Never Sure What to Think
That I opened up 5 NRO tabs prior to opening this one, should be a clue as to how much I love you, or hate myself And as they are open I will sample from [shudders] them all. Let us start with a piece titled: “The Welcome Return of the Cheneys” ’cause Dick and Liz are gonna fix foreign policy see…Quinn Hillyer, take us away.
Shhh — Don’t tell anybody, because it’s a big secret: The Cheneys of Wyoming, father and daughter, were largely right about Iraq back in 2003, and they are correct now as well.
I, uh, yup…”…of Wyoming…” Quinn is fucked from the get. I mean how many feet of intestine can one wrap around ones feet and neck simultaneously? Anyhoo as this has all of the challenge of tossing a kitten into a pillow case with a brick and heading off to the creek with a bounce in your step and I am not that kind of ‘path’.
Next up, a woman named Christine Sisto does what they (and by they, I mean members of the “wingnut welfare knitting circle”) do.
Modern feminists must be feeling pretty weak if they’re threatened by Miss Nevada. After Nia Sanchez, who won the Miss USA pageant earlier this month, advocated that women learn self-defense, activists rushed to dismiss her. Cosmopolitan’s Elisa Benson called Sanchez’s comment “icky,” while Mandy Velez of the Huffington Post declared, “Not happy she won.”
You’d think people with the best interest of women in mind would support the idea of women’s being able to defend themselves. But the current feminist movement seems more interested in furthering classic sexist gender roles, with women as trembling flowers getting stomped on by big mean boys, and progressive feminism as the chivalrous White Knight.
Later she posits that the MRA and Feminist movements should get married, because,,,,,funny?
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FRIST! (Does anyone still say that anymore?)
Anyway…
Bunch of young women carrying guns around…
What could possibly go wrong?
I can only assume that Quinn Hillyer is celebrating opposite day. And I’m not sure how Liz had anything to do with anything back in 2003. Wasn’t she corporate shill in charge of grinding up orphans or something back then?
And Sisto clearly wrote while stoned. It has the hallmarks of stoned thinking, the weird logic, the bizarre obsessions, the utter failure to discern wit.
Trying to think of a time when one of them has been right on anything.
Nope, not there. Nope, that’s not it. Nuh uh. Not then either. No, not that time either. Still drawing a blank. Wait, it’ll come to me. Nope.
Yes women should be able to defend themselves. But that is the worst, most useless ‘blame the victim’ advice ever. Rapists already target the women least able to defend themselves. Women who are unable to defend themselves due to age, relative size or alcohol or other drug impairment are just as worthy of not getting raped as any GI Jane style commando. Do we really want a society where women are all packing heat? What about everyone else? Surely it is the height of ignorance to assume that only women get raped. Prisoners especially are at an increased risk of rape, should they be armed too? Do we honestly believe that the same victimized people whose allegations of rape are regularly dismissed by society would receive a fair trial if they were to murder their would-be rapists?
Should we just legislate that every citizen should be carrying the firearm of their choice at all times? (probably above a minimum level of muzzle energy, magazine capacity and range, cause a .22 derringer isn’t nearly deadly enough) I’m kidding of course but that is the exact goal of a lot of gun fetishists. I wonder how many shootings a day would be too much? they already seem comfortable with 30,000 gun deaths a year and countless more gun injuries.
I mean what is the point of remaking our society into one as violent as Syria on a bad day? Why should the rest of us have to wear Kevlar body armor every waking moment, drive MRAPs or up-armored Humvees for every trip to the grocery store, and build even garden sheds out of reinforced concrete? Should we all live in steely eyed vigilance every moment, ready to meet every violation of our personal red lines with hot lead? Fighting fire with fire is a terrible metaphor for fighting rape, this isn’t clearing out the burnables ahead of a forest fire, this is spraying gasoline at a brush fire.
Maybe instead we could stop pretending that guns and deadly violence are the cure to crime. Maybe we should stop coddling rapists. Maybe we should stop enabling rape and rapists, and start believing rape victims. Maybe every institution that encourages rape and shelters rapists from college fraternities and prisons, to the catholic church and the Washington Post op-ed page could use a serious house cleaning and maybe a dismantling. Because to hell with rape, and to hell with the idea that the remedy to violence is even more violence.
It’s funny that Sisto thinks Cosmo and HuffPo are hotbeds of feminist activism.
But the current feminist movement seems more interested in furthering classic sexist gender roles, with women as trembling flowers getting stomped on by big mean boys, and progressive feminism as the chivalrous White Knight.
Project much? Like serious much?
Quick Henry, the Flit!
Helmut’s comment
Reminded me of some much better advice I’d read recently.
Helmut’s musings
Remind me that this is often a “reasonable” suggestion by ammosexuals. Setting aside the underlying
fantasyassumption that we are all living in some place without laws and police/sheriffs/what have you, it just pisses me off. These are often the very same people howling about religious oppression, and they’re trying to force me to go against some of the basic tenets of my religion. Never mind they’re going against some strongly worded advice from the guy they profess to follow.Nym, this is relevant.
VAGINA
VOMIT IN AISLE 21:29!!
We don’t do torture.
DA, apparently I was a bit too subtle for you earlier (it is my only fault).
If I think you, as yourself or under another nym, ever, are responding directly to Dennis, taunting, trolling, or otherwise interacting with said troll on this blog, I will remove it. Other custodians are welcome to undisappear anything they disagree with, of course, but I should tell you there are those among us who suspect you and Dennis actually inhabit the same body. If you want to score (unremarked upon, unhinted at) “points” for not having comments deleted, do not engage. Ever.
FYI, your link above responding to Nym only stays because I can be inconsistent, and the cartoon is kinda funny.
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
We know he’s been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda.
I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.
The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there’s a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there’s clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.
I guess if I look back on it now, I don’t think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we’ve encountered.
VCarlson: If you’d prefer I lay off the bugspray jokes, I will.
Nah. Not necessary. D and DA are a special case, in so many senses. I completely get the need to snark.
To clarify, my comments/threats/promises were solely directed at DA, and I was only speaking for myself, anyway.
Cheney/Cheney 2016!
In today’s Christianist
sex scandalpederast news, Popular Michigan contemporary Christian radio DJ fired after arrest on child sex chargesIs that Wretch/Retch or Retch/Wretch?
The invention of dehydrated nuclear-weapon powder was a setback in the fight against nuclear proliferation.
Vagina Power!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany
The invention of dehydrated nuclear-weapon powder was a setback in the fight against nuclear proliferation.
Good thing he lived in a fucking desert country, eh?
gocart mozart shuld prepare to be smightily AHEMMED
I sure was glad all the media (Including NPR) had all those fucking neocon murderers on to give their highly informed and relevant opinions on what to do with Iraq now that it’s doing exactly what anyone who wasn’t completely fucking ignorant told them it would do.
NPR had Richard fucking Perle on, who insisted that questioning them in hindsight is “absurd”.
“The Welcome Return of the Cheneys”
This is not a thing. How about “I, Quinn Hillyer, declare that I welcome the return of the Cheneys.” Hillyer, plus a few others (mostly hacks) countable on fingers and toes. I exaggerate — Cheney has his fans, though I’m not sure the same could be said of his daughter. But Cheney’s fandom is not a thing, especially if you eliminate the people he’s enriched along with himself.
“The Cheneys” is rightly not a thing, either. Dick was our nation’s VP, unfortunately, whereas his daughter is a case study: How to Fare Poorly in Spite of Nepotism Deep and Broad … She is a political nonentity and shall remain so, because nobody likes her.
“The welcome return of the Cheneys” rankles, too, because they did not leave. They hold forth in the media as much as they care to. Dick’s a bit frail, or he’d have been on TV every week since Obama got elected. Liz is inexplicably, consistently present here and there, on a variety of topics, maybe because Dick needs rest and she’s a passable proxy.
Lastly, “The welcome return of the Cheneys” suggests other equally unlikely phrases. “The welcome return of the scabies,” stuff like that. Nobody buys it any more than lipstick on a turd-polishing pig.
I didn’t read the NRO piece (“TWROTC”) before writing the above. Wow, it’s a piece of work.
“When Obama took office,” [Liz]Cheney said, “what we had achieved was a stable Iraq that had a relationship with the United States that made it an ally of ours in the heart of the Middle East.” […] “We also were in a position at that point where our friends and allies could count on us, where they knew our word meant something.”
I wouldn’t put it that way.
If by “a stable Iraq” you mean a house of cards that will remain standing as long as we occupy, and continue to pump money for connected folks (here as well as there) to siphon off, then yes, absolutely, Liz.
And our friends and allies could count on us to suck, and what they knew our word meant was that bad stupid stuff would happen.
She has her father’s chutzpah or blinders or whatever. Imagine saying out loud that Bush / Cheney left our foreign relations in a strong place.
I am starting to wonder who the general media won’t interview in its quest for “balance.”
“Up next: While most people applauded when President Obama signed a law that would boost the penalties for sexual assault, we’ll bring you the views of several convicted rapists who disagree.”
She is a political nonentity and shall remain so, because nobody likes her.
I suppose any other person who would throw her own sister under the bus to score political points with stupid people might like her.
With any luck, Dick Cheney will take Quinn Hillyer hunting…
The Cheneys of Wyoming, father and daughter, were largely right about Iraq
They were certainly right about what was good for them.
Yup, Liz Cheney was appointed to that State Dept. position during the Bush / Cheney admin. So strange that she couldn’t win that senate primary. After all, she’s “of Wyoming.”
But I don’t see what knowing about their oil reserves had to do with it – that’s what “Operation Iraqi Liberation” was all about, right? Until they realized their slip was showing, and changed the last word to “Freedom,” of course.
Don’t look in the basement, let’s look ahead.
-Teh Ho just said
Well said, Ho.
Also too anyone who thinks Cosmo is a feminist anything should be forced to inhale all of the perfume inserts at once.
Well said!
And didn’t Arianna Huffington start off as a Republican? I seem to recall she was one of the people who realized the Rs were going looneytunes and moved over to the Democrats. The point being that she was never what would have been called “liberal” 30-40 years ago.
Daddy, how come you never orchestrate the overthrow of other countries’ governments and appoint me to a special unaccountable position of channeling unbudgeted funds to shadowy undocumented groups? Do you want me to be poor?
I feel like these people mail order these articles from ACME rather than writing them.
I think Cosmo is about as feminist as Maxim.
VCarlson: thanks!
Also, I keep wanting to do some kind of “Cheneys of Wyoming” ditty based on this (or its Batman: The Brave and the Bold take) but I keep getting to
“The Cheneys of Wyoming
Are just like other folks,
The only real difference is
the Cheneys are SOULLESS AFFRONTS TO GOD AND MAN”
which just doesn’t scan very well.
What about the other three tabs???
Jim, I was praying that no one would notice.
Let us think of the kittens that did not make it to the waters edge.
Fondly…
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A H. S. Thompson question if ever there was one.
Let us think of the kittens that did not make it to the waters edge.
Think of the swamps unplumbed, the mangoes unsampled…
well, i went mango hunting:
as long as there are people who actually believe what the second commenter is saying, we’re fighting a losing battle…oh, and there were also the to be expected ‘those feminazis have sads because they are too ugly to get raped…har, har har…’
but expecting nro contributors and their readers to understand that the gist of the problem remains that we have a society that still largely doesn’t understand, or refuses to understand just what rape is and that the problem lies with the rapists, not the victims is probably just too fucking much to ask…
Conservatives cannot comprehend consent.
All that creepy “man on dog” crap they spout? No comprehension of consent.
Also, I keep wanting to do some kind of “Cheneys of Wyoming” ditty based on this (or its Batman: The Brave and the Bold take) but I keep getting to perhaps you can take inspiration from this also, too…
which just doesn’t scan very well.
Maybe not, but the words are so apt that I think the right melody could make the odd line seem natural.
The idea is to take a [detour] before the expected resolution:
the Cheneys are [SOULLESS AFFRONTS TO GOD AND] MAN
bbkf: Just…wow. That second comment is making me stabby.
That second comment inspired another of my tl;dr rants, but I deleted it knowing no one who needs the advice of ‘how not to commit rape’ and ‘how not to be accused of rape’ would ever read it.
I can’t even begin to address all the FAIL in that comment.
I’ll leave it at **sigh** back to the alcohol causes rape thing? Seriously?
At your word you could have any man throw into jail presumed guilty until proven innocent as he watches his life be destroyed. There is something wrong with that picture; society is out of control and this is a prime example.
Setting aside that first sentence, something interests me. Human beings have endless opportunities to lie, to screw others over. Many such opportunities are low-risk or risk-free. But we generally behave, whether out of habit or because we’re decent people. And we generally don’t worry about 99.9% of the possibilities.
This conservative obsession with false rape charges is no more pressing than some other hypothetical I could cook up. It’s not happening, so far as we know, and nobody’s explained how cracking down on actual rape would trigger an epidemic of false charges.
This supposed threat is less pressing than the possibility that restaurant kitchen staff are routinely defiling our meals for the hell of it. They could get away with it millions of times daily, at little to no risk to themselves. Why not worry about that? Does a lack of evidence, or of plausible motivation mean something different, in this case?
It would seem so. It’s a good thing women aren’t evil about food, because in other respects they’re all a hair’s-breadth away from destroying some man’s life … just the possibility means society is “out of control.”
Snotchos!
… back to? I don’t think they ever left it. They are, in fact, trying to restore the “she was walking around not visibly under the control of another man” causes rape thing.
One can’t help noticing that “ruining” a woman’s life doesn’t seem to be nearly as important.
But who cares anyway? A lawyer once defended a rapist in court, therefore Republicans are right about everything.
One can’t help noticing that “ruining” a woman’s life doesn’t seem to be nearly as important.
exactamundo…and also, too…if we went back to the good old days when women were men’s property and had no rights, we wouldn’t have to worry about all these pesky ‘rape’ accusations, because there wouldn’t be any ‘rape’, q.e.d…
VCarl: I like your criteria for DA’s posts. Btw, we need a clean-up on aisle 21:54. (h/t to MB)
The custodians have been vigilant. The mess is already gone. I do wonder if the noise machine is going to try to make this Hilary-defended-a-rapist story a Thing. As if whatever sorry specimen the GOP nominates in 2016 is going to be better on women’s issues…
Oh, you’d still have rape – in the sense of damaging another man’s property, which is the way it was before.
Also, too – notice that one cannot ever ruin another man’s life with rape accusations, but one cannot, also, ever defend an accused rapist, because, I dunno, no one has ever been arrested for anything they weren’t guilty of, and our courts are just unnecessary, expensive, sources of additional revenue for Teh Government and Trial Lawyers (aka The Devil Incarnate).
CRA asked a probably-rhetorical question:
Yes it does. Just in case it’s not rhetorical and you’re genuinely curious, what I think it means is an anagram of, among other things, “A Creationist Jowl Spy” and “A Pelican’s Wits Rot Joy”.
Oh, he’s been trying. One can always tell what the present orders are by what keeps getting repasted.
Fenwick, thanks for putting your 2 cents in.
Oh, you’d still have rape – in the sense of damaging another man’s property, which is the way it was before.
thank you for finishing my thought for me…
I do wonder if the noise machine is going to try to make this Hilary-defended-a-rapist story a Thing.
and yes, yes, that is exactly what’s happening…there’s all sorts of wrong in that incident, the most obviously being that a young girl was brutally raped…i don’t have a problem with hillary defending the guy, she was doing the job she was appointed to do, whether directly ordered by a judge to do so or whether through office politics had to accept the job as requested by a senior lawyer, doesn’t matter…she did her job. it’s horrific that the guy was able to get off, is that hillary’s fault? no…while we have a pretty good justice system, there’s still parts of it that are pretty shitty…and this case underscores that because it can and still does happen.
what i find really egregious though, is that the people at the free beacon chose to play the tape of clinton discussing the case, thereby causing her all sorts of anguish, again, just to try to score some sort of victory…classy, no?
i also find it odd that these same people who are so quick to deride women for screaming rape and ruining men’s lives when they all know it was the woman’s fault anyway and why are all these women claiming to be victims, get over it and pull yourself up by your bootstraps already, are now reversing there positions…
CRA asked a probably-rhetorical question:
It was rhetorical. Conservatives worry about a slew of false rape accusations (as opposed to meteors, poltergeists, etc.) because women are evil! You have to stay one step ahead of them or they will sap your essence, wither your twig ‘n’ berries, destroy society. Nothing else compares.
But your answer is good, too.
Why can’t we keep traditional
marriagerape like it sez in Teh Bibble?Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
Those people are destroying the institute of rape.
Obligatory “what about the Muslims, you hypocrite?” whine to follow.
Got this at Mr, Pierce’s place:
If I didn’t know it would lead to the sorts of abuses the Wingers are eagerly trying to reinstate, I’d be agitating for a “do you have the slightest clue what’s in the Constitution?” test requirement for anyone running for office.
Hice believes that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the United States, with the intent to impose Sharia law on all of us. He also believes that it’s fine for women to seek political office, at least if certain conditions are met. “If the woman’s within the authority of her husband, I don’t see a problem,” he told the Athens Banner-Herald in 2004.
He thinks Sharia law is a-OK as long as the right Abrahamic faith’s imprint is on it.
The fact is, Muslim is not a real religion and does not deserve 1st amendment protection. it is a death cult and they worship Satan.
The fact is, liberalism should be outlawed or treated as a mental disease like retardation. Anyone liberal hates teh consitution and is unfit to govern. There will soon be an uprising in the heartland, where well armed partiots will take back our country from the limp wristed faggot libs.
Gary Ruppert is channeling this fellow.
Lyle Rossiter is a forensic psychiatrist who has done a great deal of work examining the liberal mind
Dr Rossiter probably has a lot of time to spare. Courts have a tendency to throw out his expert testimony — often wondering (in suitably judicious prose) whether he trained under Professors Dunning and Kruger. In one case,
Garçon, there’s a cochon at the next table.
Could you please escort him back to his sty?
USA! USA! USA!
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/18076/
Oopsie, wrong link…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/24/1309355/-What-happened-Duh-Three-siblings-with-guns-in-the-house-killed-each-other
Try this again!
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I hope this missive finds Mr. UNE’s meezer fine, fat and happy, btw.
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Yep, Niagara Falls never froze before this year.
“Frozed” is the funniest thing you’ve written here, Some Guy.
Yes, Pennis, you’re very good at setting fire to the straw men you have yourself created, but not so good at actual debate. Possibly because debate requires thinking, and thinking leads to knowing things, and knowing things leads to difficult questions about the Bible, and difficult questions about the Bible make the baby Jesus cry and the baby Karl Marx giggle.
Y’know, when Lionel Trilling wrote that the conservatism of his day defined itself through “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas”, I’m pretty sure he was lamenting its failure to engage intellectually, not encouraging conservatives to double down on their emboldened stupidity.
ALL. ONE. GUY.
I don’t exist then.(Disappears in a puff of logic).
Not.
Jeffraham, Viscount Underfoot is mostly fat and happy, though he was going on and on about something before I left. I think he wanted to go outside. He can’t for the time being. Still trying to get a proper photo of the guy, but everytime I bust out the camera he starts to move toward me.
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“Frozed”….?
What kind of shite is Frank/Dennis/DA spewing now?
Very true, Austin, but take away “emboldened stupidity” and what is really left of conservatism?
Just racism, sexism, bigotry, snobbery, voodoo economics, gun worship, fetus fetishization, and random hatred
How sad.
Now, piss off, troll.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
I remember buying a CD of the infamous “Shut Up, Little Man” recordings, having heard that it was the most hilarious thing ever. I got through about 15 minutes of it before I realized, “I know I should be laughing at this, but really, it’s just sad, and if I listen to much more, I’m just going to get depressed.” This ongoing troll feud is starting to remind me of that experience.
And I’m speaking as a fan of things like “The Tube Bar”, so I’m not just saying that because I’m some fragile little emo flower or something.
Troll Feud is a Quinn Martin Production.
I’m really entertaining myself right now with cosmic horror genre fiction from ye olden times so I thought I’d drop a few links.
Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” (can be read in one sitting)
Ambrose Bierce’s “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (ctrl+F “Carcosa” to skip right to the short story)
H. P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness” (novel-length and incorporates my two favorite genres, cosmic horror and polar/alpine exploration narrative)
I’m going to spend July writing a novel (as part of Camp NaNoWriMo) so reading lots of scary stories is my research project.
Hideously off topic naturally, but probably still preferable to Troll Warz
For you more reality-oriented common taters, good news: NYC courts say parents don’t have a right to send their unvaccinated chilluns to school unless the child has a legitimate medical exemption from vaccination. GOOOOOOL!
Here’s a good ghost story by M.R. James.
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You
I remember buying a CD of the infamous “Shut Up, Little Man” recordings,
hubbkf and i started watching the documentary version of this one night…it was just too depressing after about 10 minutes…
as part of Camp NaNoWriMo
sadly, i signed up for nanowrimo last year and did absolutely nothing…perhaps this year…
I’m really entertaining myself right now with cosmic horror genre fiction from ye olden times so I thought I’d drop a few links.
Your mode of amusement gratifies me.
I think Cosmic Horror would be a good name for an album. I’m thinking instrumentals.
Troll Feud is a Quinn Martin Production.
Liked this. Laughed, I did.
my Becky Transsexual character was pretty good.
Didn’t like this much. I read this as a reference to Cerb. I doubt that was your intention, but you really should self-patrol more carefully, imo.
Didn’t like this much. I read this as a reference to Cerb.
that was troll spoor…plz to disregard…
I wonder if Shut up… was an inspiring factor in this brilliant stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrWuE5qC5c
While I’m at it I’ll point you to a place for lots of excellent and gawdawful stuff. reddit.com/r/nogagreflex. Enjoy.
Also too and btw many if not most of the local denizens can probably recite Mountains of Madness by heart.
/nogagreflex
since i have a pretty strong gag reflex, imma just politely say, ‘um, no thanks…’
Oh go look – it’s fun.
I can’t recite it by heart, but I have read it and I have been on a few mountain tops in Antarctica, although, as far as you know, I haven’t been driven insane by the experience.
Just kidding, the experience shattered my tiny little mind, and I have been a shattered husk of a man ever since.
Oh go look – it’s fun.
ha…i found the ‘only god damn reason i watch soccer’ to be full of very compelling reasons…
Yep, Niagara Falls never froze before this year.
Niagara Falls!
Slooooooowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch……
Slowly I Turned.
Years ago I lost my capacity for physical disgust, but that does not mean I feel obliged to go back to the morgue job, and by the same token I do not feel tempted by Pup’s browsing suggestions.
Also too and btw many if not most of the local denizens can probably recite Mountains of Madness by heart.
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
I’m really entertaining myself right now with cosmic horror genre fiction from ye olden times so I thought I’d drop a few links.
This is where (inevitably *Smut rolls eyes*) I plug John Bellairs’ The Face in the Frost, which is a very hard book to categorize. It starts off in a very whimsical fashion, plunges into genuinely dark and unsettling vignettes, and alternates between creepy and funny for the length of the book. It also has some hilarious shout-outs to Lovecraft. It’s not really horror per se, and I don’t even know if I’d characterize it as “dark fantasy”, but it’s a great book that’s not nearly as well-known as it should be.
Re:
your brainsLovecraft, I think his best story is The Colour Out of Space– next to Ethan Frome, it’s the best story ever written about the disintegration of a New England family.I’m just not sure what the Republican Party really stands for any more other than telling Obama no and telling our own corporate interests yes. That’s not much of a platform.
Oddly appropriate for a wingnut pundit to name himself after the guy who scammed his fellow Vikings by telling them about the beautiful lush country he discovered called Greenland.
*Smut rolls eyes*
I keep a pair in my pocket for that very purpose.
BOOM! Indiana falls.
Smut, I’m imagining them rolling along a wood floor, like marbles.
*bookmarks everything* I should have known you guys would have already heard of everything. As a child of the 90’s I actually have to work to find the source material of which the video games or movies or memes I know well are derivative. It’s fun and interesting work, particularly because a lot of the commentary — people corresponding about the works, reviews, recommendations — isn’t online, but the works themselves are. So you have to form your own opinions about who influenced whom.
POOP.
I roll them and roll them but never score more than a 2.
Oddly enough, you can get a globular die with six “sides.”
you can get a globular die with six “sides.”
Now I want contacts like that.
I recently stumbled upon Clark Ashton Smith.
At the risk of being dipped in albino penguin sauce and thrown to Cthulhu, he is vastly superior to his mentor, Lovecraft. I assume he is less well known because he was too racy for the time period.
I recently stumbled upon Clark Ashton Smith.
The Eldritch Dark is one of my favorite websites. While Smith may be racier than Lovecraft, Lovecraft is more deviant. Smith will write a story about a young monk who has a dalliance with a sorceress, Lovecraft wrote stories about people straight-up having sexytime with various monsters offstage.
Smith’s also funnier than Lovecraft, with The Door to Saturn perhaps being his funniest story. That being said, Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time would be even better repurposed as a workplace comedy in the vein of Office Space.
The new Penguin classics release of Smith’s work is pretty good- a decent mix of stories and poems. Even though I’ve been reading his stuff online for free for years, I bought it to ensure that the book stays on the shelves for a while.
The way BBBB feels about “Face in the Frost” is how I feel about Fritz Leiber’s “Our Lady of Darkness”, his homage to CAS.
Now I want contacts like that.
A glass eye with the die-pips would be pretty sweet.
I read CAS in the Ballantine Fantasy paperbacks that Lin Carter edited, as well as some of the British Panther paperbacks which were carried in several bookstores in San Jose, including the one in San Jose State U, as it was called then.
My favorite story is “The Symposium of the Gorgon.” The most famous story I would say is “Return of the Sorcerer”, which was adapted for the “Night Gallery” series with Bill Bixby and Vincent Price as the two male leads.
A H. S. Thompson question if ever there was one.
,,, & in Whoville they sat that jim’s e-peen grew THREE sizes that day …
The way BBBB feels about “Face in the Frost” is how I feel about Fritz Leiber’s “Our Lady of Darkness”, his homage to CAS.
Urban planning as horror… Leiber sure did love that whole “urban anomie” theme. It even crops up a bit in his “Nehwon” stories.
New York Times reviewer Orvile Prescott commented that the story “skates perilously close to parody of its own genre” but “should upset even hardened stomachs.
Most of CAS’ stories are tongue-in-cheek, with The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis and Genius Loci being notable exceptions.
POLL: L.A., Bay Area Love Obama; Rest of California Hates Him.
That’s gonna make Obamas run in 2016 more difficult, having to win the 1 or 2 million voters outside of LA and SF to win the state.
…well, I’m now convinced that Pennis is not DA; if he were, he wouldn’t feel the need to nymjack DA.
I guess he’ll have to make campaign stops in Merced and Barstow.
CAS has a sense of humor, isn’t afraid of girls and comes with 98% less racism/eugenic grossness. You get the feeling he’s winking and nodding at you when he deploys a word that sends even the word nerdiest of modern readers groping for the dictionary.
Also necrophilia.
he’ll have to make campaign stops in Merced and Barstow.
Along with Weaverville, Modesto, Riverside, Calexico, Redding, Redlands……………
Any fans of Karl Edward Wagner here?
I thought Wagner’s “Sticks” was a hoot- it was a tribute to Weird Tales artist Lee Brown Coye, who drew weird lattices in his illustrations. “.220 Swift” was another great story. His other stuff is okay, but his editorial legacy will outshine his authorial one.
Any fans of Karl Edward Wagner here?
I liked his Kane series years ago. Not sure what else he wrote.
GO, GERMANY !
Troll cries! Says how sorry he is!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-huppenthal-crying-press-conference
Could it have anything to do with the fact that he’s probably going to lose his job?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
So WTF? His fingers slipped while he was typing?
I will say that for a Republican this is pretty damn close to an actual apology. He still needs to fuck off though.
Oh, you lost. So sorry, guys. (Insincere comforting smile)
(muffled snicker)
BBBB: I liked “Sticks” quite a bit myself, though I didn’t know about the Lee Brown Coye incidents ’til very recently.
It’s led me to go do some bookbinding on account of I found and scanned Coye’s “Chips and Shavings” column where he discusses the stick lattices with Andrew Rothovius, as well as Rothovius’ “Lovecraft and the New England Megaliths” essay in the long-OOP The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces”. I’m essentially making a mini-anthology.
Greetings my dear friends, I apologize for my long leave of absence but I have been extremely busy conducting field research into the possible existence of unknown hominids.
I realize that certain TV charlatans who shall remain unnamed have given the field of cryptozoology and Sasquatch research a bad name as of late. However, never fear, there are still many serious researchers in the field who investigate the mysteries of the natural world in a scientific manner who eschew the transient fortunes of stunt publicity.
In spite of the professional hoaxers and obnoxious entertainers, some very important breakthroughs in the field of cryptozoology have been made over the past few years. The proven existence of a previously unknown species of canine in the American Southwest, and the possible identification of Sasquatch DNA are just two of the most important examples.
Anyway, I am glad to be back.
As I was reading it at the link, it struck me as being very carefully specific. His consistent identification of “those blog comments” as what he was apologizing for, not gonna do anymore, etc. made my nasty, suspicious, brain wonder what else he’s done that he’s not apologizing for. And that final, passing, reference to his assistant had a big “some of my best friends” odor about it. Something else, too. Something “off.”
Huppenthal urged people to “stomp out” Spanish-language television stations and newspapers in America.
It’s odd, I don’t watch Spanish-language TV or read Spanish-language newspapers, but somehow they flourish in certain markets. For lack of stomping, I suppose. Free-market stomping out, because Liberty!
Huppenthal “thinks alot about economics,” and people who are “on poverty.”
I’ll bet cash money Huppenthal has this setup.
I guess it’s hard to not sound like a fascist when you think like a fascist.
I’m imagining a disappointed alot who has a PhD in statistics but has been quoted in the paper as a PhD in economics.
B^4 of all the stories linked, “The Door To Saturn” is really delighting me.
After reading all of these SRS BIZNAS Eldritch tales it’s the perfect antidote.
Pup…all I can say is REALLY? REALLY?
I guess the sea water won’t make it to where they live?
Seize said,
June 26, 2014 at 23:44
Ummm, watchoo talkn bout gurl?
Sorry, link through at 22:50. The truck mod. I wasn’t yelling at you, I was just kinda yelling in your direction at the information you gave me.
As one does.
Strange ! Why no Pierce today ? Nefarious plotters, World Cup watching – any other theories around?
I noticed, too. I’m a bit concerned.
Aliens. Sexy aliens.
Or he realized Esquire has become a cesspool and quit.
Shake, that list of recommended articles down the righthand side of his blog has always been unspeakable in its banality and pretentiousness. Who the hell are their target audience ? Seems to be adolescent males but how would they ever have the cash for those advertisers ? The fact that this mag which my father used to read- probably for the softish porn- has survived this long is a constant mystery.
I wonder what BBBB think about “The Moon Moth”.
I wonder what BBBB think about “The Moon Moth”.
Surely you jest!
Don’t make me whip out my hymerkin!
New post. New sleepy sleepy post.
Pretty much all clickbait, which I just ignore. It is abundantly obvious that I am not among their target audience – and your guess of adolescent males seems pretty much it to me, too. CPP’s blog is the only thing I read there.