Getting old means seeing death, and I'm old, with more friends dead than alive. The only way to get past each death is to keep doing whatever you do, and this is what I do — post my life for an audience of several, now reduced by one.
I'll smother my grief under pancakes, drown it in a 40-ouncer, and watch the world go along even shittier than it already was...
CRANKY OLD FART'S
NEWS & LINKS
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• FIDE bans trans women in mind-boggling new policy
• Just 1% of the $3-billion in professional son-in-law Jared Kushner's private equity firm came from sources in the United States
But what about Hunter Biden?
• Trump judge's actual argument for abortion bans: Doctors are harmed without cute sonograms
Be forewarned, there are large quantities of snark in this article, but entirely deserved.
There'd be some juicy info in those docs, if ever revealed. Doesn't everyone not wearing blinders know the US ran that operation?
• Biden's DOJ claims "there is no constitutional right to a stable climate"
• World Health Organization's aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
• California gets its first tropical storm watch
• PornHub says cease and desist to kebab shop
• Former Trump adviser blames Jews for dying in Auschwitz
• Judge rules HP must face class action lawsuit over disabled printers
One certainly hopes the verdict will be substantial enough to bankrupt Hewlett-Packard, but that's what I hope every time anyone takes a giant corporation to court, and it hasn't happened yet.
• All cops continue being bastards
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
• The creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live is a jackassThis one's a long read from longreads.com, and I'll confess that I didn't read all of it. I generally can't read about celebrities without falling asleep, unless it's one of the rare few I like, and Lorne Michaels has never been that.
He's a one-man factory of mundane, predictable comedy, it's been a long time since anything with his name on it made me laugh, and this is the first article I've half-read that portrays him as the smug and ruthless bastard he's always seemed to be.
• Lake Lanier stands as a reminder of the American history today's leaders are trying to erase
• The original Black Panthers fought in the 761st tank battalion during WWII
• America's quietest town, where cell phones are banned
♫♬ AUDIO ♫
• A Whiter Shade of Pale — Procol Harum
• From the Beginning — Emerson Lake & Palmer
• Sing Sing Sing with a Swing — Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
• What a Wonderful World — The Ramones
📸 IMAGES 📸
• Marilyn Monroe recreates her iconic predecessors for Life magazine in 1958
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔
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👁 VIDEO 👁
• Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy raps to Eminem's "Lose Yourself"
• Mr Albano at East Boston High School did it his way.
• Jammin' the Blues (1944)
Jammin’ the Blues was filmed by Gjon Mili, over four days in September 1944, released that December, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.
🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸
• The Black Messiah
by Sonia Weitz
• It's that damn man with a fish again
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
• Ada Deer
8/19/2023
Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that's made me smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Tip 'o the hat to the AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, Depsidase, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, MetaFilter, Miss Miriam's Mirror, RanPrieur.com, @soberscientistlife, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I've stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce, Joey Jo Jo, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn't always shitty.
Can't remember all of it but I had a theory that the Kids In The Hall Brain Candy movie was actually a metaphor for Lorne Michaels fucking up their lives.
ReplyDelete1. Everyone says Don Roritor is a dead-on impression of Lorne Michaels.
2. Stummies = SNL, his old hit that everyone still praises even though nobody likes it anymore.
3. His rep is going to collapse without a new drug/hit
4. Gleemonex represents the incredibly dumb SNL skit movies he was pushing through out the 1990s, which probably made more than they cost but were so stupid in stretching a 3 minute premise into a 90 minute film that they put their audience into a coma. It might specifically be the "Coneheads" movie, which came out like 15 years after the sketch and allowed the few who enjoyed it to "lock in" on their fondest memories, like Gleemonex does.
5. I don't remember the rest of it as I may have been physically too fucking high to be able to speak.
Either way, Brain Candy is worth it just with the knowledge that they were making fun of the guy who put his name all over their troupe. They also insisted on putting in all the sketches that Michaels censored over the years, like "Cancer Boy."
The Kids in the Hall was on TV at the wrong time on the wrong night, and I never watched it. Never saw the movie either, but you've completely talked me into it and it's illegally downloading right now.
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