Ta-Nehisi Coates Again
The Message is a new book by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates. The publishing game requires TPC to promote his book, which he is doing with gusto. It turns out this literary product is critical of Israel. Some things you are not allowed to say out loud.
One noteworthy appearance was on CBS Mornings. Tony Dokoupil gave TPC a rude greeting: “I have to say when I when I read the book I imagine if I took your name out of it took away the awards and the Acclaim took the cover off the book … the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.” Later, Mr. Dokoupil inadvertently says something many of Israel’s neighbors might agree with: “Why does any of Israel exist? What a horrific place, committing horrific acts on a daily basis.”
Part of the problem is the high profile TPC has enjoyed as an anti-racist celebrity. Over the last few years, many “woke” people have heaped praise on the man. At the same time, more than a few people were annoyed with TPC. Saagar Enjeti had some strong comments about TPC on Breaking Points recently. What the star-making machine builds up, the star-making machine tears down.
Chamblee54 has written about TPC several times. one two three In a video about the six-letter word, TPC asserts “When you’re white in this country, you’re taught that everything belongs to you. You think you have a right to everything.”
The progressive movement in America has fought against racism, inequality, injustice, etc, for a long time. If you can look past the hypocrisy and vulgar noise, you can see some value in these efforts. Unfortunately, Israel violates many of these values in it’s dealings with Palestinians. This contradiction is difficult for the left to deal with.
TPC is saying things that make progressives nervous. Israel treats Palestinians horribly. The hypocrisy of the platitude spouting left is on display. Shooting the messenger is always a popular option. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Here is part two of this story.
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humanesque highway · foghorn foggy stomping boots · forgot bio this! · Pictures are from The Library of Congress The photgrapher was Marjory Collins, in August 1942, New York NY. “O’Reilly’s bar on Third Avenue in the “Fifties”” · This is a repost from 2018. · Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation De Profundis · humanesque highway foghorn foggy stomping boots forgot bio this! · I found this item by @elilake in a post from 10-27-24 “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country.” · Marjory Collins took the photographs in August 1942 “Brooklyn band of Italian-Americans, after playing at Mott Street flag raising ceremony in honor of neighborhood boys in the United States Army, retiring to a neighborhood bar out of the rain.” · “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country.” I found this item by @elilake in a post from 10-27-24 · I therefore formulate and offer to the world the following Principles for Quotations, two for quoters and two for readers, which, if universally followed, would make an immense improvement to the reliability of the information available on the world wide web. … Principle 1 (for readers) Whenever you see a quotation given with an author but no source assume that it is probably bogus. Principle 2 (for readers) Whenever you see a quotation given with a full source assume that it is probably being misused, unless you find good evidence that the quoter has read it in the source. Principle 3 (for quoters) Whenever you make a quotation, give the exact source. Principle 4 (for quoters) Only quote from works that you have read. · “Believe nothing you hear, and only one-half that you see.” These are words always true. Moving lips tell lies, and wiggling fingers type nonsense. This is the case no matter which medium you work in. Mankind started with “stories” told from one person to another. Then we started to write down these tales. After a few millennia, some Germans invented a device to print “stuff.” Next, people turned these thoughts into digital dots and dashes, and spread them on a computer. Today, we are moving on to artificial intelligence, to transmit the genuine stupidity of the ages. · @Miss_Mojo Black queerness is cultural while White queerness is structural. They operate on two different frequencies. · pictures today are from The Library of Congress · selah
Quoting James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin has become a star on facebook, thirty five years after his death. People love to quote him, and post artsy pictures of his face. Over the past year I have seen three Baldwin memes that required action. Once you start to research, there is no telling what you are going to find.
“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” This item is from a 1966 article that Mr. Baldwin wrote for The Nation. “One is in the impossible position of being unable to believe a word one’s countrymen say. “I can’t believe what you say,” the song goes, “because I see what you do”—and one is also under the necessity of escaping the jungle …”
“The song goes” is what the memes leave out. Ike Turner wrote the song. The Ikettes sing “I can’t believe…”, while Tina goes “agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh.” Ike knew about being a no-good man. Tina looks a lot better in a short skirt than Mr. Baldwin did.
“I’d like to leave you with one more short quote from James Baldwin, “Whoever debases others is debasing himself.” This is from a June, 2020 video about racism. This quote is from Letter from a Region in My Mind, a 1962 essay in The New Yorker. “Letter…” clocks in at 22,114 words. Mr. Baldwin could crank out the word count.
“Letter…” covers a lot of ground. The “debase” quote comes in after Mr. Baldwin describes a visit to Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. Soon, Mr. Baldwin starts talking about race in the United States. One quote stood out: “But white Americans do not believe in death, and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them.”
“By this time, I was in a high school that was predominantly Jewish. This meant that I was surrounded by people who were, by definition, beyond any hope of salvation, who laughed at the tracts and leaflets I brought to school, and who pointed out that the Gospels had been written long after the death of Christ. … My best friend in high school was a Jew. He came to our house once, and afterward my father asked, as he asked about everyone, “Is he a Christian?”—by which he meant “Is he saved?” I really do not know whether my answer came out of innocence or venom, but I said, coldly, “No. He’s Jewish.” My father slammed me across the face with his great palm, and in that moment everything flooded back—all the hatred and all the fear, and the depth of a merciless resolve to kill my father rather than allow my father to kill me—and I knew that all those sermons and tears and all that repentance and rejoicing had changed nothing.”
“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” This quote proved more difficult to chase down. It does not appear in any of Mr. Baldwin’s work. The earliest mention appears to be behind The New Yorker paywall. “During his wanderings, Baldwin warned a friend who had urged him to settle down that “the place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” There is no link to a source.
The New Yorker article is cited by Lithub, which is then cited by New Transcendentalist. “These Timely James Baldwin Quotes … ,” from Bustle, credits the quote to “a 1957 letter to Sol Stein.”
Sol Stein “attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he served on the Magpie literary magazine with Richard Avedon and James Baldwin.” We don’t know if Mr. Stein was the one who made David Baldwin slap his step-son. A paywalled article, about the correspondence between Mr. Stein and “Jimmy,” does not mention the “place in which I’ll fit” quote.
The WaPo article did have a mind-blowing quote. “In the introduction to the book, Baldwin would ponder his influences: “When one begins looking for influences, one finds them by the score. … the King James Bible, the rhetoric of the store-front church, something ironic and violent and perpetually understated in Negro speech…” I saw this quote in 1976, in a college textbook. At the time, I thought this was an amazing quote. It stayed in my mind until the next life changing detail came along, not to be thought of again for forty six years.
Chamblee54 has written about Mr. Baldwin before. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.” UPDATE: @QuoteResearch Replying to @chamblee54 @HilalIsler @lithub “It appeared in a 1957 letter from James Baldwin and Sol Stein reprinted in “Native Sons” (2004) edited by Sol Stein. I am planning to create a QI article on this topic” @QuoteResearch “Please get over the notion, Sol, that there’s some place I’ll fit when I’ve made some ‘real peace’ with myself : the place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it. You know and I know that the ‘peace’ of most people is nothing but torpor.” … James Baldwin to Sol Stein UPDATE: I was writing a story about Flannery O’Connor. I wanted to quote this post, but could not find the link. Neither google nor duckduckgo would show me this post. I had to go to the chamblee54 archive, and scroll through October 2022 until I found the post. This is a repost from 2022.
Believe Nothing You Hear
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one-half that you see.” These are words always true. Moving lips tell lies, and wiggling fingers type nonsense. This is the case no matter which medium you work in.
Mankind started with “stories” told from one person to another. Then we started to write down these tales. After a few millennia, some Germans invented a device to print “stuff.” Next, people turned these thoughts into digital scratches, and spread them on a computer. Today, we are moving on to artificial intelligence, to transmit the genuine stupidity of the ages.
@itsgivingkyle “A cautionary tale about trusting AI: I recently heard a quote from a Tiktok “Believe nothing you hear, and half of what you see” and wanted to investigate its origin. · From a Google search, I found that the quote is commonly referenced from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” · I asked @AnthropicAI’s Claude model to give me a synopsis. The story is about an unnamed narrator visiting a mental asylum after hearing about a new rehabilitation process called “the soothing cure” · Eventually the narrator would find out that the guests at the dinner were actually the patients, who had locked up the staff. I asked Claude “where in the story does the quote come up?” · It said, “The quote “Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see” is not actually used in Poe’s story … · Confused, I copy and pasted the passage used from @QuoteResearch and said “Is this not in the story”? · “Claude swiftly replies: “I deeply apologize for my significant error in my previous responses. You are absolutely correct, and I was mistaken. The quote is indeed in the story … by Edgar Allan Poe. · Ironically, the same “proverb” I was looking up applies directly to this story. It’s common to think that computers don’t make mistakes – but AI is not exactly a computer, and makes mistakes from time to time. · So I leave you with this message: do not believe anything you hear, and only half of what you read.”
I have not read the full text of TSODTAPF. A rule of quotations is that you should only comment on texts that you have read. However, with the questionable help of wikipedia, I can offer a summary. A young man is traveling in France. There are rumors of a new way to treat the mentally ill. …
“I had heard, at Paris, that the institution of Monsieur Maillard was managed upon what is vulgarly termed the “system of soothing” — that all punishments were avoided — that even confinement was seldom resorted to — that the patients, while secretly watched, were left much apparent liberty, and that most of them were permitted to roam about the house and grounds in the ordinary apparel of persons in right mind.” Soon, the young man meets M. Maillard. He does not like what he hears.
“And you have now changed all this—and you think for the better?” · “Decidedly. The system had its disadvantages, and even its dangers. It is now, happily, exploded throughout all the Maisons de Santé of France.” · “I am very much surprised,” I said, “at what you tell me; for I made sure that, at this moment, no other method of treatment for mania existed in any portion of the country.”
“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one-half that you see. Now about our Maisons de Santé, it is clear that some ignoramus has misled you. After dinner, however, when you have sufficiently recovered from the fatigue of your ride, I will be happy to take you over the house, and introduce to you a system which, in my opinion, and in that of every one who has witnessed its operation, is incomparably the most effectual as yet devised.”
It is possible that the “system of soothing” was working well, and M. Malliard was a bad actor who elbowed his way into a position of authority. Or maybe TSODTAPF is just a story from the overcooked imagination of Eddie Poe. M. Malliard is another talking bird saying nevermore.
Google … another institution with fading integrity … has some curious replies. A video that purports to show Barry Obama talking has this text superimposed: “Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see” With the massive influx of AI and Deep Fakes, the above quote by Edgar Allan Poe is no longer valid. Crazy, isn’t it? The above video was created using argil.ai. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. We can be reasonably sure that these pictures are genuine.
I Brought My Own Pears
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My grandpa has the heart of a lion, and a lifetime ban from the zoo.
What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? About half way
So a squirrel living in a pine tree one day feels a shaking, looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree. The squirrel asks: “What are you doing climbing my tree?”
”Well, I’m coming up here to eat some pears” “This is a pine tree, there are no pears.”
“Well I brought my own pears.”
Why can’t Ray Charles see his friends? Cause he’s married.
If you ever get cold, just stand in a corner for a bit. They’re usually around 90 degrees.
When my Grandad was 65 he started running a mile a day to keep fit.
He’s 70 now and we have no idea where he is.
Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees? …….because they’re really good at it.
I think I want a job cleaning mirrors. it’s just something I could really see myself doing.
There are two monkeys in a bath tub. One says to another: oohoohahah!
The other says: Maybe add a little more cold water.
Did you hear about the two guys that stole a calendar? They each got six months.
Whats the difference between a dirty bus stop, and a lobster with breast implants? Ones a crusty bus station the other is a busty crustacean
So this guy walks into his bedroom with a chicken under his arm. His wife is laying in bed. The guy says, “This is the pig I fuck when you are not in the mood.”
”You fucking idiot. That’s not a pig!” “I was talking to the chicken.”
Two fish are in a tank. One is driving and the other one is operating the gun.
Two soldiers are in a tank. They both drown.
A priest, a rabbi, and a whale walk into a bar. The priest says, “Well I believe Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of God and my lord and savior, so I’ll have some wine.”
The rabbi says, “Well I don’t believe the messiah has yet walked the earth, so I’ll have Manischewitz wine.” The whale says “EEOONNHH”
What do you call a chicken coop with 4 doors? a chicken sedan.
Why aren’t there any knock knock jokes about freedom? Because freedom rings
What’s a hillbilly’s favorite thing to do on Halloween? pumpkin
What happened to the cow that jumped over the barbed wire fence? Udder destruction.
Where do animals go when their tails fall off? The retail store
What time does Sean Connery get to Wimbledon? Tennish.
What did the doctor say to the midget waiting in the lobby?
You’re just going to have to be a little patient.
A magician was driving down the road when he turned into a driveway.
What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh!
“I went to a zoo. It was completely empty, except for a single dog. It was a Shih Tzu.”
“Dad, I’m hungry.” “Hi, Hungry. I’m Dad.”
“I’m thirsty.” “Hi, Thursday, I’m Friday, let’s go out on a Saturday and have a Sunday.”
The only joke my dad ever told me was that he’d quit beating me. I was in stitches.
A man with carrots in his ears walks onto a bus, the bus driver says “Sir, why do you have carrots in your ears?” “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU, I HAVE CARROTS IN MY EARS!”
Did you hear about the Mexican train killer? They say he had locomotives.
Nobody knows who to blame for these alleged jokes. Chamblee54 does not claim authorship, and would deny it if he did. This material was previously published. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
#WhyIWrite
#WhyIWrite is trending on twitter today, the #NationalDayOfWriting. A lot of the tweets are the sanctimonious, pseudo-inspirational crap that you might expect. A few others are posting inspirational thoughts by famous authors, usually with a picture in the background. Posting memes about writing is not the same as writing. Especially when the famous author never said it.
@girlsreallyrule “In honor of this National Day on Writing, I submit this quote from Dorothy Parker, who sums it up perfectly. #WhyIWrite” This tweet gets the party started. The *quote* was a bit of photoshop nonsense that I have written about before. There is no source for the quote, “I hate writing. I love having written.” (If someone knows a source, please leave a comment.) I left a comment. @chamblee54 “Dotty never said that. An old school manual typewriter only produces one size of text. I have learned when someone says _____ _____ perfectly, then the object in question is full of errors.” When writing this report, I clicked on the link to the original tweet. “You are blocked from following @girlsreallyrule and viewing @girlsreallyrule’s Tweets.”
The next meme is blamed on Ben Franklin. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Quote Investigator has a report on this Benjaminism. It turns out that the real quote is better than the meme. “If you wou’d not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
@Gaming_agent99 “You can make empires rise from ashes. You can make heroes fall and villains rise. You can bring all your thoughts and ideas to life, what’s more fun than that. #WhyIWrite” This thought was illustrated by a C.S. Lewis meme. “You can make anything by writing.” Once again, the manual typewriter produces perfectly centered text, in two sizes. @chamblee54 I searched the C.S. Lewis wikiquotes. I used make, anything, and writing as search words. This quote did not appear. @chamblee54 #WhyIWrite I found this in my search “The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” The Magician’s Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters.
@simpsonlibrary posted a tasteful graphic featuring this quote: “I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.” William Carlos Williams. I had never heard of Dr. Williams, and thought the quote was real. Usually, the less famous the name, the greater the chance that the quote is legitimate. A bit of research turned up page 498 of The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962. Dr. Williams had translated Fragment 31 of Poems in Folio, by Sappho. “I’m 73 years old. I’ve gone on living as I could as a doctor, and writing poetry on the side. I practised to get money to live as I please, and what pleases me is to write poetry.”
“I don’t speak English, but the American Idiom. I don’t know how to write anything else, and I refuse to learn. … All my life I’ve never stopped thinking. I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
October 2023
I was looking for something to post, and I noticed something. The 2023 October posts have not been logged in. This is going to be my first chore for today.
Last week was a doozy. I took my desktop to the computer shop to have Windows 11 put in, and Zefir sold me a new tower. It seems that the hardware requirements for W11 are an obstacle, and a new toy was needed. A new system is always brain damage, but Zefir was able to transfer most of the old regime to the new kingdom. It was as seamless as transition as I have ever seen. … Doraville’s Delta Computers is highly recommended.
That was monday/tuesday. On Wednesday, the anticipation began for Helene. Thursday night, I thought this might be our last day in this house. Friday morning came with no electricity, but an intact house. Many others fared much worse.
There is much gratitude, to go with the horror at what happened elsewhere. This is along with the new phase of Israel’s race to world demolition. Yesterday brought an Iranian attack on Israel. Nobody is sure where all this is going to go.
The monthly blog inventory is a fairly brainless operation. The pages are loaded 10 to a page. (This is going to get confusing. It is ok to skip a few paragraphs.) You open every one in a separate tab. Then, you go back to the end, and start. Hit the page. Click F6 to highlight the url. Ctrl+C to copy url. Alt+tab to go to the list page. Ctrl+V to paste the url. Make a note of where the pictures came from: gsu, loc, poem, c54. Alt+tab to go to the pages page. Ctrl+Page Up to go to the next page. Repeat steps one through eight.
If you do it right … big if … the mouse is not touched. It is important to stay focused, and not look at any of the pages, no matter how cool. Just stay focused and machine like, and make as few mistakes as possible. And mark the monday pages. The monday post text is never repeated, and is a handy source of pictures for future use.
The operation went smoothly, with a minimum of brain damage. Strategy Of Causing Atrocities is the post that stands out. SOCA was published October 27, 20 days after another escalation in the Gaza – Israel conflict. I thought, and still do, that this might be our last day on planet earth. …
“Around 1987, I was working with Steve. He was the son of holocaust survivors, and an ardent supporter of Israel. We were discussing the war between Iran and Iraq. The I-I was a long bloody affair. The United States supported Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein. The United States, with help from Israel, was also selling weapons to Iran. It was a confusing time.”
“I mentioned to Steve the notion that the US wanted to keep the I-I war going, because it would keep those two countries from fighting Israel. Steve started to get angry. “Yes, and it’s for your benefit. We have to fight terrorism.”
“The I-I war continued for a while. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, partially in a dispute over war debt from the I-I war. Saddam Hussein went from being an American ally to the next Hitler.”
“Today is October 27, 2023, 35 years after my conversation with Steve. The world is a different place. The last 35 years have been full of wars, and rumors of war. The Internet is a routine part of life. Unfortunately, Steve is not with us. Cancer claimed him in 2001, 9 days after 9-11.
A few days ago, Bob Wright had a conversation with Eli Lake. Mr. Lake is an ardent supporter of Israel. After 69 minutes, Mr. Lake said this: “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marjory Collins took the photographs in August 1942 “Brooklyn band of Italian-Americans, after playing at Mott Street flag raising ceremony in honor of neighborhood boys in the United States Army, retiring to a neighborhood bar out of the rain.”
Citizen: An American Lyric Part Two
This is a repost from 2018. … This is the part two in the chamblee54 look at Citizen: An American Lyric. There was little reaction to part one. With racial matters, that is often the best outcome.
I question the wisdom of tackling this project. We are talking about this author: Claudia Rankine: why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness. In a BBC radio show Dr. Rankine asks people if they think about whiteness when they become a blonde. This is not a blonde joke.
Whiteness is a mysterious concept to me. The subject seems to keep coming up. In 2018, I questioned the validity of a screenshot used to trash a bar owner. The result was Examine Your Whiteness EYW Part Two EYW Part Three In the last part of the EYW trilogy, I googled the phrase *examine your whiteness.* It seems to come down to hair. You have the horror movie frizz of Rachel Dolezal, or the soup bowl cut of Dylann Roof. … the two names that came up in a 2018 search for whiteness.
Citizen: An American Lyric is supposed to be the focus of this piece. Today we will focus on chapters IV and V. In IV, Dr. Rankine seems to be having a headache. She pulls the blinds down, and tries to escape from the world. A tennis match is on TV, with the sound cut off. For me, that would be a football game. There is a mirror behind the computer monitor, which points to a TV on the other side of the room. The black lady is watching tennis, while the white man watches football. People just enjoy what they enjoy.
Part V continues down the same path as IV. “You hold everything black. You give yourself back until nothing’s left but the dissolving blues of metaphor.” I notice metaphor more and more. Am I missing something? Metaphor is a literary gimmick for making comparisons. Except for definition 3 at The urban dictionary: “Metaphor – The word that Christians use to describe contradictions and mistakes in the bible.” Chad went out with a girl named simile. He doesn’t know what he metaphor.
After a few pages, V recalls an episode of recreational microaggression. A man cuts in front of someone in a line. A man shows someone a picture of his wife. “She is, he says, beautiful and black, like you.” Soon, the voice is at home. “You lean against the sink, a glass of red wine in your hand and then another, thinking in the morning you will go to the gym…”
I drank my last beer December 31, 1988. There is privilege in being able to make that move, and to stick with it. Some people want you to die, so they can laugh at your dead face. When you are in a fight, being fair is a luxury you cannot afford.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott, photographer “Watching a game at Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina” July 1939. Part one and part three of this series are now available for your viewing pleasure.
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I read Buddy May’s copy of “The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon” before attending the 1993 conference. After the closing ceremony, Buddy asked Tom to autograph his book. I saw that my bookmark was still in the book, and I got Tom to autograph it. · The “Dear Friends” quote below the picture was written by Sage Ricci. He was married to Tom Spanbauer, who recently passed away. The post is an appreciation of Tom, along with a memory of the time that I met him. · Pro tip. Do not start a blog post, about a recently deceased author, with a quote from his husband. Facebook will post that first line, and people will think it is you that lost your husband. · “Israeli officials said their increasing attacks against Hezbollah are not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach “de-escalation through escalation.”” · Elizabeth Warren family cookbook ‘Pow Wow Chow’ surfaces as Native American criticism continues … Apparently, Elizabeth Warren once published a book called “Pow Wow Chow.” If you go to Amazon, they will tell you “author unknown” · “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” Clarence Darrow – The Story of My Life (1932) · @QuoteResearch You have good taste in quotations. Here is a link to the QI article · Seven Brilliant Quotes was a 2013 post, about a tacky meme. 7BQ serves today as inspiration for a haiku reduction. As could be expected, the post contains a citation from @QuoteResearch · jostler57 I’ve seen a LOT of trash quality posts, here, but this one takes the cake. Title is utter nonsense. Picture is impossible to read. There are SEVEN quotes instead of one, and you’ve OBSCURED the full quotes. The image accompanying the quote(s) are pixelated headshots to a rainbow background. This is, without equal, the worst post ever made to this community. u/Chamblee54 you’ve broken nearly every single rule this community has set forth. You deserve a permanent ban for this thoughtless trashpile of a post. · jostler57 · The altered meme is the quote. I took the seven quotes on the original, and reduced them to a haiku. risk suffer silence · myself weakest point must learn · forgive easy win Here is a link to the meme on X, where it is a bit clearer. Here is a blog post about the process. · jostler57 Is this place called MemePorn? No. This is QuotesPorn, and you’ve neither delivered a quote, nor have you provided a SFW-porn worthy image. You literally are posting to the wrong place. I recommend you delete this dual violation of both rules and our eyes. It doesn’t belong here. · Your post from QuotesPorn was removed because of: ‘Poor quality image or poor resolution’ Hi u/Chamblee54, Thank you for your contribution. Your post’s image quality or resolution appears to be far below SFWPorn worthy. If you have a better quality image, please use that if you choose to post this quote again. · u/Chamblee54 u/Chamblee54 is permanently banned from r/QuotesPorn [–]subreddit message via /r/QuotesPorn[M] sent 10 minutes ago – Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in r/QuotesPorn because your post violates this community’s rules. You won’t be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it. If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team by replying to this message. Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole. · I don’t think that deserves a permanent ban, but that’s your call. The Original is attached. If you click on the image, you can see the meme clearly. The problem might be in your upload process. This blog post explains what I am doing here. This is a commentary on meme quotes, which have a LOT of quality issues. · I am curious which rule this image violates. I looked at your rules carefully before posting, and did not see a problem. If you click on the image, you will see a full size, legible image. Maybe the problem is on your end. I uploaded a 720×720 image, that looks fine on facebook and X. This blog post is a commentary on the image. 7BQ is about the issues with quote memes, i.e. the many, many, quotes that are improperly sourced. The haiku reduction takes words from all seven “brilliant quotes” and combines them into a haiku. · Pictures are from The Library of Congress The photgrapher was Marjory Collins, in August 1942, New York NY. “O’Reilly’s bar on Third Avenue in the “Fifties”” · selah
Seven Brilliant Quotes Addendum
Seven Brilliant Quotes was in my September archives, waiting to be reposted. 7BQ was originally posted in 2013, a simpler time. It was a personal milestone in the nasty business of quote debunking.
Facebook was suffering the revenge of the BrainyQuote. Tasteful bits of commodity wisdom, illustrated by pictures of splendid sunsets, were the rage. So, so many of them were not worth the pixels they populated. While it is not anyone’s fault to be posthumously misquoted, all seven quotees are men. 7BQ, the post, was an opportunity to attack seven cookie monsters in one sitting.
No good deed goes unpunished. A paragraph in 2013 says: “This type of research can be frustrating. Being inspired by beautiful words can give you strength and purpose. It can also make you feel foolish, when the lovely words are revealed to be lies. Being a cynic gets lonely. Children of all ages don’t like to be told that there is no Santa Claus.”
The next quote in the 2013 post was from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is one of two quotes than can be verified. There is a record of most things Dr. King said in public. Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a google search away. There is no need to make anything up.
Dr. King gave a speech at Western Michigan University on December 18, 1963. The second section of the speech is “Call for action.” “The world in which we live is geographically one. Now we are challenged to make it one in terms of brotherhood. Now through our ethical and moral commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools. This is the great challenge of the hour. This is true of individuals. It is true of nations. No individual can live alone. No nation can live alone.”
7BQ was a meme. In the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, one thing to do is reduce this graphic nuisance to a haiku. risk suffer silence · myself weakest point must learn · forgive easy win
In addition to Dr. King, the other verified quote was from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Certainly Dr. King knew about “must learn,” while MK Gandhi was familiar with forgiveness. As for the fakes …
Open Source Shakespeare shows that risk does not appear in anything “Shakespeare” wrote. Likewise, “Napoleon” did not suffer silence, or whatever the French version of that is. Clumsy translations are a another problem with quote mongering.
There is little doubt that “Einstein” thought about “myself.” Abraham Lincoln fought a war over the “weakest point.” As for Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam … “Indian scientist and engineer; 11th President of India” … who knows what he said? The quote used is not on his wikiquotes page.
Dispatches From The Wireless Front
05:30 The power went out about midnight. I only knew that the CPAP stopped. I did not hear any tree limbs crashing into the house … happened in 2016 … or big trees nearby taking down the phone lines, and loosening our power connection … happened in 2020. There was a big storm in 2017 or 18, that I nervously watched go through but did not cause any real problems here.
The phone just rang, with a stranger in Iowa. Since I got the galaxy device, the bot calls have been coming thick and fast. I ignore most of them. If it is someone I know, they can leave a message.
16:27 The was a text from Ga Power saying we would be up and running by 1730. This is not a guarantee, but it is a good sign. I have gone from wondering how I would fill the time to discovering all sorts of things to do. This is not always a positive development.
One unexpected bucket list item was mopping the front porch. I took a chair and table off the porch , in anticipation of high winds. This morning, after the storm went through, I decided to sweep off some leaves. It would be easier with all the stuff out of the way.
I noticed how much dirt was there, and decided to mop the front and back porch. It didn’t do much good. Pressure washing might help. Scrubbing might help, but that is way too much work.
I was anticipating a few more days of no juice, and thinking I would have to charge the laptop in the vehicle. When I got the notice of anticipated reprieve, the one thing I had to try was charging the device in the vehicle. It turns out this is a “Weak charging state, please check power charger.” OTOH, it went from 64% charge to 71% in just a few minutes. It could work if it had to. I am going to let the motor run for a minute, to juice up the car battery.
The pre-storm anticipation is one bad part of this. If there is one thing that turns ATLiens into pearl clutching drama queens, it is an upcoming weather event. You haven’t lived until you go to the grocery store the night before we get an inch of snow.
The pre-storm anticipation was bad this time. X/facebook peeps were saying we were going to be without power for several days, and that 70 mph winds would snap these dainty trees like matchsticks. Climate change and Donald Trump were held accountable.
It didn’t help to remember the 2020 storm. A huge tree four doors down fell on a telephone pole, and broke it is half. Since it was so close to us, it loosened up our lines. It took 3 days for power to be restored to most of the street, except us. GAPOW told us we could not be re-connected. The first electrician said we needed to re-wire. A second electrician connected us, and the power was back on.
The laptop is up to 75% charge. That is 4% in the time it took to write those paragraphs. While this is not ideal, it would get us by in an emergency. …
17:32 The new estimated restoration time is 1028/22:00. This is 29 hours later than the first estimate. I guess I am back to finding ways to spend my time. … 19:19 After spreading candles throughout the house, and putting vegetables in the steamer, the lights came back on. It is a magic moment. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress
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