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And there's this all-night garage and the 7-Eleven
For reasons as yet unknown to medical science, although I am doing my best to get medical science to find them out, I am in the acutely worst shape I have been in since the summer of 2023 and it is devouring all of my time. Have some links.
1. In music still in situ on my computer, I have had the Punters' "Jim Harris" (1997) since 2005 when I believe it to have been one of the fruits of a now-deceased music community on LJ. It is not a variant on Child 243; it was contemporarily written by Peter Leonard of Isle Valen about a local schooner fender-bender in 1934. I discovered last year that it's got a Roud number and I have never gotten over the way its last verse turns from traditionally recounted maritime mini-disaster to Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi:
It's all right when the wheel is going up, but when she turns for to go down
You all might meet with the same sad fate as Jim Harris in Paradise Sound
The folk tradition being what it is, this song is naturally the only thing I know abour its eponymous captain, which is rough.
2. I should not have read this article about the Instagram filter valley of the current rejuvenative craze for deep-plane face-lifts no matter what because one of the reasons I have trouble being read as younger than my age is that I have worked very hard to reach this one, but toward the end of the piece I hit an anonymously quoted surgeon, "When you look at someone else with an elite face-lift . . . all you should be thinking is, How did you age better than me? The goal is you want to look genetically dominant to other people," and at the notion that eugenics should be aspirationally mixed with ageism, I just wanted that surgeon to be operated upon by Dr. Einstein after an all-night open-bar horror marathon. I felt better after dialing up the grainily inimitable footage of Pamela Blair's "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three" (1975).
3. Thanks to listening to Arthur Askey, I became curious about the origins of the musical have-a-banana phrase which diffused decades ago from music hall into general pop culture and apparently the best guess is a Rocky Horror-style audience improvisation that has now endured as a meme for more than a century. Good for it.
I just want to sleep and read books and write about movies. Who's even asking for a small fortune?
1. In music still in situ on my computer, I have had the Punters' "Jim Harris" (1997) since 2005 when I believe it to have been one of the fruits of a now-deceased music community on LJ. It is not a variant on Child 243; it was contemporarily written by Peter Leonard of Isle Valen about a local schooner fender-bender in 1934. I discovered last year that it's got a Roud number and I have never gotten over the way its last verse turns from traditionally recounted maritime mini-disaster to Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi:
It's all right when the wheel is going up, but when she turns for to go down
You all might meet with the same sad fate as Jim Harris in Paradise Sound
The folk tradition being what it is, this song is naturally the only thing I know abour its eponymous captain, which is rough.
2. I should not have read this article about the Instagram filter valley of the current rejuvenative craze for deep-plane face-lifts no matter what because one of the reasons I have trouble being read as younger than my age is that I have worked very hard to reach this one, but toward the end of the piece I hit an anonymously quoted surgeon, "When you look at someone else with an elite face-lift . . . all you should be thinking is, How did you age better than me? The goal is you want to look genetically dominant to other people," and at the notion that eugenics should be aspirationally mixed with ageism, I just wanted that surgeon to be operated upon by Dr. Einstein after an all-night open-bar horror marathon. I felt better after dialing up the grainily inimitable footage of Pamela Blair's "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three" (1975).
3. Thanks to listening to Arthur Askey, I became curious about the origins of the musical have-a-banana phrase which diffused decades ago from music hall into general pop culture and apparently the best guess is a Rocky Horror-style audience improvisation that has now endured as a meme for more than a century. Good for it.
I just want to sleep and read books and write about movies. Who's even asking for a small fortune?
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It's on the shelves of several local libraries! Recommendation taken. I can generally read no matter my physical state (modified to account for the fact that as of the last week and change I am dealing with blurred vision in one eye, which has given me some adventures in eyestrain), it's really visual media that tends to go down the drain.
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The passing detail that really sums up the vibe of the book is when her supervisor (IIRC) describes a failed product, a rare failed élite beauty product because the market wasn't ~forward-thinking enough, a product which when applied would have eliminated any need to shampoo/maintain your hair, the product would DO IT ALL IN PERPETUITY, so elegant and terrific...
...the "product" was GENETICALLY ENGINEERED LICE EATING ALL THE CRUFT ON YOUR HAIR gee wonder why that failed in the market. :p I could absolutely see this being normal in like 300 years but you know, in the 2020s...nah.
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There is no way this book sounds boring.
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*hugs*
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https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/million-dollar-yacht-sinks-minutes-after-first-launch-246649413771
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The Vasa sinks again!
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*hugs*
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*hugs*
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Very sorry to hear you've reset to 2023. I hope you can reset away from that soon.
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And everything underneath still its own age. In a magical universe without trick conditions, of course I would like a body that is not damaged in some of the unavoidable and irreversible ways it has accrued, but I don't want it rolled back in time, I just want it healthy.
you end up like the old people in the novel I was writing about in my post: willing to murder the young to get some of their youth.
The youth-obsessed tech bros do appear to be trending that way.
Very sorry to hear you've reset to 2023. I hope you can reset away from that soon.
Thank you. Dr. Hestia is attending me as we speak with great kneading and purr.
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--exactly.
Dr. Hestia is attending to me as we speak with great kneading and purr. --good: I believe in the healing properties of both.
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A sane and humane if teeth-abrading reaction.
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I have never understood about facelifts, but that surgeon's comments make me dislike them even more.
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Thank you. I would be fine with never finding out what happened if it would just stop.
I have never understood about facelifts, but that surgeon's comments make me dislike them even more.
It is a framing that would never occurred to me and I don't feel better for knowing it exists: a pathetic reason to do anything.
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*sends warm healing and restful vibes*
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I don't actually live my life trying to be disappointed by people I don't even know!
*hugs*
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Thank you. It would be cool if it just stopped!
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The goal is you want to look genetically dominant to other people,"
augh. argh. I mean, people with facelifts just tend to give me uncanny valley anyway so I'm not really the person to comment, but I can't even begin to anything with that quote. Lovely.
and apparently the best guess is a Rocky Horror-style audience improvisation that has now endured as a meme for more than a century. Good for it.
That's cool. I mainly know it from Cabin Pressure which I relistened to in early summer so it's currently a constant meme in my head. Presumably at some point the effect will fade again, lol. But currently: every time I contemplate eating or buying bananas and occasionally on not-particularly-banana-related moments.
(I'm not quite at the end of The Stone Tape but am still thoroughly enjoying it! Not news, of course, but Jane Asher always is so good, isn't she? <3 Also it looks exactly like a Thriller episode (but much better in content. Although not as lolsome either, it's true. XD))
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I had so many appointments last week! It is not how I like to spend my time!
augh. argh. I mean, people with facelifts just tend to give me uncanny valley anyway so I'm not really the person to comment, but I can't even begin to anything with that quote. Lovely.
A mille-feuille of NOPE.
I mainly know it from Cabin Pressure which I relistened to in early summer so it's currently a constant meme in my head. Presumably at some point the effect will fade again, lol. But currently: every time I contemplate eating or buying bananas and occasionally on not-particularly-banana-related moments.
Condolences! I am eating a lot of bananas at the moment, so it is also a kind of built-in riff. I heard it first in a field-collected soldier's song from WWII and sincerely thought the singer was offering the songcatcher a banana, like they were sitting over the breakfast table or something.
(I'm not quite at the end of The Stone Tape but am still thoroughly enjoying it! Not news, of course, but Jane Asher always is so good, isn't she? <3 Also it looks exactly like a Thriller episode (but much better in content. Although not as lolsome either, it's true. XD))
(Doesn't have to be news, I'm still glad to hear it! And then my head exploded because I had not actually made the connection. The Stone Tape was the first place for all intents and purposes I saw her.)
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I definitely know 'have a banana', but I don't think I recognise the music-hall song. Huh, that is an interesting piece of music history.
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Thank you! I know we're at a disadvantage under the current administration, but there are still some basics that should work.
I definitely know 'have a banana', but I don't think I recognise the music-hall song. Huh, that is an interesting piece of music history.
I'd heard the song before knowing the connection, but I definitely encountered "have a banana" in the wild first. I love the fact that it's still around.
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Thank you! I am unfamiliar with that novel and wow.
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I knew “Let’s All Go Down the Strand” but not the ‘Have a Banana’ response. Sort of equivalent to the ‘like a lightbulb!’ people throw into “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
One of the photos of the Strand in the article linked shows that zigzags around zebra crossings are still a thing. I only found out about them recently from this 1971 PSA that left me more confused than before: https://youtu.be/RPT14uXkhW0?si=RIY48ANuRhAddN-U
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Or "poor old Charlie" on the MTA. Both of those just have slightly more lyrical connection than the banana, which yet endures.
One of the photos of the Strand in the article linked shows that zigzags around zebra crossings are still a thing. I only found out about them recently from this 1971 PSA that left me more confused than before
I see how you got there and also why you are still bemused.
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Oh, ick!
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Thank you. I'm hoping!
Oh, ick!
Yeah! That!
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May the gods give you strength to do just that. The small fortune wouldn't hurt.
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Nine
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I'm not saying I'd turn it down!
*hugs*
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That sounds like an absolutely horrifying event horizon!
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I'm going to spare myself that article, but I hadn't seen the footage(!) of "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three", and that was an absolute joy. *^^*
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I'm so glad! I discovered it a few years ago and it makes me so happy, including the fact that it exists at all.
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I know, right? :( *all the hugs*
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Likewise!
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