Tonight we have a comedy classic. It was a play, which became a movie, and hence it still feels like a play. This one falls far outside the normal bounds of what I post, but it is a great film and one of my favorites. This film would have been a great post for Ted to make. I still think he should try posting sometime, some other Thursday. He would be the “Shiny Side of of Glibflicks,” or perhaps “ClassyFlicks.”
So! What is tonight’s film about? I let Brave’s Leo AI summarize, because I didn’t like anything IMDB had, and I am essentially a very lazy man:
Sheridan Whiteside, a famously acerbic and egotistical New York City radio personality, arrives in the small Ohio town of Mesalia for a lecture tour. After dining at the home of wealthy factory owner Ernest W. Stanley and his family, he slips on ice outside their front door and injures his hip, forcing him to stay at their house for recovery. Though he is soon declared fit to leave, Whiteside feigns continued disability to remain in control of the household…
…And become a total asshat. Hilarity ensues!
This is a true classic of Hollywood cinema, and it never really lets up for a minute. Makes sense, this is based on a play. So if you get to up pee, be sure to pause the film or you may not know what is going on when you get back. Honestly if you are a True Glib you may forget who you are when you get back from peeing. Set down the gummies and scotch for a bit if this happens.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, we continue to wander in the wilderness of movie choices. I will play… Psychomania! Satanic bikers come back from the dead!
Note
Melania has now scored 18 points higher than The Man Who Came to Dinner using the Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes. This is a fact I shall use to torment film professors for years. This is in stark contract to IMDB, where leftists ganged up to give Melania 1 star. What times we live in!
That pic is huge, but at least no sidebar.
And I see the title slide repeated. I will figure it out next week.
“Set down the gummies and scotch for a bit if this happens.”
I haven’t even eaten dinner yet. There is a chicken in the oven. Yesterday, I got a shingles shot and today I feel like I got hit by a bus with AIDS. So I fell asleep this afternoon.
That shot sucks. Play it cool for a while.
Every muscle in my body hurts, even my hands and feet.
Oof. Sorry CT. I’m of the age I should probably get the shot but stories like this make me reluctant.
So you’re pregnant?
“I got a shingles shot and today I feel like I got hit by a bus with AIDS.”
Way better than shingles. Shingles is fucking dreadful. Really, really dreadful. Do not get. So good on you. (If any y’all *do* get it, ask your doctor for Valtrex! If they don’t prescribe it, stab ’em until they change their mind.
(You can also cut out an eye, or so, if ya need to defeat those eye-scanner devices.)
1. I have a Thursday night off and the phone hasn’t popped off with someone ruining my life (overly dramatic) or otherwise spoiling movie night.
2. I’d love to see a Tedses movie post. I’m sure it would broaden my movie going experiences, as well as being nothing like watching Starfleet Academy.
3. Your extra large face in the popcorn is truly adorable in a horrific way.
4. *judo chops play button*
Also: saw a bottle of Calumet 18 y/o Kentucky Bourbon at the liquer store today for $399.99. Yowza.
I finally tried Madeira. I was obsessed with trying it after reading Rick Atkinson’s Revolutionary War history. It was… interesting. Tasted like liquid pecan praline. Definitely not something I would drink by the barrel like Washington.
I never drank it, but it’s good for cooking. They also vary much in how sweet they are.
I’ve only tried the dry, when I was making a sauce, not the sweet. It was not properly chilled, but tasted fine. Would try the sweet once. I’m not much of a fan of dessert wines.
I didn’t know what to expect. This one was definitely sweet and was displayed with the Ports.
“Melania has now scored 18 points higher than The Man Who Came to Dinner using the Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes.”
Imagine if she showed bobs.
If she shook her money makers, even playfully, she would make so much money she could leave Donald.
Nice old cars.
If you’re a real glib ya just piss in the empty bottle and never leave your seat. Why bother?
“And now a word for those with athletes foot.” Now that’s marketing.
My trick of editing the links manually to open a new tab seems to have worked.
Chicken is done, but I don’t feel like eating.
You may not feel like it for a few days.
Yikes! Then I have to have another shot in a couple months. Maybe it wasn’t worth it.
You jave to do the second one. In between the two shots you are 11X as likely to get shingles. You have to finish the sequence.
“In between the two shots you are 11X as likely to get shingles.”
They should have told me that!
lol I didn’t know that.
Maybe that’s why I’m still on the daily pills.
WTF R.J.! Is that true?
I had that shot two months ago and then again last month. No major issues but it was part of a cocktail with five other shots so who knows. One or two of them made the jab area sore as hell for a few days but I don’t know which ones.
The worst houseguest in the history of forever.
OT WTF…
You heard it here first, folks. NYC Democrats are in favor of cutting spending.
BY CUT SPENDING MEAN…
Get rid of the police force and garbage men.
State Democrats, OTOH.
The state budget has quadrupled in 20 years, and yet somehow utopia remains juuuuust around the corner.
“Oooooh, so THAT is what he meant by free stuff…”
i just saw a meme that I’m too lazy to verify is 100% accurate, but which is almost certainly truthy at worst.
NYC has half as many people as Tokyo, yet twice the budget of NYC. We can all look at a picture of each and tell us which group of taxpayers are getting more for their money.
There is no real need for Americans to pay more taxes at any level to fund really anything. The money to give even what a lot of progs want is already being collected and just misappropriated to put it mildly. The worst culprits remain blue urban hellscapes like NYC, but it’s really a cultural problem throughout the entire country. People in America are getting the country they frankly deserve good and hard. Most people are just out to take care of themselves with no sense of propriety.
Like seriously, we could provide universal healthcare for what we collect in taxes (not advocating for that, but the money is basically already being spent). And far better “services” across the board along with decent retirements without new taxes. DOGE is the first and last attempt to see where money in government actually goes, though.
The amount of fraud and theft is beyond belief but nothing will ever change. The left (the entire Dem party and a large chunk of those other guys) have perfectly gamed the system to make sure nothing will ever change. Just cry “racism” or “Merica” and there you go. More trillions down the drain. Someone is making out but it’s not chumps like us.
I’m not quite that cynical. I think we are going to see some large states (CA, NY, and IL) encounter service level bankruptcy. When that happens, they will have no choice but to enact some form of fiscal rectitude.
I think there is a chance LA city will hit it after the summer Olympics. If it declares bankruptcy, they will have no choice but to cut spending.
I’m not quite that cynical. I think we are going to see some large states (CA, NY, and IL) encounter service level bankruptcy. When that happens, they will have no choice but to enact some form of fiscal rectitude.
Or prolong covid lockdowns until the Dems in Washington are in power and they can get bailed out.
I’m almost to the point where I *want* GovSec employees to wind up starving and living under bridges.
I was away and just got back. I’ll queue this up for later viewing.
Thanks RJ!
The octopuss was amazing. I hope it eats whitehead.
I mean, outside women, I don’t know if I’ve ever allowed myself to take more abuse and vitriol from someone I could beat with an open hand as I have of late.
My First hand is strong and itching right now. Previous times I’ve fought this person, even as adults, involved me seriously holding back so as not to hurt them. But if shit hits the fan again all bets are off as I see it. Maximum pain and punishment this go around. They would have earned it, and if it happens they’ll have started it.
Is it the roommate again?
Not that I’m any kind of anything, but never tolerate abuse and vitriol from a walking toilet bowl of human shit. It poisons your soul. I have, thinking I was being the bigger, more mature man. I was wrong, I was just being a fool.
Here’s hoping for the best for you.
My First hand is strong and itching right now.
You might want to get some antibiotics for that.
My detail is ending in a couple weeks and while I want to stay on the “AI” team, I cannot. Seriously we are truly getting a “brand new Air Traffic” systems at lightning speed.
Ill have an article on this. Its a mix of red tape, apathy and genral government pacing completely obliterated and actually getting projects moving.
Fascinating. Please do write it up.
The rating at IMDB comes with an asterisk and a note suggesting they have detected unusual voting activity on Melania, so at least they’re acknowledge the rating is being gamed.
Wondering if they put asterisk on any other title that may have weird voting activity…
Let me check Fauci. If anything else would have that note, it would be Fauci.
Yep. Fauci has an unnaturally high score for a documentary. And it has the same disclaimer.
Good. We are people of principles and consistency.
The live action Little Mermaid film has an “Unusual Activity” notice right under the title, no asterisk, however.
It’s Crash isn’t it OBE?
That movie got the best Netflixs ratings back in the day when you could look at ratings. The actual ratings did not like it. Movie is total crap.
“Crash”
Which one?
This stein g pile of propaganda. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1144992-crash
Guess Canada isn’t taking the L too well in women’s hockey. USA! USA! USA! Ya, its annoying, but its quite the American sport now; hockey and the chant.
Dammit, I left the bar when they were losing 1-0 with maybe 6 minutes left, must have been an exciting finish. Not that I care who won mind you, I just like a good game. Fuck patriotism, jingoism, and nationalism.
A little light-hearted jingoism is perfectly acceptable in sports – and just human nature.
Every other country does it and most of them much more loudly than USians; it’s unreasonable to expect Americans to be above that.
I’m guessing Canada is far more invested in winning the gold for the men’s hockey. Do Carney and Donald have a bet on the outcome?
McJesus not winning a gold medal might just break them.
I think I can talk the wife into this one.
I hope Ted S shows up and sees how successful ClassyFlicks would be.
We really were a privileged generation to know The Killers when we did.
I’ll have to give Sam’s Town another listen.
I was not a fan when I bought it in 07.
wait you actually listen to the albums and not just the singles
They do that one song that was everywhere for awhile?
I dunno, that style was so played by the time this band came to my attention I never cared to hear anything more.
Their first album, Hot Fuss, is outstanding. Impressively. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine is maybe my favorite, musically, if I’m in that mood. Midnight Show is a *fantastic* driving song. Released in ’04, my Jr or Sr year in high school. Fantastic timing.
Modest Mouse, Lonesome Crowded –> The *much* underrated We Were Dead. Good News, Moon/ Antarctica. Damn. I saw them in Indy a couple years ago, and not in the best venue and not the best show, but meh. I was also on crutches w a recently broken femur.
There is a 1972 remake with Orson Welles, Joan Collins, and Don Knotts.
Jimmy Durante. Cool.
I had a day with Shpip, good times.
Then he asked about disc golf, how pricey etc.
Tomorrow we play Morley, he will learn, then lunch!
Nice!
@Aloysious from dedthred
There are a few problems with it, in my opinion, but there is one advantage.
Things have changed in the last few years.
1. The tween fanfiction set is getting published now. They don’t really know how to write very well because the stuff they cut their teeth on isn’t well written.
2. It’s all trope-driven. Now, this has its vintage precedent (e.g., Harlequin nurse-doctor romances, Amish), but now people search for tropes and specific combinations of tropes. When you’re looking for tropes, you’ll take what you can get and be relatively happy with it. See #1.
3. I haven’t read Morning Glory Milking Farm 🤢 but I have it on good authority that it’s quite woke. Consents are
signedsolicited before mating, it’s all very inclusionary and DEI. That may not be true, but it would be typical.4. The trigger warnings are for things that might maybe possibly make someone have a panic attack, from cursing to rape. With regard to rape, it could be the inclusion of the word itself in the text, it could be a hint that one of the characters has gone through this, it could be a bit of a graphic conversation about it (e.g., in therapy), it could be what we used to call “forced seduction” (the no-might-not-really-be-no-because-he’s-hot), it could be “rape by engraved invitation” (hi, Dominique!), or it could be the worst collection of descriptors ever put together on a page. It’s “problematic,” natch. But here’s the thing, the trigger warning is kind of a get-out-of-jail-free card for any unsavory thing a writer might get called out for, and possibly a review-bomb on Goodreads. “Well, yeah, but there was a trigger warning, so, like, you knew it was there.”
The only advantage is that you can use it as a marketing tool. It tells people what it is and what it isn’t. Oh, your preferred trope isn’t listed? *plonk* Oh, a trope I hate is listed? *plonk*
Unfortunately, I’ve seen trigger warnings that include the phrases “first-person pov” and “present tense.” Yes. that’s something people do/not like.
And there I was, a happy little bookworm just picking books based on summary and climbing on the ride the author wanted to take me on.
Uh… so trigger warnings are the new “Parental Advisory” stickers? Only the good shit has ’em?
That’s the logical next step. At this point, perhaps all on purpose. “Get out of Naughty-Thoughts Jail Card!” (Oooh. I could be convinced to get in my bunk with that.)
All of that just sounds like sucking all the fun out of reading to me.
But not a thing “triggers” me that I’m aware of so WTF do I know.
I’m no fan of present tense.
William Gibson wrote that way in at least one of his books. Which I liked but I had to slog through it due to the tense. Present tense of for scripts, not books.
It’s like reading an Infocom adventure.
I’m telling you, when I dove into a book, I never noticed such things. Like, that’s just the rhythm, pitch, and timbre of the story, man.
People ask me, “How do you decide tense and POV?”
I don’t. I tell the story I want to tell in the way it wants to be told.
Per your #1, the same exact thing is happening in litfic. I used to read most of the big, up-and-comers (managed a bookstore, kind of had too) and the level of quality has really fallen off over the last 30 years. What is being published on that front is no better than young adult books.
Oh, don’t get me started on “comps.”
When I was submitting in the 90s, the kiss of death was to say, “My book is kinda like X bestseller.” You did NOT breathe a letter of any other book title but your own. It was seen as lazy, unimaginative, and amateurish.
NOW you can’t even get past an agent or publisher’s email filter if you don’t have “comps” and a large, thriving social media following. “My book is the love child of GIVING TREE and WAR AND PEACE.” No, Ms Author, bestselling books within the LAST SIX MONTHS.
As I told my nephew who is masquerading as a niece, they want a derivative pastiche, so good luck. I did forget to tell him he will also need to mention his story has a kitchen sink.
Present tense hurts the brain when used for more than a sentence or two. You can’t have that much happening in the same “Now”.
They certainly have, and I don’t pretend to understand most of it.
As an example, I remember Fifty Shades of Grey being a must read for quite literally every adult woman I knew at the time.
I asked Chatgpt this question: did the book fifty shades of grey have any trigger warnings
answer: Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James did not originally include trigger warnings when it was first published in 2011
So fifteen years ago, the readers of a book like that didn’t need a trigger warning, but now it would include ‘content advisories’. That says something, and it probably isn’t a good.
Marketing tool makes a little sense to me, I guess. Anything to catch a potential readers eye. In the moment, all I can think is that these people must be miserable. Truly. Are they capable of just the simple pleasure of enjoying a well written story? Can they handle the challenge of confronting a new and possibly uncomfortable idea? Can the abstract, and see an issue from someone else’s position?
I don’t know why, but I can’t help thinking of Mary Shelley’s Creature chasing Victor Frankenstein across Arctic ice. Maybe my overactive imagination.
The demographic coming up was raised on Tumblr and Wattpad, so….
Now, look, I’m not going to say I didn’t start out writing a helluva lot of bad tween emo RPF (real person fiction), just like these girls (maybe some boys, dunno) do, but I didn’t have an insta-audience where your work’s only value is the fantasy.
I really don’t have anything against fanfic.
When you’re in an environment like I was, you didn’t have a lot of feedback and you mostly wrote for yourself or your 4 friends. You certainly didn’t have dedicated places to out your stuff. You had to keep writing, keep reading, keep getting better, hopefully get some good beta readers and actually learn how to put some skill into your fanfic.
These girls grew up getting instant approval for anything they wrote as long as the right dopamine buttons got hit, and they collected followings in whatever their fandoms were, and they had dedicated spaces where they could read and write MILLIONS of words on their favorite characters, celebrities, and universes.
This is what they write. This is what they read. They’re not reading well-written ANYTHING, and let me tell you, I have read some really well-written erotica.
There is no NEED for them to get better. The product suffices as it is for the current audience. Dopamine hit, the faster the better, with all their favorite notes. And from what I understand, a lot of the YA stuff being pubbed now is kitchen-sink fanfic that’s been proofread. Maybe.
Speaking of triggers… every other episode of Bob’s Burgers on Comedy Central or FXX comes with a trigger warning about flashing lights.
To be fair, some people get actual seizures from such flashing lights. IIRC it’s a plot point in The Andromeda Strain<.
Fair enough. I just find that one annoying in particular. I bet that is the result of some litigation. Otherwise I think it would be on the sufferer to avail himself of resources to figure out what to avoid.
After the Porygon Battle Episode incident where the Electric Rat Anime gave kids seizures, companies don’t want to risk such things happening where they can be sued.
Now, not all human larvae know whether they’ve got photosensitive epilepsy, so all they can do is put up warning labels, and reduce the instances of flashing lights.
California Dems need to buy a clue.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/california-mayors-ex-fiance-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-spying-on-behalf-of-china/
I don’t they or their voters care.
Sadly, you’re right.
It was the class play my mother’s senior year in high school. She played Nurse Preen. About thirty years later we saw the same play at the same venue, a local playhouse.
That’s lovingly timely.
Hilarious. How screwed does California have to be for a move to NY make good tax sense?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15574969/steven-spielberg-mark-zuckerberg-calfornia-billionaire-tax.html
I don’t buy for a second that Spielberg is “ditching” California. Some of these types can actually afford more than one residence. 😮
Of course, but the Franchise Tax Board scrutinizes those arrangements. They have a history of litigating residency. If it’s not the real deal, he will owe quite a bit in income taxes and penalties.
That is correct Chafed. That damn state came after me when I sold a house there. I was on active duty and by Federal law I was able to retain my Wyoming resident status. I arrived in Cali on orders and left 34 months later on orders. They came after me a couple of years later. Fortunately, I was at Ft Bragg and a call and letter from the JAG’s office remined them of the Supremacy Clause and the state back down.
Fuck California. The only good law that it has is Proposition 13 and the politicians keep trying to gut it.
Same all over. TABOR in CO, no income tax in WA..
Amusing considering I retained my California domicile status while on active duty. I didn’t pay California income taxes while stationed out of state.
His spox denies it has to do with taxes. Who knows.
The Fail is just engaging in pure speculation as “news” there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1r9e06w/just_going_to_leave_this_here/
At least the shitters will be good color.
Gold color.
Good morning all you political deviants…err…I mean Glibs. 🎩
🌧️☕️☔️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM_TklU_AQ
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., DEG, and Grumble!
Morning, GT.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I played video games until after midnight, which meant when my alarm went off, I lay in bed dozing until I was supposed to be headed out the door, rushed my morning schedule and made it to the office with just enough time to not be late.
The store did have my first choice caffiene in stock, so that’s good.
😅👍
I’m frustrated. My email is asking for but not accepting the password I recently changed, so now I’m worried that it’s been hacked. 😟
😨
Can you use two factor authentication to get in?
Following the steps they recommended when I changed the password recently, the choices they give me are 1. get an email, which of course I can’t receive right now, and B. Have them call me. Since TT is still asleep, I think I’ll call them instead. (I suspect a text is not an option because the number they have on record is the land line.)
Calling them is your best bet.
Happy Friday!
Mornin’
The Shat
At the age of 94, Star Trek actor William Shatner is working on a star-studded heavy metal album, featuring contributions from the likes of Zakk Wylde and Henry Rollins and covers of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden.
The film and TV star announced his as-yet-untitled record today (Thursday, February 19) via a statement from his team. Marketing materials promise “a heavy metal extravaganza powered by a veritable army of metal stars – each one personally selected and hand-picked by Shatner”, with a release date of sometime this year.
If it’s not called “Shat at the Devil” I’ll be dissapointed.
::snort-laugh::
Careful, that might summon the shat in some cases
What the hell are they feeding that guy?! I want some.
Like Sydney Sweeney, he’s got good jeans.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Morning! One last work day before this week ends.
2/3 of a day for me ,but then the 3-hour commute back to the Palatial 2X-Wide