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Kosh's Shadow
2/17/2022 5:29:02 AM
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That breakfast looks familiar. I think I had it yesterday, too.
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 6:22:43 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:
I know we’ve had some irate parents Over Here complaining about what goes on in schools; but the Russian version seems excessive.
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vxbush
2/17/2022 6:32:16 AM
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Good morning from the second snowpocalypse reporting station. Not a single flake has fallen yet, but updated predictions say 10 to 14 inches of snow will fall by thr start of tomorrow morning. Work took the cautious approach and closed down for today. Based on how bad the last snowstorm was, perhaps weather forecasters are finally getting the 24-hour forecast more right than wrong these days.
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 6:39:28 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4:
BLM is the new Haiti. Pass it on.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 7:17:18 AM
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In #6 Occasional Reader said: BLM is the new Haiti. Pass it on.
Well, they are a hatey group that engages in hatey-speech...
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 7:20:11 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4:
Bonus: you will notice that one of the Clinton minions named in the piece is actually named “Minyon”.
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JCM
2/17/2022 7:31:30 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4: That's last BLM sees of that loot.
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JCM
2/17/2022 7:31:54 AM
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It's now the Hillary Clinton defense fund.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 7:36:15 AM
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The NYT email feed is now attacking "the brutal cost of cheap chicken"---i.e., an attack on industrialized chicken farming, and on "the agriculture industry" generally---coupled with a feature headlined "The Case for Eating Insects."
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vxbush
2/17/2022 8:02:36 AM
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In #11 buzzsawmonkey said: The NYT email feed is now attacking "the brutal cost of cheap chicken"---i.e., an attack on industrialized chicken farming, and on "the agriculture industry" generally---coupled with a feature headlined "The Case for Eating Insects." Sheesh. These people honestly can’t think. This person cannot comprehend the possibility that (a) people raise chickens around the world for food and eggs and that (b) the EEEvil Chicken Corporation has enough money to plunk money down on politics it supports, which might or might not go to a political party the guy supports. It's no wonder they think their readers are too stupid to understand something like Durham's legal filing.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 8:10:24 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 12: I actually do not have a subscription to the NYT, which means that these emails I get are more in the nature of teasers designed to induce me to subscribe. But I assume that the "case for eating insects" has something to do with the fact that each insect has six drumsticks.
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 8:10:35 AM
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In #11 buzzsawmonkey said: The NYT email feed is now attacking "the brutal cost of cheap chicken"---i.e., an attack on industrialized chicken farming, and on "the agriculture industry" generally---coupled with a feature headlined "The Case for Eating Insects." They care about the poor. That's why they want the poor to eat bugs (while they, themselves, have free-range premium-grade sushi, or whatever their little hearts desire).
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 8:11:43 AM
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In any event, the Biden gang is working "like the devil" to eliminate "cheap" chicken... or cheap beef, or pork, or much of anything else. So; Onward!
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JCM
2/17/2022 8:14:23 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11: The chicken's eat the insects for me.....
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vxbush
2/17/2022 9:01:54 AM
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In #13 buzzsawmonkey said: But I assume that the "case for eating insects" has something to do with the fact that each insect has six drumsticks. Well six is more than one, so it's better! Duh! /
Oy.
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vxbush
2/17/2022 9:03:08 AM
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And the snow is coming down hard now. No point in doing anything until the speed drops considerably.
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JCM
2/17/2022 9:30:47 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 19: Snow angels! We want snow angels!
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Kosh's Shadow
2/17/2022 9:52:35 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 19:
Meanwhile, it is almost 60 degrees here. GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!////////
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 9:55:23 AM
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In #21 Kosh's Shadow said: Meanwhile, it is almost 60 degrees here. GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!//////// Wait until it's 360 degrees. Things will have come full circle...
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Kosh's Shadow
2/17/2022 11:11:53 AM
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In #4 Occasional Reader said: BLM’s multi-millions are now officially under the control of notorious white grifters: MSM: Conservative media is just making a mountain out of a molehillary
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Kosh's Shadow
2/17/2022 12:39:12 PM
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In #24 JCM said: Mail carrier sent home for wearing N95 instead of cloth mask: 'I thought it was a joke' Especially since where I work requires KN95 or N95 asks (or surgical masks), They work better than cloth ones.
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 1:55:38 PM
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Discussion question (that just randomly occurred to me):
Has there ever been a screen adaptation (whether TV or movie) of Ellison's Invisible Man?
If not (and I'm not aware of any), why not?
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 2:07:24 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 27:
Fascism. Things are headed toward "general strike" territory. Incredible.
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@PBJ3
2/17/2022 2:18:03 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 27: Phil posted on Facebook on Feb. 14th so I left a message for him to check in with us over here. Hopefully he will.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 2:40:38 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26: Not to my knowledge. I can't imagine anyone doing it justice today, though---maybe the Coen brothers, if they could keep their own snark in check and let the text speak for itself. They'd certainly "get" some if not all of the jazz references, and might also appreciate the many punning/allusive names. Problem is, the book is merciless towards both the Communists and the Afrocentrists, so it would be very difficult to get backing to either bring it to the screen or get distributed. It's certainly on my short list for Great American Novel of the 20th century, along with Dos Passos' USA trilogy.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 2:47:26 PM
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If the late great Preston Sturges were still with us, he'd be great for filming "Invisible Man," given that the book, like most of Sturges' films, is about the gap between perception and reality.
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Occasional Reader
2/17/2022 3:51:56 PM
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My new pocket knife is here I’m happier than a clam in a candy store.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 4:03:22 PM
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"Invsible Man" readers' guide: The narrator early on references the Louis Armstrong record of "What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?" That recording, though musically excellent, is not as lyrically complete as Ethel Waters' version. The narrator, once in Harlem, buys a pair of hot yams from a street food vendor. This is partly his acceptance of being himself (he quotes the Popeye line, "I yam what I yam"), but his holding one yam in each hand is also a reference to the song/dance "The Yam," performed by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in the film "Carefree." (sorry about the colorization) The sequence where the narrator is mistaken for a protean character called "Rinehart" ("Can he be both rind and heart?"), who is a numbers runner, possibly a pimp, and also a storefront preacher, when the narrator is trying to hide from the Afrocentrist goons of Ras the Destroyer, is a reference to the Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing number "Harvard Blues"; Ellison was a sometime jazz musician, and a friend of Jimmy Rushing's. "Rinehart" is a Harvard "battle cry," as set forth in the John Barrymore film "The Great Man Votes," and took the name of the character from his association with Rushing. When the narrator is still with "the Brotherhood," i.e., the Communist Party (which, by the way, meets in an apartment building called "the Chthonian," which is a reference to the denizens of the underworld in Greek mythology), he creates a "multicultural/multiracial" poster that says "After the Struggle---the Rainbow of America's Future," which is a precursor to the song "Rainbow Race" by that old Stalinist Pete Seeger. When the narrator is applying for a job at Liberty Paints ("If it's Liberty White, it's the Right White"), that recalls the Big Bill Broonzy song, "Black, Brown, and White." During the application process at Liberty Paints, the narrator is interviewed by the head of the company, who invites the narrator to become is valet, and to join him at "the Club Calamus." This is actually a description of an attempted homosexual pickup scene; the "Calamus" reference, IIRC, refers to something in one of Carl Van Vechten's novels---and the young interviewer talks about how "with us, it's still Huck Finn and Jim," an early reference to the theory, once popular in academic circles, that Huck and Jim had a homosexual relationship. Kind of hard to bring all this to the screen.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 4:06:06 PM
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In #32 Occasional Reader said: My new pocket knife is here
You dashing young blade, you.
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JCM
2/17/2022 4:10:55 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 32: Don't cut yourself......
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Kosh's Shadow
2/17/2022 4:34:13 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 33: Wish I had you around to explain when I read it for a course in college, a history course, "The Making of 20th Century America" or something like that, iirc. Also discussed tenements (and how the core was to allow ventilation) and Jacob Reis photographs. Need to find my copy of the book and re-read it. The same professor had a student who put together videotapes on Watergate; the Clinton scandal makes that look like the work of two-bit hoods - but the MSM is doing their part in the coverup.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 4:52:38 PM
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In #37 Kosh's Shadow said: Wish I had you around to explain when I read it for a course in college, a history course, "The Making of 20th Century America" or something like that, iirc. Also discussed tenements (and how the core was to allow ventilation) and Jacob Reis photographs.
Understand that I learned the song references, for the most part, long after college. I was always fascinated by the obvious layers in Ellison's writing, but I didn't know what many of them were until some years afterwards. Note, too, that there are lots of punning names in the book; the race-hustler president of the black college's name is "Bledsoe," which is pretty obvious, as is the member of the "Brotherhood" named "Wrestrum" (the narrator even refers to him as an "outhouse"), but the names Lucius Brockway (the black man who actually does the basic work at Liberty Paints) and Tod Clifton (the Brotherhood hipster whose death sets off a riot) are less clear. "Mary" (the name of the narrator's landlady) is also obvious; "Ras," the Afrocentrist agitator (first "Ras the Exhorter," later "Ras the Destroyer"), is a reference to Ras Tafari (who became Haile Selassie, and is the person worshipped by Rastarfarians), but it also recalls the stereotypical black name "Rastus." Brother Jack, the man who recruits the narrator to "the Brotherhood," is openly described as relating to the trickster characters in black folklore, "Jack the Rabbit" and "Jack the Bear," aka the "Bre'r Rabbit" and "Bre'r Bear" familiar through the Uncle Remus stories. I don't, alas, know enough about the name "Tobias" (a name of one of the other Brotherhood members) to know what its significance is.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/17/2022 5:02:47 PM
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If you can stand one more short "Invisible Man" reference, the Danny Glover film "To Sleep With Anger" has a black-folklore element which, to me, recalls "Invisible Man" to some extent. There's a scene in that film where someone brushes Glover's shoes with a broom, and his character immediately reacts with an on-the-verge-of-violence response that hints at it being some sort of bad-luck omen, which sort of recalls the Robert Johnson song, "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom."
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