Muppet fact of the day: One of the Muppet show’s pilot episodes was called “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence”, but the Muppets are owned by Disney now and Disney really doesn’t like the word “sex” so they insist on just calling it “the Muppet Show Pilot”
anyway reblog this forbidden image of Jim Henson in front of the Sex and Violence title card to make Disney mad
since they have some degree of accumulated wealth but little to no formal education, you might expect pigeons to break strongly for republicans. however because they are also concentrated in urban areas it tends to cancel out
I swear I had never heard of Mia Malkova until this week and somehow now I just can’t stop catching references to her. The last one was in the real estate section of the local paper.
The big speech in the last act of Independence Day.
President’s inspiring the fighter pilots that are going to be flying the climactic mission.
But at the very end, he fumbles it.
Not on delivery, but in the writing. ‘We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today, we celebrate our independence day!’
The last sentence is bad! You should have used a different temporal transition word. Its the equivalent of failing to find a rhyme in composing a song’s lyrics, so you just use it again, but not as part of an obsessive point. Say what you will about Metallica’s Frantic, but at least you know where their emphasis is!
I’ve not made a point about complaining over this line historically, but the speech’s place in popular culture has always felt a little undeserved. Like everyone else was overlooking that the instruments and vocal parts on a major studio release just fell apart for no good reason in the last 30 seconds.
Also, why were they marketing it as “ID4”? To remind people that when they were releasing Independence Day on Independence Day, that meant the Fourth, as Independence Day is often known?
If you send two kids to two different “learn your 2nd generation ass about your Asian culture!” afterschool programs will they even learn the same thing? At least Christians share the Bible.
American race categories are crazy man. What exactly does the grandkid of a guy from Tokyo share with the daughter of a guy from Islamabad? Nothing at all, why are you putting them in the same box?
Well I mean the schools aren’t “Asian” in a general sense, they at least pitch themselves in different languages and orthographies, but even as specific cultures go, it’s not like there’s an agreed curriculum for “being Cambodian"… is there?
Isn’t "making up a unified cultural identity” pretty much what nations do around the time they start being nations?
What would the American curriculum be?
American History, for starters, and there’s a fuckton of ground to cover. American letters - Twain, Whitman, Hemingway, Woolf, Merrill, Plath, etc; same goes for visual arts. Dances - square dancing, most obviously, but also certain types of ballroom dancing; traditional cuisine, such as Thanksgiving meals. The rules to American sports - baseball, basketball, American football. School structures. Greek life.
Think of the quotidian.
Uh, okay, but is that really a parallel with these Asian-culture programs? Are those kids reading classical literature and playing idiomatic sports after school until their parents pick them up? I’m sure holidays are commemorated in a “hey, today is a thing you should know about” way, but you’d think they leave the full rituals for families to celebrate.
If you send two kids to two different “learn your 2nd generation ass about your Asian culture!” afterschool programs will they even learn the same thing? At least Christians share the Bible.
American race categories are crazy man. What exactly does the grandkid of a guy from Tokyo share with the daughter of a guy from Islamabad? Nothing at all, why are you putting them in the same box?
Well I mean the schools aren’t “Asian” in a general sense, they at least pitch themselves in different languages and orthographies, but even as specific cultures go, it’s not like there’s an agreed curriculum for “being Cambodian"… is there?
Isn’t "making up a unified cultural identity” pretty much what nations do around the time they start being nations?
What would the American curriculum be?
Honest Abe chopping down that cherry tree, that one picture of Washington Crossing the Delaware, The Great Gatsby, possibly square dance.
You know, the sort of thing you keep talking about.
…FDR skipping that silver dollar across the river…
If you send two kids to two different “learn your 2nd generation ass about your Asian culture!” afterschool programs will they even learn the same thing? At least Christians share the Bible.
American race categories are crazy man. What exactly does the grandkid of a guy from Tokyo share with the daughter of a guy from Islamabad? Nothing at all, why are you putting them in the same box?
Well I mean the schools aren’t “Asian” in a general sense, they at least pitch themselves in different languages and orthographies, but even as specific cultures go, it’s not like there’s an agreed curriculum for “being Cambodian"… is there?
Isn’t "making up a unified cultural identity” pretty much what nations do around the time they start being nations?
If you send two kids to two different “learn your 2nd generation ass about your Asian culture!” afterschool programs will they even learn the same thing? At least Christians share the Bible.
American race categories are crazy man. What exactly does the grandkid of a guy from Tokyo share with the daughter of a guy from Islamabad? Nothing at all, why are you putting them in the same box?
Well I mean the schools aren’t “Asian” in a general sense, they at least pitch themselves in different languages and orthographies, but even as specific cultures go, it’s not like there’s an agreed curriculum for “being Cambodian"… is there?
The longest non-JR train line in Japan runs a limited extra-slow service that’s themed as a parody of their limited express service
wait does Japan have the rabbit/turtle metaphor for fast/slow too?
Machine translated Japanese Wikipedia has this to say:
It is believed to have flowed into Japan after the latter half of the Muromachi period, when trade with Western Europe flourished, and it began to be known in the early modern period through translations of Aesop’s fables and the Tales of Isoho . It became known to the general public after it was included in textbooks in the Meiji era. It was published under the title “Absurd Great Enemy” in the Japanese language textbook for elementary school during the Meiji period . [1]
In the last two weeks talked to three neighbors who were here before me and even one who showed up after who seemed earnestly surprised that the neighborhood was getting nice and young people were showing up, making me realize it was not in fact universal knowledge that this would happen a decade after I bought Karafuto
The big speech in the last act of Independence Day.
President’s inspiring the fighter pilots that are going to be flying the climactic mission.
But at the very end, he fumbles it.
Not on delivery, but in the writing. ‘We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today, we celebrate our independence day!’
The last sentence is bad! You should have used a different temporal transition word. Its the equivalent of failing to find a rhyme in composing a song’s lyrics, so you just use it again, but not as part of an obsessive point. Say what you will about Metallica’s Frantic, but at least you know where their emphasis is!
I’ve not made a point about complaining over this line historically, but the speech’s place in popular culture has always felt a little undeserved. Like everyone else was overlooking that the instruments and vocal parts on a major studio release just fell apart for no good reason in the last 30 seconds.
tv show. white man. hes sad. he has to do important thing but its hard. his girlfriend died probably. TWSIT!! theres another white man. maybe MORE. hes sad too but for different reason. its very deep probably. theyre best friends but not gay but maybe they are haha fandom!!! every girl dies or goes away. just not gay white man friend. 10 seasons 100 million viewers. what will moody white men do this week.
This post just turned 10 years old which is pretty fucked up actually. When I made this post people would say things like “actually supernatural only has 8 seasons” but here we are in 2023 so who’s laughing now. Not me I want to die
Spread out another yard and a half of topsoil. Darwin’s bed can take that (but hoo does the mass affect his performance) but really I think one yard a day is good.
The key is I can be a lot sloppier than mulch getting it out of the bed and into my barrow if I park Darwin so any spills are somewhere I want to fill in anyway.
Think the whole side yard might take as little as 6 more yards, had been expecting at least 12 more.
If you send two kids to two different “learn your 2nd generation ass about your Asian culture!” afterschool programs will they even learn the same thing? At least Christians share the Bible.
