I’m watching Highlander for the first time and Christopher Lambert’s accent is inscrutable and also I am determined to learn everything there is to know about the Highlander universe or die in the attempt.
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hey your eyes are full of garbage!
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MEAGAN MARTIN AT THE 2015 KANSAS CITY QUALIFIERS YOU GUYS:
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When do you think Printed Internet will update again? I check ALL THE TIME.
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Tracy Morgan! Oh man, oh man.
“I can’t believe I’m here. I can’t believe I’m in front of you,” he told Lauer, speaking clearly but often overcome by emotion. “I can’t believe I’m just here, and just seeing the tragedy that happened. It touches me.”
Holding a cane with one hand while seated, Morgan said he doesn’t remember the accident. Instead, he remembers waking up and seeing the faces of his fiancée and son.
“There are times where I have my good day and my bad days, where I forget things,” he said. “There are times where I get the headaches, and the nose bleeds. I won’t even let my lady know because I don’t want her to be worried about it.”
Morgan repeatedly thanked the medical staff who helped him through his recovery. He also thanked his family, staff and friends like fellow “30 Rock” star Tina Fey who called to check in on him.
“I’ve been down — they keep my spirits up,” he said.
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Old art gossip!
The Salon of 1884 marked the sixth time that Sargent had exhibited in France’s most important art exhibition. He knew the portrait of Mme Gautreau was a risk. But never had he had such bad reviews. Critics compared her skin tones to those of a corpse. Newspapers published cartoons and satirical poetry mocking both artist and model. “When one stands 20 metres from the painting, it looks like it might be something,” wrote one critic in L‘Événement. “But when one gets closer… one realises that it is only hideousness.” The New York Times’ critic (they sent critics to Paris then!) reported on the success of now-forgotten artists like Jean Béraud and Édouard Détaille, then added: “Sargent is below his usual standard this year. His portrait of the so-called beautiful Mme Gauthraut [sic]… is a caricature. The pose of the figure is absurd, and the bluish coloring atrocious.”
“Ma fille est perdue,” Amélie’s mother wailed to Sargent: my daughter is lost. She tried to have the painting pulled from the Salon, to no avail. See this in context, though. It’s 1884: two whole decades after Édouard Manet scandalised Paris with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (which the Salon refused to show) and Olympia (which they let in, to the intense distress of the established art world). Nudes were everywhere at the Salon. Sargent, however – with Amélie’s approval – had dared to showcase the confident, even predatory sex appeal of a high-society woman, and a married one at that. The little black dress made things worse, not better. And there was a further problem: thanks to the public scandal, Sargent suddenly realised that Amélie’s family was in no mood to buy. The portrait was not a commission, after all. He’d painted her on spec, betting that the notoriety of the Salon display would win him a high price and further commissions. He’d bet wrong.
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Finally, someone treats the wedge salad with the respect it deserves.
Tags: link roundup, the internet
Please, let’s discuss E. L. James’ latest attempt to Single White Female her way into Stephenie Meyer’s life by releasing her version of Midnight Sun in two weeks. Except hers will be a horrifying look into the perspective of a probable serial killer because Christian Grey is THE WORST.
Wait, I totally missed this. There’s a Twilight novel from sparklevamp’s POV? That’s turned this whole thing from money-grubbing and greedy into money-grubbing, greedy, AND creepy as all fuck
Well, Midnight Sun never actually got published. What happened was the first twelve chapters got leaked onto the Internet (and yes, they were just as creepy as you would imagine, and feature Edward going to Alaska to try and forget about Bella’s sweet sweet freesia scent) and SMeyer refused to finish the book until everyone forgot about it.
That was 7 years ago and now E.L. James is apparently throwing down the gauntlet.
Omg, so ridiculous. *makes popcorn*
Man, I love fanfic and I love fandom, but EL James is creepy as can be. The neediness and bad boundaries she displays at every turn genuinely bother me!
Plus she makes SMeyers look well-adjusted and classy, which considering that SMeyers wrote an abusive relationship tome for girls, is doubly damning.
I wish she would just go roll around in her piles of money until she forgot how to work a keyboard. 🙁
In retrospect, I feel really bad for SMeyers (not too bad, because she probably has a Scrooge McDuck style money pool) because she’s just a lady who decided to write a YA novel based on a saucy dream she had. I read an interview with her early in the furor and she seemed clueless but good-natured.
Now she’s saddled with completely insane fans, EL James included, who love to hate her and hate her with completely disproportionate vitriol. You’re totally right about the “abusive relationship tome” thing, though.
WELL SAID.
I saw an interview with her where she boasts about having written a lot of 50 Shades on her Blackberry on the Tube. It explains so much about the quality of that book.
It’s not all bad — Jenny Trout has promised to recap it!
Oh thank GOD.
The recaps will begin June 29th! *marks calendar*
Just don’t watch any of the OTHER Highlander movies. They are the definition of suck.
The TV show is entertaining. Not good by any stretch of the imagination, but entertaining.
And Duncan’s pleated pants are just amazing.
Just watch the Methos episodes. Instant miniseries!
Mmm, Methos. So damaged.
I saw Highlander 2: The Really Shite One on a date with a guy who had loved the first movie (be nice, it was high school), and he was very apologetic afterward. I survived by trying to figure out which movies’ fight scenes the choreographer had cribbed. How did Christopher Lambert keep getting cast in stuff?
I walked out of Highlander II 1/3 of the way through, and I don’t do that for just ANY bad film.
It’s on the list of movies I’ve sat through in their entirety and loathed from start to finish, which dubious honor it shares with Portrait of a Lady, Eraserhead, Fritz the Cat, Boxing Helena, and Howard the Duck. Walking out on any of them would have been a better use of precious hours that could have been spent staring at a blank wall.
God, Fritz the Cat. What the hell even was that. I remember watching it on the busted old TV my family had in the basement when I was sixteen and feeling very strongly that I was on drugs even though I was not on drugs.
What other Highlander movies? THERE IS ONLY ONE!
Iceberg lettuce is not a food. It is a form of insulation.
I spent much of my early life ridiculing iceberg as green crunchy water and I AM HERE FOR THE WEDGE SALAD. It’s a refreshing & calorie free CHEESE AND BACON VEHICLE
basically if you throw blue cheese and bacon onto anything, I’ll eat it. That includes crunchy water.
Calorie free except for the cheese and bacon 🙂 Can I get that on a baked potato instead? Mmmm
I will take all of the iceberg wedge salads, thank you very very much
Right? I mean I love a leafy green salad, too, but there’s something about iceberg as a wedge (not shredded god no not shredded). So satisfying and refreshing.
Now I want one.
ME TOO. There’s an antique steakhouse in town that does the. best. wedge salads that I have ever, ever had, and if we weren’t so damn broke I’d be putting my foot down about going there for dinner.
I’m waaaaay too excited about that wedge salad recipe:
“The wedge salad is a mouth party, and all ingredients are invited to each and every bite.”
Right?! I sent it to MrChouffe with the full understanding that doing so means it will show up on my plate sooner rather than later.
I love American Ninja Warrior but whyyyy don’t they post episodes online? I don’t own a TV, no one from my graduating class does! I follow Megan on IG though, along with a few other lady climbers, and just drool. They’re incredible.
A striking thing in the Madame X article: “she not only covered herself with powder, but also consumed arsenic to sap her skin of colour. (It was actually a less toxic substance .)” That’s one helluva parenthetical, there. What relatively safe substance can be injested to make your skin paler?
Re contacts: man, my eyes are already messed up what with the snowflaking and the TERRIBLE nearsightedness. I will still with my bacteria-encouraging lenses for all of time.
(Snowflaking is pretty cool as far as degenerative eyeball conditions go: http://disorders.eyes.arizona.edu/handouts/vitreo…
HOLY SHIT MEAGAN MARTIN. SHE IS A GODDAMN ROCK STAR.
I am going to save that clip and put it in my kids’ YouTube playlist, to show them awesomeness personified.
I cried when I watched the video of Katy last year. Crying now, too. COMPETE LIKE A GIRL.
ME TOO. EVERY TIME.
Swear to Mallory, yesterday I was wondering what the overlap between Toasties and people who read Serious Eats was. Mostly because of the Bagel Thing that walks the some of the same line of “very serious” and “self satirical” that Toasties enjoy. On the other hand, it is very clear that bagels should not be toasted.
“Word of warning: I’m about to get as opinionated as I ever get. You will most likely be offended by at least one or two things I say. Your concept of what is good and bad in the world of bagels will be challenged. You may even feel like I’m personally attacking you for your preferences. And that’s because I am. This is far too important an issue for live-and-let-live to apply. We’re talking significance of a which-side-of-the-bread-do-you-butter level here, so I’m not holding back any punches. Feel free to come right back at me. I will defend myself to the bitter, un-toasted end.”
I read Serious Eats RELIGIOUSLY. I just saw they have a new installment in the Brooklyn Barbecue Restaurant series, which is both fascinating and incredibly well-written. I just miss a lot of the people who have left (oh, the glory days of Will Gordon’s fast food/alcohol reviews..)
OOOOOF that series, that SERIES.
I used to read Serious Eats all the time, I loved it. But then they shifted editorial direction, and I’d say about 30% of their articles not feel like clickbait (“THE ONLY lasagna recipe you should EVER LOOK AT”) and another 10% are just slideshows of recipes they’ve posted before, and the remaining 60% is hit or miss, none of the mouth-watering restaurant reviews or helpful product rankings they used to do. Plus, there used to be loads of women on the editorial staff, now I feel like it’s Kenji and Max dudebro-ing it up, posting needlessly aggressive articles, like the bagel one. I think the bagel thing could have been funny if handled delicately, like the way Mallory does, but since they’re men and have a history of clap-back towards even constructive criticism in the comments, it rubbed me the wrong way.
Sorry, that was my SE rant! I only go on anymore when looking up old, bookmarked recipes.
Y’know, I’m much more willing to take the “this is THE BEST” type bs from Kenji, because I’m more likely to agree with him, and he’s more likely to call out the particular biases he has that may not be shared. So I’m fairly likely to learn something, and generally get a recipe that’s relevant to what I enjoy when it’s Kenji posting, and I can usually figure out early on if he’s working off different goals.
I’ve become pretty fucking grumpy at Max’s unstated tea biases.
That said, I’m looking forward to the upcoming youtube series they’re putting together. IIRC, Kenji’s going to have a cohost who is a woman, and how natural/forced that plays will affect my opinions of him. (Sort of how I like Patrick Norton more than I might otherwise because he consistently has and plays well with female cohosts, which I assume has to be a conscious decision given the field he’s in)
Yeah, I’m less mad at Kenji… he still puts out a lot of good content. I’ll give him that. I think the thing that bothers me with him is that everything he writes now is couched in this “it is SCIENCE and therefore CORRECT” narrative. It bothers me (A) because I’m a scientist and what he is doing is a pale imitation of the scientific method, not irrefutable indisputable truth-telling, and (B) because the whole “science is best at cooking!” idea can be a patriarchal steamrolling of women’s roles in cooking. Not that women can’t use science to cook, too, but in the past, cooking has been in the women’s sphere, and then men come in and “do it better” by “applying science,” as if generations of women hadn’t been doing exactly that– controlling variables, experimenting, and eventually perfecting recipes.
Point (B) is not Kenji’s fault, it’s a much more systemic thing, and maybe I’m being oversensitive. But I think he could maybe think more about the implications of what he’s saying when he discounts all other methods people bring up once he’s “scienced” his way to the “correct” answer.
(food is so political!!)
(ETA: sorry for all the very gendered, “women cook men do science” language, it’s hard to get away from it when discussing a topic that’s so deeply intertwined with traditional gender roles!)
I know he came from Cooks Illustrated pre-Serious Eats, and that clearly influences how he works but yeah – there is such a thing as taking things a little far in the kitchen. Sure, Recipe A is great, but is it worth an extra 2 hours of my life, when Recipe B is not quite as perfect but takes less time and dirties fewer dishes?
Yeah, I feel like it’s a total Cooks Illustrated thing – I definitely don’t care enough to make the 10% better, 300% more complicated recipe!
Basically I roll my eyes and move along, unless there is a tidbit I can use.
Oh woman, thank you for articulating why the “food: now with SCIENCE” talk makes me kind of uncomfortable (except on Good Eats, because he’s such a Dad about it).
Also, I’m interested in what “unstated tea biases” you’ve noticed, I don’t know Lipton from Twinings so I have neither read the series nor would I noticed any subtleties.
(subtleteas?)
Uh, quickly, and a bit simplified: he really really likes green tea. He isn’t that excited (comparatively) about black tea. Now, that’s perfectly fine most of the time, but it gets a little more difficult to work around in articles about things like where to buy tea online, because a bunch of the places he loves are GREAT for green but not necessarily strong on other types of tea, and he didn’t include a bunch of well known sellers that are strong on black and weaker on green.
I’m honestly not a big tea person, but the types of tea I enjoy seem to be nearly opposite to what he particularly enjoys, so while his general advice may be useful, once he gets into specifics, I just start scrolling to the comments.
I’m in complete agreement with this, and with many of the other points raised in the comments. I’ve been reading SE since its beginning, but in the past year or two (maybe more?) have just stopped because the content isn’t very good. I don’t care about the best lasagna, made according to a “scientific” recipe, with 150 steps. A really good lasagna, an excellent one, one with a great story, from a particular region, whatever, is what I’m interested in. They used to have series where chefs would contribute recipes and/or techniques- I loved that! They were informative yet not overly long. Some of my favorite recipes were discovered that way. Ed Levine had a greater input in the early years, and I loved reading what he had to say.
I’m sure Kenji is a fine person (at least I hope), but I dislike his approach to writing recipes. This is certainly a reflection of justmytaste (TM), but my real problem is that it seems to dominate the site, as do kitchy recipes. His tone is exactly as you describe – aggressive. I realize that some (or many) may find the laborious, overly detailed, pseudo-scientific process helpful or enlightening, but it removes all the joy from cooking and replaces it instead with instructions and methodologies that I HAVE to follow. And I never read it! It’s boring! And pedantic!
I’ve moved on to food52.
I love Serious Eats, especially their Chinese and Japanese food recipes. They taught me to make Sichuan wontons! Do you go on Chowhound too?
Nope, at least not other than when an old thread pops on google as relevant to whatever I’m looking for. Should I?
OH SHIT
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so, I’m not surprised about SeriousEats, but ROADFOOD?????????
…. to be fair, they might get a badly needed redesign out of it, so, we’ll see.
Also, the fact that Jane and Micheal Stern are NOT CURRENTLY MARRIED TO EACH OTHER is a thing I did NOT know, and is currently freaking me out a little.
WHOA WHOA WHAT WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN. Jane and Michael aren’t married???
SO SAYS THE NEW YORK TIMES.
“The Sterns, once married to each other but now divorced, started their website in 2000, decades after they had begun traveling and writing about their culinary finds.”
“Cliff Sharples, a co-chairman of Fexy” sounds like something from a Mike Judge movie.
As someone who has been known to lick my contact lens and stick it back in my eye, I noped right out of that article after the first paragraph.
Lucky for me my contacts are so grimy this morning, I couldn’t make out the first sentence!
Behold, Sargent’s SCANDALOUS ORIGINAL VERSION with only a SINGLE SHOULDER STRAP (via his study for the painting):
(He painted the second strap onto the painting after it had first been exhibited.)
Good god, do you have no shame? We’re all decent people here with no time for the filth you decided to post.
Saucy!
gotta put this under a comment!! totally NSFW!!!
I am, to my eternal personal frustration, annoyed with how this painting is presented at the Met. the American section is weird and cluttered to begin with (there still seems to be a hesitation about calling American Art before say, 1950 anything other than amusing curios) and this famous painting with a great story and really striking first look is like, off a hallway? Without a decent light? In the middle of nowhere?
It’s not the indignity of the costume and fashioned experiment being in what is essentially a storage closet but STILL.
I haaaate the second strap, it looks so weird. It looks like it was too big so she safety-pinned it in the back or something.
I always imagine the second strap has fallen off her shoulder actually — I bet those straps were super-loose (it’s basically the corset that’s keeping the bodice up, right) so in my mind I move the second strap to her upper arm. Which is even more salacious than not having it at all, I think…
That’s how I picture it too! I thought he originally had the second strap falling off her shoulder but maybe he planned for no strap at all.
Love that we have the exact same idea about a non-existent dress strap in a painting that’s over a hundred years old! The-Toast is a wonderful place.
I also thought the strap was originally painted falling off her shoulder, and that he painted over it and changed the position after receiving complaints. In fact, I could SWEAR that I once saw an article where they showed an X-ray of this painting and that it showed this very thing.
Or maybe it’s just a mass hallucination…
An immediate art-historical investigation needs to be launched into the exact number and position of straps in this painting and its sketches. We will be vindicated!
You mean…like this?
There was obviously something about Mme Gautreau that suggested her straps just wouldn’t stay up.
That’s fantastic! I like that in this one she went for the pale dress, so it looks so much less scandalous despite the falling-off-shoulders thing.
She just could not keep hold of her straps!
THAT EXPLAINS WHY HER DRESS LOOKS LIKE IT DOESN’T FIT
That explains it. I feel so much better now because I previously hated this painting despite how good it obviously is due to the fact that HER. Dress. doesn’t. fit. But now it all makes sense: it was originally in the process of falling off on the left side!
When Mad Men’s Joan was in her hotel room in LA, she hung up the phone and did a Madame X pose:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/20/06/27C4…
There can be only one! Highlander movie, that is. Fortunately, it stands up well to repeated rewatching.
Thanks for reminding me, Mallory. Yet another 80’s classic I can share with my kids!
*watches Megan Martin* *wipes away literal tears*
She’s just so beautiful!
I WAS TEARING UP TOO. I was just going “flawless. flawless. flawless” in my head the whole time!
Screw a bunch of mayonnaise in your blue cheese dressing. I use 2 cups of sour cream, a small thing of plain Greek yogurt, a healthy squirt of lemon juice, some garlic powder, pepper, and 6 or 8 ounces of blue cheese. Use a blender stick or whatever, pulverize half the blue cheese into the dressing and stir in the other half at the end for nice big chunks of cheese. Obviously, use less cheese if you don’t want that much. But if you don’t want much blue cheese what are you even doing.
This dressing is fresh, delicious, and doesn’t have that icky greasy mayonnaisey-ness. And it’s easy to change: if it’s too thick, put in some buttermilk. If you don’t like sour cream, use all Greek yogurt. Etc.
This sounds very good, but leads me to wonder – am I the only person who tastes literally no difference between Greek yogurt and sour cream?
Maybe? To me, Greek yogurt is more acidic and kind of… dry? Compared to sour cream. That might just be me though. I think sour cream is all fat and Greek yogurt is not much fat. Too lazy to Google the information.
I agree, Greek yogurt is “drier” tasting, plus it’s tangier. I think the reason is likely fat content plus the active cultures.
Interesting! I should do a side-by-side taste test to see if I can pick up on that – if nothing else, it’d be a good, scientific excuse to make burritos.
Greek yogurt burritos! That sounds awesome. I’ll try that too!
I use plain greek yogurt instead of sour cream as a rule! (mostly because I would never finish sour cream before it got moldy and disgusting and I can find many uses for greek yogurt)
the taste and texture for me is similar enough that I don’t really notice or mind.
Yeah, same – my wife eats Greek yogurt for breakfast, so since it’s already in the house and tastes the same to me, I just substitute it for sour cream unless a recipe calls for full fat.
I just wonder because she seems to have no trouble eating the yogurt, and I’ve tried because it seems so healthy, but I can’t stomach a cup of sour cream for breakfast. :/
I can tell the difference, but I almost always use yogurt as a sour cream substitute because it lasts way longer in the fridge than the sour cream so I’m more likely to actually have some around (plus I just like yogurt).
My favorite part about the Highlander series is how much those guys from Queen loved it.
PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE
Between that, Flash Gordon, and Iron Eagle, they had a solid stake in the cheesy 80s pop culture soundtrack game.
Queen elevates all of our best garbage.
While daring us to judge them.
Regarding that Meagan Martin video….I think I just fell in love
The Highlander TV series is a hoot. Adrian Paul orgasms (ok, receives other immortals’ “essence”) every episode.
This is one of the few TV shows I have seen every episode of and I have no regrets. Plus theme music by Queen!!!
Sorry but there is no Highlander but this Highlander:
https://youtu.be/SnJt9p-sHho
HERE WE ARE
BORN TO BE KINGS
WE’RE THE PRINCES OF THE UUUNIVERSE
And everytime someone dies there’s the sad montage with “Who wants to live foreeeever? Who waaants to liiive foreeeever?”
This show seriously solidified my love for Queen in the 90’s.
Yeah, I got a lot of pleasure out of the series. And Elizabeth Gracen was totally hot.
So many hot people! Except Ricky. Ugh, Ricky. But Duncan Macleod (Adrian Paul) can get it.
i was at the art institute a couple weekends ago and saw a sargent painting that you will never convince me doesn’t depict a long-lost relative of mallory…unfortunately i am rubbish at art, so i don’t remember the title, but i will take a picture when i go back…
Speaking of old-timey art criticism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturne_in_Black_an…
Affronted by The Falling Rocket, John Ruskin accused Whistler of “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” in the Fors Clavigera.[3] As a leading art critic of the Victorian era, Ruskin’s harsh critique of The Falling Rocket caused an uproar among owners of other Whistler works. Rapidly, it became shameful to have a Whistler piece, pushing the artist into greater financial difficulties.[4] With his pride, finances, and the significance of his Nocturne at stake, Whistler sued Ruskin for libel in defence.
Also:
However, his case was not helped when The Falling Rocket was accidentally presented to trial upside down.
MORE:
http://www.julianporterqc.com/on-the-arts/james-m…
Attorney General: Did it take much time to paint the ‘Nocturne in Black and Gold’? How soon did you knock it off? (Laughter)
Whistler: I beg your pardon.
Attorney-General: I was using an expression which was rather more applicable to my own profession. (Laughter) How long did you take to knock off one of your pictures?
Whistler: Oh, I knock off one possible in a couple of days — one day to do the work and another to finish it. (Laughter)
Attorney-General: And that was the labour for which you asked two hundred guineas?
Whistler: No; it was for the knowledge gained through a lifetime.
Links!
Dad enthusiasts need to meet this collection of ur-dads, i.e. giant-vegetable growers: http://luckypeach.com/they-will-squash-you/
“Should white men stop writing?” Clickbaity title, good read though.
I am 100% charmed by the giant vegetable growers. What a lovely group of retirees!
I can’t decide who I love more, the loud-shirted man who drinks giant-watermelon wine, or the retired prison gardener who shares his veg knowledge with foreign dignitaries! They are all delightful.
I never had AIM, but reading that Printed Internet conversation has made me nostalgic for the days of MSN Messenger. Fuck this emoji bullshit, it’s all about emoticons and angsty screen names culled from Alanis Morrisette or Death Cab lyrics.
g2g byeeeeeee
Before vaguebooking there was the vague angsty away message and I loved every minute of it.
That was my one and only relationship tactic.
Or the passive aggressive/wistfully mysterious lyric screen name. I was great at those and I feel that talent is sorely wasted on 2010s life.
I think that Meagan Martin video is amazingly badass, but I was constantly cringing because of how much the commentators kept the focus on her gender. I bet they totally do that for the male athletes!
Yeah, it was cool that they were so positive, but WE GET IT, guys.
I wonder if the contact lens thingy only applies to soft lenses or to RGP as well? Wondering because I definitely experienced more infection with the soft lenses.
BEWARE OF THE CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT CURSE MALLORY that is when you do a Christopher Lambert impression and then forever thereafter, every time you try to imitate someone else, anyone else, you open your mouth and out comes I come from lots of places in perfect Lambert Highlander intonation, no matter whether you are trying to annoy people with a Walken or a Stewart or a Nixon or what-all. like the fairy tale where the girl comes home and tries to speak to her family and roses and diamonds fall from her lips even when she would rather they did not. this is a real phenomenon, it happened to me
Christopher Lambert will always be Tarzan…ALWAYS.
The curse may be overturned by bowdlerizing Ramirez and saying “Eye am an emisherry from the king of Shpain” three times quickly in as Scottish a manner as you can muster (mushter?).
If that fails to unstick Lambert, you can try the tried and trusted method of saying “Back, and to the left” as Kevin Costner in JFK, jumping all over the map accent-wise as he did and then stopping when you finally sound like yourself.
Then refrain from using any other accent for at least 8 hours.
(There is, however, no cure for Walken. It will forever resurface when you least expect it and when most inconvenient. There’s a rumour that adept footwork can help mitigate it, but you try doing that in a job interview where the telltale croak has invaded your speech…)
I like it! Thank you for both pieces of help. The things are safe from the fire for a while…
Yeah, but the amusement fades a little for me when you realize how much it still persists, and the actual thematic thing that upsets people: agency. Compare the Olympia vs Venus distinctions (she's a prostitute! her hand placement indicates that she actually wants a say in the viewer's access to her sex!) to the scandal and removal of 'Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing'.
I mean, it just makes me want to paint more agency-filled women and/or decorate my home with such art…
Re: contacts. In high school, one of my friends had some mysterious eye issue that make her super-sensitive to light. Doctors couldn’t figure it out for awhile. I would literally lead her around campus so she could close her eyes in the sun and just hang on to my backpack. Her parents finally had it when they realized she wasn’t working in the garage, she was sitting there in the dark with her head on the table wearing a hoodie.
They eventually figured out that both her eyeballs had tiny bug monsters (amoebas? that’s what i said, tiny bug monsters) eating her corneas. It took them so long to figure it out because it’s rare enough in one eye, and mega rare in both eyes.
So yeah she switched to glasses.
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Please please please watch Highlander 2 and post your thoughts here. It’s insane.
It is the worst sequel ever! It makes a mockery of the backstory of the first film. And it has Michael Ironsides, which almost guarantees that it will be a C-grade movie. Sean Connery must have really needed to make a car payment that year.
*forever screams about Meagan Martin, because MEAGAN MARTIN*
I’ve eaten Paleo for long enough that wedge salads tragically dropped off my radar until now because just last month I realized I could make my own ranch-style dressing with my home-made mayo. Sure, it’s not blue cheese, but it’s better than no wedge salad at all. So to my few fellow paleo-eaters out there, mayo with a couple pinches of roasted garlic and roasted onion powders (I get mine from Penzey’s) with some dried parsley and chives makes a pretty damn acceptable creamy dressing. Thin it out with coconut or almond milk if you need to.
Out of curiosity, what’s normally in ranch dressing that doesn’t fit with a Paleo/your diet?
I don’t eat vegetable oil, soy, sugar, or dairy.
So how do you make mayo? Just curious!
Not related to anything here, but there’s been FIFA discussion in the comments of other stories lately, so I just need to share: Sepp Blatter just resigned as FIFA president, four days after getting re-elected! It’s crazy and out of nowhere and so wonderful.
That may be the best news I hear all day. Thanks goonerkate, and great job on the cup final
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
Sepp Blatter sounds like an unpleasant infection that makes urination difficult. I understand this is an accurate assessment of his character from those who follow soccer.
I’ve been wearing contacts almost every single day since I was 12 and at my latest optometrist appointment they said my eyes were getting damaged because I wear them too often so now I am attempting to switch to glasses and it is HARD. I want my peripheral vision back!!!
I feel this. I greatly admire glasses as an ornament, and I purchased some very cute and expensive frames to try and tempt myself to wear them, but the fact is that I do not see as well through them. Wearing them makes me feel like I’ve gone out in my pajamas or just woke up from a nap.
yes! I’m so used to putting contacts in as soon as I wake up that I feel half-asleep without them.
I feel this. I have glasses (nice ones, even) but rarely wear them because the prescription is so strong the edges of my vision are all warped. It’s actually kinda dangerous to drive while wearing them…
that happened to me, too.
Optometrist said my eyeballs were growing veins round the front due to lack of oxygen caused by near-constant lenses wear since age 11.
It helped to get really big, hipster frames that cover almost all my perceptible peripheral vision anyway. YMMV on styles, obviously.
Apropos of nothing, I was very much charmed by this story about Welsh-speaking beekeepers, even this mildly horrifying bit:
Beekeeping can be hazardous. A friend went to shift a hive late one evening and didn’t bother with protective clothing; a bee crawled into his ear. We tried to get it out but couldn’t. The only way was to drown it, and the only liquid we had to hand was a bottle of brown ale. So that was poured in and the bee floated out. But there’s no special term — in Welsh or English — for these beekeeping mishaps.
Ohhh stupid paywall 🙁
I’m saving up to take a Welsh class at some point (gotta keep in touch with those roots) so I will make sure to ask lots of bee-related questions.
Incorrect, I will never ever ever get tired of looking at this painting. http://laylock.org/images/blog/Claude%20Monet%20-…
Or this one. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a…
Mayonnaise is mostly just eggs + an oil + a vinegar + flavorings. So if you eat olive oil (for example), you can make a basic mayo with eggs, olive oil, white vinegar, and salt.
(not sure if eggs are included in "dairy"? if there is a way to make mayonnaise without eggs I am all ears)
Oh, you know, I wasn’t thinking about vegetable oil so specifically. Of course if they eat olive oil and eggs it’s a no-brainer.