@Baud: Well, technically the other thread is also open, it even says so in the title, but there was a lot of non-open-thread talk.
So I thought I’d put this one up and throw it wide open.
I suppose we could make this into two simultaneous open threads. Even number comments could respond to one another, and odd number comments could talk among themselves.
I laughed myself silly over this video, although part of me was concerned there was something wrong with this birb. However, commenters seem to think the birb is just getting his rocks off against the perch. But the writhing and the music are so well-matched, and with the caption it just had me cackling to the point of tears. Sometimes I am easily amused
(You may have to click the volume icon in the lower right to hear it.)
Boebert didn’t get kicked out for vaping. She got tossed for jerking off her date while he was finger banging her in the theater. And o’lord there are tapes.
In less…risque…theatre news, my production, She Devil of the China Seas, apparently won Best Original Production (Community Theatre) from one the local reviewer organizations. Not quite the Tonys or Obies, but I’m pleased with it (even more so, given that I was the playwright).
We rolled into Hilton Head Island, So. Carolina a little while ago. Here for a few nights with family. No doubt Lindsey Graham has a mansion around here somewhere.
Daughter’s HS theater is doing “The Play that Goes Wrong” this fall. She’s an understudy plus the costume designer, and it’s me as one of her minions. My husband is designing and taking lead on building the (extremely complicated) set. Apparently our family is responsible for much of the physical appearance of this play. Good move for her Sr year but surprising what happens with a new director.
@Baud: I read a book that if you positioned it one way, you got to hear “his” side of the events that were taking place, and if you flipped the book over, you read “her” side of the same events.
Agree but it’s kinda funny. The don’t sexualize kids group starting with some titties grabbing, followed by jerking, followed by finger banging in a theater with kids.
Bahahaha bye bitch. I read some of that interview and was like, wow fuck off.
Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, has been removed from the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which he also helped found, one day after an interview with him was published in The New York Times in which he made comments that were widely criticized as sexist and racist.
…
But the dismissal of Mr. Wenner comes after an interview with The Times, published Friday and timed to the publication of his new book, called “The Masters,” which collects his decades of interviews with rock legends like Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Bono — all of them white and male.
In the interview, David Marchese of The Times asked Mr. Wenner, 77, why the book included no women or people of color.
Regarding women, Mr. Wenner said, “Just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,” and remarked that Joni Mitchell “was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll.”
His answer about artists of color was less direct. “Of Black artists — you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right?” he said. “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”
Only white men have ever had anything interest to say or do in rock music! Never mind the fact that much of rock and roll was adapted by white people from Black people.
Another quote from the interview:
The selection was intuitive. It was what I was interested in. You know, just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism. Which, I get it. I had a chance to do that. Maybe I’m old-fashioned and I don’t give a [expletive] or whatever.
In these clips, Trump utters about 30 different lies, and there’s zero pushback from Kristen Welker, who instead calls him “fired up” and “defiant” – and “the president.” This is, actually, worse than the CNN town hall in terms of normalizing a maniac.
@Wyatt Salamanca: When I first heard that she had him on, I was like 1) why, and 2) this is gonna be a shitshow. She’s one of those reporters who loves to toss out baseless snide little questions at the press secretary and seems to think she’s being a Hard-Hitting Journalist.
@WaterGirl: Wondering the same…Mr. OHJo and I (ages 67 and 70) just finished scraping, sanding and staining a large deck, and are limping and hobbling around like old people! Imagine! Last time we do that!
You can always tell yourself you’re going to read in bed.
Watch something on Netflix or listen to a podcast. Excellent idea. I will shower and then run off to watch (or listen to) something on my adorable new iPad mini.
I dunno most bars I go to would toss you for that as well. Now I do know a few late hour clubs where you can do that, or just strip and do it on stage and people will cheer for you….
@Wyatt Salamanca: I kinda felt that anyone NBC would put on the air to replace Chuckles the Toad was gonna suck, and BOY HOWDY they lived down to my worst expectations.
@Rachel Bakes: In other theater news, looks like I will be directing (and likely acting in, God love me) an all-female cast, Steampunk-themed version of Gaslight for our Halloween production. YEE-HAW!!
I read a book that if you positioned it one way, you got to hear “his” side of the events that were taking place, and if you flipped the book over, you read “her” side of the same events.
Not the same, but really interesting!
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski. Same dude who did House of Leaves.
And I read Un Lun Dun by China Miéville when I was a kid. Still revisit it sometimes. It’s fun.
Days after Hunter Biden was indicted, a reporter shouted “Mr. President, will you pardon your son?” as Biden exited the Wilmington church where his son Beau is buried. Biden did not answer.
@Frankensteinbeck: It’s based on a stage play, I think it was called East Lynne [just looked it up, it’s Angel Street]. This guy tries to make his wife think she’s insane by constantly turning the gaslight lamps down (and other pranks). It’s where the term “gaslighting” originated. Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer play it to the hilt. Anton Walbrook is almost too scary in the earlier version.
Apparently Boebert’s new beau owns a gay-friendly bar……..that has hosted at least one drag show:
A bar owned by Rep. Lauren Boebert’s apparent new beau has staged at least one drag show, according to a review of social media posts.
In January, the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen, which is co-owned by Quinn Gallagher, staged “a winter Wonderland Burlesque & Drag Show,” an invitation for the event reveals.
@zhena gogolia: Sigh. Though the movie was called Gaslight, Boyer wasn’t tinkering with the gaslights to make Bergman think she was crazy. He was doing other things to make her think she was crazy so she would believe the flickering gaslights were also a delusion.
Unlike electricity, with gaslight the lights will flicker if someone turns on a light in another room. She was seeing the flicker when apparently alone in the house, but actually he was turning on the light in the boarded up part of the house, searching for her deceased aunt’s fortune in jewels.
In other theater news, looks like I will be directing (and likely acting in, God love me) an all-female cast, Steampunk-themed version of Gaslight for our Halloween production. YEE-HAW!!
zhena gogolia@70: It’s even worse than that. The gaslights would flicker because he was elsewhere on the same fuel line doing some nefarious business. He knew she’d notice and remark on it, so the other pranks were to undermine her but also make anything she said seem unreliable to the household help. Both versions are great, but in my view you can’t beat Boyer’s feigned — I don’t know, stupidity — for proving what a higher moral being Paula is at the end.
@Baud: The City and The City, right? I listened to the audio book of it. I even looked forward to my commute while I was listening to it. I loved that story, and the narrator was perfect.
@Miss Bianca: Right?? I was blessed to see her in concert once and she was amazing. I was around 15 I think, and I remember being in tears at one point just because her performance was so moving and beautiful.
@zhena gogolia: the reason that I started with a sigh was because I see that explanation for the term gaslighting over and over in very respectable publications. Makes me go, “guys, watch the movie!” The term comes from the title of the movie, not from the action of light tinkering.
@M31: GOP spin: “See, the drag show did it! Evil drag show guy tricked our innocent angel!”
Better spin: “This was a false flag operation! A secret operative (and groomer and faggot lover) seduced our heroine! People say he works for the Biden Crime Family!”
Actually, it will likely be even more ridiculous that that. But I lack the reality-challenged imagination of the MAGAts.
@Wyatt Salamanca: She may have sold her soul (like most of her peers in Beltway Political Pundlandia Land) but she is doing her job. We need to understand our concept of “their jobs” is totally at odds with what their master deem “their jobs”, and the masters pay them.
@Ben Cisco: Absolutely. While I find 99% of the people on camera to be execrable, they are also doing what they are told. Their replaceable cogs. Which none of them understand.
@zhena gogolia: I am too, although I’m annoyed that all she has to do is sniffle like a little girl and cry about her divorce and how she “fell short of her values” and people will forget about it. Even though she spends 99% of her waking hours calling trans people and drag queens pedophile groomers who shouldn’t be around kids, while she’s getting to second base in public with kids mere feet away from her.
@Alison Rose: I’m fantasizing the pregnant woman who complained about the vaping also files a complaint that Boebert and boyfriend harmed her baby by exposing it to sexual acts.
Said semi-tongue-in-cheek as the GQP claim sperm meets egg = a human being capable of emotion who was forced to witness such scandalous behavior!
John R Parkinson @jparkABC 3h
As President Biden left church, I shouted quite loudly across the cemetery, “Mr. President, will you pardon your son?!” But Biden did not visibly react or acknowledge the question.
this isn’t Fox or Newsmax or that weird guy who writes for shady African wire service. This is an ABC reporter bragging about shouting a stupid question at Biden “across the cemetery”, the cemetery where (per the replies) Biden visits the graves of his first wife, elder daughter, and elder son after mass whenever he’s in Delaware.
The ratio, as the kids say, is 9,500 replies, most of them quite unfriendly, to 270 likes.
@Wyatt Salamanca: He also could have interviewed Laura Nyro, before she got sick. She would have had a lot to say. Although Laura Nyro might not have given Wenner an interview if he’d asked.
It would be nice if someone could seize this opportunity and publish a book of interviews with women and African Americans whom Jann Wenner deemed unworthy such as Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks, Marianne Faithfull, Judy Collins, Maureen Tucker, Patti Smith, Sheryl Crow just to name a few.
Unified Command has complete the search for sunken, derelict or displaced vessels, along with associated marine debris from the Aug. 8 Lahaina fire, and has identified 78 “targets,” according to the US Coast Guard.
A target could be a sunken vessel or a large piece of marine debris.
[snip]
The contract workers will assess the harbor and develop a plan — to be reviewed and approved by the Coast Guard — to remove hazardous materials and submerged vessels.
Once that step is complete, the contractor will remove identified hazardous materials, fuels and oil in preparation for removal of submerged vessels out of the harbor, with Coast Guard oversight. Source
To measure the longterm affects of the Lahaina fire on nearby ocean waters, scientists are using three sophisticated sampling instruments that are on loan from the US Geological Survey.
The devices allow pollutants and toxins like heavy metals and pharmaceuticals to slowly slip inside a membrane and accumulate over time.
“This mimics what a living creature like coral or fish would absorb,” said Russell Sparks, an aquatic biologist with the state Division of Aquatic Resources. “When the samples are analyzed, we’ll have a much better idea of what the reefs are being exposed to as a result of this fire.”
[snip]
Based on visual observation, Sparks said the water quality inside the harbor is “horrible.” Source
The government is barreling toward a shutdown. House Republicans threaten to impeach the president — though some of them don’t see the evidence. A Republican senator has a one-man blockade on military promotions with no end in sight.
The Capitol is in crisis. And though Democrats control much of the government, Republican divisions are driving the chaos.
snip
“We need to eliminate preventable errors, and we’re not doing that,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said of her party.
On policy issues such as inflation, energy and the border, she argued, Republicans have positions “that are very good to be used for a political campaign. But they are getting smothered over by issues that are unhelpful or people don’t care about.”
snip
And as Congress barrels toward all-out gridlock, Republicans are growing more frustrated about their lack of a cohesive plan to use their threadbare House majority to stare down President Joe Biden and Hill Democrats.
Summing up the lack of a GOP spending strategy, Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson opined: “It’s stupid.”
“We’ve been seeing this coming for the last three or four months. I just didn’t think we were dumb enough to get there,” he said.
It’s not just House Republicans who are clogging things up. Tuberville refuses to give up his holds on hundreds of military promotions, protesting a Pentagon policy allowing service members time off to seek abortions.
Democrats could push through some of the top nominations individually but have declined to do so, warning that it could set a precedent of inaction on lower-level military promotions.
That leaves some House Republicans steaming mad.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a former Navy SEAL officer, said in a text message to allies that he’s “at a point where I’m going to tear apart (if asked) coach/Senator/non-veteran Tuberville for personally attacking service members who have spent almost 30 years serving our country.”
“I don’t know what outcome he expected,” Crenshaw added of Tuberville, “but I’m hearing more and more that his actions are having worsening consequences.”
Tuberville disputes that his holds are having serious consequences. His office declined to respond to Crenshaw.
At the moment though, the imminent government funding deadline is Congress’ biggest problem. Halfway through September, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has no obvious plan to escape the month without triggering a shutdown that his own members fear could endanger his party’s position — and perhaps even the speaker’s own job — going into the pivotal 2024 election.
Even McCarthy’s surprising leap toward an impeachment inquiry this week failed to quell the hard-right rebellion.
@tam1MI: A (literal) sign that the Biden Administrations gets it.
No doubt TIFG is (puke) green with envy. How many projects were there ever with his name up in lights (naturally there would have to be lights; garish ones) on them???
Of course, if you never get around to actually doing the infrastructure you kept talking about, that’s liable to result in a distinct lack of projects to label. (Maybe he should have tried rebranding Obamacare. Seems like his style.)
Rachel’s husband here: one of the discussions in the set build is how much to overbuild the sets since they have to fall over vs how much it would hurt to get hit by the falling set. But we will teach the kids to soldier on
@Wyatt Salamanca: Way, way late back to this thread, but you might enjoy a great compilation of women rock/pop/rap critics called Rock, She Wrote.Their subjects aren’t exclusively women artists, but there’s plenty of diversity there!
Baud
I was hoping for two open threads.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Well, technically the other thread is also open, it even says so in the title, but there was a lot of non-open-thread talk.
So I thought I’d put this one up and throw it wide open.
I suppose we could make this into two simultaneous open threads. Even number comments could respond to one another, and odd number comments could talk among themselves.
Are we sharp enough to pull that off?
WaterGirl
I’m wondering if 7:15 is too early to go to bed. I am exhausted.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I read a book like that once. Two cities occupying the same space, and everyone in one city had to ignore the people in the other city.
Alison Rose
I laughed myself silly over this video, although part of me was concerned there was something wrong with this birb. However, commenters seem to think the birb is just getting his rocks off against the perch. But the writhing and the music are so well-matched, and with the caption it just had me cackling to the point of tears. Sometimes I am easily amused
(You may have to click the volume icon in the lower right to hear it.)
Nukular Biskits
Good evening all!
Sitting on the porch, enjoying a Southern Pecan ale, watching the hummingbirds fight.
eversor
Boebert didn’t get kicked out for vaping. She got tossed for jerking off her date while he was finger banging her in the theater. And o’lord there are tapes.
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1702815514387444211?s=20
Nukular Biskits
@WaterGirl:
Saw your earlier thread.
I’d sooner have the flu than have one of my babies, human or fur type, sick.
I empathize greatly.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: From personal experience, no, it is not too early 😉
( I’m single and i live alone, there are no rules)
Yutsano
@Alison Rose: That’s just birb being birb. Conures are known to be silly like that.
As the Cougs are currently not couging it, I am going to nap for a bit.
Ben Cisco
@Alison Rose: BWAHAAHAA
Yutsano
@eversor: Not. Getting. Out. Of. The. Boat. Fuck your mangoes. :P
mrmoshpotato
@Nukular Biskits:
Sounds good.
NotMax
Only one episode into it but think I may be hooked.
New on MHz Choice, Pandora, a Belgian legal/political drama. First episode so dense with plot I succumbed to rewinding so as not to miss details.
And something which would probably never fly on American TV, a strong female lead (the investigating judge) with a head of long silver-gray hair.
Nukular Biskits
@mrmoshpotato:
I like it. It’s not too heavy but I do have to be in the mood for it:
Southern Pecan: The original brown ale brewed with roasted pecans
gwangung
In less…risque…theatre news, my production, She Devil of the China Seas, apparently won Best Original Production (Community Theatre) from one the local reviewer organizations. Not quite the Tonys or Obies, but I’m pleased with it (even more so, given that I was the playwright).
Nukular Biskits
@gwangung:
Congrats!
Mike in NC
We rolled into Hilton Head Island, So. Carolina a little while ago. Here for a few nights with family. No doubt Lindsey Graham has a mansion around here somewhere.
Alison Rose
@gwangung: Mazel tov!
Rachel Bakes
Daughter’s HS theater is doing “The Play that Goes Wrong” this fall. She’s an understudy plus the costume designer, and it’s me as one of her minions. My husband is designing and taking lead on building the (extremely complicated) set. Apparently our family is responsible for much of the physical appearance of this play. Good move for her Sr year but surprising what happens with a new director.
NotMax
@Baud
Both The City and the City (Freevee, Britbox) and Counterpart (no longer streaming free at the moment) do a fine job with a similar premise.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: You can always tell yourself you’re going to read in bed.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@gwangung: Congratulations! That’s awesome.
MattF
@Baud: The City & The City by China Miéville.
Another Scott
@eversor: That clip is getting to be like “BTW, Biden is old!!”. It’s been posted quite a few times. ;-)
She’s lucky that the screen and TV comedy show writers are still on strike.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I read a book that if you positioned it one way, you got to hear “his” side of the events that were taking place, and if you flipped the book over, you read “her” side of the same events.
Not the same, but really interesting!
eversor
@Yutsano:
Agree but it’s kinda funny. The don’t sexualize kids group starting with some titties grabbing, followed by jerking, followed by finger banging in a theater with kids.
gwangung
@Rachel Bakes: Oooohhh….that’s a challenge for a HS production. Actually, that’s a challenge for anybody from a midlevel theatre on down….good luck!
Another Scott
@gwangung: Awesome. Congratulations!
Cheers!
Scott.
Alison Rose
Bahahaha bye bitch. I read some of that interview and was like, wow fuck off.
Only white men have ever had anything interest to say or do in rock music! Never mind the fact that much of rock and roll was adapted by white people from Black people.
Another quote from the interview:
Piss off.
gwangung
@Nukular Biskits:
@Alison Rose:
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Thanks, folks. I think I’m justified in a little bragging on this….
WaterGirl
@gwangung: That’s so great!
NotMax
@Rachel Bakes
Understatement of the month, that. Saw it onstage in NY several years ago.
Old Dan and Little Ann
My sisters saw “Jagged Little Pill” last night. Maybe boebert and her date thought they were at that show. Would you go down on him in a theater?
Suzanne
@gwangung: Oooooh congrats!
HumboldtBlue
@gwangung:
Who the hell gives a damn about the Tony’s?
Congrats!
Wyatt Salamanca
It sounds like Kristen Welker’s debut as the new host of Meet the Press will be a major league disaster:
‘Sold Her Soul’: #BoycottMeetThePress Trends Big Over Welker’s Trump Interview
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sold-her-soul-boycottmeetthepress-trends-big-over-welkers-trump-interview/
Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin
6:00 PM · Sep 15, 2023
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1702804483657392302
In these clips, Trump utters about 30 different lies, and there’s zero pushback from Kristen Welker, who instead calls him “fired up” and “defiant” – and “the president.” This is, actually, worse than the CNN town hall in terms of normalizing a maniac.
Suzanne
@eversor: I never cease to be amazed by how some people behave in public. Just blows my mind. Like, do that shit in a bar.
NotMax
@gwangung
Huzzah!
Alison Rose
@Wyatt Salamanca: When I first heard that she had him on, I was like 1) why, and 2) this is gonna be a shitshow. She’s one of those reporters who loves to toss out baseless snide little questions at the press secretary and seems to think she’s being a Hard-Hitting Journalist.
OHJo
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Watch something on Netflix or listen to a podcast. Excellent idea. I will shower and then run off to watch (or listen to) something on my adorable new iPad mini.
OHJo
@gwangung: Bravo!
prostratedragon
@Alison Rose: Not to mention the side-eye from the other bird.😁
gwangung
@HumboldtBlue: I can truthfully say that my senior year college dorm has now produced two award winning playwrights.
JaySinWA
@gwangung: What could go wrong? I mean if something goes wrong, the title has got you covered.
“I meant to do that
ETA Congrats on your award.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: I was thinking “you fucking pig”, but yours works, too.
Perhaps “Piss off, you fucking pig” could work ??
Dorothy A. Winsor
@gwangung: There must have been something in the water.
prostratedragon
@gwangung: Hey-hey, congratulations!
WaterGirl
@OHJo: That’s a big job, regardless of age. I bet it looks fabulous.
Nukular Biskits
Getting dark. Hummers probably going to bed down soon.
I haz a sad.
Still, it’s nice out here on the porch tonight, quite a departure from the hellish heat from just a couple of weeks ago.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Indeed it does.
prostratedragon
@Alison Rose: An old story with that dude, who’s always been transparent there. Too bad most of his subjects don’t deserve the association.
zhena gogolia
@Another Scott: It’s much better than “Biden is old!” It can be posted a few thousand more times.
Miss Bianca
@gwangung: Yay! I wish I had a million dollars, I would love to bring your production to my theater.
eversor
@Suzanne:
I dunno most bars I go to would toss you for that as well. Now I do know a few late hour clubs where you can do that, or just strip and do it on stage and people will cheer for you….
mrmoshpotato
@Alison Rose:
Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell need to write a song about what an asshole this dude is.
Ben Cisco
@Wyatt Salamanca: I kinda felt that anyone NBC would put on the air to replace Chuckles the Toad was gonna suck, and BOY HOWDY they lived down to my worst expectations.
Miss Bianca
@Rachel Bakes: In other theater news, looks like I will be directing (and likely acting in, God love me) an all-female cast, Steampunk-themed version of Gaslight for our Halloween production. YEE-HAW!!
Miss Bianca
@Rachel Bakes: Dupe
Miss Bianca
@mrmoshpotato: The nerve of that there prick. Joni Mitchell will be remembered long after you’re dead, gone, and forgotten, dude.
Frankensteinbeck
@Miss Bianca:
I have no idea what Gaslight is, and after that introduction I am already hooked.
WaterGirl
@Frankensteinbeck: It’s a Hitchcock film.
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia:
JL Cauvin has outdone himself. “Beetlejuice!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46sM2T-LCQ
TurnItOffAndOnAgain
@WaterGirl:
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski. Same dude who did House of Leaves.
And I read Un Lun Dun by China Miéville when I was a kid. Still revisit it sometimes. It’s fun.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: No, George Cukor, remake of a Thorold Dickinson film.
WaterGirl
@TurnItOffAndOnAgain: I haven’t read either of those, but I would definitely read a book with that setup again.
Nukular Biskits
Seriously. WTF is wrong with these people?
https://x.com/MerylKornfield/status/1703167571564929253?s=20
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: How do you know that?
zhena gogolia
@Frankensteinbeck: It’s based on a stage play, I think it was called East Lynne [just looked it up, it’s Angel Street]. This guy tries to make his wife think she’s insane by constantly turning the gaslight lamps down (and other pranks). It’s where the term “gaslighting” originated. Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer play it to the hilt. Anton Walbrook is almost too scary in the earlier version.
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: The City and The City? That was a fun one
Jackie
Apparently Boebert’s new beau owns a gay-friendly bar……..that has hosted at least one drag show:
Let’s all sit back and enjoy watching her GQP cohorts try spinning this – on top of her not-for-family-viewing public antics the other night.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I adore Anton Walbrook. And Charles Boyer.
ETA: But I had to look up who the directors were.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Not Alfred. Gaslight was directed by George Cukor. Film based on an earlier play.
HumboldtBlue
@gwangung:
You know why?
Cuz you’re awesome, that’s why.
M31
@TurnItOffAndOnAgain: Un Lun Dun is great! haven’t read it in a long time, want to revisit
I can’t really do horror, so Mieville’s other stuff isn’t for me
M31
@Jackie: GOP spin: “See, the drag show did it! Evil drag show guy tricked our innocent angel!”
lol
Dan B
@gwangung: Big congratulations! Bravo!
kalakal
@gwangung: Congrats!
JoyceH
@zhena gogolia: Sigh. Though the movie was called Gaslight, Boyer wasn’t tinkering with the gaslights to make Bergman think she was crazy. He was doing other things to make her think she was crazy so she would believe the flickering gaslights were also a delusion.
Unlike electricity, with gaslight the lights will flicker if someone turns on a light in another room. She was seeing the flicker when apparently alone in the house, but actually he was turning on the light in the boarded up part of the house, searching for her deceased aunt’s fortune in jewels.
kalakal
@Miss Bianca: Yay for you! It’s a great story
kalakal
@Alison Rose: Wenner’s always been a total arsehole.
zhena gogolia
@JoyceH: Sorry I don’t meet your standards for accuracy!
mrmoshpotato
@Miss Bianca:
That! Is! AWESOME! 👏
Alison Rose
@mrmoshpotato: 10/10 would listen.
prostratedragon
zhena gogolia@70: It’s even worse than that. The gaslights would flicker because he was elsewhere on the same fuel line doing some nefarious business. He knew she’d notice and remark on it, so the other pranks were to undermine her but also make anything she said seem unreliable to the household help. Both versions are great, but in my view you can’t beat Boyer’s feigned — I don’t know, stupidity — for proving what a higher moral being Paula is at the end.
Mexican Independence Day co-incided with headphone break-in day: Danzon No.2, Marquez; at the Proms.
Joy in FL
@Baud: The City and The City, right? I listened to the audio book of it. I even looked forward to my commute while I was listening to it. I loved that story, and the narrator was perfect.
Alison Rose
@Miss Bianca: Right?? I was blessed to see her in concert once and she was amazing. I was around 15 I think, and I remember being in tears at one point just because her performance was so moving and beautiful.
Joy in FL
@gwangung: That’s awesome. I remember watching a Zoom performance during Covid and liking it and the players.
JoyceH
@zhena gogolia: the reason that I started with a sigh was because I see that explanation for the term gaslighting over and over in very respectable publications. Makes me go, “guys, watch the movie!” The term comes from the title of the movie, not from the action of light tinkering.
wjca
Better spin: “This was a false flag operation! A secret operative (and groomer and faggot lover) seduced our heroine! People say he works for the Biden Crime Family!”
Actually, it will likely be even more ridiculous that that. But I lack the reality-challenged imagination of the MAGAts.
mrmoshpotato
@Alison Rose: Do you know about Joan Baez’s Nasty Man?
Alison Rose
@mrmoshpotato: Oh yes, I remember that one!
zhena gogolia
@JoyceH: I haven’t seen it in a while. I misremembered.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: But how did you know it was based on that and not on the Hitchcock movie Gaslight?
Wyatt Salamanca
@mrmoshpotato:
In addition to being my two favorite female singers, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell are two of the most thoughtful and intelligent interview subjects.
Jann Wenner proves once again that he does not know what the fuck he’s talking about.
Kathleen
@Wyatt Salamanca: She may have sold her soul (like most of her peers in Beltway Political Pundlandia Land) but she is doing her job. We need to understand our concept of “their jobs” is totally at odds with what their master deem “their jobs”, and the masters pay them.
Kathleen
@Ben Cisco: Absolutely. While I find 99% of the people on camera to be execrable, they are also doing what they are told. Their replaceable cogs. Which none of them understand.
Kathleen
@Nukular Biskits: The ratio is epic. The tweet had a definite “Look Mommy! I pee peed in the toilet” vibe.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
As delineated above, Hitchcock had no connection to Gaslight.
twbrandt
Bebe Neuwirth on Bluesky:
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Whatchoo talkin’ about Willis? :)
ETA – I’m seriously curious about which of the Master of Suspense’s movie you’re thinking about.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: There is no Hitchcock movie Gaslight. Are you thinking of Rebecca? Or Spellbound, which also stars Ingrid Bergman?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
A mish-mash of Suspicion and Rebecca?
Alison Rose
@twbrandt: Heh heh
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: It’s definitely a Hitchcockian movie, but not a Hitchcock movie.
ETA: And Joseph Cotten is also in it, another fave of Hitch’s.
zhena gogolia
@Alison Rose: I am inordinately enjoying this Boebert story.
Alison Rose
@zhena gogolia: I am too, although I’m annoyed that all she has to do is sniffle like a little girl and cry about her divorce and how she “fell short of her values” and people will forget about it. Even though she spends 99% of her waking hours calling trans people and drag queens pedophile groomers who shouldn’t be around kids, while she’s getting to second base in public with kids mere feet away from her.
Ken
A Hitchcock movie in which a woman is subjected to horrible treatment by a manipulative man in a position of power over her? So many to choose from…
Oh, wait, you mean in the plot of the movie, not as an actress working with Hitchcock.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Hehe. Respicionecca?
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Hitch’s go-to male “cool blond.”
;)
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Do you want me to slap your sarcastic ass with your own bones?
KrackenJack
@gwangung:
Congratulations indeed! Hope we get to see it in wide production!
Jackie
@Alison Rose: I’m fantasizing the pregnant woman who complained about the vaping also files a complaint that Boebert and boyfriend harmed her baby by exposing it to sexual acts.
Said semi-tongue-in-cheek as the GQP claim sperm meets egg = a human being capable of emotion who was forced to witness such scandalous behavior!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this isn’t Fox or Newsmax or that weird guy who writes for shady African wire service. This is an ABC reporter bragging about shouting a stupid question at Biden “across the cemetery”, the cemetery where (per the replies) Biden visits the graves of his first wife, elder daughter, and elder son after mass whenever he’s in Delaware.
The ratio, as the kids say, is 9,500 replies, most of them quite unfriendly, to 270 likes.
Nukular Biskits
@Kathleen:
I seriously can’t believe the absolute tone-deafness here, the “need” to go beyond the bounds of basic decency, all to get a quote.
Geminid
@Wyatt Salamanca: He also could have interviewed Laura Nyro, before she got sick. She would have had a lot to say. Although Laura Nyro might not have given Wenner an interview if he’d asked.
Alison Rose
@Jackie: Oh man. That would be excellent.
Alison Rose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
LOLLLL. Well-deserved. I wish Biden had flipped him the bird. “Pardon this, Jack.”
WaterGirl
@NotMax:
Gaslight was a Hitchcock film.edit: I thought Gaslight was a Hitchcock film.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Okay, I googled and I guess I was wrong.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Not in this universe.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: No. 7:15 is not too early to go to bed.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: No worries. :)
Wyatt Salamanca
@Geminid:
I agree and Laura Nyro died way too soon.
It would be nice if someone could seize this opportunity and publish a book of interviews with women and African Americans whom Jann Wenner deemed unworthy such as Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks, Marianne Faithfull, Judy Collins, Maureen Tucker, Patti Smith, Sheryl Crow just to name a few.
Sister Golden Bear
@gwangung: Congratulations!
zhena gogolia
@Alison Rose: We’ll see what happens.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I mean, I’m glad you are still up and around. But in this time of seasonal change, it’s important to stay well rested.
mrmoshpotato
@Geminid:
There are football and baseball to watch – and movies to argue about!
:)
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
One could nurse quite the buzz by knocking back a shot each time Boyer utters “Powla” in Gaslight.
:)
WaterGirl
@Geminid: I apparently got my second wind.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@eversor:
Only the best people
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
I’ve seen “Beetlejuice”, it’s a horror comedy musical. At no point does it trigger carnal inspiration.
NotMax
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Diff’rent, um, strokes for diff’rent folks.
//
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this thread has me trying to decide if I want to watch an old BW movie or rewatch Beetlejuice
Scout211
Not even like This?
AL teased a late night Boebert thread. Boebert’s congressional decorum deserves its own thread! Waiting . . .
Jackie
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: You can only speak for yourself 😉
NotMax
FYI.
Maui police revise Lahaina wildfire death toll to 97; list of unaccounted for drops to 31.
Also,
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
which old BW movie, “The Roaring Twenties” or “White Heat”?
tam1MI
A (literal) sign that the Biden Administrations gets it.
eclare
@tam1MI:
Nice.
Jackie
Entertaining read from Political:
Much more at the link: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/government-shutdown-congress-gop-00116066
Jackie
@tam1MI: Excellent!
Timill
Much great music sounds familiar. This, however, is different. Not because it’s not familiar….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPcW8yf9GaA
mrmoshpotato
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
Handjobbert is a ho. You don’t know what she’s into!
NotMax
Yummo.
Just took a loaf of port wine & bleu cheese bread out of the super duper bread machine. Cottage smells divine.
wjca
No doubt TIFG is (puke) green with envy. How many projects were there ever with his name up in lights (naturally there would have to be lights; garish ones) on them???
Of course, if you never get around to actually doing the infrastructure you kept talking about, that’s liable to result in a distinct lack of projects to label. (Maybe he should have tried rebranding Obamacare. Seems like his style.)
prostratedragon
Courtesy of blog fave Vivek Ramaswamy, a reminder that the universe gets a vote: It’s SIGN!
(Possible repeat)
cain
@gwangung: congratulations!! 🎉🎉
cain
@Alison Rose:
They never learn and then they sully their reputation.
Keep leaning into those MAGA assholes.
thalarctosMaritimus
@gwangung: Congratulations!
Rachel Bakes
@Miss Bianca: Wow! That’s intriguing. Break a leg, merde, and all the rest.
RogeBrian
@JaySinWA:
Rachel’s husband here: one of the discussions in the set build is how much to overbuild the sets since they have to fall over vs how much it would hurt to get hit by the falling set. But we will teach the kids to soldier on
@JaySinWA:
LiminalOwl
@gwangung: Congratulations! I really regret that I was unable to see it.
Miss Bianca
@Wyatt Salamanca: Way, way late back to this thread, but you might enjoy a great compilation of women rock/pop/rap critics called Rock, She Wrote.Their subjects aren’t exclusively women artists, but there’s plenty of diversity there!