Open thread
About a year and a half ago I took a bunch of new neo-apple (neo-neo-apple?) photos and chose the one I’ve been using for the blog since then. At the same time, I had some fun manipulating that photo and a couple of others with special effects. I never used any of them, but I think I’ll put one of those photos up from time to time in these open threads.
Here’s a sample:
Hmmm – at some point over the years, did you by any chance date Peter Max?
Reminds me of this Look cover by Richard Avedon.
https://2neat.com/product/look-magazine-january-9-1968/
First, I very much prefer your current photo!
Second, have you read Charles Murray’s Coming Apart (2013)? I think his observation that the “cognitive elite” are congregating more and more tightly together explains a lot about what has been happening in the U.S.
I would love to see more photos.
Groovy!
Sometimes you repost old posts. For those posts, you should use this picture along with the title: “trip” down memory lane.
It’s neon neo!
I like it.
My part of the globe had several weeks of the severe winter weather most of the northern hemisphere recently suffered through and, over the past 2 (2 1/2) days has become quite clement. I notice a huge change in my own mood, and outlook on life and notice it in others. I went for a long walk yesterday and noticed a great deal of human activity. Everyone seemed to want to get out and do something, anything.
I have encouraged my own children to think about climate when they consider(ed) where to attend University and start their careers. Some folks love winter, some summer, some mountain air, some dry, desert conditions. I think many folks would feel better and do better if they migrated to an area that has a climate they favor; yet few folks seem to take that into consideration when starting out in life as adults.
You are much more attractive than that!
Girl what did you do to your hair?
I also think it looks like Peter Max poster. If you have a Peter Max poster depending on subject and condition it could be fairly valuable.
@JohnP:
Cognitive segregation + cognitive assortative mating. These days a neurologist isn’t marrying his receptionist or practice nurse; he’s marrying an endocrinologist, lawyer, professor of sociology (or some similar horror).
It’s not just living apart, it’s literally breeding and growing apart. And it’s a profound worry.
Parler is back up despite the comments/stories from the muckety-muck of gab. Dan Bongino alluded to the gabster’s efforts to knee cap his competitor.
Little dogs barking at each other while the wolves (Twister, Fakebook, Gobble up, Amassing all) howl in approval.
It’s not just living apart, it’s literally breeding and growing apart. And it’s a profound worry.
Indeed. Very smart people who have never left the elite bubble can be a real menace when they join forces. We get things like “fortified elections” … viewed as something good.
@Rufus:
I’ve heard that Medellin (of Cocaine Cartel fame back in the day) has best year-round mild climate of just about anywhere.
Certainly the place to be if one has Green Fingers.
So how many Ladies of a Certain Age present read this series of books as a child?
Maida’s Little Website:
https://www.ethomsen.com/maida/
Elite Progressivism is nothing new 🙂
I like it too. But I think I prefer the one up on the site.
Somehow the Purim thread is in danger of being derailed into a discussion of Monorails.. Whilst thinking about monorails it came to me that what we all need to do is to sit back and watch Metropolis. So here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKlf42haZOo
I’ve been getting phone calls starting 1st of Feb. They ask if I have a Passport and want me to take a survey. They called 5 times now. The last one sounded like she could be a grandmother.
So far all i’ve said is … i have a passport thank you good by.
Anyone else getting these calls?
Scam or no scam?
@jack
I wouldn’t even confirm or deny that I had a passport.
Could be part of phishing scam. If so they might not even be after your passport details. A good con benefits from some indirection just like a conjuring trick does.
If it really is some kind of survey, you can bet that whoever is doing the survey is not on your side anyway.
I think that if I were designing a telephone survey in order to determine a person’s Class Affiliation, the very top of the binary tree of questions would seek to make the cut between Cosmopolitan and Peasant. Cosmopolitans have passports. Not all passport holders are Cosmopolitans, so would be a whole bunch more binary choices to pigeonhole participants.
The Maida series sounds absolutely charming. I discovered Little House on the Prairie and the Betsy and Tacy series as an old adult. I loved reading them. This series looks equally interesting. The women who wrote these were worthy of the label of feminist.
Eva Marie:
I was charmed to discover some years ago that “Little House on the Prarie” was huge in Japan. For instance:
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The television series continues be very popular in Japan to this day. Many Japanese love the romanticized view of the American old West and just as in other cultures, many were first introduced to the story through the books. One fascinating bit of history, The Long Winter, the sixth book in theLittle House series, was part of the first wave of 100 Western books that were translated to Japanese during the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II. Beginning in 1948, The Long Winter was placed in schools and libraries around the country and quickly became the most popular book in the series.
As I travel around the U.S. speaking to quilt guilds about my new book, quilters love to hear how “Little House on the Prairie” influenced quilting in Japan, mostly because the show is dear to them as well.
https://littlehouseontheprairie.com/learning-to-quilt-in-japan-little-house-on-the-prairie-influenced-a-whole-generation/
@Eva Marie:
I must have run out of library books as a kid and been reduced to reading my Mother’s remaining childhood books. I only read one in the series, as there were no others in her collection. It was the one where they put on a production of The Tempest — which I had reason to quote in another thread today. Then memory came back that the first time I’d been exposed to Shakespeare was in the plot line of this novel. Memory!
The world in the Maida novels is one unattainable for 99.9% of readers when they were popular. But I’m all for didactic escapism rather than didactic didacticism — more the case with Young Persons’ Literature today.
@Huxley:
In Hokkaido they can’t quite make up their minds whether they’re Switzerland or Wyoming with chopsticks. It’s charming!
In Hokkaido they can’t quite make up their minds whether they’re Switzerland or Wyoming with chopsticks.
Zaphod:
Or San Francisco in the Summer of Love!
Richard Brautigan, Beat/hippie writer of “Trout Fishing in America,” did a publicity tour in Japan in the early 80s, discovered he was a god there, then returned to his lonely old house in Bolinas and committed suicide.
It’s a little more complicated than that, but the basics are true.
The Long Winter was the most memorable for me as well.
@huxley:
I’ll have to read that!
“An indescribable romp, the novel is best summed up in one word: mayonnaise.“
Sounds Oppressively White to me already.
As it happens, the best mayo is Japanese: Kewpie Mayonnaise
True!
I used to love Kewpie Pasta Sauce way back in the day. Just did a google and not sure if they still make it in the cans. They do seem to have a range of just add hot water pasta + sauce sachets.
It’s a long read. Curtis Yarvin doesn’t do short reads. But it’s free and I think some of this blog’s readers might find much to agree with in his Ten Requests.
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/we-dont-have-to-live-like-this
Zaphod:
I recommend Brautigan’s “In Watermelon Sugar” first.
“Watermelon” is a short easy read and no book better captures the fantasy of hippie life (vs. the more jaggedly dreary reality).
“Trout Fishing” falls on the dense, surrealist, maybe a tiny bit pretentious, other side of the fence. It’s a more lit read and has its own rewards.
Oh, Moldbug. Yeah, I’ll check him out.
This is hilarious:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/02/19/suspicious-truck-capitol-riot/
Our Overlords are crapping themselves.
(Found this story on Gab. Decided to spare readership some of the commentary ;P)
@Huxley: I’ll put on my Neal Cassady Cap and read them both!
Zaphod:
BabylonBee couldn’t have done a better job. Those poor (hah) NW DC comrades were concered and troubled about the “insurrection” and people of other “tribes” that were crazed by Trump’s “false claims” of voter fraud. Maybe the National Guard should be deployed to NW Washington and pass out “Depends?” The supercritical mass of Karen was reached and infinite paranoia and stupidity was achieved.
OMG. They found out about the white panel truck.
Look. I’m outta here. I made everything up. Forget me.
And if I took a dollar or two here or there, it’s only because I earned it. The money was just resting in that account.
unShaun the Sheep
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/rescued-australian-sheep-freed-from-wool-idUSRTX9PYH4
Zaphod,
I clicked over to the video of the Wuppertal Scwebebahn you posted and something seemed very familiar about it. After 30 seconds, or so, I realized I’ve been there and seen it! I think I may have even ridden it. I looked at a map of where Wuppertal is and pieced together when it was most likely I was there (July, 2014), so not too long ago. It’s very odd it is such a faint memory. I wonder what else was going on that day that my memory of seeing such a unique thing is so ephemeral.