The GD Ad
As you may have heard, this sunday is the stupid bowl. It is the end of the NFL season, the excuse for lavish parties, and a showcase for advertising. Every year, companies spend billions of dollars producing ads that will stand out … which is not always the same things as outstanding.
A cheesy website company called godaddy is taking a shortcut. They produced an ad. Adorable puppy is tossed out of a pickup truck. After surviving an Indiana-Jones-like journey, adorable puppy finds a way back to the farm. Danica Patrick sees adorable puppy, and says adorable puppy has just been sold. The sale was made on a godaddy produced website. In the final shot, adorable puppy is seen in an open shipping box, leaving in a delivery van.
Allegedly, there has been a facebook/twitter/talkshow outrage. This facebook exchange is what PG saw. This exchange is what alerted PG to the existence of this ad.
Anyone who works in dog rescue is totally appalled by this ad on many counts. And all the nut jobs out there just call us liberal PETA psychos for hating this ad. WTH? … Not just the puppy mills, but the selling of dogs on these sites. Some end up as bait dogs or in the hands of animal abusers. Remember Puppy Doe? Also showing the puppy getting thrown out of the truck even by accident gives teens the idea to throw them out of moving vehicles for sports even more than they already do. Especially when the ad shows that the puppy survived. Most end up mamed and killed. They die a slow death where they land. Not a good ad at all. I’ve tried to educate people, but a lot just think I’m a PETA loving crazy liberal. … ___ you are a responsible, well-informed, and compassionate person. Anyone who would label you otherwise is ignorant.
PG saw this exchange, and wondered if he was missing something. “all the nut jobs out there just call us liberal PETA psychos for hating this ad.” Where are these people? More Americans are concerned with how much air is pumped in Tom Brady’s balls.
Which got PG to thinking. Just how much outrage was there about this ad? Who made those angry tweets? Does anyone, outside of the “PETA loving crazy liberal” cabal, really pay attention?
Maybe, just maybe, this is manufactured outrage. By making a show of pulling the ad, godaddy has gotten lots of people to look at it. Instead of competing with the big money sponsors on sunday, godaddy gets lots of attention on wednesday. It is standing alone, which is also different from outstanding. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These men were Confederate soldiers, during the War Between the States. They did not pull their advertising because of a few angry tweets.
Pageant Of Pulchritude
The fun started when PG clicked on the link to Can You Answer 11 Basic Intelligence Questions? Like many internet trolls, PG fancies himself a fart smeller smart feller. The quiznation clickathon (spell check suggestion:quantization catholic) sort of confirms this.
As the title suggests, there were 11 questions. The first one is typical … 1- How many 10 cent stamps are there in a dozen? 120, 12, 10, 20. 9 were multiple choice, and 2 were true/false.
Number 6 was true/false, and it caught PG. Do flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? PG thought of mobile and immobile, and said that the f words have opposite meanings. In one of those delightful english language quirks, those two words mean the same thing. Question 7 … What does JFK short for? … makes you wonder if this quiz was written by an engish speaking human.
The questions were sponsored by a facility selling 75% Off Drug Tests. “75% Off Drug Tests 5 panel: $1.17 & 10 panel $2.50 w/ Free Cups, FDA 510K, Free Shipping.” In a big brother moment, Amazon drops by the advertise Joni Mitchell product.
Two words that apparently mean the same thing were responsible for missing a question on Can You Use 11 Commonly Misused Words Correctly? “Our family _______ from Ireland twenty years ago. emigrated, immigrated.” “Emigration is the act of leaving one’s native country with the intent to settle permanently or temporarily elsewhere. Conversely, immigration describes the movement of persons into one country from another.”
You may get the impression that somebody does not have much to talk about. You may be correct. The last item is an edited selection from the comments at Peach Pundit. Here is the soundtrack.
January 26, 2015 at 9:51 am More American heroes! Gotta like it! Can’t wait for the disgraceful, bed-wetting libs to bust their chops like they did Chris Kyle’s. By the way, remember when the bed-wetters criticized Chick Filet’s founder for his beliefs? The next couple of days made Chick Filet’s earning for that week the biggest in the company’s history. Their insults are doing the same for Clint’s movie, too! Way to go, weenies! LMAO
January 26, 2015 at 11:27 am Doesn’t hurt me. My point is that your insults aren’t any more palatable than anyone else’s, and that you’d be better served saving your anger to defend something more important than a public entertainment. Of course you’re free to spend your time as you wish and I don’t have to read your comments so we’ll both get by.
The pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These details are from picture #06666, documenting “First Internation[al] Pageant of Pulchritude & Seventh Annual Bathing Girl Review at Galveston, Texas.” It was taken in 1926.
Growing Up With Joni Mitchell
A facebook friend went on a Joni Mitchell kick. First it was a link to an interview. Then it was a quote from The Last Time I Saw Richard. A lady said Blue was her favorite album all all time, and a man enthusiastically agreed.
Given the apples and oranges quality of her catalog, it would be tough to pick one album as a favorite. PG then realized that fbf was going to be thirty soon. PG is sixty. These are two different perspectives on the craft of Joni Mitchell. One has driven through the storm, not knowing what was next. The other is presented with an almost complete body of work.
PG has known about Joni since high school, and been a devoted fan since 1976. Joni’s most popular album, Court And Spark, came out in 1974, eleven years before fbf was born. Who would be the equivalent female musical force from 1943, when PG was minus eleven? The answer is nobody. (Coincidentally Roberta Joan Anderson was born on November 7, 1943.)
After the comment about Blue, PG listened to For The Roses. Joni’s craft is like a cluster bomb… there are lines that you never fully felt, bomblets waiting to explode in your gut. Let The Wind Carry Me has one of those hidden threats. Mama thinks she spoilt me, Papa knows somehow he set me free, Mama thinks she spoilt me rotten, She blames herself, But papa he blesses me.
The first thing PG heard by Joni was Big Yellow Taxi. It was on The Big Ball, a 1970 mail order sampler from Warner Brothers. This was when Joni shacked up with Graham Nash. The next year saw Blue, followed by For The Roses, and Court And Spark. PG always thought Joni was someone he should like, but somehow didn’t. It wasn’t until 1976 that PG broke through the barrier, and became a Joni Mitchell fan. Seeing her in concert did not hurt.
On February 3, 1976, PG took a study break. (He scored 100 on the test the next day) Joni Mitchell was playing at the UGA coliseum a few blocks away, and the door was not watched after the show started. PG found a place to stand, on the first level of the stands. The LA express was her band that night, and created a tight, jazzy sound, even in the UGA coliseum. Tom Scott pointed at Joni, said she was crazy, and drew circles around his left ear. The one line PG remembers is “chicken scratching my way to immortality” from Hejira.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns might not be her best album, but it is certainly her bravest. Court And Spark was a commercial success. Instead of producing a bestselling followup, Joni took a ninety degree turn. Summer Lawns, for all its eccentric sparkle, confused the record buying public. The gravy train took off in another direction.
In those days, 96rock played a new album at midnight, which people were known to tape. On the night of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, the album was Hejira. This was followed by Mingus, another curve ball. Finally, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter appeared, and did not make a good impression.
The eighties, nineties, and aughts appeared. PG, and Joni, lived their lives. 1996 saw a frightening interview in Details magazine. It was startling to see that for all her granola glory, Joni Mitchell might not be a very nice person. In a pot and kettle moment, David Crosby said “Joni’s about as humble as Mussolini.” Music is a tough way to make easy money.
More recently, there was a long interview on Canadian television. She is not mellowing with age. The cigarettes have not killed her, even if her voice is not what it once was. The recent albums that PG heard are strong. There seem to be more on the way. Maybe the facebook friend will have have the “what is she going to do next” experience after all. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Frankly My Dear
An English language expression for caring goes give a _____. An unverified internet source tells one story: “(don’t) give a damn -The above phrase was originally I don’t give a dam (yes, the n is missing on purpose) and seems to have been brought back to England by military men traveling to India in the mid 18th century. A dam was an Indian coin of little value. After spreading to civilian usage, the phrase changed to I don’t give a damn and was first recorded in America in the 1890’s”
DGA__ went in two directions. Less offensive words like hoot, toss, and rip were inserted into the blank space. Others chose use more offensive items, like shit and fuck, in the formula.
No one seems to know what a damn is. It is hard to say what exactly is meant by not giving a shit, or a fuck. Fuck refers to a highly prized animal activity. Shit is a vile, smelly substance that is used for fertilizer. When you give a shit, do you gift wrap it?
A link to The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck recently turned up on facebook. Out of 2496 words, 113 are fuck, or incorporate fuck. The f-word is used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, and interjection. The f-word is not used as a conjunction. This is a curious omission. The literal meaning of the f-word refers to the act of conjunction.
It may seem judgmental to say so, but this attitude is selfish, arrogant, and irresponsible. If you stick around for the fine print, you see that it is not enough to merely not give a hoot. According to “Author. Thinker. Life Enthusiast.” Mark Manson, it is a matter of deciding what you want to hoot about. (The period is used at the end of a complete sentence. You should use one period per sentence.)
Here is a brief biography. “Mark Manson is from Austin, Texas, USA and graduated from Boston University in 2007. He began coaching men informally that same year, taking them out to local bars and helping them approach attractive women. Mark founded Practical Pick Up in 2008 and has since worked with hundreds of men in 12 different countries and four different continents. He’s given over 40 public presentations worldwide and has been interviewed for news shows and magazines. In 2011, he changed his business to PostMasculine.com to change his focus away from simply meeting and attracting women and to help with life’s issues at large.”
In other words, he got started coaching men on how to get women to give them a fuck. Mr. Manson has “evolved” into coaching the gender neutral internet on not giving a fuck. What a guy. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Reconstruction
@bitchywaiter Things to not talk about when I am serving your breakfast: how Santa didn’t bring you a vaginal reconstruction this year. ~ @bitchywaiter Things to not talk about while I serve your dinner: your need for a new bra because since you had your baby “your tits are all fucked up.” ~ @murderkroger Guess this really was a playoff game for the Falcons ~ unarmed children killed by the authorities – at least America doesn’t mind when Israel does it. ~ The Tralfamadorian Paradigm in Slaughterhouse Five ~ 1-Marta was built on railroad right of way. To put a station at Turner Field would have meant a major construction project. 2- There are plenty of people who think that the Blank Bowl is equally ridiculous as the Cobb Crackers. ~ @TooMessedUp A woman just dropped a $100 bill next to me. I thought, “What would Jesus do?” So I turned it into wine. Well, I bought a case of wine. ~ @sydscifi @jojokejohn Are point smiles something you get when you fly a lot? ~ I went to channel two news to look at the weather. Then I was looking at this post. An auto start commercial started at channel two. “SOMETIMES BIGGER IS BETTER” ~ @Brimshack It’s sad to think that kind of political porn counts as conservatism. @cheetah1961 ~ What if people were as proud of their ability to listen, as they were of the things they say? ~ snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com. ~ @TooMessedUp How easily you’re offended is directly proportional to how dumb you are. ~ The header ad is from methproject.org “WILL METH MAKE ME DIG AT MY OWN SKIN?”~ A libertarian vote is essentially a vote for the incumbent. If the election had gone to a runoff, then Mr. Deal probably would have won. I was not impressed by Mr. Carter, but the Demos are not good at attracting statewide candidates. ~ “A Libertarian vote is essentially a vote for the incumbent” is a cop out IMO! That’s the reason we have a two party system… because no one wants to vote for the loser. Everyone wants to be a winner and no one things a independent/lib/other is capable of winning. Anyone is capable of winning IF we get off our collective asses as citizens and educate ourselves and those around of us about the alternatives. I admit that I don’t educate myself as well as I should but I try to get as much non-partisan info as I can at least for all the positions that I deem important (some of the “low” local positions, especially uncontested ones) I tend to gloss over. ~ Better safe than sorry is right. Channel 13 News was just talking about this change in Facebook’s privacy policy. Better safe than sorry. As of January 4th, 2015 at 10:50 a.m . Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. You MUST copy and paste ~ @poetryduh @briankornell, @mbsycamore, I’ve been busy writing stories, which was maybe the fool’s choice when I could’ve been busy knitting ~ Solid one on one relationships are tough to come by. I am grateful for the few friends that I do have. ~ @mbsycamore you need perspective when you are suspected ~ Anthropomorphic Aramaic shade is the best shade. ~ The following replies are approved. To see additional replies that are pending approval, click Show Pending. Warning: These may contain graphic material. ~ You are going to pay for it. Feemaste ~ Lang said in a statement McCollom told agents she was asleep when her husband, Chief William McColom, shot her so she could not give them any details. ~ Tomorrow, Facebook will change its privacy settings to allow Mark Zuckerberg to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a grapefruit spoon. To stop this from happening, go to Account> Home Invasion Settings> Cannibalism> Brains> Grapefruit, and uncheck the “Tasty” box. Please copy and repost.” ~ Register To Post You can view topic. You cannot start a new topic. You cannot reply to posts. You cannot edit your posts. You cannot delete your posts. You cannot add new polls. You cannot vote in polls. You cannot attach files to posts. You cannot post without approval. ~ The information in this article is not legal advice and should not be construed as legal advice. It is information only. ~ pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah
#ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay
The number one trending hastag at 1:23 pm, on 12/13/14, is #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay If you are familiar with contemporary logic, the tweets will come as no surprise.
@thePatriciaRae I’m not worried. The Government is gonna take care of me
@Thomasismyuncle I’m a Liberal Democrat… … and I’m here to help.
@cmclymer “Police brutality and structural racism don’t exist.”
@chamblee54 I have read all of #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay
There is a comment above in the twitter feed. @RobinDGKelley READ @NaomiAKlein ON Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate via @thenation
The linked article is a doozy. “The annual United Nations climate summit is wrapping up in in Lima, Peru, and on its penultimate day, something historic happened. … The historic event was the decision of the climate-justice movement to symbolically join the increasingly global #BlackLivesMatter uprising, staging a “die-in” outside the convention center much like the ones that have brought shopping malls and busy intersections to a standstill, from the US to the UK.”
The rest of the article is an orgy of overblown rhetoric. “What does #BlackLivesMatter, and the unshakable moral principle that it represents, have to do with climate change? Everything. Because we can be quite sure that if wealthy white Americans had been the ones left without food and water for days in a giant sports stadium after Hurricane Katrina, even George W. Bush would have gotten serious about climate change.”
Really? Hurricanes have happened for years. A channel was created to help shipping in Louisiana, and took out barrier islands that would have absorbed the impact of Katrina. George W. Bush, and his arab oil industry buddies, are not going to let a few lives get in the way of their profits.
The debate on carbon pollution is not going away. We may already be past the tipping points, with an unstoppable slide into disaster. Alternative energy is a long way away from being able to satisfy our needs. None of these realities is going to change because protesters in Lima, Peru, staged a die in. These are #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Six Pack Of PBQ
As 2014 winds down, the playbuzz quiz is off the chain. Almost every day another facebook denizen announces What Kind Of Demon Are You? or Which Magical Creature Should You Adopt? Today’s waste of bandwidth will explore these dimensions. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
The is an accounting procedure called LIFO. It means last in, first out. The last PBQ on FB was Which Magical Creature Should You Adopt? “If you could pick one of these superpowers, which one would you choose?” “Where would you rather live?” The first four questions offer a non choice, like “something else”, or “somewhere else.” The research oriented PG chose these placebo options.
The first result was GREMLIN. “You are a generous, yet rebellious individual and you and your pet gremlin will have loads of fun getting into trouble together! Just remember, don’t feed him or her after midnight!” Hopefully, an AMC automobile is not involved.
What Kind Of Demon Are You? DJINN “Like human beings, the jinn can be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent and hence have free will.” Some cleansing cream product called Puffs advertised in this segment. Magic Dragons are pleased.
What Crime Did You Commit in Your Past Life? This does have a fun question. “Pick a celebrity mug shot.” The options are Kholoe Kardashian, Lil Wayne, Lindsay Lohan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Nick Nolte. Lindsay Lohan has the best hair.
There is a bit of ironic presentation. The meme-headline says “Am I the only one around here that gives a shit about the rules!?” A mean looking actor holds a pistol, and screams. The question is: Finish this sentence: Rules are meant to be ______ . The answers are Bent, Broken, Followed. To the right of the question is an ad for Ricoh Healthcare Technology & Document Management.
The last question was “Pick a weapon.” An option is a knife, and handgun, with the universal no pasted on. The criminal result: PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT. “After the rumors began spreading, a wave of hysteria washed over the community and you were thrown in jail.” That sounds like the last two weeks in “post racial” Amerika.
When you work on the internet, there is temptation and distractions. There is always *something* on twitter. @paul_lander FOX News had on Mark Fuhrman talking race relations. Let’s face it, if he were alive, they’d give a cooking show to Jeffrey Dahmer. Just try the mashed potatoes.
Which leads us to the next PBQ, Which Mythical Creature is Hidden Inside You? FAIRY A hair care product called Pantene is advertised.
The last two PBQ are about allegedly real people. It is a fine line between history and myth, especially when you are promoting a war. What Iconic Figure In American History Are You Most Like? probably will overlook this sordid reality.
“Which of these periods in American History would you most like to live in?” The options are “Now – The Information Age” (picture of aluminum skyscrapers”,) “The Founding Days” (painting of George Washington looking cool,) “The Roaring 20s” (picture of women in short skirts dancing,) “The Influential 60s” (picture of post pubescent Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.)
“Which of these influential figures of Western History do you hold in highest regard?” Winston Churchill, Salvador Dali, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. Six white men, with the hispanic Dali posing with a cat. This PBQ is politically incorrect. Maybe PG should not worry about being compared to slaveowner GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The last PBQ is Which Famous Genius Do You Think Like? ALBERT EINSTEIN PG might trim the mustache back a bit. The rumored affair with Marilyn Monroe can stay. Being misquoted on the internet, sixty years after you die, is good, clean fun.
Gremlin, Djinn, Fairy, Practicing witchcraft, George Washington, Albert Einstein. Life is good. Political correctness is greatly overrated.
Harold Bloom
On September 3, 2000, Harold Bloom appeared on Booknotes to promote How to Read and Why. Other C-SPAN news that day involved Vice President Al Gore and Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush. Mr. Bloom is a professor at Yale University. He has written many books, despite not knowing how to type. There is no false modesty on display.
A teacher is an entertainer, knowing the value of a good line. Over the years, platitudes pile up. Mr. Bloom has collects both books, and clever lines about books. “Oh, I read everything and anything. I’m a desperate reader. If I can’t find anything else, my wife is likely to find me obsessively re-reading cereal box tops in the morning. … I now call myself at times, partly in self-deprication, but partly, I suppose, with a certain fury Bloom brontosaurus bardolater; that is to say, not only a worshiper of Shakespeare, but a brontosaurus, a dinosaur. I’ve never learned how to type”
Fourteen years ago, the internet was still called the “World Wide Web.” It was very much a work in progress. Mr. Bloom viewed the information superhighway with horror. “But the Internet, which I acknowledge is an economic and commercial necessity–the Internet–and many people disagree with me on this, I know–the Internet, I think, is a terrible danger to the life of the mind. It’s a terrible danger to real reading because it’s a kind of great, gray ocean in which everything merges with everything else. And extremely difficult–it is extremely difficult for a young person to establish standards of reading or to find again what could be called intellectual and aesthetic standards of judgment in relation to what is available on it. There is no guidance.”
PG listened to the conversation with Mr. Bloom in the background. In the foreground, pictures were being edited.This is something you cannot do with a dead tree book. This went on happily until the shockwave player crashed, and the machine needed a reboot. This is something else that does not happen with traditional publishing.
“He got rather offended and explained to me, in rather hurt tones, that Sir So-and-so was the leading British authority on information retrieval. I told him honestly, and it’s still true, I did not know what information retrieval was, and I did not wish to find out, and I still don’t know what it is. I said, `Who is the other gentleman?’ And then he said, quite coldly, `He is our leading authority on software.’ I said, `I’ve never learned to type. I’m not at all sure what software is.’ He said, `It doesn’t matter.’ He said, `In any case, Professor Bloom, you ought to come. You will represent the book.’ I said, `This is ridiculous.’ I said, `You’re going to ask me to have a discussion with an authority on something called information retrieval and an authority on software, and I, wretched creature, am supposed to represent the book? I am highly inadequate to represent the book. Anybody would be. And I will not come. Goodbye, sir.’ But that is the British Library.”
Mr. Bloom tells of a visit to Stanford University. The only pleasant time he had was a conversation with the Provost, Condoleezza Rice. (spell check suggestion: Condolence) The rest of the time he decries the custom of teaching literature based on the ethnicity of the author. He tells the story of a desk, with the legs falling off. From clumsy carpentry, he moves onto brain surgery. “If you were being wheeled in for a brain operation, and you were told that the brain surgeon had been chosen on the basis of fairness, on the basis of universalism, on the basis of multiculturalism, you would jump right off the operating table. We do not enforce these things in the medical schools.”
This sounds nice in theory. In real life, the brain surgeon was determined by the willingness of a health insurance bully to pay. Reality is more frightening than fictitious furniture.
The Booknotes conversation took place during election season. The discussion of politicians was indicated. “Leon Trotsky, who was a great, though murderous, human being, but a remarkable writer. And in his own way, a remarkable literary critic.” “I find it powerfully offensive that one of the two major presidential candidates is perhaps the least distinguished graduate of the entire history of Yale University, and I’ve taught there for 46 years, though I never taught this gentleman. But he has boasted to the press, at least until his people told him to talk differently about it, but he began by boasting to the press that he had never read a book through since he left Yale. And indeed, he laughed, he hadn’t read many through there. And, of course, I believe him”
No discussion about Harold Bloom is complete without Naomi Wolf. “In the late fall of 1983, professor Harold Bloom did something banal, human, and destructive: He put his hand on a student’s inner thigh—a student whom he was tasked with teaching and grading. The student was me, a 20-year-old senior at Yale.” Is Bill Cosby going to be teaching at Yale?
The one star comments about the book are festive. “His prose is at times crisp, yet his reasoning wanders about like somnambulist on a treadmill.” “Instead I found myself dragged into a solipsistic rant of Mr. Bloom’s favorite books.” “Please do not waste your money on this book. Each section is devoted ostensibly to a “critique” of a work that Mr. Bloom recommends to his unwashed readers.” Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Lemony Snicket And His Money
PG was trolling twitter when he found this: @Number13Press Lemony Snicket pledges up to $100,000 in racist joke apology. Who/what is Lemony Snicket? What did this person say? How can this joke be worth $100,000? Did he ever fork out the change?
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of Daniel Handler. Apparently he is not related to Chelsea Handler. Mr. Handler told a “joke” at the National Book Award affair about a black lady who was “allergic to watermelon.” Toothpaste flavor was not involved.
Knickers were twisted coast to coast. Mr. Handler was called out, and out, and out. Mr. Snicket took to twitter, and said my bad.
@DanielHandler My remarks on Wednesday night at #NBAwards were monstrously inappropriate and yes, racist. -DH [1/4]
@DanielHandler It would be heartbreaking for the #NBAwards conversation to focus on my behavior instead of great books. So can we do this? -DH [2/4]
@DanielHandler Let’s donate to #WeNeedDiverseBooks to #CelebrateJackie. I’m in for $10,000, and matching your money for 24 hours up to $100,000. -DH [3/4[
@DanielHandler Brown Girl Dreaming is an amazing novel and we need more voices like Jacqueline Woodson. -DH [4/4]
The mea culpa tweets were dated November 21. It is now November 24. Presumably, the 24 hours are over. A check on google does not reveal how much money Mr. Handler will need to match. It also is not known whether the money was ever sent. This is a problem when people make a show about donating money in the future. There is seldom any proof that the donation took place.
When googling Daniel Handler, the first suggested search is “net worth.” He wrote an article for the New York Times in 2007. It began: “Let’s start by saying I have a lot of money. I’ve acquired it by writing children’s books about terrible things happening to orphans, and this seems like such a crazy and possibly monstrous way of acquiring money that I give a lot of it away.”
The tweet at the top of the page linked to The Guardian. It has a lively comment section. ArkEton “A paltry $100k and an apology? It’s time we stop letting these people off so lightly. Making a racist joke is the worst thing in the world. It should be highly illegal and they should go to prison for a very long time. An apology? Like that makes it okay? Damn you racists.”
Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Random Trivia Questions
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5:52 am. Breakfast is cooking. A day out in the world awaits. Can You Answer 13 RANDOM Trivia Questions? The header ad is the Pillsbury doughboy. Apparently those funeral rumors were just somebody’s idea of a joke. Pop Tart, and Aunt Jemima, will be relieved.
5:54 am “How many innings does a baseball game have?” These things always start easy. Maybe, with the popularity of useless honesty, the question should be how many outings a game will have. 5:56 am “What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s pet dog?” These things make me goofy. Pluto is a buddy of Socrates, and Donald is a duck. All are cartoon characters.
5:57 am “What is the general name for a group of wolves?” Why are wolves compared to a box of playing cards? The ad here is Consumer Reports, which also comes in a pack. Is writing down those times too much work? Should you go take a look at breakfast? Cleaning up a burned out pot is not going to be helpful. “Which two fairytale characters ended up in a house made of gingerbread?” If the gb house was on a hill, it would be Jack and Jill. Johnny Carson has a routine about censorship. He honked a horn at the dirty parts. Jack and Jill went up the hill, honk, honk, honk.
“Which movie actor uttered the famous words, “I’ll be back.”” Three famous Hollywood tough guys, with only one American in the crew. Sooner or later there is going to be a wrong answer. “Which bird was commonly used by humans to send messages?” “TRUE or FALSE: In Greek mythology, Hades is the God of The underworld.” “What is the longest river in the world?” “Who said “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”?” The last one is a misquote. The astronaut said it was a small step for a man. The product here is a toilet bowl scrubber. “TRUE or FALSE: Earth is the 3rd closest planet to the sun?””Scurvy is the result of a deficiency in which vitamin?”
“Steven Tyler is the singer of which famous band?” The pharmaceutical ad, with the scrolling side effects in fine print, has been replaced with the soft scrub toilet bowl cleaner. “The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a gift from which country? Somehow, the guessing game was good for 10 correct answers, Goofy, Hades, and Scurvy were the only things to fail. The fourteenth correct answer is to say no, do not post this to facebook or twitter.
Jeopardy Ready! From Mickey Mouse to Pigeon carriers, you know your absolutely random trivia! You need to have an exceedingly diverse knowledge range to be able to succeed on a quiz like this – and you did! We don’t know where along your life you picked up information on scurvy, or what Aerosmith song you listen to that reminds of Steven Tyler… you dominated this quiz! Share this quiz with your friends and family. Let’s see how well they do on these super random trivia questions!
Whoever wrote the winners notes did not pay attention to the results. Questions about Mickey Mouse, and Scurvy, were missed. Maybe Mickey’s dog was named Scurvy. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. 6:32 am Breakfast finished cooking without incident.
Stop Getting Racisted At
Once upon a time, cigarettes were advertised on television. One new brand was a cigarette for women, Virginia Slims. The ability to kill yourself with tobacco was presented as being a privilege. Some wondered why women would want to take up this filthy habit.
Today, African Americans have the “privilege” of using the n-word. What a deal. A nasty word, which degrades both the speaker, and the spoken of. Why would anyone want to use that word?
Apparently, millions of people do. Recently, an individual named Piers Morgan wrote a piece in an English newspaper about the n-word. Mr. Morgan calls those six letters “a grotesque, odious, evil stain on the English language. It symbolises everything multi-cultural America has fought so hard to move on from – white-run, imperialist, violent, sexually malevolent barbarism.” As the lady in Ferguson, MO, said, “I CANNOT BELIEVE I STILL HAVE TO PROTEST THIS SHIT!!”
@aamer_rahman In other news today: White Guy Blames Black People for Centuries of Racism. Lol #PiersMorgan #GotItAllFiguredOut
@DakShepard God, please let me live free from the need to tell POC what they should do to stop getting racisted at. Please let #PiersMorgan, too. Amen.
@tariqnasheed So #PiersMorgan is running the ol “the-reason-we-practice-white-supremacy-is-because-Black-people-use-the #NWord ” con game I see
@kim_tastiic #PiersMorgan is liberalism personified. ‘Nuff said..
@Adam_M_Ali#PiersMorgan’ “article” confirming the ignorance of Whiteness to the INTERNAL discourse within the Black community, it’s now dictating to.
@Virtuous_Queen_Show me the statistical data and research that proves eliminating the Nword will dismantle racism n inequalities. @piersmorgan #PiersMorgan
@BriannaChevonneShow positive black families on prime time tv and not the Good Times struggling ones…then you’ll be equal…NOT! #PiersMorgan
Sometime between the last cigarette commercial, and the first dark skinned POTUS, America was charmed by “The Bill Cosby Show.” Here was a “positive black family on prime time tv.” As @BriannaChevonne could have told you, we are equal…NOT!
Bill Cosby has been interesting. PG grew up listening to the comedy albums. Mr. Cosby earned lots of money selling Jell-O, and with a hit tv show. Mr. Cosby, it is whispered, is a mean, crotchety old bastard. There are also those troubling stories about sexual assault.
Asking for “public input” is always a risky business. This is even more true when the beloved entertainer is accused of rape. This didn’t stop Bill Cosby Inc. from putting out the Cosby Meme Generator. People were invited to paste comments onto charming pictures of America’s favorite funnyman. What happened could have been predicted. Thus was born #cosbymeme. The spell check suggestion for #cosbymeme is #cosmetology. You can’t make this up.
@NarcoVelvet I will now be participating in the #CosbyMeme fun. Because I cannot even believe this is being allowed to happen right now.
@Dukeweiser Cmon Bruh At least his app asks for consent. #CosbyMeme ”
@elonjames I think Bill Cosby still thinks he’s America’s Dad and not America’s creepy Uncle who’s not allowed to visit anymore… #CosbyMeme
@InsaneBHawksFan @_poeia “I put the bibity bopity in her drink and then my boopity doopity in her poopity.” -Bill Cosby #cosbymeme
@ritchtp #fact more Blacks wrote a #CosbyMeme than were employed to write a cosby show.
Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
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