Well said @jedijudy. I was in primary school during his Presidency, and not really across current affairs, but I thought he took very seriously the concept of being a reconciler rather than an antagonist and admired him very much.
And, just to be clear, you won't be seeing any UFOs up here.
Well, they'd be identified, surely, so whether human or alien souls, or angels, or other things we have no notion of, they'd be Identified Flying Objects.
That is genuinely sad, though at 100, not very surprising. Not my country and my opinion is of little, if any, value but I've long felt he was a much better president and a much better human being than he has been given credit for.
For those who are interested here is a lengthy summation of Carter's political life. I agree with Loomis' assessment that Carter was a pretty bad president by the standards we usually use to judge such things, but he was a good man and, along with John Quincy Adams, had one of the best post-presidencies in American history.
Just popped in to mention that Wayne Osmond has passed away. I think most of the fame of The Osmonds just predates my interest in music, but didn't want to leave this un-noted.
I do remember Donny and Marie's Tv series and Jimmy's Long haired lover from Liverpool, though.
Yes I recall Alan, Merrill, Wayne & Jay as the singing Kissel brothers in the TV serial” The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters” broadcast in Oz during 1963…they would have been teeanaged then
When I was about 11, the first time I ever cajoled my parents into letting me watch SNL, there was a skit that parodied Deliverance, about Anita Bryant sending a group of male investigators down the river to find a remote colony of men living there. You can guess the gist of the humour.
I think I already knew who Anita Bryant was at that point, so understood the sexual angle of the skit, but at the time had no idea about the plot of the parodied movie. In retrospect, it was probably a rather clumsy endeavour of "exposing" the psychosexual themes that were much more skillfully and subtly examined in the original film.
I later read her Playboy interview, in which she expressed what seemed to me like rather idiosyncratic, even by the standards of that particular lobby group, reasons for her opposition to certain sexualities. At least one of them seemed weirdly mystical-psychoanalytical, though to be charitable, it probably boiled down to aristotelianism.
At this point, I can't even remember if she won or lost that famous referendum in Miami. I do remember the precise context of a joke about her on The Golden Girls circa 1989.
Decades later, I frequented a restaurant in Korea that had an old LP of Bryant's on decorative display(along with dozens of others). Not sure if she ever got airplay in Korea, but I'm guessing not.
YouTube has the footage of her getting pied in the face in Florida. She does use a slur word in return, but I doubt that will be a deal-breaker for anyone willing to watch it in the first place.
I have to admit that notorious hatemonger Anita Bryant was on my mental "isn't she already dead?" list. In a certain way she was, having died on December 16 and the public announcement only being made now.
Speaking of hateful figures, it hasn't been mentioned that Jean-Marie Le Pen has died. While I'll admit "don't live your life so that thousands will gather to celebrate your death with an impromptu fireworks display" is an easy bar for most people to clear, it's by no means an automatic assumption.
In the above post, "so easy to find", means "therefore easy to find", not "very easy to find". (The latter interpretation could sound a little jerkish, so thought I'd clarify.)
TBH I don't think Marine is even the most dangerous member of that family. Marion Maréchal is the one who really wants to follow in the footsteps of Papy Facho (Grandad Fash).
I'm very sad to report that I've just read Simon Townsend had died. I was just outside the age of his target audience, but have to confess that I loved his Wonder World program especially the use of young journalists presenting their various stories and of course Woodrow the bloodhound.
It was only as an adult I learnt of his anti-Vietnam war stance and respected him for that.
He had a fabulous surreal imagination, it's sad that he felt troubled later on.
Around 50% of people with bipolar disorder become addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. We have an inclination towards addictions of various types. It is perhaps not surprising that this might be exacerbated by the lifestyle of being a comedian.
I’ve just learned that the Rev. Ruth Duck—a minister in the United Church of Christ, longtime liturgical theologian and professor of worship at Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, hymnwriter, former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and Fellow of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada—died Dec. 26, 2024. She was 77.
In my opinion, he was a far better surrealist than Luis Bunuel(the latter of whom really seemed to lose his touch after Dali's departure). However, while he was extremely skilled at creating a dream-like atmosphere, he had little talent for balancing it off with a narrative, and I have to agree with a friend of mine who wrote him off as a "one-trick pony".
Admittedly, it was often a pretty good trick. One of the very few non-jump scare scenes in a horror flick that genuinely gave me the creeps was Bob crawling through the window of Laura's bedroom in the film version of Twin Peaks. Robert Blake's portrayal of the mysterious guest in Lost Highway was also really good, but again, kinda went nowhere plot-wise.
Lynch was sometimes accused of a reactionary worldview, and I generally concur, my formulation being that his work was like if Norman Rockwell directed horror films. I'll also cite the rather subtle mystification of disability in The Elephant Man, where it is implied in the opening that the carnival barker's claim about John Merrick's mother being trampled by a herd of elephants might be true. Also, a lotta class-based caricatures in that movie, with the lower orders getting by far the worst of it
Never saw his version of Dune, which seems to be what a lot of people like discussing, likely due to its connection with the larger franchise.
I will say that the promotional claims in the 1990s that the Twin Peaks "may change the way we watch television" didn't really pan out, at least as far as network TV went.
One of the very few non-jump scare scenes in a horror flick that genuinely gave me the creeps was Bob crawling through the window of Laura's bedroom in the film version of Twin Peaks.
The brief portrayal of Canada in that movie is not at all in the tradition of tweedy civility that dominates aesthetic impressions today. More like the lineage of Blacque Jacque Shellac, Slapshot, and the Wolverine origin-story.
(The South Park movie kinda incorporates both stereotypes, since the two miscreants are shown as both elite in their speaking and mannerisms, but vulgar in their governance of bodily functions.)
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Well, they'd be identified, surely, so whether human or alien souls, or angels, or other things we have no notion of, they'd be Identified Flying Objects.
For those who are interested here is a lengthy summation of Carter's political life. I agree with Loomis' assessment that Carter was a pretty bad president by the standards we usually use to judge such things, but he was a good man and, along with John Quincy Adams, had one of the best post-presidencies in American history.
https://memorials.chipmanfuneralhome.ca/scott-crawford/5529956/
An incredibly loving obituary from his wife.
I do remember Donny and Marie's Tv series and Jimmy's Long haired lover from Liverpool, though.
Blessed is the country where news is so scarce they can blow something like this into a major news story.
This is one that hurts.
Peter, Paul and Mary, “Day Is Done.”
I was refering to the Playboy interview he gave during the 1976 campaign, in which he confessed to looking at women with "lust in [his] heart".
Probably Jimmy Carter's most famous pardon, after the draft-dodgers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anita-bryant-singer-anti-gay-232037188.html
She was...something.
[media reference may be epiphanic]
I think I already knew who Anita Bryant was at that point, so understood the sexual angle of the skit, but at the time had no idea about the plot of the parodied movie. In retrospect, it was probably a rather clumsy endeavour of "exposing" the psychosexual themes that were much more skillfully and subtly examined in the original film.
I later read her Playboy interview, in which she expressed what seemed to me like rather idiosyncratic, even by the standards of that particular lobby group, reasons for her opposition to certain sexualities. At least one of them seemed weirdly mystical-psychoanalytical, though to be charitable, it probably boiled down to aristotelianism.
At this point, I can't even remember if she won or lost that famous referendum in Miami. I do remember the precise context of a joke about her on The Golden Girls circa 1989.
Decades later, I frequented a restaurant in Korea that had an old LP of Bryant's on decorative display(along with dozens of others). Not sure if she ever got airplay in Korea, but I'm guessing not.
YouTube has the footage of her getting pied in the face in Florida. She does use a slur word in return, but I doubt that will be a deal-breaker for anyone willing to watch it in the first place.
Raw footage:
Local news report:
I recommend both. The footage shows more of the event itself, but the news report has a bit on the aftermath.
Links are absent?
Sorry. I don't know how to do links on this phone. Those are the verbatim titles of the videos, so easy to find.
https://brenansfh.com/tribute/details/33203/The-Rev-d-Canon-Wally-Corey/obituary.html#tribute-start
He was particularly excellent on Whose Line is it Anyway?
RIP.
It was only as an adult I learnt of his anti-Vietnam war stance and respected him for that.
Vale
I remember seeing her in Blood Brothers- she was excellent.
She was also younger than me.....which is somewhat sobering!
https://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/mr-baseball-bob-uecker-brewers-announcer-dies-at-90/article_d5529868-53a0-5cab-9df1-3ca5878e4330.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/david-lynch-dead-1.7433266
(Epiphanic film scenes discussed)
In my opinion, he was a far better surrealist than Luis Bunuel(the latter of whom really seemed to lose his touch after Dali's departure). However, while he was extremely skilled at creating a dream-like atmosphere, he had little talent for balancing it off with a narrative, and I have to agree with a friend of mine who wrote him off as a "one-trick pony".
Admittedly, it was often a pretty good trick. One of the very few non-jump scare scenes in a horror flick that genuinely gave me the creeps was Bob crawling through the window of Laura's bedroom in the film version of Twin Peaks. Robert Blake's portrayal of the mysterious guest in Lost Highway was also really good, but again, kinda went nowhere plot-wise.
Lynch was sometimes accused of a reactionary worldview, and I generally concur, my formulation being that his work was like if Norman Rockwell directed horror films. I'll also cite the rather subtle mystification of disability in The Elephant Man, where it is implied in the opening that the carnival barker's claim about John Merrick's mother being trampled by a herd of elephants might be true. Also, a lotta class-based caricatures in that movie, with the lower orders getting by far the worst of it
Never saw his version of Dune, which seems to be what a lot of people like discussing, likely due to its connection with the larger franchise.
I will say that the promotional claims in the 1990s that the Twin Peaks "may change the way we watch television" didn't really pan out, at least as far as network TV went.
Hm. I had not read that obit when I made my comparison to Norman Rockwell.
David Lynch?
Apparently so. You can watch some on YouTube.
The brief portrayal of Canada in that movie is not at all in the tradition of tweedy civility that dominates aesthetic impressions today. More like the lineage of Blacque Jacque Shellac, Slapshot, and the Wolverine origin-story.
(The South Park movie kinda incorporates both stereotypes, since the two miscreants are shown as both elite in their speaking and mannerisms, but vulgar in their governance of bodily functions.)
Yes.