Some of you deserve this:
As you fashion-forward folks undoubtedly know, there’s a big Twitter slapfight going on between designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana and their billionaire celebrity (former) customers over the designers’ offensive comments about gay families.
Elton John is leading the boycott against the fashionistas, who really did say some incredibly stupid and offensive things, so they deserve the backlash they’re getting. But it’s a little rich coming from Rush Limbaugh’s pal Elton John. I hope Sir Elton has learned his lesson and will refuse to play at Limbaugh’s fifth wedding.
Anyway, I’ll be going through my couture closet and purging it of Dolce & Gabbana items. What are you up to today?
BruceFromOhio
Today’s agenda includes enjoying the drum corps and avoiding the drunks.
Later, there will be corned beef and recently bottled Irish lager.
Mustang Bobby
I flunked that part of Gay Indoctrination; I buy my clothes one aisle over from Auto Parts.
Betty Cracker
@BruceFromOhio: I completely forgot it’s St. Paddy’s Day. I’m not making corned beef and cabbage for the first 3/17 since…I don’t remember when. My family will probably rejoice behind my back.
Botsplainer
So the Israeli election closes at 10 PM local, 4 PM EDT. How long till results get tabulated, and how long will it take them to cobble a coalition? Is there a long lame duck period?
I’ve been a little surprised at the simple-mindedness that appears to be their campaign rhetoric. A lot of it sounds like the same stupid shit you can hear in a county election in East Bumfuck Arkansas.
ThresherK
@Mustang Bobby: I do not wear a lot of cologne, or often, but their scent is one on a very short list approved for my use by my wife.
BTW, I did not know Dolce and Gabbana were two actual people and they were still living. What’s the opposite of fashion-forward?
Kropadope
@Botsplainer:
Netanyahu is their prime minister. What did you expect?
OzarkHillbilly
@ThresherK:
Me too. My wife is particularly fond of the Gold Valvoline 10W-30.
Baud
How the hell is someone in fashion and anti-gay?
ThresherK
@OzarkHillbilly: For an ex-hippie chick, my wife has quite the positive response to the synthetic aroma of Mobil 1 10W-30.
At least when I emerge from the garage saying “Your oil is all set for another three months.”
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Dolce and Gabbana are apparently gay themselves but with extraordinary retrograde views. And abysmal marketing instincts!
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Do they call themselves Log Cabin Designers?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: THEY are gay. THEY are also against gays having children.
BillinGlendaleCA
On the continuing saga of my old(6 yo) computer(survaillance/email/web). I got a new power supply and installed it this evening. The case fan’s a bit gimpy, but I gave it a little tap and it started spinning away. The new CPU seems to be working: temps look OK and it’s running virtualization well.
OzarkHillbilly
A seriously cool cat.
ThresherK
@BillinGlendaleCA: “Gave the fan a little tap and it started spinning away”?
I’ve fixed systems like that. Maybe you need to station an assistant to hit the case with a broomhandle every so often.
(Or is that more of a mid-frame / minicomputer fix than a microcomputer fix?)
PurpleGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Cat Dude iz seriously chillin there.
Mustang Bobby
@Betty Cracker: We queers can be as cliquey as middle-school mean girls. As far as I’m concerned, this quote from The Ritz nails it:
OzarkHillbilly
@PurpleGirl: When in Rio….
Phylllis
@Betty Cracker: I gave up on corned beef a couple of years ago. Never satisfied with how it came out. Irish stew with Guinness (and a glug or two of Pinot Noir) in the crock pot for supper. After all that chopping and whatnot, I’m exhausted and really don’t want to go to work. Just glad not to be in Savannah or Charleston today.
BillinGlendaleCA
@ThresherK: I think replacement of the fan will be the next course of action if the fan problem occurs again. It wasn’t a problem before I had the machine down to replace the processor. Then again, it may be a function of the relative cost of “the assistant” and a new fan.
Sherparick
Excellent post about Brooks and Douthat and the fables they spin at the Daily Kos. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/16/1371379/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Poor-stories-from-Brooks-and-Douhat
The Baffler article is certainly a great counter-point. It brought to mind a classic from the 1970s that demythologize the “Good Old Days,” “Wisconsin Death Trip,” a detailed account of 1890s Gilded Age life in rural Wisconsin. One thing I enjoyed about Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” and later “Deadwood” was how it portrayed the family bonds. In my Irish family history going up, the stories of the 1890s through the 1920s were filled with early death, drunkenness, and abandonment.
A remarkable fact of the current moment, is when all sorts of social ills are actually improving, despite terrible inequality, there is this conservative panic, both about the “others” domestically and abroad where they want to wage eternal war.
FlyingToaster
It was a gig. A 7-figure gig, IIRC. I’d have taken the money, too.
Rush won’t be able to afford that at his fifth wedding. It’ll be his new bride’s second-cousin once removed acting as iPod DJ.
Splitting Image
@Baud:
They’re not anti-gay. They’re anti-“little people”. They got what they wanted out of gay liberation, and they’re not interested in having children. So fuck everyone else who does.
Suzanne
I love Dolce & Gabbana’s perfume. I wear the women’s on occasion, and I bought the men’s for Mr. Suzanne.
I had a coworker say far, FAR more offensive shit about fertility than this.
ThresherK
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’m just on the border of “not awake enough” to wonder “When did we start talking about radiator fans in cars?”
But seriously, yeah, fans are cheap and easy (usually) compared to the microsurgery that some processor replacements and upgrades entail. I forget, did you upgrade the processor?
Bonus: If you’re like some people (not me, usually), dusting off the interior simply to get to the fan results in much better cooling.
I was never so OC about it until I worked in an in-patient health-care setting, meaning 24×7 computer use and 24×7 of people being there and having their dead skin cells shedding and being sucked into computer systems. Compared to an ordinary office setting of 12×5, it builds up a lot quicker. Then again, I was never so OC about washing my hands until that particular job also.
Baud
@Suzanne: Tell Elton John. Maybe he’ll boycott your coworker.
raven
Margaret Elizabeth Downs Figg came from County Clare in 1854. She was our grandfather’s grandmother. I don’t drink and I don’t eat meat so this will have to do.
PurpleGirl
@ThresherK: I have a friend who worked for IBM in operating systems. At home he had an IBM box that was on 24/7/365. He’d taken off one of the side panels so the interior got very dusty and filled with cat/dog hair. I don’t remember him ever cleaning it or replacing the fan. He just ran the damn thing.
Elizabelle
@Sherparick: Never heard of “Wisconsin Death Trip.” It’s a theme begging to be a meme. For people who didn’t learn history the first time around, think they’re “exceptional”, and thus don’t see the dangers of allowing Scott Walker, his ilk, and their funders back into American politics.
Here’s wiki on how WDT came to be, and later works it inspired (novels, film, story by Stephen King).
Here’s website for the film.
ThresherK
@PurpleGirl: Cat hait in a computer? Yeah, that’s a thing in our home even though we don’t run systems all the time.
And I’m the designated vacuumer, so I have to nudge myself to get the cat hair on the floor before it migrates towards the CPUs as well as the refrigerator coils.
Baud
BillinGlendaleCA
@ThresherK: Yes, I replaced the processor. I wanted to bump up the speed a bit and wanted processor based virtualization. I did remove and clean the case fan, as well as the processor fan/heat sink when I did the processor upgrade.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Is all that much cheaper than buying a new computer?
Betty Cracker
@FlyingToaster: It wasn’t just a gig — here’s an excerpt of the article I linked above:
Elton John chooses to be friends with a hate-filled pustule like Limbaugh, so it seems odd that he’s going after the neanderthal fashionistas.
raven
@Baud: I could have bought a new truck for what I put in my Chevy!
raven
@Betty Cracker: You get my email?
Betty Cracker
@Baud: What could possibly go wrong?
Betty Cracker
@raven: I didn’t; will check now!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The processor was about $100 for a 2.8Ghz quad core. I had a problem with the power supply about a year ago, it was $45 for the replacement.
ETA: When I originally thought about upgrade/purchase new 2 years ago, I did purchase a new machine. This one is the backup now. A new machine of similar specs would probably be arround $450.
Baud
@raven:
Cars and trucks have a design that can’t be replaced. Who cares how a desktop computer is designed?
germy shoemangler
The rich are truly different from us. Elton looks decades younger than me, and I think I was eight years old when his first album came out.
Typing here on a Macbook Pro. Every few days I get the software update alert. Updating stuff by loading hundreds of megabytes into the computer. I read somewhere that eventually the computer slows down from all the updates.
raven
@Baud: Well, all my friends are low-riders
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
OK. Of course, if it were me, I would have spent that plus the cost of a new computer after I screwed up the repair.
different-church-lady
@OzarkHillbilly:
THEY are designers: they’re probably against anyone having children.
germy shoemangler
@Betty Cracker: Did it work? Are Fatty Rushbuckle’s eyes open now, after his dialogue with Captain Fantastic?
Betty Cracker
@raven: What a wonderful photo!
Ben Cisco
Here’s a pre-freakout picture of black Open Carry activists in Tejas: http://t.co/OcCYatjf23.
Because sure, nothing could possibly go wrong.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: There’s some hard earned lessons in that face.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Yea she didn’t look too happy. One of her son’s, Jason was killed at the Battle of Atlanta and the other survived and became a Chicago Fireman. She’s a but happier in this shot (my grandfather is holding the baby) but I suspect coming from Ireland by one’s self in 1854 was no walk in the park.
Cervantes
@Botsplainer:
Except with a certain nuclear frisson.
raven
@Ben Cisco: There was video of them earlier in the year and one woman had obviously never touched a weapon and it was hilarious watching her try to go to sling arms.
eta I can’t find it but watch them try to get in formation and do dress right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqXYF3ephY
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Maybe it will have the salutary effect of uniting the races against Starbucks.
different-church-lady
@Cervantes: BOOM goes the pun!
Jacks mom
I’m up early training the puppy. Im still in love, but as luck would have it, Mr. Jacks Mom just wants a good dog without actually training said good dog……so it looks like that anniversary present I got him is actually for me ;). I also got a beautiful Jade necklace so I’m thinking win/win.
Pogonip
@ThresherK: Me.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Your grandfather in drag? ;-)
My father’s parents arrived in 1900 and 1904 from Slovenia. Most of their pics have fairly serious faces as well, tho I do remember one of Grandma holding my sister Sue as a baby where she has a smile that could light up the world.
Elizabelle
@Baud: A bit heavy-handed.
I’ll take white guilt, vente.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Most of the time my mom’s aunt Venus (Du Quoin, Il) looked like this
but when when she “let her hair down” Little Egypt shook!
Elizabelle
@raven: Gives new meaning to “I can’t do ___, I have to wash my hair.”
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: No wonder she wore it in a bun!
Elizabelle
Maybe you discussed this overnight, but stories like this might get the NFL to change their practices.
From Reuters:
raven
@Elizabelle: And what “practices” are that?
ThresherK
@Ben Cisco: I also can’t wait to see Larry Wilmore’s take on this. Did not know he had a bus with his pic on it, and am dying to find out the rest of the slogan “It’s like a taco truck…” in the photo.
Ben Cisco
@raven: Oh. My. God.
That ain’t right.
raven
@Ben Cisco: The need Bill Murray in there!
BLOWED UP SUH!
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: Anybody who makes it to the top professional level of any sport in this day and age is cognizant of the risks they are taking, probably more so in the NFL than in other sports. This guy looked at the balance, a half-million bucks on one side, and the unknowns on the other, and walked away. Very few others do, and that’s unlikely to change. People in their 20’s more often prioritize short-term gain over long-term unknowns.
I’m not sure why there’s a big story here. Some guy who was good at his job quit because he didn’t like the risks he was being paid to take.
Cervantes
@Gin & Tonic:
Wait — you’re saying his leaving is exceptional and you’re asking why it should be a big story?
Gin & Tonic
@Cervantes: Uh, yeah. What’s the problem? Very few people walk away from a career in, say, medicine a year or two in. Some do. That would make it “exceptional.” When one does, is it a front-page story in every newspaper?
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
In American football, I gather that is news.
Elie
@Betty Cracker:
I hear that! Wow! How totally stupid… both to have those views but then to openly share them without awareness of the potential impact… Lordy, didn’t they pay attention to the Christian Dior designer who blew up his career with anti-gay comments (can’t remember his name)?
Yeah, it will just take me DAYS to clean out my Dolce and Gabana designs from my closet…
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Too lazy to cook this year, so I went to Gelson’s last night and got two corned beef and cabbage plates (also with potatoes, carrots, a roll, and a small salad). Planning to pick up some soda bread to bring to work, or at least some kind of green snack.
J R in WV
@raven:
You can make potato soup, that sounds Irish! I lurve me some taters.
schrodinger's cat
@Elie: That was John Galliano and he made some anti-Semitic comments. I don’t remember exactly what it was that he said.
tybee
@ThresherK:
you need a rubber chicken.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-12/news/vw-4141_1_rubber-chicken
Gin & Tonic
@schrodinger’s cat: He was drunkenly ranting in a restaurant. He “blew up his career” so much that Cate Blanchett wore a dress of his at this year’s Oscar’s.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Mustang Bobby: Shall I give you my shipping address for the new monitor?
I’ll be rinsing the brine off the brisket about 5PM. I’m toying with broiled cauliflower that was marinated in coconut milk with red pepper as a side, just to be different.
@OzarkHillbilly: So they are Log Cabin Designers.
Elizabelle
@raven: Not a football fan, but a few comments:
(1) Chris Borland’s decision will get attention from current players, but might really find an audience with football moms and dads. If they dissuade their kid from playing, or steer him (or her?) into another sport … much earlier in the pipeline …
(2) If so many players are getting head injuries and suffering terrible consequences years later, perhaps changing the style of the game? Could football exist without full-on tackle, more of a tag?
Having cattle-sized humans throw themselves at other humans is sport, I guess, but maybe there’s now an audience for soccer and other sports.
If you know about the head injuries, and the lifetime debilities that follow a football career, isn’t it that much closer to gladiator combat?
PS: full disclosure: we’ve got soccer and motocross injuries in the Ebelle family.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Good idea on buying the prepared plates. I might try that. Toying with buying the smallest corned beef I can find; would guess the meat freezes well …
NotMax
@ThresherK
Normal.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I discovered while Googling something else that the OUTRAGE OF THE DAY at Twitchy is that Obama is wearing a green tie today and dyed the White House fountain green. Because doesn’t he have more important things to do than pick a slightly different tie?!?11?