Inspired by my post in the Not Feminism thread, here’s the Menin Gate.
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Yeah, marrows are basically courgettes that you didn’t pick in time but with a thicker skin. Also, they store really well, we’ve stored them for 6 months, all they do is dry out a little (or turn into a big, fragile sack of mush, there’s no middle ground). I highly recommend currying them.
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Get used a lot in stir-fry and Italian pasta dishes here.
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I went into this show doubting a little bit, and by the end I knew better where that little cringe it brought up, comes from. I was converted a bit.
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Sounds great, thank you. I’ll look around for more about her.
Where do you think that like cringe it brought up came from? How were you converted a bit? From what to what?
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Bigotry. The show brought me a moment of sonder, in a very important social context.
I’m pretty aware of my prejudices, I had thought they weren’t so race based or deep. You probably know me as not at all that guy, and I am not. Authentically, but we all do for so many reason have moments of reflex. Mine aren’t fear based at all, but I really got to think some about it all, and it was excellently presented.
Converted from me who hadn’t seen it to me who had, and was glad to have shared the experience with the crowd. Almost most illuminating was EVERYONE ELSE there, and their experiences being had,. The house light are on for much of it, and parts of the show happen around you.
There are some intense moments, that are humorous, because they are so intensely not okay. But not forced or angering, just WHAT?
I could identify with so many parts of her experience that were not race based, and it really really offered a unique perspective there! And so much US Census history. So much.
Also, she is so engaging personally, and so very very human.
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Thank you for sharing, it does sounds like a powerful experience. We all do have socially instilled things that deserve attention and unpacking, and if she can get unconsciously empowered people to do that with themselves to some degree, I’d say she’s doing good work.
And thanks again, this time for elaborating on your experience, helpful indeed.
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This is the same woman who took on the old studio system ,
where one’s contract could be extended without one’s consent,
among other heinous things; I wonder if anyone at FX realizes that?
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-et-olivia-de-havilland-turns-101-fights-feud-20170701-story.html
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I could not find a Wikipedia article for this, so if that’s the criterion for this topic then please delete, but, as a longtime silent film fan, I was fascinated to learn that one bear, John Brown, appeared in two of the greatest silent comedies of the 1920s: “The General” and “The Gold Rush.”
John Brown was a trained bear who appeared in a lot of silent films, including two of the greatest comedies: The Gold Rush and The General pic.twitter.com/GG00zUBYAh
— Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) July 15, 2017
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In all honesty wikipedia just seemed like a convenient jumping off point. The main goal is get something interesting out there. So go for it.
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Here’s something that I found interesting. Sometime back, I wondered what led up to the U.S. being so heavily involved in WWII in the Pacific - why Japan saw us as a threat and bombed Pearl Harbor and why we were fighting over all those remote islands, reefs, and atolls. An interesting thing that I discovered was that a large reason why we had such a naval presence, and so many outposts on little rocks in the middle of the ocean was, quite simply, shit. (From migratory seabirds.)
So literally, one of the contributing factors to the war in the 1940s was that almost 100 years earlier, the U.S. was batshit crazy (ok, birdshit, technically) and ever since had to maintain a large pacific fleet to defend those remote strategic stockpiles of shit. But we weren’t the only ones willing to fight over a pile of shit:
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Speaking of star bears:
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That’s history with more than one modern echo:
Nauru used to be the Saudi Arabia of birdshit…until it ran out. Now it’s a collapsing impoverished mess.
It’s why the Australian refugee concentration camps were moved there. The local government is desperate; they’ll do anything for foreign cash.
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Canada’s long-standing territory dispute with Denmark, or what a real “Cold War” looks like:
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That was interesting, I didn’t know about the secret Arctic base!
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Hmm. Its Danish name is Hans Empty Set.
When my interest in early 20th-century detective stories intensified, I read the classic Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley, who was perhaps equally if not better known for his invention of the Clerihew, a whimsical, four-line biographical poem with the following properties:
- It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it mostly pokes fun at famous people
- It has four lines of irregular length and metre for comic effect
- The rhyme structure is AABB; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme, including the use of phrases in Latin, French and other non-English languages
- The first line contains, and may consist solely of, the subject’s name.
Example:
Did Descartes
Depart
With the thought
"Therefore I’m not"?
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