We are unfortunately not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations. – Sergey Berezhnoy
We’re only just beginning to see the Halloween links; two qualify this time around, plus the second video. It’s the intro to the Halloween episode of The Simpsons, and was directed by Guillermo del Toro; see how many horror movie references you can spy in it. That video was provided by Neil Gaiman, and the first by Mike Riggs; everything down to the first video was contributed by Jesse Walker, and the links between the videos by Judgy Bitch (“Poe’s law”), Popehat (“elephant”), Mistress Matisse (“Twitterstorm”), Michael Whiteacre (“Kubrick”), Wendy McElroy (“MP3s”), Radley Balko (“prosecutor” & “stink”), Franklin Harris (“Snapple”), Brooke Magnanti (“Lincoln” & “future”), Walter Olson (“monsters”), Grace (“pipeline” & “bugging”), and Lucy Steigerwald (“together”).
- “When disturbed, the larvae can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimeters.”
- Russia announces that its space troops are not yet ready to fight aliens.
- “Move to Somalia!”
- Poe’s law in action.
- This is too sad to be funny.
- The elephant fears the mouse.
- The 29 stages of a Twitterstorm.
- Stanley Kubrick’s first three films.
- Public-domain mp3s of great music.
- “I’m a prosecutor. This is what we do.”
- Abraham Lincoln, Fuck Lord of the Moon.
- Welcome to our world, Snapple drinkers.
- Adding monsters to thrift-store paintings.
- The promise of a future which never happened.
- Cops murder an old man because his yard stank.
- The school-to-prison pipeline just keeps on pumping.
- Man forced to wear bugging device every night or lose his job.
- Government is just a word for things we choose to do together.
- This week’s edition of “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”.
From the Archives
- Witch hunts, tinfoil hats, food trucks, police brutality, pigs, censorship, Poe’s Law, thoughtcrime, universal criminality, tribbles and fruit.
- “Child Protective Services” have powers the Inquisition would’ve envied.
- Judge gets a slap on the wrist because of different rules for the rulers.
- Government actors hiring whores is standard operating procedure.
- Add Malawi to the countries better at human rights than the US.
- One US senator begins to wake up about the “trafficking” scam.
- The nuisance of spam commenters and “guest post” spammers.
- It’s good to see some journalists finally starting to listen to us.
- The US Army says Santa Muerte worship isn’t a “real” religion.
- What a 1947 sci-fi story can teach us about the nanny state.
- San Francisco temporarily stops using condoms as evidence.
- “Prostitution has a social value, and it’s necessary in a city.”
- Jezebel says it’s OK to penetrate someone without consent.
- A young woman’s life is destroyed by “trafficking” hysteria.
- What does a demigoddess do for a retirement business?
- Christian Vega, gypsy whores and migrating wildebeest.
- Another “ally” accepts the false claims of prohibitionists.
- The real agenda behind mandatory condoms in porn.
- Truly mythic levels of ignorance and disinformation.
- A parade of officials marching up their own arses.
- Another lump of bronze, another dumb crusade.
- A cop was sentenced to life in prison for rape.
- No, marriage isn’t prostitution; not at all.
- The need for more research on anal sex.
- Diary of a Rookie Phone Sex Floozie.
- The downfall of Jimmy Swaggart.
- Seven jokes about whores.
- The arrest of Alexis Wright.
- The precursor of “sexting”.
I can’t be the first person to think that the people who take part in a Twitterstorm should naturally be called twits, can I?
Poe’s Law: Jacob Rees-Mogg is an English Tory politician noted for his unreconstructed views which would have been regarded as dangerously subversive even in mid-Victorian times. His father was once editor of The Times; Jacob famously took his nanny with him to canvass on the hustings. Unsurprisingly, his comments are sought after. Recently, on the BBC Radio4 lunchtime news and topical comment programme, the journalist and apiarist Martha Kearney repeated one, taken from his Twitter account. She was convinced of the authenticity of @JakeReesMogg because of the Latin quotation in the bio: ‘Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre’. Alas poor Martha, she was well and truly taken in by this update of Mae West’s original. For, as any fule kno, the Latin translates as, ‘Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?’
The very informative piece on Somaliland (Thanks, Maggie!) provides more evidence for my point that the power of a people to do things for themselves is a very good thing. Having someone else having power over you is a very bad thing.
Fuck I’ve seen it ALL now – “Guns-N-Roses” played on a Guzheng that’s piped through a Fender Champion 600 guitar amplifier! LOL. I think she should have thrown in a distortion pedal or two and maybe a “talk box” for a Guinness World Record!
By the way – I’m in Washington DC – if the National Park Service wants to know where those fucking “barrycades” are that were around the WWII memorial and the Lincoln Memorial – tell them we pulled them down and left them at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue!
I saw a handicapped vet with a prosthetic leg dragging one by himself.
Watch it again– but pay attention this time! She did throw a distortion pedal in.
Mash-up videos like that, combining far-out music and styles, make me inexplicably happy.
Sort of like this video of the “Habanera” from Carmen as sung by Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish Chef. 😀
[…] So, I found this gross link to femanazi hate site Jezzabel via the always interesting Maggie McNeill. […]
In the Twitterstorm bit, I especially noted the bit from the fellow who obviously thinks that someone dressing up in blackface and re-living a bit of African-American folk culture is worse than someone taking his name and logo from the torturer and mass-murderer Che Guevara.