New Week! [DOT 19/9/22]

19/9/22 MegMegMcGee 15

My neighbor is having a watch party for the Queen’s funeral this morning. 50/50 whether or not I’ll be up in time to head on over.

Queen, still ded

Joe Biden latest world leader to witness Queen’s lying in state
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/18/joe-biden-latest-world-leader-to-witness-queens-lying-in-state

Deranged

DeSantis gets standing ovation from GOP voters after flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/politics/desantis-gop-rallies-migrants/index.html

Yikes

All of Puerto Rico without power as Hurricane Fiona slams island: Winds have gusted over 100 mph while the National Hurricane Center warns of ‘catastrophic’ flooding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/18/fiona-puerto-rico-hurricane-outages/

Stonks!

S&P 500 futures are little changed ahead of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting this week
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/18/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

Sprots!

Aidan Hutchinson, after setting Detroit Lions rookie sack record in win, dedicates game to 5-year-old leukemia patient Hudson Gazsi
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34621063/aidan-hutchinson-setting-detroit-lions-rookie-sack-record-win-dedicates-game-5-year-old-leukemia-patient-hudson-gazsi

For my Tucci fans around here

Stanley Tucci: ‘We could all potentially kill somebody. I do believe that’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/18/stanley-tucci-inside-man-taste-my-life-in-food-interview

Some of these are crazy!

Have a great day!

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15 Comments

    • …& I’ve learned something already…of all those in attendance I can recognize a very limited number…but members of more than one generation of my family not only seem to know who well over half of them are…they also seem to have opinions on everything from their outfits to their choice of jewelry/medals/ribbons/badges/&c…to a point where I suspect you’d be a much better person than I for them to try to have those conversations with

      …either way there is a wealth of precision marching involved in these processions & it’s maybe a funny thing to latch onto but the navy bunch that hand-drew the carriage with the coffin on through a series of turns have to be at least as impressive as the 8 pallbearers who could lift a half-ton of lead-lined coffin to head height while keeping it level so the crown on the cushion didn’t tip over

      (…strongly suspect the crown, like the sceptre & the orb & indeed the flowers, were fixed to prevent such a thing but the synchronization of it all is/was quite the feat)

    • I was going to go on about how Freud’s theory of the death drive, or Thanatos, as described in his book Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) and being clearly being expressed by the tots in those video clips, but then I got distracted by tuning into the Queen’s funeral, which made me think of Jung’s perceptive analysis of mourning rituals, and what he termed the Mordificatio.

      And you’re probably quite right about me cozying in with members of your family to watch along with them. We were watching something last night about the run-up and the name James, Viscount Severn came up. Better Half asked, “Who the hell is that?” Without missing a beat I said, “He is the son of Prince Edward and the youngest of the Queen’s eight grandchildren.” AND I could pick hm out of a crowded balcony shot, but I suppose there will be no more of those under King Charles III.

      • …you’d be able to keep up right enough by the sounds of it

        …I sometimes have to think hard about the names (& from time to time the number) of children of actual friends I know personally

        …names, ages & familial connections of three generations of the extended royal family along with innumerable retinues & clerics & functionaries & dignitaries…I definitely can’t keep up…though I do all right on who seems to have their hat game on point?

        • I have three godchildren. I only know the birthday of one, and if pressed could tell you his age. For one of the other ones I was in the hospital room shortly after her birth (like, within less than a week I think) and yet have no idea what month or year that might have been.

          However, I do know what Princess Anne’s first husband Mark Philips has been up to. A noted equestrian (he competed in the 1972 Olympics), he now has a regular column in Horse & Hounds magazine.

          Your problem is you don’t read enough British tabloids. Neither did I, even those times when I was actually in Britain itself, until the Internet came along.

        • Rip, you just need to read more Buzzfeed!😉😂🤣

           

          (That’s how I know who James–and Louise, his sister, are!)

          (Edit-Sophie’s their mom, Louise is his sister!)

  3. Those dad videos are, indeed, awesome. Some of them are terrifying and then you’ll get one where dad nonchalantly catches the falling kid and keeps right on going. The dad that sprints down the hill to head off the runaway kiddie car collision is my favorite. I wish somebody had been able to clock his speed.

  4. DeSantis is becoming increasingly desperate as the election approaches. He’s raised a ton of money, but it’s not doing much good. And participating in human trafficking is giving his opponent a major opening:

    In new ad, Crist rips DeSantis over ‘cruel political stunt’ in Texas

    Don’t be fooled by the “standing ovation.” DeSantis carefully controls everyone at any of-his public appearances. His “crowd” was hand-picked stooges. 

  6. Aren’t we all Tucci fans/stans here? From that interview (emphasis mine):

    Grieff says that all it takes to commit murder is a bad day and the right victim. Do you agree?

    I think so. You can murder in self-defence. If somebody’s trying to hurt your kid, you’d kill them without a thought. I’ll give you an example. Thirty years ago, I was in Paris with my late wife – which sounds terrible, I didn’t kill her, she died of cancer – and in the middle of the night, this guy appeared on our first-floor hotel room windowsill. My wife screamed, I jumped out of bed naked and yelled: “Fuck you!”, I don’t know why, and tried to push him off by closing the window. I looked down, wanting to see him dead, but there was nobody there. He got away. The reason I tell you this ridiculous story is that my reptilian brain took over and said: “Kill him before he kills you!” So there you are.

    Did anyone else pause and make a mental gif of that scene? Bravo Tucci! What a hero.

  7. I have a friend that has twin boys, he was at my house when they were little & we hadn’t finished our deck yet so it had no railing.  We are in my kitchen having a beer when I see him run out the back on to the deck just in time to catch the twins running towards the edge of the deck!  I don’t remember ever having that fast of dad reflexes!

    and it gets more interesting…

    https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/09/17/in-motion-for-a-stay-doj-raises-prospect-that-trump-leaked-classified-documents/

     

  8. Gasp! Look who’s on the cover of this article @MatthewCrawley . I had no idea they made mustard with Herbes de Provence. And now I’m guessing they don’t because they ran out of mustard seeds. Time to mix my own batch. Maybe for a potato salad? Pork loin? What do you recommend?

    • The best use for mustard, I think, is for any and all sausages. For that matter you can find recipes for almost any kind of meat that will call for a mustard sauce (not just mustard from a jar smeared on) and combined with the fact that they’re putting in the Herbes de Provence opens up an entire Larousse Gastronomique’s worth of reimagining all sorts of dishes. But I wonder how much this “mustard” will differ from any number of recipes that already call for a sauce made of herbs and white wine. Can they call it mustard if it has no mustard seeds? I guess they can, according to the image in that article.

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