Monday Mood [DOT 8/1/24]

8/1/24 MegMegMcGee 35

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine was pretty productive if you count my watching 2 seasons of Sanditon as productive.

Gift article…

Al Jazeera says Israeli strike killed another child of Gaza bureau chief
https://wapo.st/3SbfR09

She seems like a total gem

Lauren Boebert’s Ex Called The Cops After Physical Fight in Public on Saturday Night
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-boeberts-ex-husband-jayson-called-the-cops-after-physical-fight-in-public?ref=home?ref=home

Congressional leaders reach $1.59 trillion deal on top-line spending, pave the way for deal to fund the government
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/07/congressional-leaders-reach-1point59-trillion-deal-on-top-line-spending-pave-the-way-for-deal-to-fund-the-government.html

Golden Globes 2024: the winners, the losers, the Barbenheimer – live
https://www.theguardian.com/film/live/2024/jan/07/golden-globes-2024-what-to-know-winners-losers-follow-live

These guys crack me up

And remember…

Have a great day!

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  2. Insomnia is such a bitch. I woke up at 3am from an end of the world themed nightmare which had planes and rubble and a whale falling from the sky while I desperately dodged them. I gather the plane was inspired by the recent Alaskan Airline flight that lost a wall panel while in flight. The rubble comes from one particular video of white phosphorus dropping next to the person filming in Lebanon. No idea where the whale came from but the ridiculousness of it is what woke me.

    • I’m sorry to hear that. As a fellow insomniac, I’ve begun to wonder if I’ll ever get a good night’s sleep again.

      On the positive side, I get a lot of reading done.

    • There’s a “Star Trek” movie, really old, like the second one, where they return to San Francisco I think, although I might be conflating this with another “Star Trek” movie, and they airlift a whale and transport it somewhere. Why? To show off the CGI of course, but we saw this movie in a theater ad I screamed out “So much better than ‘Moby Dick'” and the Trekkies were very angry with me.

      I don’t know if other places do this but New York is kind of famous for audience participation in movie theaters. Every movie turns into “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a screening of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and you’re the only white person in the audience. Fabulous. So so fabulous.

    • Omg I think the whale is from the HHGTTG which is a series that I referenced yesterday but not that specific improbability drive scene which I had forgotten about for at least a decade. The mind works in mysterious ways.

    • Flying home yesterday and get on the plane only to look at the safety instructions on the Alaska plane & it is for 737 800/900.  I don’t know which one we were actually on but I was in a window seat & watching the plane be de-iced, I was thinking about what would happen if window gave at below zero temperatures.  Flight went fine other than old lady on the aisle had a little dog under her seat that cried the whole flight.  She kept letting his head out to pet him to try to comfort him but he was not happy in the little carrier.

  3. Oh Meg, this is so incredible, and I have much commentary to add.

    1. “Sanditon!” Could Theo James be any hotter? no, I don’t think so.

    2. Lauren “Looney Tunes” Boebert’s ex should watch his steps because you just know she’s packing heat.

    3. The Barbenheimer! I have yet to see either of those movies but “Barbie” keeps popping up on one of the streaming services so I suppose it’s only a matter of time. When I got my new cellphone the young kid…Better Half and I were sitting at a small table with him (he was a tech/salesman) and the movies had just come out and he did that thing where you’d go to a movie theater and see both of them. Combined it’s something like six hours. I said, “God, that sounds exhausting.” And Better Half said, “You have books that are over 1,000 pages long.” BH is not much of a reader.

    4. On last night’s episode of “Hawaii 5-0” Steve McGarrett is in a car accident. He’s still alive, but just barely. Can I just say that there’s an incredibly homoerotic aspect to his relationship with Danno? I mean, I know it’s supposed to be boss mentor and mentee, but I’ve had young male employees, even a couple of gay ones, and we never interacted like…so anyway, to get Steve out of the car, which, to be clear, is the size of a Manhattan apartment, this tow-truck-like thing comes along and lifts it out and dumps it on the road. Then they take a blow-torch to it. And Danno is practically crying, he’s so upset.

    This is another one where there is a very convoluted plot but in the meantime there’s a Chinese double agent who, we learn, has endured a year of plastic surgeries so he can impersonate Steve McGarrett. So the real Steve is back in the rehab (we’ve been there before, but sadly nurse Marion Ross is not in this episode) and the phony Steve has a suitcase full of money and very publicly hi-tails it off to Switzerland. Of course he does. So we go back to the Honolulu airport, where we spend much of our time, and board a United Airlines flight to LA on our way to—

    I’ll stop there. I have so much work to do.

    • My neighbor reminded me that after the first season of Sanditon I was so mad at the ending that I refused to watch the next two seasons until now (2 years later).

    • Michael Harriot really is a national treasure. My nation, anyway. But you have your own. I loved Mordecai Richler’s writings, although not everyone was so happy with him, and I actually met his daughter at a party once. I could barely contain myself. I said, “Your dad is Mordecai Richler?!? Mon dieu au paradis!” And she said, very nicely, “First of all we don’t speak French. We know how, but we prefer not to. And second of all we’re Jewish.” Which I knew, of course, because Richler had written at length about the persecution of Anglophone Jews in Montréal.

      And did I ever tell you that I was kind of close to Robertson Davies’s goddaughter? If only I had some kind of connection to Margaret Atwood and the Trudeau family I’d be a Canadian celebrity.

      

      

      			
      


      
				
      

				
      			
      
		
        
		
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        Richler is kind of a fabulist. Montreal Jews are like NYC Jews — there’s definitely discrimination and antisemitism, but persecution is the kind of thing a guy like him would manufacture. You’re also talking about a well connected and politically influential community, which spawned William Shatner, Saul Bellow and Leonard Cohen.
        

        The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is an honest work about Montreal Jews, but it’s what early Richler produced. Late issue Richler was a crank, making late in life Hitchens seem like a nuanced, balanced guy when he was on a tear about how saintly Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney were for invading Iraq		
        

        

        			
        


        
				
        

				
        			
        
		
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      I will never understand you straight people. Although I was once at a party in a very swank gay male couple’s Manhattan apartment (this was a long time ago) and I went to put my coat in their den and there was this contraption in there. I asked what it was and they told me it was a sling. They had to describe how it worked. And then they invited me to get into it. In front of a crowd. No. No no no no.		
      

      

      			
      


      
				
      

				
      			
      
		
        
		
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        I don’t understand either.
        

        Sadly I worked with one guy who was into that. I suspected he had a “mommy” thing as well. I secretly nicknamed him Rex (as Oedipus) for that reason.
        

        

        			
        


        
				
        

				
        			
        
		
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      …someone told him about the iron dome & his scrambled egg of a brain forgot to fill in the blank about what sort of thing the hostile source might throw at it
      

      …what’s the betting he actually thinks if it was bulletproof glass it would let the sunshine in & he’d never have to worry about his hair getting wet ot blown off the top of his head?
      

      …I swear if he wasn’t such a lucrative laundering operation as a candidate they’d have put his ass in an institution by now…someone ought to sue his campaign & his kids for elder abuse…it’d have more merit than most of the legions of filings made on his behalf		
      

      

      			
      


      
				
      

				
      			
      
		
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      …when people like roger stone aren’t rotting under some jail it makes it really hard to persuade people in unstable places that democracy & the rule of law aren’t somewhere between a sick joke & long con
      

      …I like to imagine one day someone will try to recreate everyone’s favorite richard spencer video with a handy punchable nazi..misses & winds up full-on body-slamming the asshole who likes to hide behind those assholes…who knows…R
      

      rog looks pretty weak…might even kill him…by accident
      

      …sure…it’s supremely unlikely…but…damn it would be funny…& the world could use a bit of cheering up?		
      

      

      			
      


      
				
      

				
      			
      
		
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