91 thoughts on “Meme and let your enemies cry”

  1. Nothing makes sense today. Need more coffee. May not make sense after coffee but I’ll be awake. 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉

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    1. Indeed although it read More Esther and less Helen of Troy to me. Marco Rubio the man of a thousand faces… to launch a thousand ships (so he’s Sec Nav too?).

      Honestly he does it better than the promotional stills of Lupita Nyong’o I’ve seen. It is not that she’s not a lovely woman, just that Helen is

      A) a Hellenic woman of the 12th to 13th century BCE NOT a Sub Saharan beauty

      B) In the stills they’ve somehow managed to suppress Ms. Nyong’o’s natural beauty (a challenge that)

      C) Helen was so beautiful that Aphrodite herself (Goddess of love of all sorts) chose her as the most beautiful women on earth to bribe Paris for the golden apple. Go make a Solomon epic and make Ms Nyong’o the Queen of Sheba, that I might buy. Her as Helen, Nah Bro, not even close.

      Even though I LOVE film, the number of actresses that would make a decent Helen is barely a handful, going to be hard to fill that role no matter who you are. Jennifer Connely in her Rocketeer days or Gal Gadot from Wonder Woman and Death on the Nile (although traditionally Helen is thought of as fair-haired), maybe Robin Wright in the Princess Buttercup days?). From the Golden era maybe Olivia DeHavilland of Captain Blood period. From 60’s/70’s Raquel Welch maybe. Clearly, I somehow have a thing mostly for dark haired beauties (in particular buxom ones). You can’t just be a sweet ingenue, you have to own the screen when you’re on it. I don’t feel like there are a lot of modern actresses that can do that AND make me buy she is the most beautiful woman in the world, enough to almost make Aphrodite jealous.

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        1. Somehow for all her vaunted advantages (and they are many including working on her own 60’s Mustang restoration) no and I can’t say why. Maybe Aphrodite?

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        1. Whoops.

          Morena & Gal are in their 40s, and and Jennifer is mid-50s, so a little long in the tooth to be playing dewey eyed princesses. Though Hollyweird can do wonders . . .

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          1. As long as we’re dreaming, you can tell at what age they really would have fit perfectly and it’s part of the dream.

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            1. We’re going to get to point where AI could do that. Not that I’d be willing to put in the work there but some one will.

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            2. And indeed I had specified certain ages/roles I thought of :-). In some cases (e.g. Ms DeHavilland) I’m not sure she had the acting chops at that point, although Ms DeHavilland did steal several scenes in Captain Blood in what I think was her first leading role at like 18 or 19.

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        2. I had to look her up. The only place I know her from is Justice League unlimited, although it is a very pretty voice :-). She seems lovely.

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            1. Inara!!! How did I miss that? Never saw much Stargate and was never a big fan of Firefly, but her role was distinctive.

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        2. ahem….

          Launching TurboHormones? Men acting badly? Trouble in her wake?

          Phoebe Cates!

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      5. Zendaya and her single facial expression are jointly playing Athena, so the comical casting is clearly just part of “The Message”.

        And failing to get Brad Pitt for a tiny cameo as Achilles in Hades is just a sin against movie inside jokes.

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          1. I thought they were playing Hermes? Mr/Ms page is a Greek tragedy unto themselves. As much as I find them ludicrous, a part of me realizes there was something horrible that happened to that poor soul to cause that insanity.

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        1. The “No Greeks Allowed” sign was taped up on the casting office door, so what could they do?

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  3. The one-way flight advertisement left out North Korea 🇰🇵. Though it’s possible even die hard lefties wouldn’t willingly subject themselves to that dumpster fire . . .

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  4. Pedantically speaking, there should be more words starting with “Mother” in the Pulp Fiction meme.

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  5. I am, in fact, wearing my Latin T-shirt that says, “I have no ducks, let alone in a row. I have squirrels, scattered everywhere.”

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  8. I saw an article about Hantavirus this week. I think it was the doctor who was on the infected cruise ship whining that “people are calm-mongering”.

    I still see some younger people wearing face diapers. Not sure why, but a non-trivial amount of the “we’ll shop for you” workers at Fred Meyer (Kroger) are afflicted.

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    1. In the captain’s briefing room aboard MV Pandora (wait, thats not the ships name?): “Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a broadcast media reporter! I can’t make them panic!”

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  10. Re: “Surround yourself with people…”

    I had to take a test a few months back to assess my “spiritual gifts.” It seemed like half the questions were of the form, “Do you enjoy working with people to…” To which I responded, “I can stop you right there. It doesn’t matter how that sentence ends. No, no I don’t.”

    Re: Cats (2019)

    I honestly thought this was addressed to cats, explaining to them why it wasn’t such a bad thing that the year 2019 sucked. I had to read it twice before I remembered that they had made a movie of the musical Cats in 2019.

    I now need to go get incredibly drunk so that I forget that unfortunate fact again.

    Re: The archaeologist claiming the Israelites worshiped multiple deities

    It always amuses me when archaeologists find evidence that the people that Bible said abandoned God and started to worship idols actually worshiped idols, and then they try to claim this as proof that the Bible is wrong.

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    1. Then, out of the other side of their mouth, they call the current Hebrew tribes there “colonialists” – when their own work shows that they lived there for thousands of years before the Arab tribes moved in.

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      1. IIRC, the early Jews did displace/drive out/conquer the people who were already living in Israel sometime between 10,000 and 6000 B.C. Not sure where those people ended up, although some married into the Jewish families. Probably moved to other places in the Levant and did the same thing to the resident people that the Jews did to them.

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        1. Yes, but more complicated.

          Rule of thumb, every 200 years is ten generations and up to around a thousand ancestors per survivor. Probably very few lineages are entirely ‘pure’ for whatever definition.

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        2. And don’t forget H.Sap. forcing out the Neanderthals there, and those Neanderthals forcing out the H. Erectus long established there before them.

          The fossil record around that end of the Med is as deep as it gets, so there’s plenty of opportunities for synthetic grievances.

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          1. Dear Gazans and Palestinians:

            We have reviewed your application for grievance proceedings against the Jewish people and find that due to your lack of sufficient Neanderthal genetic heritage that you do not have standing. Your case is therefore dismissed. Have a nice day.

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    2. At first I thought they were doing Cats as if it was a software update. It took awhile before the light dawned about the movie.

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    3. I’ve mentioned before, I’m pretty well convinced Cats was Hollywood fantasizing abput Hillary wishcasting her way into replacing Trump as president. The way they cast Old Deuteronomy looks just like Hillary in a mane. And the core plot is that she’s been usurped from her rightful position so they will bring her back and defeat the great evil interloper through the power of wishes and interpretive dance.

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      1. Why are you gyrating* like that?

        It’s interpretive dance. I have an MFA in the subject.

        What are you interpreting, the passing of a kidney stone from the stone’s perspective?

        *Autocorrupt initially had that as ‘hurting’, which might also be somewhat apropos.

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    5. I didn’t personally see anything wrong with that movie.

      Which is to say I watch few movies, musicals are not my genre, it is the sort of thing I avoid, and I did not see it, or have much chance of seeing it..

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        1. 2019 was also a very busy year for me.

          I went nuts because of realizing things about future politics due to the state 2018 cycle. I got a start on processing those fears with a fanfic project.

          I also started a major and perhaps unwise project in my professional life.

          Though, commentary on my sanity must acknowledge that I did not start out sane, and maybe haven’t reached any real points of true sanity at any point along the journey.

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    1. Appropriate to today for extended family. Today was the annual Historical Family Cemetery meeting potluck; extended family gossip.

      After mowing, headstone cleaning, etc. Which doesn’t take that long these days. Used to be weed wack just to get brush and grasses low enough to be mowed. Now there is someone that mows 4 times a year, and before any funerals, for the cost of fuel (paid for by the interest earned from the trust (administered by the state, issued as a “grant”)).

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  12. I used to watch the news and trust The Who.

    I quit watching news decades ago, and with just two remaining original members, I no longer really trust The Who.

    But, the Beatles also have just two remaining original members; they could tour with the remnant of The Who, wear owl costumes, and record as the Four Old Hootles. I’d trust them.

    Oh, kitty? Copy this: Sierra Hotel Alpha Delta Delta Uniform Poppa!

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    1. Because we are kittens and need to be taught. After all, we only understand meows, which are baby talk.

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    2. When my cat brings me something it means she wants me to throw it so she can chase it. Then she catches it, puts it down somewhere and forgets about it. I think it works about the same for moving toys found in the wild.

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  16. The Home Depot one hits home right now. I’m in the middle of some yard and home projects at the moment, and no matter what, there’s always another trip.

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  17. You can add to those 3 Amendments the 1964 Civil Rights Act which was fanatically opposed by Democrats. They delayed the Senate vote for almost 2 months with one of the longest filibusters in history.

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  18. Been on the run most of the day, only now getting a chance to laugh at the memes. The Tarkin one was my favorite but there were many many funnies. Thank you.

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  20. Totally OT, Napoleon Solo (the horse, not the UNCLE agent) just won the Preakness. Why yes, if I’d been there I would have put money on him.

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      1. Jeremiah was a bullfrog.

        Was a good friend of mine.

        I never understood a single word he said,

        But I helped him a-drink his wine.

        And he always had some mighty fine wine.

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  22. Off topic, but can one be too healthy to write? Have started exercising more and eating a smidge healthier. Writing juice low. Could be coming off of intermittent fasting. Could be weird sleep schedule (as in, more than usual sleep, oddly enough).

    Too many variables. No control group. Testing scrapped for lacking good research controls. Yet one wonders.

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      1. My sleep schedule is never fixed. Swing shifts + relatives with health issues + local crazies (not always kittehs). That might well be the issue.

        Fortunately I might get some naps in next week in between seeing off graduates.

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  23. Hi Sarah

    Another OT and FYI around a purpose to visit LA

    “FWIW – To borrow a thread heading from Kate at Small Dead Animals

    “Mischief is important”

    It sounds like a fine example awaiting as outlined in

    “I Know Voter Fraud Is Wrong and All, but Who’s up for a Super-Fun Road Trip to Los Angeles?” https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/05/16/i-know-voter-fraud-is-wrong-and-all-but-whos-up-for-a-super-fun-road-trip-to-los-angeles-n4952931

    Ian

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  28. I made a few bucks, a few decades ago, by printing very short bumper stickers that just said “WHY?”

    They fit perfectly across the bumper stickers telling us to “QUESTION AUTHORITY” . . .

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  29. “The Shrunken White Elephants of Style” is gonna be making me LOL for the rest of my life, thank you so much!

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