11T23:11:21.935-05:002017-09-11T23:11:21.935-05:00The Golden Age, when children's illustrators w...The Golden Age, when children's illustrators were unafraid of terrorizing the children.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424384180201600935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12368082789995440072017-09-11T22:28:31.205-05:002017-09-11T22:28:31.205-05:00Wow Len Wein has passed. He was only 69.
https:/...Wow Len Wein has passed. He was only 69.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/arts/design/len-wein-influential-comic-book-writer-dies-at-69.html?mcubz=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/arts/design/len-wein-influential-comic-book-writer-dies-at-69.html?mcubz=1</a><br /><br />Wolverine, Swamp Thing and much else..Churchy LaFemme:https://www.blogger.com/profile/01918039034800664237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13549379052695054272017-09-11T22:23:29.714-05:002017-09-11T22:23:29.714-05:00If you're interested in illustration, you shou...If you're interested in illustration, you should get on Bud Plant's "Bud's Art Books" catalog list. Some really good stuff. I won't link it since it can't be done through the Althouse portal. (Also be aware, some of it veers into arty porn).Churchy LaFemme:https://www.blogger.com/profile/01918039034800664237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24733473027314224532017-09-11T22:02:56.122-05:002017-09-11T22:02:56.122-05:00Wait a second, Groucho's secret word was a sec...Wait a second, Groucho's secret word was a secret and not obvious. The show was cheap.Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277966379512526469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86085205188421935232017-09-11T21:33:56.943-05:002017-09-11T21:33:56.943-05:00Chief Strategist Steve Bannon finally said out lou...<i>Chief Strategist Steve Bannon finally said out loud what many of us already knew: that Hillary Clinton is “not very bright.”</i><br /><br />The worst kept secret since Groucho's secret word.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50831990515088553112017-09-11T21:10:41.456-05:002017-09-11T21:10:41.456-05:00typos fixed, to make it clear that a 78 year old j...typos fixed, to make it clear that a 78 year old judge volunteered to read over Every Single pro se brief in the entire Seventh Circuit, and was rejected : "let me, Judge Posner, review every single petition from a pro se litigant in the entire area of the Seventh Circuit, to see if we can do whatever it takes not to reject it on the sort of technical grounds that the Cravath Swaine and Moore clients never worry about" . Impressive stuff, which you won't read about anywhere, probably. Bix Cvvvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310561030601576494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86674369277594367572017-09-11T21:05:25.002-05:002017-09-11T21:05:25.002-05:00In good news, Mr Richard Posner - who I have thoug...In good news, Mr Richard Posner - who I have thought for decades to be the archetype of the self-satisfied apparatchik that we just need to live with because well, that is our legal system - impressed people of good will all across the world this week with his announced motive for retiring - apparently, as I read in his interview with a paper in NYC today, he thought that his fellow judges were giving short shrift to pro se litigants and he gave them (the judges not the poor pro se litigants) an ultimatum - let mev(Judge Posner) review Every Single petition from a pro se litigant in the Entire Area of the Seventh Circuit, to see if we can do what we can not to reject it on the sort of technical grounds that the Cravath boys never worry about, or I will quit. That was a kind offer! They said no, he quit. Good for him! I take back everything bad I have ever said about him, except of course for his bigotry against unborn children - I have no right to take that back - but rarely have I been so impressed with someone I have so little respect for. Bix Cvvvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310561030601576494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31335648992748160372017-09-11T21:02:37.509-05:002017-09-11T21:02:37.509-05:00Wow. Rackhams portfolio makes him king of washed ...Wow. Rackhams portfolio makes him king of washed line drawings. He illustrated many books. This post forced me to look at NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Harvey Dunn, etc. The golden age of illustration.Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01048255624944551506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77969257352523083012017-09-11T20:45:41.549-05:002017-09-11T20:45:41.549-05:00Heard at a bar - **When I was your guys's age...Heard at a bar - **When I was your guys's age, she was my type and you weren't (the speaker is talking to a woman who is much younger than himself, and referencing another woman who was not present) but at my age any woman your age is my type. ** <br />Martin Buber once wrote there is something to admire in almost everybody. <br />Heard in an elevator - **No, I don't have kids. I wouldn't mind having a few, though, like, if they were running around some village in Africa somewhere and somebody else was taking care of them. I could afford those child support payments - don't think I could afford the payments in the States.**<br />Heard on an airplane, the seat behind me, guy sounded a little like Rex Harrison in that movie with Liza Hepburn: **"I'll be at this wedding with all those people who speak Swedish ....(garbled, untranscribeable) ... yeah, give me a month, I can talk in Swedish, enough to communicate, two months, I can sound like a Norwegian speaking Swedish, three months, you wouldn't know I wasn't born in Stockholm. But that ain't gonna happen." **<br />Speaking of twilight dreams, last night I was walking in one of those suburban semi-meadow places (bigger than a vacant lot, too small to be the sort of place they turn into a park) and I saw a few moths flying around freely, enjoying life among the plants (I look for moths all the time on summer evenings, and typically see dozens every week, on walls in the garden apartments where I live, or clustering under lights) it was so much joy to see them in their element, in the darker moments when twilight is almost over, living the life of a moth with all which that means. They were fairly bright moths (green or yellowish or or bright tan or white in daylight) and it was like ti was a second seasons of fireflies, but with beautiful humble moths, flying around in the twilight, reflecting the last remnants of daylight as they flew around the plants and the dark green evening twilight foliage.Bix Cvvvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310561030601576494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19434333132999660252017-09-11T20:41:55.470-05:002017-09-11T20:41:55.470-05:00This book tour of Hilary's is more fun than el...This book tour of Hilary's is more fun than election night. <br /><br /><i>“I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country,” she said. <b>“Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”</b></i><br /><br />She says she took herself out of context and that possibly this was a mistake. tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28166777131302936262017-09-11T20:30:50.473-05:002017-09-11T20:30:50.473-05:00Rackham surely knows how to convey a sense of fore...Rackham surely knows how to convey a sense of foreboding, does he not?Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38490910659340977072017-09-11T20:04:49.085-05:002017-09-11T20:04:49.085-05:00I just watched The Girl with the Pearl Earring. He...I just watched The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Hey, Scarlett Johansen... Anyway, I think the plot must be just about the same as 50 Shades of Gray. tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13487891512125069212017-09-11T19:57:53.356-05:002017-09-11T19:57:53.356-05:00Casting a faerie curse on humanity in 1913, soon t...Casting a faerie curse on humanity in 1913, soon to manifest, next summer, as WWI.buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55002280584075765792017-09-11T19:46:23.768-05:002017-09-11T19:46:23.768-05:00I think those are technically "faeries"I think those are technically "faeries"<br /><br />peacelovewoodstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07199901954547161598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26712976347029530092017-09-11T19:41:50.591-05:002017-09-11T19:41:50.591-05:00Fairies ! Not there's anything wrong with that...Fairies ! Not there's anything wrong with that.tcrossehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861315905142017219noreply@blogger.com