I think my “butter lamb” bears a striking resemblance to the Betty Cracker 2019 model.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and Happy Spring to all of us!
Let’s make this an open thread, sans The Horror.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.
New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.
If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.
If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.
There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.
“woke” is the new caravan.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.
Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
No One of Consequence
Thought of this this morning. Post was obligatory:
Tank Ees Bunny Bawk Bawk
https://youtu.be/_m3eJxZEai0?t=26
You’re welcome if you remember. If not, watch the whole thing.
Good will to you all, peace in our hearts, steel in our spines.
-NOoC
prostratedragon
Henry is a wonderful butter lamb stand-in!
Until, of course, one tries to spread him on a hot roll.
suzanne
Henry is adorable! Happy Easter, all!!!
rikyrah
So cute 🥰
Happy Easter 🐰 🐣 🌷
TaMara
Henry is, as always, adorable.
Prime has the original Jesus Christ Superstar film right now – watching it in the background, and it’s so psychedelic I’m pretty certain I’m getting an acid flashback. (Not as psychedelic as Hair, though)
Shout out to my 4th-grade music teacher for introducing us to Hair and JCS albums at a tender age.
narya
Happy Easter to those who celebrate. About to start some bread (gonna try the Pain de Campagne for the fourth damn time, plus the Sesame Wheat), and also make a cake for later (dinner w/ Downstairs Neighbor–duck breast, plus I’m making butternut squash risotto). And I have to make crackers or granola; my sourdough discard tried to take over the refrigerator. I think I’m going to make this almond berry cake, except I’m going to substitute some pistachio flour for some of the almond flour, and I’m going to use tart cherries from the farm share. Tempted to add mini chocolate chips . .
ETA: Last night I watched, for the first time, “All About Eve” Damn.
Chat Noir
Henry is sooooo cute!!
@TaMara:
My 4th grade teacher used to play The 5th Dimension’s Greatest Hits on Earth during our seat work time and I love those songs to this day!
NotMax
@narya
“Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”
Ne plus Bette. ;)
They Call Me Noni
The resemblance is uncanny!!
Another Scott
@TaMara:
Obligatory Cowsills – Hair (3:49)
I love that version.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Nukular Biskits
As predicted in the previous thread, sitting on the back porch, listening to birds. According to the Merlin app on my phone, so far there has only been a Tufted Titmouse, although I did hear the call of a Red-bellied Woodpecker. It’s really breezy today so the app may have problems picking out the bird calls from the sound of the wind.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I had obviously heard their version of Hair, but I had never seen that video. So great!
narya
@NotMax: The whole thing was . . . damn. I’m ambivalent about the end–marriage as redemption–and also struck by how little anything has changed for women in entertainment. Though I’d say that “over 40” has become “over 29.” Quinn Cummings has written a lot about the side hustles that actresses develop (Gwyneth, but also the ones who start their own production companies to help make roles for women available) because they know their window for making any money is extremely small.
NotMax
@Another Scott
The Cowsills documentary Family Band is a recommended watch.
Available to stream on Prime at the moment.
prostratedragon
@narya:
Welcome to the club.
Another Scott
@NotMax: Indeed. It’s a very worthy watch.
Best wishes,
Scott.
frosty
@Nukular Biskits: Red Bellied Woodpecker is one of the few calls I know without Merlin. I hear them everywhere I go.
Including yesterday, when I drove 75 miles and two hours to a hotspot near the Potomac to see a Purple Gallinule*. And I did! I just had to walk over where there were a half dozen birders looking at a spot in a marsh.
* which doesn’t belong in Maryland! Which is why over 200 birders have made the trip.
lowtechcyclist
@frosty:
Hey, we’re all for inclusion here in Maryland! We aren’t going to say anybody doesn’t belong here! Or any bird, no matter what the bird books say!
prostratedragon
@narya:
Bette Davis had a specialty of actresses confronted with the passage of time. Fanny Skeffington wasn’t on the professional stage, but she was nothing if not an actor. Also there were The Star and Baby Jane, a few others if I think about it. All about finding, or failing to find, something real in life to serve as an anchor, beyond the artifices of theater. Margot has a chance by her own standard, which is the most we know about her ever after. Eve has burned all the bridges she would need to get out from behind the 8-ball any time soon, or something.
Interesting that Eve came out the same year as Sunset Boulevard.
Nukular Biskits
@frosty:
At my old place, I had a willow that had several large dead limbs. Every year, a woodpecker family would build a nest in one of the limbs.
That’s why I know their call/song by heart.
Melancholy Jaques
@narya:
Watched it between 12 & 15 times. One of the most quotable films of all time.
prostratedragon
@Melancholy Jaques: Not to mention a demonstration of the only thing one might miss from the mink coat era.
lowtechcyclist
@Another Scott:
Their version cuts out my favorite part:
Hair as long as Jesus wore it, hallelujah, I adore it,
Hallelujah, Mary loved her son, why don’t my mother love me? Hair!
The Cowsills aiming for the sort of (family-friendly) audience they did, it’s not surprising that they excised this part.
I remember it was really funny, all the pretzel logic conservatives at the time came up with to argue that long hair on men was bad, even though every last picture of Jesus in every last church showed him with long hair.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Sunset Boulevard trivia.
Erich von Stroheim purportedly didn’t know how to drive so any scenes with him behind the wheel in the Isotta Fraschini took place while it was being towed by a separate vehicle off camera.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Aha. Hence the tight shots.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
That Billy Wilder, such a scamp.
;)
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@NotMax:
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve met them several times, they’re a staple on the “Happy Together” tour which has a semi-rotating line up of acts from that era. They have a backing band, that’s my entry as I know the lead guitarist and keyboardist from waaaaay back.
They’ve always been nice and when the break into a brief rendition of “Love, American Style”, the crowd laughs it’s collective ass off.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist: Interesting.
Of course, their mother being in the band (and in the video) might have played a part too!
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
narya
@prostratedragon: Also have not seen Sunset Boulevard . . . I’ve been keeping an eye on TCM, sorta, to find these things I haven’t seen. I also have In the Heat of the Night and 12 Angry Man waiting in my list. What I’ve been thinking about, though, still, is Blazing Saddles. I’ve decided that the reason (supposedly) “it couldn’t be made today” is how damn subversive it is at its core. Richard Pryor (!) has a scriptwriting credit, and, only five years after Mr. Rogers shares a pool with a black man, Gene Wilder shares a joint with Cleavon Little. The racist language eventually serves to make the racists look ridiculous, IMHO, which is set up early on with the “sing us a song” bit. And, at the end, Cleavon Little insists that everyone gets a plot of land, “even the Irish.” None of us is free until all of us is free. Still, apparently, a radical notion . . .
AM in NC
Soooooo adorable!
Went for a run in the woods this morning. Closest thing to God I got. That and gardening.
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates!
narya
@AM in NC: Nice. I went for a run–to the coffee shop where I left my credit card on Tuesday. I couldn’t find it yesterday, so I called the place, and, sure enough, that’s where I left it. The customer after me noticed it, and the guy behind the counter today was the same guy as Tuesday. So, thanks to people doing the right thing, no matter how small it seems.
HinTN
@Another Scott: Oh.My.Word – I had never encountered that before. The original is still my favorite but that’s campy good.
And for our hostess with the mostest, today’s image is magnificent.
Happy green day in these hills, with windows open and birdsong, y’all.
HinTN
@lowtechcyclist:
I always heard it as, “Hair like Jesus wore it”
raven
@HinTN: Like this?
tobie
Gosh…both pictures are adorable. I don’t know which one to gush over more. Happy Easter to all celebrating today.
Matt McIrvin
@narya: A joke I heard recently: “Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today! People would read the jokes and say, ‘This is just a knockoff of Blazing Saddles!‘”
TheOtherHank
Last night I wanted to watch something to cheer me up. So I watched The Death of Stalin.
HinTN
@raven: Yeah, that’ll do it.
Once upon a time, friend. 😋
Ramalama
I can feel Henry’s fur on my hand. I want to squinch him so bad.
trollhattan
@narya: Not only was Pryor a co-writer, he was originally supposed to be sheriff Bart but they cast Little instead (which, when you think about it, is critical to the movie’s success).
Pryor and Wilder of course made their very successful buddy movies afterwards, so win-win.
Trump’s cabinet always has me thinking of the scene with the rabble lining up to apply for jobs to attack Rockridge.
raven
@HinTN: From the Last Waltz!
raven
@trollhattan: Ever see his To Kill a Mockingbird?
Sure Lurkalot
Re: Gavin Newsom’s contention that Kilmar Abrega Garcia’s abduction is just a distraction
Precisely. Stop letting monsters frame issues and responses. If there are 20 million “illegals” who are violent criminals, why is ICE stalking students with visas? Push back on all of it.
Rusty
We got the best Easter surprise from our oldest. It’s still a little early, but with some luck we will be grandparents by Thanksgiving. Babies are the greatest sign of hope in the world.
Sure Lurkalot
@raven: Yeah, like that!
Also chiming in to congratulate your sweetie on her art show, her “threads” are amazing.
TheronWare
Hello Henry!
HinTN
@raven: The Dr was 🔥 that night.
@Sure Lurkalot: This, and more of it, please.
Off to luncheon. Cheers
Annie
Always happy to see Henry.
trollhattan
Patti Smith has a Substack and today leaves a link to this song, from her rather deep catalog.
Melancholy Jaques
@Sure Lurkalot:
Newsom has been a big disappointment. If he is under the impression that any of this helps his chance to get the next Democratic presidential nomination, he is way off.
Baud
@Sure Lurkalot:
🎶It seems to me you lived your life with your finger to the wind. Never knowing what to stand for when the need came in.🎶
TheOtherHank
Newsom does good things just often enough that I want to like him, but he does stupid shit often enough that I don’t trust him. So if wins the 2028 nomination I’ll vote for him, but he doesn’t get my vote in the primary.
trollhattan
@TheOtherHank:
Gav’s an enigma, to be sure. Friday, for example.
The inverse of emptying the Jan 6 traitors onto the streets IMHO.
WaterGirl
@They Call Me Noni: I know! :-)
Half Past
The next time there’s a site overhaul can we ask the developer to have a rule that displays Betty’s username as “ButterCrafter” on Easter Day?
Miss Bianca
@narya: I too recently experienced All About Eve for the first time! I can’t believe it took me so long, as a hard-core theater person.
lowtechcyclist
@HinTN:
I just pulled out my CD of the original cast recording, and you’re right. Good catch!
HinTN
@lowtechcyclist: I had the vinyl back in the day. One of the first LPs I bought. I think I liked the cover. 😂