Kicking off the #Halloween? ?weekend in Wakanda! These siblings dressed up as Black Panther’s Shuri, Killmonger, and Okoye – and we love it! ?? (Photos via: @simply_shida) #wakandaforever #becauseofthemwecan pic.twitter.com/Rf59LAOWPQ
— #becauseofthemwecan (@Becauseofthem) October 26, 2018
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What’s doing that’s not politics?
Major Major Major Major
I keep forgetting it’s Halloween weekend. The percent of people wearing weird outfits doesn’t go up by the same amount in SF as it does some other places.
Mary G
I made chocolate chip banana bread yesterday, came out this morning and it’s all gone.
Jeffro
That is a pretty sweet Killmonger!
Mini-me wanted to be “Connor” from Assassin’s Creed, but Party City was all sold out, so he settled for being “Arrow/Green Arrow”, but with the Assassin’s Creed classic axe thingy. I’m sure parents handing out candy won’t care…I’m just hoping Mini-me doesn’t get teased by the other kids!
How old is too old for trick or treating? When you can shave?
Aimai
So wonderful! Wakanda forever!
Dorothy A. Winsor
Those kids are so cute.
One of my grad students moved to Canada and her kids are going to a Catholic school though they’re not Catholic. They have to go to Mass every day, but Mom told them they shouldn’t take communion. So one of her AA kids told her that when the priest offered him the host, he gave the Wakanda Forever salute.
Mnemosyne
Just finished a weekend writing conference in Pasadena and my brain is very full right now. G needed a little privacy to work on the final project for his master’s degree (SJSU calls it an e-portfolio or “e-port”) so I took myself out to the Huntington instead of going straight home.
Among other things, I feel like I now have a process for revising my book thanks to a session by author Rachael Herron, so I’m hoping to start working on that when I’m allowed to return home in an hour or so.
Mnemosyne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I have to admit, former Catholic me giggled when I saw the “Wakanda Forever” salute in the movie because it is, in fact, the exact same thing you’re supposed to do if you want to refuse the Host at Mass and have the priest give you a blessing instead. ?
So that kid was being literal, but may not have realized the gesture is a little older than the movie’s use of it. ?
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I bought an Edna Mode costume (from “Incredibles 2”). My co-workers are so enthusiastic about how perfect it is for me that I’m a little worried now. I mean, I realize that I’m short, stout, and shouty, but they don’t have to rub it in. ?
Anyway, “NO CAPES!”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mnemosyne: Her stories about her kids make me laugh regularly.
LuciaMia
Fifteen was my farewell year. I went as the Headless Horseman.
Ruckus
@Jeffro:
Ahhh, what if you don’t shave, does the age matter then?
Some of the west coast commenters will understand.
donnah
Adorable kids! I love Halloween and trick-or-treat, but we don’t get nearly as many little beggars as we used to in our neighborhood.
It’s officially soup weather, by my calendar anyway. Last week I made homemade vegetable, a double batch, gave some to friends and family, and my husband and I have nearly finished the rest. So today it’s ham and navy bean on the stove as I type. I love cooking when it’s chilly outside. Later this week: turkey chili!
Mnemosyne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Nicola Yoon did the closing keynote at the conference and I bought a book for each of my two 12-year-old nieces and got them autographed by her. Her speech was fabulous — very inspiring.
ruemara
I’m mentally digesting last night’s performance of Othello (who was a whiny fool), finishing my image editing of a play I photographed this summer, probably taking the housemate out for poké for his birthday since i made him tasty crepes for brekkie this morning & currently in a laundromat with wifi, doing my laundry while image editing. Maybe I’ll design a new podcast logo while I’m here…
Oh look, the site remembers me on my Mac!
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
You bought the costume, they were just agreeing with you.
OK, I googled Edna Mode and yes they are agreeing with you.
Jeffro
@donnah:
Awesome! I made two batches today (probably overdid it on the ‘cook everything on Sunday in order to coast through Wednesday’ thing): chicken & orzo soup, and Panera-style broccoli cheese soup. Also cooked off some pork loin for homemade banh mi sandwiches later this week!
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
They kind of talked me into it, really. We’ll see how it goes. ?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mnemosyne: When you get an inspiring speaker, it’s amazing how fired up you can get.
Jay
Heading out to bust up more firewood.
The Haughton’s are logging the next section over, but it’s the weekend, so no logging trucks, skidders or buncher fallers noising up the woods.
Just ATV’s and deer hunters.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
There are probably a ton of analyses about this, but IMO Othello’s biggest problem is that he’s a sexist fool. He thinks Iago is more trustworthy than Desdemona because Iago is a man and Des is a mere woman. ?
donnah
@Jeffro:
Yumbo! I’ll be right over!
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Maybe they know you better than you think………
Mnemosyne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I also saw Robert Crais as the opening keynote. I found him inspiring and funny, though for different reasons. I felt much better about my writing-out-of-order process after he spoke — basically, I found him inspiring on a craft/practicalities level. Yoon was more inspiring on an artistic level and how you can change the world with popular fiction.
And yet, I’m sitting here talking to you jackals instead of writing ….
satby
Sunday is my slacker day, especially since it has been raining most of the day. So leisurely morning reading, quick trip to the store because I was out of coffee filters (horrors!), then laundry and dishwasher duty. Having soup and salad for dinner when I get around to it.
My neighbor’s outdoor cat has adapted to the heated tent I rigged up for him on his favorite rocker on my porch. He refuses to use the heated cat house so I draped an acrylic ruana over the back and arms of the chair and tucked it in under the heated kennel pad on the cushion. It faces his house across the street, so he can watch for his owner. The owner doesn’t deserve this sweet boy.
HeleninEire
What’s not politics. Well, here in Dublin the clock went back an hour last night. Woke up early today. And tomorrow is a bank holiday. I spent the whole day thinking “Yay, no work tomorrow.” The clock goes back next week in NY when I arrive. So I have gained TWO hours this year!!
zhena gogolia
@ruemara:
haha, I love your take on Othello!
zhena gogolia
I just made Ina Garten’s turkey meatloaf — it’s in the oven and will probably last us all week.
Ruckus
@HeleninEire:
That’s 2 more hours of living in Dublin. Doesn’t sound all that bad from here in CA where everyone must be at least an hour late, judging from the driving.
zhena gogolia
I’m dreading Poldark’s setbacks in Parliament this week. Last week’s episode was incredibly depressing.
Wapiti
@zhena gogolia: I gave up on the TV series and went to the books (I had never heard of them. 2-3 more to go.
geg6
In the midst of putting a pork loin roast in the oven. Made a garlic paste to rub on it. Going to sear it and then put it on a bed of apples and onion with some sage and rosemary sprigs and drizzle it with a little maple syrup then roast. Roasted honey carrots and roasted potatoes for sides. I like cooking when it gets cold. Perfect day for this.
Denali
@geg6,
Can I come over for dinner? Sounds yummy.
donnah
@Mnemosyne:
I’m a huge fan of Robert Crais. I,ve attended a few of his book signing events when he used to come to our local independent bookstore. Since it closed, I don’t get to see the authors I love.
He’s funny, he’s clever, and he’s a good mystery writer. He’s also really handsome! I have also seen Michael Connelly and another fave, James Lee Burke. I was anticipating a great experience hearing Burke do a reading from his book and was disappointed when he was introduced to the crowd because he spoke softly with no trace at all of a Cajun drawl I was hoping for. But after a brief chat, he opened the book and began reading, and Dave Robichaux appeared, and the soft accent emerged. What a pleasure it was!
Brachiator
I just early voted. Made me feel pretty good about our prospects.
Now I can relax a bit.
zhena gogolia
@Wapiti:
I read the first book and gave up! Maybe I’ll return some day.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: That was obvious. I also let my housemate know it was a satire of toxic masculinity, nobility while also creating an incredibly early look at systemic racism, the perils of black excellence, the difference between possessiveness and actual love as well as one of the few playwrights at the time discussing how that plays out in male/female relationships. Or as I said during Othello’s woe is me, I’m a dumbass murderer – he’s such a dumbass wuss, shucking & jiving for the approval of his underling instead of ever investigating and trusting himself, which is also part of the mental aspects of systemic racism where the doubt is constant.
@Brachiator: Yay! Thank you!
JPL
@Brachiator: My family voted early today and since it’s a politic free blog, let me just say that some of us live and Fulton Cty and the other in DeKalb Cty. It was pretty easy this year, because we all compared notes afterwards and realized that none of us felt the need to study the candidates issues. As long as they met one criteria they had our vote.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Major Major Major Major: We were reminded of it yesterday. Went on a semi spontaneous getaway weekend to the beach (Rehoboth) thinking that this far off season it would be deserted and quiet.
Nope. Big time Halloween festivities. Saw some pretty great costumes, on humans and dogs. The kind that have intimidated me into not even trying since college.
opiejeanne
@Jeffro: Nah, you’re never too old if you go to the trouble to dress up. We got a real kick out of some neighbors in their 70s who went trick-or-treating a few years ago.
schrodingers_cat
I have discovered some YouTube channels for Indian cooking, hosted by actual home cooks from India, and I have improved my chicken curry game by a lot!
Major Major Major Major
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: could be worse, could have been that Greek beach covered in spiders https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bcb7ec6e4b055bc9481393b
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
If you can track down a copy (it’s not available online because it’s still under copyright), I think you would really enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story “Four Ghosts in Hamlet.” It’s partially based on Leiber’s experience as a supporting actor in a small touring company and combines its ghost story with the trials and pains of being a traveling actor.
Heidi Mom
@donnah: I saw JLB many years ago at the Mystery Bookshop in Pittsburgh. He gave the impression of being a very kind and thoughtful man.
rikyrah
I love the cuteness of these kids??
opiejeanne
@LuciaMia: We used to live in a neighborhood where the high schoolers still dressed up and went out, or stayed at home to hand out candy while Mom and Dad took the younger kids around. That was really a golden age for that neighborhood, when it came to raising kids.
My kids have such great memories and we have some great ones too. My son was always Dracula, the middle kid was a princess one year and a twin clown with her best friend, the youngest as Wednesday one year for Hallowe’en, and all three were forced at different times to wear my husband’s clown costume made by his grandmother when he was 5.
Mnemosyne
@donnah:
I don’t read many thrillers or mysteries, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’m guessing that the speech he gave to a bunch of writers was different than the one he gives for fans, but it was really fun. He read us a few of the emails that he’s gotten correcting his grammar and telling him he’s a terrible writer. ?
He did it in a spirit of letting us know that you’re never going to make everyone happy, so you need to write because YOU enjoy it, not because you’re expecting validation from others. Always a good reminder.
Suzanne
I voted by mail last week, and I logged into the County Recorder’s website and verified that my ballot was received, signature verified, and counted.
I miss voting in person somewhat (especially the sticker), but in 2016, we had that disastrous primary election in which we stood around outside in May for three hours waiting to vote. Plus, SuzMom always wants to follow who I vote for, and it is just easier if we do our ballots together at the kitchen table.
I am not feeling great today. I am totally pooped out. I’m getting old. This sucks. Aging sucks.
I have been mentally escaping too much for the last two months or so. Reading novels, working on my skincare regimen, making art, spooning the dog. I haven’t canvassed at all this cycle. I just feel completely drained.
Schlemazel
roasting a small lamb roast on the grill, may be the last time we can do something that large before the glaciation takes place. Still can do quick things (I have found the perfect combination of sous vide and grill for steaks they only require a few minutes to char the outside. meanwhile foolish lady that married me is preping root vegetables for roasting. A feast will be had with several fine lunches to follow.
Bought the candy today a 6.5 pound mixed bag. We do not get many kids, maybe a dozen but I love the look they have when I tell them to grab a handful & they take one or two pieces so I say “Thats not a handful!” and drop a huge bunch in their bags, It makes me happy. In the old days we often got 50-60 and I would buy 2-3 bags & still had to be careful not to run out before the big kids showed up. Halloween is a very fun holiday
Schlemazel
@opiejeanne:
When our oldest was young enough to go one friends dad and I were designated as the chaperones. His friends dad was quite excited about this. I discovered the tradition was that the dads got a little ‘treat’ at a lot of the houses. I was grateful that the next day was Saturday the first time because I was very well hungover! I had to learn to pace myself & to be rude & say no thanks to many offers.
My best Halloween as an adult!
opiejeanne
@rikyrah: They are adorable children and their costumes made me really happy.
khead
A couple of other folks touched on this in another thread, but just wanted to add a fuck you Charlie Sykes.
Immanentize
Inter alia Those kids make me Soooo happy.
Immanentize
@khead: Why in the world would you link to — give clicks to — such a horrible thing. Please share goat porn next time.
Immanentize
@khead: PS Please give links to previous comments (that you reference) about that article THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN!
Links, please.
opiejeanne
@Schlemazel: I had several Hallowe’ens that included booze. The first was at the house across diagonally from ours, owned by a doctor and his wife, a nurse. After the kids had been sent off to do homework (eat candy) around 9pm they had us come over and gave us a glass of wine. We were sitting in their living room drinking our second glass of wine when their cat raced through the middle of the room chasing a ball and batted at it under a chair.
I said, “That ball has legs!” and pandemonium ensued. The doctor, not a little guy at all, ended up on a chair shouting directions at us to GET IT, but the cat got it and took it back outside, probably brought the wee beastie in to play with it and show off.
The other times were with two other neighbor ladies when we lived in the SF east bay. One of them made us each a margarita and we walked half a block behind our little darlings (the youngest in each family) , telling stories and laughing. When the girls hit jr high and told us they didn’t want us any more it about broke our hearts because that was so much fun. I think we were a bit raucous and they were embarrassed by what they thought were drunk mommies. We weren’t drunk but by the end we were very relaxed. One year I went as a killer bee.. oh, maybe that was why they ended the tradition. Dang.
chris
@Immanentize: That’s my fetish!
opiejeanne
@khead: Already saw that bullshit article, would have liked a short note before your link so I could avoid it a second time.
opiejeanne
@chris: You know that just got added to the dossier, don’t you?
narya
Yesterday was my last brewery 5k of the season, and, in part because work is crushing right now, i was useless the rest of the day yesterday. Today, however, I bought some Rancho Gordo beans (hadn’t tried them before), and then promptly went through the fridge: cleaned and steamed the kale; cleaned and chopped and steamed the broccoli; made ANOTHER two jars of sauerkraut; and am still cooking a batch of beans (cooked with onions and garlic from the CSA share, some limp carrots, some of the lard I rendered in the spring, and a couple of sprigs of rosemary at the end). I did defrost and sort the chest freezer yesterday–all in the service of making this week as easy as possible. We’ll see . . .
Immanentize
@chris: I love goats. I also really like cabrito. But the extra boys really must be willing to help the common good.
chris
@opiejeanne: S’OK, the dossier already fills a whole drawer.
Mary G
Welp. The bigot won in Brazil. I wonder if there is an active movement pushing the world to the right, or if it’s that so much time has elapsed since WWII that people don’t know in their bones why it is bad, or what. It is very discouraging.
Immanentize
@opiejeanne: I purchased mine from Adam for a small exchange of information. I am certain I am now in the clear.
NotMax
Haven’t seen hide nor hair nor mask of a trick or treater in years. Nevertheless bought a package of decent candy, because know darn well that if I hadn’t…
Immanentize
@Mary G: There is, and has long been, an active well financed movement. I have neighbors who are Brazil nationals. They were all in for Bolsonaro because of the massive corruption of the opponent’s party. Warning Sign!!!
Ken Shabby
At our house, Haller Weine is all year, every year.
We dress up as ourselves.
For the last decade, there were guns for treats.
Today, maples finally gave it up, and we’re raked into next May.
Oaks are deciding whether or not to hang chads or appeal to Brett and Co.
https://youtu.be/Vk9QFRvVQQ0
opiejeanne
Tonight I’m making a nacho casserole because I’m lazy. That’s a terrible name for it, but it’s easy and good, and pretty cheap; it’s an end of month/is it payday yet? recipe. Layer of refried beans in the bottom of a 9X13 pan, layer of seasoned ground beef on top of that, layer of cheese on top of that, and some good salsa drizzled on top. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
Eat it with corn tortilla chips and sour cream and some more of that good salsa.
I’m a sucker for Herdez salsa (YMMV) even though I make a very decent one myself, but our tomato crop is bust and the ones in the store suck. They don’t even smell like tomatoes and they aren’t ripe, and when they do ripen a little they taste like nothing at all.
chris
@Immanentize: I had to look it up and it sounds delicious. Would lamb work? Not a lot of goats here at the end of the earth.
ETA: Or venison? Some will show up any day now.
Brachiator
@ruemara:
Isn’t the full title of the play, “Othello, or Don’t Be Messin’ With White Women.”
There are some magical visual touches in Orson Welles’ version. One scene shows Othello and Iago walking together, stride by stride, but as Othello is taken in by Iago’s lies, he falters and at the end you feel as if Iago is leading the other man by the nose.
In one of the sources of the play, the character who becomes Iago lusts after Desdemona, but Shakespeare removes this as a motivation, making it possible for the play to become more about the intersection of racism and personal psychology.
As is common in the later plays , the female characters are more sensible than the men; here Desdemona and Iago’s wife Emilia.
The Japanese director did amazing versions of a couple of Willie the Shake’s plays. I wonder what he might have done with Othello.
WaterGirl
Beto just wrote me — I’m just positive this was a personal email from him to me!!!
Knocking on over ONE MILLION doors in Texas since early October got him another $25 from me, even though I am tapped out. I’m always talking back to “give us more money” emails from candidates saying “what are you going to do with the money???”
I think Beto’s is the first campaign that is smart enough to say what they plan to do with the money they want you to give. That’s just smart, and it makes me super happy.
P.S. That’s a lot of doors!
Ken Shabby
@Mary G:
I think it’s the latter + impatience.
Cry Havoc and, let slip the neurons of thought.
opiejeanne
@Ken Shabby: We went to a Hallowe’en party at my niece’s last night. We were the only old people there, everyone else was in their 30s. Some of them had great costumes, my niece was Peg Bundy and there was a great Zorro, a pope and a bishop, and some lesser beings; we went as Nanny Ogg and Casanunda, and people asked if we were characters from Harry Potter.
Kids!
Immanentize
@chris: Lamb is lamb, and I love it so, but cabrito is different and also fabulous. I used to teach in San Antonio and one of my students would give me young goats from his family farm in the valley, already prepared, to smoke/bar b q. Mouth watering now.
WaterGirl
I am pretty sure I am the only person in the universe who hasn’t seen Black Panther yet. Would you know who those kids were if you didn’t already know what they were going for? Without having seen the movie yet, they look pretty good to me!
Immanentize
@chris: Added — somewhere I have a great blueberry BarBQ sauce recipe that is perfect for venison back strap.
Ken Shabby
@Brachiator:
Was fortunate enough to see Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in this. Jones blew everyone off the stage.
https://youtu.be/493pL_Vbtnc
schrodingers_cat
@ruemara: I have yet to see the highly lauded Vishal Bharadwaj’s take on Othello called Omkara.
Saif Ali Khan’s Iago got the most accolades in that adaptation. Omkara is not black but he is a (half) untouchable leading a Brahmin gang in western UP.
I think Kareena Kapoor has never looked more beautiful than she does here.
Naina Thug Lenge ( Your eyes will deceive you) sung byRahat Fateh Ali Khan. Music composed by Vishal Bharadwaj and the awesome lyrics are by Gulzar.
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: I can’t remember my middle name half the time, but I did know they were from Black Panther and which characters they were representing, just not the names of those characters.
Ken Shabby
@opiejeanne:
!!
Sounds like fun!
Schlemazel
@opiejeanne:
Love both stories!
We had a cat that grabbed a chipmunk & I hollered at her (our cats are never outside alone) Mrs open the door to see what was up & the rat ran inside with cat hot on his heels. I had to get the cat outside & then build a maze so the gopher could only run out the other door then chase it out.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Are you all packed? (not nagging, just curious)
chris
@Immanentize:
New to me but the goog has 5 million hits. One of my neighbours gives me a roast and a pound or so of back strap every year and I have blueberries in the freezer so… Yum!
Ken Shabby
@Schlemazel:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Similar to something the college food service would occasionally put out, only theirs had a layer of Fritos baked on top.
@Immanentize
Less commonly encountered than it used to be, but there are still some neighborhoods on the island where while driving through one can turn a corner and suddenly come across the distinctive odor of goat hair being burned off a carcass (with a propane torch).
Schlemazel
@opiejeanne:
a long story (available upon request) but for reasons my family had the Romanian ambassador to the US and his wife for dinner back in the very early 60’s.
In the mid 1980’s I had to get a top secret/sensitive compartmented information clearance. I walked in for the interview part & the first words out of the agents mouth were, “So, how did you happen to have the Romanian Ambassador over for dinner?”
Fair Economist
@Mary G:
I’m pretty sure it’s some of both. Both Putin and plutocrats worldwide have been pushing the new fascism pretty hard, but it’s also that people are forgetting and are more easily manipulated.
NotMax
@chris
Different kind of salmon recipe, using blackberries. I imagine blueberries would work instead.
schrodingers_cat
@Mary G: It is the victory of 30+ Reagonomics on steroids, which the United States exported throughout the world via the World Bank and IMF.
Steeplejack
@Ken Shabby:
Tom Rush—unexpected. I really like him. His music quickly puts me in that specific time and a particular place.
A nice bookend: “Wind on the Water.”
Ruviana
@Schlemazel: There are three different rodents(?) in this story! That was one busy cat!
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
Has Trump tweeted his congratulations and undying support yet?
Ken Shabby
@Steeplejack:
And:
https://youtu.be/2RkkUHP88pY
Also, too:
https://youtu.be/Bb7ld3dWChE
NotMax
@Ruviana
“My name is Mr. Boots and I’m a rataholic.”
:)
Ken Shabby
@Steeplejack:
Also, definitely:
https://youtu.be/-tQ9LPCz7cw
debbie
@geg6:
Okay, I just ate and now I’m hungry all over again.
Steeplejack
@Ken Shabby:
Listening to “The Circle Game” right now.
Tom Rush suits my slightly gray mood this evening.
@Ken Shabby:
Aw, hell, don’t go all Lightfoot on me. I’ll be down the YouTube hole all night.
“Apology.”
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Accuracy in all things.
SiubhanDuinne
@Schlemazel:
Yum!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: We should go together! Will you be in central Illinois anytime soon?
Chyron HR
@Mary G:
Wow, it’s almost like there was something driving the 2016 US presidential election results other than “Hillary is dum lol”.
Ken Shabby
@Steeplejack:
You can go to Barbados or, you can go to Massey Hall.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Concert
In Canada, this either about Vimy Ridge, Dieppe or, just any of all this. Normandy and 7th Armored.
Their Gallipoli
Schlemazel
@Ruviana:
sorry, here on the tundra we often call chipmunks gophers & visa versa. Rat is just shorthand
cain
I am in Pittsburgh, attending a Chemical Engineering conference. My dad gets honored for his 80th birthday there tomorrow. So it’s a huge family gathering.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Here’s the other.
Jay
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s a cookbook!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI
oatler.
@SiubhanDuinne: Chuck Todd creamed his pants and didn’t know why.
Schlemazel
@SiubhanDuinne:
He was greasy, she was tough and stringy!
Seriously, he was smarmy (and this is 10 year old me who didn’t know the word ‘smarmy’) and his wife was openly hostile.
frosty fred
@SiubhanDuinne: I can certify there’s at least three of us.
Ruckus
@Immanentize:
goat porn?
The things you learn here everyday.
And thank you for the laugh.
Schlemazel
If you want to see evil in action you need to be watching 60 Minutes right now
I need to go throw up
Skepticat
@Major Major Major Major:
I had an office in Salem, Massachusetts, for years, and I had my staff work from home the entire last week and a half of October. The rest of the year, lots of people still looked as though they were dressed for Halloween.
Schlemazel
@frosty fred:
I hate superhero movies so add me to the list also
Brachiator
@Jeffro:
Good question. I always thought that Halloween was for little kids. The night is a reversal, when kids can demand that adults give them candy, and adults are compelled to comply.
I was the oldest child and somewhere in my teen years the task of being chaperone was transferred from my parents to me. Also, I got to scare kids coming to our house and pass out treats.
The Circle of Halloween Life.
Ken Shabby
@Schlemazel:
Yeh – pass on all those manure rolling motherfuckers…
cain
@SiubhanDuinne:
Just a Netflix away! :)
Ken Shabby
@oatler.:
For decades.
Ken Shabby
@Schlemazel:
Except:
https://goo.gl/images/EAavnC
NotMax
@Brachiator
Back in kiddie days, knocking on a door or ringing a doorbell wasn’t sufficient. Had to do something (sing a song, recite a poem, etc.), anything to earn the handouts.
Dan B
@Immanentize: There are reports of professors offices being searched for “radical” materials. This was prior to the election. Also Bolsonaro is a cr razed rated homophobe and thugs have been attacking people in gay friendly neighborhoods.
The reach of the Brazilian military junta is long and persistent. It’s one reason I hate Sarandon. A swing to the right may produce a backlash but it is more likely to produce an extended period of small and large horrors.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Blueberries might work, but the blackberries would add more “heft” to the sauce.
zhena gogolia
@Schlemazel:
Why, what?
khead
We had a pair of trick-or-treaters a few years ago who drove up to the cul-de-sac and parked their car.
chris
@NotMax: Damn! That looks delicious and I would eat it with gusto if it was presented to me but… I haven’t been in a liquor store in 26 years and I don’t think I’ll change that even though I have some wild blackberries too.
raven
I was fooling with one of my rigs and I turned around to see a rod and reel knocked out of the holder and headed for Davey Jones locker. I’ve had it happen with redfish so I was excited. I played it right, loosened the drag and played it to the shore. It wasn’t what I hoped for and it was really pissed off so I very carefully put it back,. Plenty spooky and that horn on the back will hurt you.
Ken Shabby
@khead:
Eggs. That’s what eggs are for –
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
That’s three. From the chatter about it I doubt many more have missed it.
Bil Arnold
Not sure why, but this particular blatant DJ Trump lie (at improbable best, “made-up fact”) really steams me.
Trump Lies About Sept. 11 to Justify Holding Campaign Rally After Synagogue Shooting
Also, reposting a Medium link in a previous thread, interesting forensics on the social media propaganda (inc the Soros bits) surrounding The Caravan:
Rumores Sin Fronteras – The rumor ⊂⟑r⟑v⟑n: journey of a seeded controversy from @reply, comment, and aliased op-ed to an election-impacting narrative covered on network television (Jonathan Albright, Oct 25, 2018) (Would be interested in an opinion from both Cheryl and Adam, or either)
dmsilev
@Dan B: I wonder. Now that it is quite possibly his ox being gored, will we see Glenn Greenwald discover a dislike for right-wing politicians? Or will he simply move again?
Ruckus
@NotMax:
A few people in the neighborhood tried that. I believe some of the other kids gave them eggs as payment.
Dan B
@WaterGirl: This is terrible news for me personally since I want Beto to send me the personal note with a kiss. And it makes it even more confusing to decide if Mayor Gillum or Stacey Abrams, let alone several blazing stars, are “the one”!
Fans self and hoes back to teasing the 18 year old partially toothless lap kitteh..
Schlemazel
@Ken Shabby:
Yeah, that is the hero we deserve
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ruckus: Our last dog love Halloween. Bunches of her favorite things happened. The doorbell rang! It was kids! They had bags of candy! She used to run out onto the porch and stick her head in their bags. She never took anything. She was just looking. And she loved the kids.
Schlemazel
@zhena gogolia:
The Boston Diocese scandal. How they worked to hide rapists, how decent Catholics had to defy their church in order to bring truth to light
schrodingers_cat
@cain: My in-laws are Tamil Iyers. Wish your father a happy birthday and a long life, on my behalf. Most of the temples I have been to in the United States (2 so far) have both been Tamil temples. I wonder why.
Schlemazel
@Schlemazel:
The pain the two whistleblowers are feeling is horrible and so unnecessary.
My ‘favorite’ bit though is that the US Bishops are considering writing a code of conduct. Son of a bitch! I thought Christians already HAD a code of conduct
Ruckus
@Schlemazel:
Wasn’t it yesterday when we learned right here on BJ that Catholics weren’t actually christians?
Or did I get confusled again?
A Ghost To Most
Random thought: Where will Glenn Greenwald hide out next now that an anti-gay fascist is set to take over Brazil?
A Ghost To Most
@Ruckus: christians aren’t actually christians. A lot of people are confused.
Viva BrisVegas
@Mary G:
It’s called Capitalism.
As the monied elites grab an ever greater share of the economic pie in Western economies, those left behind get to fight over a smaller and smaller piece of pie.
What you are seeing is the squabbling between racially and religiously aligned groups for diminishing resources such as wages and government services.
One political side does this by trying to claim the resources of the poor, the other side does this (occasionally) by trying to claim the resources of the rich.
The role of the media is to legitimise the first group and delegitimise the second.
The political trick is to convince enough of the left behinds that you will redistribute the pillage in their direction.
That is how people like Bolsonaro get elected.
debbie
@raven:
Alien looking. How did you get the hook out?
Steeplejack
@Ken Shabby:
Sunday Concert was a mainstay my first year in college, along with Santana and Crosby, Stills & Nash. I had all three on a reel-to-reel tape that my nextdoor neighbor from high school sent me.
Schlemazel
@Ruckus:
I live through those battles when I was a kid I refuse to feed them. If they claim to believe that Joshua of Nazareth was the Christ they are Christians. Even the Mormons (whom many denominations consider a cult) make the cut in my book. It may be easier for me since I do not believe any of them so feel no need to ‘save’ any of them from Hell.
All the Middle Eastern religions believe in the same cosmic muffin and instead of killing each other over which fork is the correct fork for the salad course they really should all get down & beg the hairy thunderer for the mercy they refuse to give each other
Schlemazel
@A Ghost To Most:
I twitted him asking how long he thought he had before they came fro him & if he would ever take ownership of his part in making it possible
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I wish! Probably not until Autumn of 2020, en route to my 60th high school reunion. We’d better try to catch it sooner, or acquire the DVD.
JanieM
@Schlemazel:
I would say “LOL” if the story behind the comment was something other than decades (probably centuries, if not millennia) of abuse and the covering up of abuse. Another institution that ought to be razed, and the ground where it stood salted. Maybe not the faith itself (so some rebellious nuns have insisted to me), but the earthly trappings? Bye bye.
Gelfling 545
@opiejeanne: Daughter & son in law went to a party last night. She was the killer rabbit of Caerbannog and he was Tim the Enchanter. They were quite pleased when quite by chance Arthur, King of the Britons arrived.
But her emails!!!
@A Ghost To Most: probably some place in Europe that doesn’t yet have a right wing government. I wonder if he’ll piss where he drinks this time. He’s running out of liberal democracies to live in and undermine for a paycheck, so he might be forced choose the same country for both.
Steeplejack
@Ken Shabby:
From another classic concert from Massey Hall. Neil Young, “On the Way Home.”
ETA: Can’t resist—Buffalo Springfield, “On the Way Home.”
Dan B
@dmsilev: I’ve read reports from Sao Paulo so don’t know if this is happening in Greenwald’s hood. It seems that all the good looking gays on Instagram have photos on the beach in Rio but Sao Paulo has had a huge pride parade for years somewhere around a million so the right wing will have some resistance. But the military has the advantage over the LGBTQ community. The military knows all the nasty strategies and we don’t know effective resistance.
Greenwald would probably be a drag on resistance. We’ll find out, I guess.
SiubhanDuinne
@oatler.:
Ugh ugh ugh. ?
Also, EWWWWWW. ???
Schlemazel
@A Ghost To Most:
Raven
@debbie: Very very carefully by flipping it over and using needle nose pliers. The mouth is on the bottom.
Viva BrisVegas
@A Ghost To Most:
In a gated community with guards at the gates.
Only the poor have to pay a price when the morality police are given free reign.
david
From what I gather, Todd Gurley III does not play fantasy football, nor does he gamble.
tybee
@raven: those will light you up if you’re not careful…
Raven
@tybee: Oh yea. It was really pretty today but nothing but the ray and little whiting. The boat dude wants to go in the PM tomorrow because of falling tide and less wind. I told him I was in his hands.
joel hanes
My paternal grandmother always gave full-sized candy bars.
Not “snack size”, nor “fun size”, nor “mini” – full-sized candy bars.
Families who had moved out of the neighborhood were inveigled by their kids into taking them to Mrs. Hanes’s house again this year, please Mom please.
She kept a careful count of kids at her door; her best year was somewhere north of one hundred ten.
When I was a little kid, though, my favorite was the neighbor lady gave each kid a black or orange popcorn ball, five inches in diameter and wrapped in waxed paper, one huge caramel apple in a wax-paper bag, and a little bag of soft peanut-butter taffies in black and orange waxed-paper wrappers, all freshly home-made.
JaySinWA
@A Ghost To Most:
some are even contused.
Raven
@david: He’ll knock your dick in the dirt fo sho!
Steeplejack
@Schlemazel:
“Okay, so the committee is agreed? ‘Don’t rape children’ is in the code.”
[Aside] “Close vote, though.”
“Tell me about it.”
Princess
@dmsilev: I am a terrible person because I want to reply to his sad tweets “Cheer up, Glenn. At least it isn’t Hillary Clinton!” But this guy is going to do so much damage to so many people I don’t have the heart for it, so I am just going to say it in here.
Dan B
@A Ghost To Most: Where will millions of LGBTQ Brazilians move to?
Imagine the glittery caravan headed to the docks in Miami! Imagine Ivanka languidly fretting they’d be turned back!! Imagine Mother and Lindsey and Tony P launching the torpedoes from the SS Destroymagasm!!!
Can GG top that fantasy?
Oh, I hear there may be room on an Ecuadorian Embassy. But I speculate idly, or wildly.
joel hanes
@opiejeanne:
we went as Nanny Ogg
so, carrying a pint or two of brandy in the underwear, huh?
That’s just good sense.
Cacti
@Dan B:
Given his US citizenship, Greenwald would probably be “invited” to repatriate first, and then disappeared if he didn’t take the hint.
Schlemazel
@JanieM:
There is nothing inherently wrong with the message of the Catholic Church, or really just about any religion currently practiced. They all pretty much say the same thing, “Be kind to each other, try to do no harm, help out where & when you can” but they are all also built on a foundation of the bodies of nonbelievers. They all have some ugly violence backed by their particular cloud being(s) and many of their adherents love to focus on those bits.
Then there is the whole culture that grows in any profitable outfit. “We must protect the outfit at all costs! We must continue to increase power and profits for the outfit! We must destroy any who appear to pose a threat to the power and profit of the organization!” The best part is they believe their faith gives them license to do whatever they deem best for the organization.
Thats not just the RCC they just have a big head start and a worldwide organization. We know from evidence that it is not just the RCC that has troublesome priests.
Schlemazel
@Steeplejack:
Forgot to add
“Don’t cover for those that do”
EH, save that for next meeting we don’t want to rush these things
joel hanes
@Schlemazel:
cosmic muffin … hairy thunderer
what you did there: I saw it.
satby
@Schlemazel: I skipped to the end, but I’m also not a superhero movie fan, so do I make six or have more come out of the closet since your comment?
I don’t like going to see movies in theaters either.
satby
@raven: wow!
Brachiator
@Viva BrisVegas:
That’s just today. There’s always some izm that people use to justify their cruelty to others.
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: mostly. Movers tomorrow; finishing touches.
JR
@Viva BrisVegas: It’s not really capitalism per se. The monied elites would prefer something closer to feudalism.
NotMax
@raven
And you without a ray gun.
:)
Amir Khalid
There’s been some tragic news in the world of football: Leicester City FC owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was confirmed as one of five killed in a helicopter crash after Saturday’s home game in the English Premier League against West Ham United. It was Srivaddhanaprabha’s habit to take the helicopter back to London after home games, and the aircraft had just taken off from the stadium’s pitch as usual. Srivaddhanaprabha was beloved in Leicester for his generosity and humility, and for his role in the club’s Premier League title win two years ago. The club and its supporters are currently in mourning, and a few upcoming matches have been postponed.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Have you secured a place to move the stuff to?
Schlemazel
Went to a halloween party last night put on by new friends (only known them about 10 months) and it was a very serious affair! She had over 100 ‘village’ pieces (like Hallmark’s Xmas village stuff but with ghouls, ghosts and monsters) dozens and dozens of artificial pumpkins and an unbelievable number of fake tombstones, skulls, spiders. Local musicians performed for a very eclectic crowd. It was a great night
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
That’s awful.
Amir Khalid
@JR:
There. More accurate now.
NotMax
@Schlemazel
Went to a Halloween party many years ago at a four story structure in Pennsylvania which the owners who lived there had dubbed Chill House. More than lived up to the name.
No heat other than fireplaces, no electricity anyplace other than the kitchen. For whatever reason, there were maybe five or six antique pianofortes scattered amongst the many rooms, IIRC.
Eric S.
@donnah: I’ve got turkey chili and minestrone on the near term agenda.
Jeffro
@donnah:
HUGE fan of JLB – re-reading his books has probably kept me from reading 100 other books, and yet I don’t feel like I’ve missed a thing. ETA true confession, I actually have a “Robicheaux’s Bait Shop” cap that they used to sell (might still) on his online store
Viva BrisVegas
@JR:
I was going to use the term Feudal Capitalism, but I thought it was a bit tautological.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: we have a sublet and the stuff will be in storage while we find a permanent place.
Gelfling 545
@joel hanes: One of my daughters is giving out full sized candy bars this year. She has aspired to be “that lady” for years. She’s pleased to hsve achieved this goal.
Amir Khalid
@Eric S.:
Ah, minestrone. Restaurant waiters here call it “minestrewn soup” for some reason. I think Thai tomyam soup, with those fiery little green chili peppers which you bite into at your own peril, better fits that description.
opiejeanne
@Schlemazel: Thanks. I was confused because those are definitely three different creatures in my head.
We have moles here that make mounds like pocket gophers. Very annoying, but I don’t hate moles because they don’t molest my flowers or vegetable gardens. Gophers, on the other hand, can just piss right off.
At my house we do not have pocket gophers but we do have the aforementioned moles, we have the tiny elephant shrews, we have meadow voles, possibly a regular old mouse and some regular old rats, and we have squirrels. The squirrels here are a somewhat rare local variety just found in our part of the Sammamish Valley, or so I’m told. We have a weasel or maybe several who look an awful lot like our local squirrels when they’re crossing the road, except their movements are a bit different. We get along with almost all of them, although I did a bit of cursing when the squirrels dug up almost all of the tulips in the yard a couple of years ago.
I wish the cat wouldn’t catch the shrews and would stick to the voles. She’s only allowed outside with an escort and we are amazed by how good she is at catching rodentia.
She used to chase the rabbits but she just shrugs now because she knows she’ll never catch one. We really don’t want her to catch a baby rabbit.
opiejeanne
@Schlemazel: Yeah, we’ve had conversations with the FBI for various friends’ clearances over the past 45 years, and they do ask questions like that. Takes you by surprised, doesn’t it?
opiejeanne
@Schlemazel: Ask me about fucking Romanians sometime, just not here. I have an email address: opie underscore jeanne at yahoo dot com.
MomSense
@Mary G:
That’s how you know it’s good!
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: So sweet!
donnah
@Jeffro:
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead.
just sayin’
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Wow, movers tomorrow. I hope everything is smooth sailing!
opiejeanne
@Gelfling 545: That’s awesome! There was another “witch”, just a girl wearing a stylishly decrepit witch hat and a leather jacket and jeans. She didn’t come over to talk to me, most of them didn’t. It could have been fun but they all knew each other from work so we just sat at the other end of the room after a while and watched the baseball game. It’s ok. My niece tells me about some of these dimbulbs, one of whom asked her one day if there were male rabbits.
We left early. The Harry Potter question was too much.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Hoping you thought to put together a list of number of boxes and also everything else being sent cross country. Movers are notorious for ‘misplacing’ stuff. At least one copy for you and one given to the moving crew boss.
opiejeanne
@joel hanes: Yes indeed. Scumble. It’s made from apples, mostly.
I didn’t get a chance to pull it out. They simply were not interested in us. Oh well, their loss. We got home at a much nicer hour than we would have otherwise. The party was in Tacoma, we live just north of Redmond, and it was raining really hard and the freeway was flooded in places but not much traffic for most of it. Exciting ride, glad we weren’t trying it later when the wind got to ripping.
Mnemosyne
@joel hanes:
My mom gave out homemade treats in the early 1970s, but because times had already changed, she carefully included a small strip of paper with her name and address on it in each baggie so the kids’ parents would know which house it came from.
Schlemazel
@opiejeanne:
I realized later it was intended to throw me off balance and also convince me there was nothing I could hide
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Our last two moves the movers made the list for us and we checked off the boxes as they went onto the truck.
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
Unless they were serving antifreeze that does not sound like a lot of fun!
opiejeanne
@Schlemazel: Exactly, and it does work.
Schlemazel
@opiejeanne:
I know it worked on me
Mnemosyne
@Schlemazel:
I mentioned this when it happened, but my brother’s goddaughter got a federal job that requires a clearance and she listed him as one of her references. It took quite a while to get it scheduled because the contractor who was supposed to do it kept leaving notes on his door at home no matter how many times he called and left a message to tell her to come to his office instead.
Anyway, he finally connected with the person who was supposed to do the interview and the opening question was, “How long have you known L?”
My brother said, “Let me think. I think she was about 2 days old.”
There was kind of a long pause, and the interviewer said, “I’m sorry, did you say two days?”
My brother said. “Yes, my ex-wife and I visited her mother in the hospital when she was born, and I think it was about two days later.”
Needless to say, the interview was fairly short.
different-church-lady
I remember feeling that sharing the last Red Sox world series with you knuckleheads was the only good thing that happened to me in 2013.
So… here I am again!
WaterGirl
Speaking of voting, you can still vote for the bunny rescue group that TaMara works with. Voting ends either today or tomorrow – depending on what they mean by “Voting closes October 29!”.
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FlipYrWhig
The only redeeming aspect of the Brazilian elections is estimating the height to which Glenn Greenwald’s petard has hoisted him.
Patricia Kayden
@FlipYrWhig: As much as I hate Greenwald, it’s awful that Brazilians elected a homophobe (and sexist and racist). Greenwald is wealthy enough to skip town so it’s all good.
Amir Khalid
@Schlemazel:
If they were serving antifreeze I’d avoid the place. That stuff tastes very sweet, so I’ve read, but it’s toxic; spilled antifreeze is a safety hazard for pet animals who live where it gets cold in winter.
lamh36
???Seriously Chicago Sun Times…SERIOUSLY ???
FlipYrWhig
@Patricia Kayden: True. I still find it bracing that Greenwald could be, like, “Sadly I must leave America because of its corrupt political system and institutionalized homophobia” and spend years taking potshots at anyone trying to make it better for not being QUITE good ENOUGH, while living in a hacienda funded by venture capital, and then THE WORM FUCKING WELL TURNS DOESN”T IT FUCKFACE.
Sorry, I truly despise that fucker.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Just voted again. Looks like we’re in third place.
J R in WV
@raven:
When I was a swabbie in the Navy, we would rent an outboard from the EM club, $17/day for like a 17 footer with a little motor, and we would break all the rules and run out to the reef off Key West to snorkel and dive. We were supposed to stay in the bay side of the keys, but the good diving was out towards the gulf stream.
One day slowly tooling back to the island, in the afternoon, a giant ray broached right off the starboard bow of the boat, it was wider than the boat. Most amazing thing on the ocean I ever saw… even more than the whale watching last winter. Would have been around early 1972 or so.
Schlemazel
@Amir Khalid:
Ah, sorry you probably would not get that joke. Alcohol is an effective antifreeze.
J R in WV
@opiejeanne:
We had a big old white cat with red spots, tom about 20 pounds, named Ralph, who caught a big rabbit, ate nearly the whole thing!
He just left the cotton-tail and some fuzz from the back end of the rabbit, and it stopped him up but good. Trip to the only doc open weekends at the time. Didn’t have to do surgery, enemas did the trick.
Our family Vet told us to put him on a diet rich in metamucil high fiber on his wet food, and he lived for years. Never caught and ate another rabbii, tho. Those enemas at the vet clinic cured his rabbit habit! He would walk about the farm with us as we worked on fences, etc.
columbusqueen
@joel hanes: My favorite stop in childhood was the friendly township firehouse, where the guys always had doughnuts & cider for us kids. Yum!
NotMax
@J R in WV
Rush hour rays.
;)
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
God almighty people knew not to do that when I was a kid 50 years ago. WTF are they talking about?
Matt McIrvin
@WaterGirl:
I’m not sure I would with Killmonger (he’s got the look right, but since it’s mostly Western civilian clothes it’s not super-distinctive), but Shuri and Okoye, certainly–they’re wearing the characters’ very distinctive outfits from the movie.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
That’s a great photograph. Like M.C. Escher.
B.B.A.
Greenwald has been pounding the drum for Haddad and the (smug, elitist, corrupt) center-left Workers’ Party since the election began. If it’s his ox being gored he knows what’s best for him. But it turns out Brazilians find him just as repellent as the rest of the world does.
Ruckus
@A Ghost To Most:
OK I’ve been off for a while, but christians aren’t christians is good.
Good for another laugh.
joel hanes
@Amir Khalid:
spilled antifreeze is a safety hazard for pet animals
We lost a cat that way.
Old plastic bottle cracked and made a puddle in an out-of-the-way corner of the garage.
It’s a horrible death for the animal.
opiejeanne
@zhena gogolia: I’m 68 and we knew not to do that too.
My youngest child’s Hallowe’en costume when she was 7 was Urkel because she thought he was the coolest thing on two feet. She didn’t need blackface to convey who she was, she did a decent imitation of his voice and she danced the way the character Steve Urkel did on the show.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: We are down from 3rd place to 4th place this morning.
Last day for voting — you can vote once in 24 hours.