So we got a bit more snow which saves me a vast amount of work in keeping the upholstery clean.
This week’s “probably not about you” story in the skies is about things breaking, a fight ensuing, then things going completely to shit. The Sun, Moon, Saturn and Mars all do a dance to bring this about. Today we see the first part with the Moon, Sun and Saturn starting thigs off. In this case Saturn’s meaning of “ending” has an extra nudge towards breakage or physical destruction rather than just temporal/emotional. Then the day after that we see The moon move in between the Earth and Mars, indicating a fight at home, more stuff getting broken, etc. But while that doesn’t last long (how many screaming matches actually do?) The void filled when the moon moves out gets filled by Mercury, and the Mercury/Saturn combo brings a very hard/abrupt ending to whatever the heck is going on by Friday.
In more general news: Things are a bit unsettled with the moon in Taurus. Aries gets a double shoot of good things with both Jupiter and Venus playing along, and Pisces of course is spending time in the sun. Still more backstabbery than usual, and that will probably stay until late March when Mars finally leaves Gemini. And Aquarius isn’t stepping back gracefully, maintaining Mercury until the end oof the week.
Pisces: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Aries: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success and honors.
Taurus: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, impotence.
Gemini: 10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent.
Cancer: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption.
Leo: 5 of Wands reversed – Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Virgo: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Libra: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Scorpio: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude.
Sagittarius: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Capricorn: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
Aquarius: The Hermit – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Sagittarius: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
I’m going to work in a movie theater?
When the humans cluster up, the dogs do too.
Looks like you need a 55 gallon barrel full of burning wood scraps.
Ah, you’ve been to a Saraspa Rod and Gun Club steel shoot, I see.
Fuckers banned burn barrels here. So now it’s just open pile.
Virgo: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Sounds thé stars are saying I’m going to lose my guns in a horrible boating accident.
Cancer: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption – screw ya buddy
Good thing you’re already undead.
Oh good gravy.
Do you know the ICD-10 codes for each of those?
Somewhere under mental disorders → delusions
I’ve been wondering why you were assigned 3.5 hours of Civil War drama. Gunshots? Death in childbirth? Fear of cows?
So, once a month, for extra credit, my school picks a movie, where you’re supposed to pick out 5 injuries and assign them diagnosis codes. I don’t pass up an opportunity for extra credit. I made it 2 hours and I was fucking DONE with that movie. First of all, I don’t like Civil War anything (the last Civil War book I read was John Jakes’s North & South, when I was 15 or so. I just gradually acquired a distaste for that era. Second, I can’t stand Scarlett O’Hara. Third, it was boring.
Cows?!?C..c..c..Cows? Aaaaigh!! (runs away)
Watch “Gettysburg” if you want a chance to assign diagnostic codes. No need to worry about romances tacked on with that movie.
Sounds like a good week for the Mrs and me.
That Shepherd mix has a gorgeous coat. Fun videos as usual, NA!
Leo: 5 of Wands reversed – Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Yuck. Should be a fun week.
Is it just me, or is brindle a LOT more common than it used to be a few decades ago. Especially the mostly-black variant.
I suspect the fact that so many pups have Boxer, Staffie, etc in the bloodline plays a part. I can’t find it now, of course, but I read somewhere that Chow is one of the most frequent DNA in mixed breeds.
Mutts are awesome.
Well, we have it better than Taurus or Cancer this week. Although that’s not saying much.
Leo: 5 of Wands reversed – Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
well, Elon says I’m right – Woody Harrelson
Lily went after a deer at Hemlock Trail this morning.
Fourtnately, she’s not a long-range runner, and recalled nicely. I didn’t attempt to call her during the initial sprint, only after she decided she wasn’t going to catch it.
FENTOOON
Libra: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
is it a little dark in here? – Gavin Newsome
Is Biden a Libra too?
Apparently so is Fetterman
Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Sufficiently shitty.
Racialization of everything
Three weeks into the disaster, a new set of headlines has started to billow up from right-wing outlets and commentators. Now the tragedy of East Palestine has morphed into a racialized lament for the “forgotten” people abandoned by the uncaring “woke” Biden administration.
For “forgotten”, read white.
Leading the charge, as is so often the case with such white-America nativist fearmongering, is the Fox News star Tucker Carlson. “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white, and it’s politically conservative,” he said recently. “That shouldn’t be relevant, but it very much is.”
Carlson went on to describe East Palestine as a “poor benighted town whose people are forgotten, and in the view of the people who lead this country, forgettable”. He highlighted the indisputable suffering of local residents who were forced to evacuatea two-mile area and since they have returned home remain fearful about the quality of the air and water.
Then Carlson contrasted such hardship with what he called the “favoured poor” who live in “favoured cities” such as Detroit and Philadelphia – a clear euphemism for urban centers, often led by Democratic mayors, with large Black populations.
Who’s obsessed with skin color, again?
So, once a month, for extra credit, my school picks a movie, where you’re supposed to pick out 5 injuries and assign them diagnosis codes.
Fall from horse, resulting in death- do children get their own code for that?
I doubt it, but I don’t remember a child falling from a horse by the time I stopped, but I did mark Papa O’Hara as having a fall. Half the injuries I have to assume what they are.
John Wick would be a fun one. No end of injuries in that movie. Most of them gunshot wounds, of course, but there’s some stabbing and broken necks for variety.
Die Hard was December. It was surprisingly difficult to find more injuries than gunshot wounds in various places. Karate Kid was last month.
Kiss of the Dragon would be a challenge. Death from a billiard ball and death by acupuncture might make for creative coding.
Toward the end. Gerald O’H too though; good call. (Sorry, I like GWTW well enough. You might prefer the novel.)
Just this one short scene from GWTW always comes to my mind as having one of the great single camera shots in American film.
Hah, today they would do that mostly with CGI.
Wonderful puppy pix, as always.
Gemini: 10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent.
I’m perfectly fine with temporary after a long absence…
I don’t remember a child falling from a horse by the time I stopped
s I recall, Rhett Jr fell off his pony and croaked. Unless I’m thinking of some other tear-jerker.
I share your loathing for Scarlett O’Hara. My preferred ending for her would involve “special performances” in front of bleachers filled with cheering sailors in a seedy New Orleans whorehouse.
For whatever reason, I can appreciate that she did what she had to to get what she wanted. I admire grit.
What I can’t deal with is her sense that she was entitled to it in the first place, and her random bitchiness. In short, she’s a spoiled brat.
I also hated that Rhett kept after her even though she didn’t deserve him and I thought he was a pussy for putting up with her.
I read the book when I was 15. I didn’t like her then and I’m not sure why anyone found a tantrum-throwing child a compelling character.
If the child involved identified as “Rhett Jr.,” then Mitchell, Selznick, and/or Victor Fleming were WAY ahead of their time.
I can’t even.
Yer gonna get laid!
I can do that.
As an Aries myself, I figure that’s as good as I can hope for in my first week at the new job. Which happens to involve power and energy.
My job isn’t that exciting but I do have an important production release this week that is intended to keep (a small part of) our relationship with a very large vendor that happens to be based in northwest Washington intact.
The idea that the rail disaster should be viewed through a racial lens has spread like a toxin from Fox News, through right-wing news sites and social media, into the political realm. JD Vance, the first-term Republican US senator from Ohio, picked up the clarion call of the “forgotten” Americans, calling the residents of East Palestine, pointedly, “our voters”.
Joe Biden, like Jesus, loves all God’s children equally.
One of the harpies on The View told the country they deserved it before Tucker or JD ever weighed in.
But like Napoleon, some children are more equal than others?
“The idea that the rail disaster should be viewed through a racial lens”
This has never happened before now. Of course. History begins anew daily.
What I can’t deal with is her sense that she was entitled to it in the first place, and her random bitchiness. In short, she’s a spoiled brat.
I also hated that Rhett kept after her even though she didn’t deserve him and I thought he was a pussy for putting up with her.
I read the book when I was 15. I didn’t like her then and I’m not sure why anyone found a tantrum-throwing child a compelling character.
All true. A perfect example of a story where I just can’t be bothered to give a shit about what happens to anybody.
I’ve written not-particularly-likeable women myself (on purpose), so my reaction to Scarlett feels a little hypocritical.
It’s perfectly OK not to like Scarlett, but I would urge you to watch the rest of the movie when you get a chance. To me, it’s more a matter of “cultural literacy,” given the place GWTW has long held in American moviemaking. (I’d be very interested in Ted’S’s and LCDR_Fish’s thoughts on this. And by the way – I suspect it’s almost universally acknowledged that the movie was better than the book.)
I can’t help but be reminded of a former coworker who said she’d never seen The Wizard of Oz (speaking of movies that were better than the books on which they were based) past the early B&W Kansas scenes because Miss Gulch freaked her out so much when she was a kid. To me, there are just certain creative works with which folks should be familiar if they want to understand their own cultural heritage.
I may have more thoughts on this, expounded upon at greater length…
Write an article!!!!!
That’s the idea. 🙂
Post, pls. I expect a discussion on the American movie canon for cultural literacy would be very interesting.
Oh, I’m not going to limit myself to movies, as my expertise there is sorely lacking, I’m thinking, literature, visual art, music, theater, cinema, and television. (And I’m open to suggestions re: other broad categories of creative works.)
As I say, I read it when I was 15. I finished it, but I don’t know if it was because I was stubborn and wouldn’t give up or if the story was that compelling.
Oops, replied too soon.
I always saw Scarlett and Rhett / Melanie and Ashley as representing the new versus the old South.
Same director, released the same year. How’s that for Hollywood as was?
Amphetamines?
Was musing similarly while watching a Busby Berkeley aquacade this morning.
I’ve never seen the movie, or read the book (GWTW).
Which is kinda funny/odd, me being me and everything – Cracker, history buff, etc.
I’ve poked around the “Margaret Mitchell House” when it was a still a dump, could point out where Mitchell was hit by the taxi, etc. Just never read it.
Neo-Nazi white supremacist non binary hate crimer?
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-springs-crime-hate-crimes-d2379dce03c66ea3bc0faa2c5ffb7c21
Whoops:
Also whoops:
It’s almost as if driving kids insane has consequences.
The shooter “identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them”? I didn’t know that.
Wouldn’t be the first time somebody with multiple personalities committed murder.
Despite these obvious flaws in the forgotten-white-Americans thesis, it has for some time been gaining traction within the Republican party. Philip Gorski, a Yale sociology professor and author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, sees it as a calculated political strategy.
And now I hear Madelaie Kahn in my head saying, “Woses. How… ordinawwy.”
You stupid fucking bitter clinging hicks, why are you paying attention?
JFC this is so ridiculous.
To be fair, people like Gorski have a guide book to which they can refer.
It’s so tiresome. Take a (relatively) small problem and make it an existential one: Palmer did it in the 1920s, Bush in the 2000s. There was/is real violence associated with a lot of marginal groups, but it’s the translation to massive threat that’s juvenile.
Cancer… and I thought last week sucked.
What’s going on where people are saying the quite part out-loud this weekend?
Woody Harrelson can say this on SNL?
The Energy Department and WSJ Journal can print this?
The problem with the right-wing effort to turn the derailment into a racial culture war, environmental justice advocates believe, is that it distracts attention from the the dearth of public safety controls that leaves millions of Americans – of all races and ethnicities – vulnerable to the disaster that has befallen East Palestine. Estimates suggest that 25 million Americans live within one mile of rail lines that carry toxic crude oil and the number of households within blast distance of toxic chemical lines is even larger.
“This should not be a race issue, it’s a health issue,” said Michael McIntyre, an oil refinery worker who was the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Steubenville, a small city to the south of the derailment along the Ohio River. “East Palestine is not getting what it needs, not because its people are white, it’s because they are poor, and Trump never cared about them.”
Sonya Lunder, senior toxics policy advisor at the Sierra Club, wants events like this to unite rather than divide. “Catastrophic impacts of hazardous material trains should connect the interests of rural communities with those of industrialized inner cities,” she said.
The ultimate end goal is the destruction of capitalism. Our incessant racialist agitation is merely a fulcrum on which to place that lever. We don’t give a shit about poor black people, any more than we give a shit about poor white people. . We hate poor people, of any race, color or creed.
This is a class issue, all the way down
Yes, because the federal government is Santa’s bag giving out presents to the little children. Trump is still the president. And he possibly doesn’t care but he was adept enough to know to fake it, unlike the complete and public disdain by the establishment elite.
All of a sudden, they’re worried about “all races and ethnicities”? I wonder how long that will last.
How long until the next election?
In all seriousness, the D’s are really starting to see how bad they are missing it with the WWC, and how big of a vote base that is. The problem for them is they don’t have anyone who speaks that language in the coalition anymore. AA’s that they have roped in HATE whitey, ’cause that is what they are told to do. They have no idea what is important to that group, and that does scare them, as it could put them our of fortify range.
“How long until the next election?”
Doesn’t matter. BALLOTS not votes.
Slight edit.
“Doesn’t matter. COUNTING BALLOTS not votes.”
So, once a month, for extra credit, my school picks a movie, where you’re supposed to pick out 5 injuries and assign them diagnosis codes.
You should do Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
This Thursday our movie has people suffering lots of ant bites. Rich material for code assignment.
Good choice. Funny, too.
No one reads the comments.
You read my mind, too.
Whoa Aries!!!
🤘🏻
I expect a discussion on the American movie canon for cultural literacy would be very interesting.
I watched parts of one of those Philip Marlowe movies recently. Not the one where he ghost writes all of Shakespeare’s plays; a different one. But he gets tossed in the clink and then gets bounced out of a little beach town, which is unquestionably the template for the identical series of events in Lubowski. In fact, the underlying story (missing wayward wife) is likely the inspiration for Lubowski.
Farewell My Lovely.
Lebowski? Just making sure.
Lebowski? Just making sure.
I was using the phonetic spelling. Yeah, that’s it.
You (the school) should… et c.