A couple of years ago they filmed a segment of Offbeat Eats at White Tiger and Puddles was part of the show. They show it from time to time and I am actually given some FaceTime! Next showing is April 20.
Man, having only half the internet is weird. No YouTube, no Facebook, no gmail. No, I’m not buying a VPN for a three hour layover. Yes, I was aware of this.
Abu means father, in my culture, (Ndebele), once a person has kids, they are no longer referred to by their first name, they are only referred to as mother or father of their first born as a sign of respect. So they may be using the name to honor him? Who knows, he did ostensibly strike Assad, or they could be mocking him, (more likely). Now it is definitely an insult to Uday and Qusay, treating them as if they don’t exist, SAD!
President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet: You know, 15 years ago, we took a trip to Egypt, all five of us, saw the pyramids and Luxor, then headed up into the Sinai. We had a guide, a Bedouin man, who called me “Abu el Banat.” Whenever we’d meet another Bedouin, he’d introduce me as “Abu el Banat.” The Bedouin would laugh and laugh and then offer me a cup of tea. And I’d go to pay them for the tea, and they wouldn’t let me. “Abu el Banat” means “father of daughters.” They thought the tea was the least they could do.
asshole. I’ve never in my life been scared of clowns. until now.
25.
SiubhanDuinne
Good friend of mine — former colleague from my days with the Government of Canada — is among the key Foreign Service people tasked with greeting and accompanying PM Justin Trudeau on his visit to France for the 100th anniversary observances of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The PM just landed there a short time ago. I was never at that exalted level, of course, but have been on local teams That planned and executed visits of various ministers and ambassadors (and two or three PMs over the years) and I well remember both the exhilaration and exhaustion of such events. They are usually months in the planning, and the final couple of weeks before the visit are just insane.
I always tried to get my overtime in compensatory time off rather than money. What I mostly needed to do was just sleep for days after the event was safely in the rear-view mirror.
There’s a reason for the expression: “The sweetest aroma in the world is the smell of a departing VIP’s plane.”
26.
FlyingToaster
It’s lovely to see that someone’s moved into Brave Combo’s old space.
Granddaughter went to the last Ringling Brothers show today. Her mommy reports that the clowns no longer wear traditional makeup and do the traditional acts.
I Just discovered P3 yesterday, now he’s my new musical crush. Guy is brilliant, mesmerizing to watch. His live version of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ from SFO brought tears to my eyes, and was funny too!
@efgoldman: I have Slate and not the New York Times, which is in fact an accurate description of my media habits, I mostly just keep getting perplexed by the number of services I’ve authorized through Facebook and can’t use.
36.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: @schrodingers_cat: Nope, this is intended to insult him and indicate that he has no `ar or male honor.
In Arabic most men who have children are given a kunya or little name. Usually starts with Abu (father of) and the name of the eldest son. Or if one of the other sons have done something famous then the name of that son. Mothers are sometimes given the same type of names, but usually it is of the eldest daughter/most famous daughter. These types of names, however, are also used as nom de guerre and in those cases sometimes, rather than the name of the son, the designator has to do with martial prowess or something related to war. So you’ll see Abu Jihad (father of holy war).
In this case, by referring to Trump as Abu Ivanka, the Father of Ivanka, they are shaming him by indicating that none of his sons have any honor or provide him with any honor. That he must draw his male honor/familial honor from his daughter. It is an insult to him, his three sons, and, perhaps, to his son in law.
37.
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: You sure that isn’t Cole? He’s wearing overalls.
38.
mainmata
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: Wow, Mr. Ivanka the American, that’s a real insult in Arab Society.
Granddaughter went to the last Ringling Brothers show today. Her mommy reports that the clowns no longer wear traditional makeup and do the traditional acts.
Of course not–most are now republican elected officials or pundits
@Adam L Silverman: I was not criticizing you, but this type of thinking touches a raw nerve. In Hindi, a daughter is sometimes referred to as “other people’s wealth/property” (paraya dhan). Not cool.
I always tried to get my overtime in compensatory time off rather than money.
When I was hourly, I once asked if I could get 1.5x hours of overtime instead of 1.5x pay. They balked at that so I took their money instead.
53.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: not yet. I’m getting too old for that shit. On the other hand, being half asleep is a good way to spend a Saturday when the most awesome golf tournament is world is on TV.
54.
Felanius Kootea
Ooh – just discovered Puddles. Thank you. I think my favorite is his cover of Sia’s Chandelier! I had no idea what the lyrics were until I heard his cover.
On another topic, the New York Times has an article up on an analysis by Standard & Poor’s showing that there will be no
death spiral in the individual health insurance market and that insurers will break even this year and some will even
make a profit from the individual market by 2018.
55.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: I understand, and I’m familiar with the Indian cultural concepts too.
I’m reading about the Bannon/Kushner faceoff with great dismay. If I have to choose which one I want to go, I choose the white nationalist. But that leaves the WH even more controlled by Trump’s family.
That’s why “we’d [where we is the people that hang out here] like ours to be.” I have no illusions about the mouth breathing. knuckle dragging flying monkeys, none at all.
being half asleep is a good way to spend a Saturday when the most awesome golf tournament is world is on TV
My late father in law used TV golf as a sominex-substitute for years. He’d be in his recliner snoring, but try to turn it off or change the channel! Oy!
61.
GxB
Funny how the actually talented singers have to resort to gimmicks and youtube to get any attention. Puddles has one of the best male voices I’ve heard in a long time. Check out “I want you to want me” just Puddles and a strummed acoustic – it is spectacular. All of PMJ’s stuff is at least interesting, IMO, though hard to take in large doses.
As they say – music was better back when it was done by ugly people. Mostly tongue in cheek for the snark deprived – actually it’s autotune that needs to be strapped onto a rocket and launched into the sun.
62.
hovercraft
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Too funny. Incedentally, while we do value boys over daughters, they continue the family name, daughters are more profitable because men have to pay a bride price. Since the family spends years raising and training them, men have to pay for them since their family will be the ultimate beneficiary of all that nurturing. So the better educated and skilled you raised your daughter to be, the more you can charge for her. (Lobola). Back in the day, you couldn’t marry without paying Lobola, these days some people, (50/50), no longer charge it which is controversial depending on who you talk to, either your saying your daughter is worthless, or you’re selling your daughter.
63.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Ancient Aliens for me. Whenever the narrator says: “according to ancient astronaut theory…” I’m out like a light between ancient and astronaut.
64.
glaukopis
@gene108: My favorite Postmodern Jukebox is still their Talk Dirty (with Klezmer band)
65.
Steve in the ATL
@Iowa Old Lady: I thought the Mercer family would not let trump dump bannon. Has another rwnj billionaire overridden their orders?
66.
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major: “For centuries (in China), all kinds of juggling were admired by the people, who were willing to applaud and pay for feats of manual dexterity. Fu Qifeng, the leading Chinese scholar of acrobatics in China, speculates that juggling began during the Stone Age as a sporting variation of boomerang-throwing.
…
The connection between juggling and combat appears often in Chinese literature; and there are some wonderful tales about the power of juggling virtuosity … The grand prize for effective juggling must go to the incomparable Xiong Yiliao of Shinan.
Quifeng relates the following story about Yiliao, juggler extraordinare in the time of the Warring States:
“Once, in a battle* between the states of Chu and Song, the troops of the two sides were confronting each other in a fight at close quarters. Yiliao appeared in front of the Chu troops and calmly, in the face of the enemy’s axes and spears, juggled nine balls at the same time. His superb performance stupefied the officers and warriors. The Song troops fled helter-skelter without fighting and the Chu troops won a complete victory.”
It was during the time of the Han Dynasty that juggling truly came into its own. During this era, an entertainment extravaganza called “The Hundred Entertainments” grew up in the courts of the Chinese ruling classes. To the traditional daring of sword-juggling and the sheer virtuosity of numbers juggling with balls was added a host of innovations: gyroscopic juggling with diabolos and devil sticks, foot juggling, plate spinning, and “swinging meteors.” In addition to the juggling specialists, the Hundred Entertainments shows included acrobats, magicians, fire-eaters, pole balancers, lion dancers, animal trainers, equestrians, – in short, everything Europeans would much later come to associate with the circus.
For centuries, Chinese jugglers and other virtuosos of manual dexterity enjoyed the applause and patronage of the upper class. But beginning with the advent of the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.), and carrying through into the middle of the twentieth century, these performers fell out of favor with aristocrats, who began to feel that such entertainments were too vulgar for their refined taste. Chinese jugglers returned to their village roots for the support and patronage now denied to them at court. There were exceptions, of course. But even when jugglers performed at court, they were treated as charlatans and buffoons, not as artists or even as skilled artisans. Only in the twentieth century, with the new emphasis on “the people’s culture,” have jugglers regained something of their old status as artists.”
-Arthur Chandler in The Journal of Popular Culture, 1991
ETA * in about 603 BC according to wiki
67.
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
Very interesting. I guess that makes my people less chauvinistic, we simply go with the first born regardless of gender for both parents. “Sega” for the father, and “Naga” for the mother.
The fact that they are belittling Twitler. delicious.
On a positive note, the highest grossing Indian movie of all time was last year’s Dangal (Fight), based on the real life story of the Phogat sisters of Haryana, whose father (also a wrestler) trained them as wrestlers, who went on to represent India and win medal in international competitions. Haryana has one of most skewed gender ratios (less than 900 women per 1000 men) in the country.
Zaira Wasim who plays younger Geeta Phogat won the National Award for best supporting actress. Here she is fighting boys because girls her age didn’t wrestle in Haryana, then.
Moral of the story: You don’t need sons to make you proud. Here is the trailer.
I thought the Mercer family would not let trump dump bannon. Has another rwnj billionaire overridden their orders?
Not that I know of, but this is like the problem the GOP had with the Teabaggers, I mean Tea Party, they rode the crazy train to power assuming they could control it, but they can’t. SAD!!
He’s been releasing a lot more rock songs than he was in the past, when he was covering contemporary pop in the past. I think he’s less ironic, now, and it suits him better.
76.
Temporarily Max McGee (Until Death!)
And that said, he’s still pretty ironic. He often makes me think of Richard Thompson covering Oops! I Did It Again.
77.
hovercraft
@schrodingers_cat:
Yeah I know, we are one of the only cultures I know where you don’t have to pay for someone to take your daughter off your hands. But it’s still demeaning in it’s own way, as I said the reason you’re charging is because you want compensation for all the money and effort you’ve invested in educating and raising her. All of it needs to end, be it buying or selling. We should be valued as human beings who are priceless.
Just completely amazing. Not even joking. That guy’s instrument, man.
A professional sound engineer hearing him said ‘I hate that he thinks he has to dress up like that to have any chance of being heard, and I hate that he’s right’.
From an eariler thread, you asked about small pieces of laminate, etc.
Habitat for Humanity has stores that resell left over construction material, remodeling removed pieces, some old, some new, etc. There’s one everywhere Habitat is active, I believe. Their left overs go there too, all to raise money for the next new house building project. Otherwise, check kitchen installers for tnhe piece removed for a drop in sink, kitchen stores for a sample, etc.
The last of the magic died long ago, when they replaced the steam calliope with a giant electronic organ/boombox wagon, and replaced the live circus band with pre-recorded music.
But anyone who saw or read Toby Tyler can tell you that circuses were always tragedies.
There’s a reason that Dumbo is the darkest of all Disney animations.
Back in the day, when I was building up our farm and helping the elderly batchelor farmers next door to learn how they did it, we would start work at dawn, break for lunch around 1, and then turn on Channel 3 (IIRC) for Cincinnati Reds baseball. It was hot and still, with just a fan to move air into their farmhouse.
We would all 3 gradually fade into a nap, until someone at bat made contact with the ball, at which point we would all start a little, and look to see if it was a hit or what. Those were the good ole days for sure. Hard work farmin’, then restful baseball watchin’.
@joel hanes: I remember watching the circus being unloaded from the trains in Los Angeles, on tv in the 50s. I think they set up in a field nearby but it’s so long ago that I’m not sure.
When I was about 9 I went to the circus for the first and last time. It was not in a big top, but in the Los Angeles Sports Arena. I remember horses and elephants and people riding them around the ring, a slack-wire artist who was about my age, and only the vaguest memory of a clown making balloon animals and handing them to kids in the arena. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t at all like the movies had shown it.
85.
Aleta
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m not thinking straight, but I don’t see that we can assume that whoever placed the Abu Ivanka al Amriki stories wasn’t writing assisted fiction. If so, any interpretation of what the Syrian people “meant by it” may not even apply. Could even be more like, for a simple example, ad copy requested by a non-native speaker, or written first by a native of a different but similar country, and then OKed by someone who’s trying to be obedient to the request but not get into the complexity.
Then, there’s also that tweet in Arabic that supposedly originated in Syria saying ‘Trump is a man of his word. For eight years, no previous US president did anything”– that’s such a blatant administration theme. There sure is a lot of other fakish news being spread in a hurry the last 2-3 days.
Wag
Holy shit. That is incredibly cool.
gene108
Puddles!!!!
His cover of “Royals”
schrodingers_cat
For a moment, I thought you got married!
Another Scott
Scary!
And well done. :-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Keith P.
It didn’t have any exploding blood-filled balloons, so I can only give it a 9 at best.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
Now this is funny:
Spaniel
Check out the Postmodern Jukebox feed on YouTube. He has some other songs out there too.
gene108
“…Baby One More Time” Postmodern Jukebox cover
RandomMonster
I love Puddles Pity Party
Omnes Omnibus
Fucking clowns, man.
Steeplejack (phone)
For the love of God, somebody put up a trigger alert for Omnes!
ETA: @Omnes Omnibus: Too late!
trollhattan
Is it too much to ask that he sings from the open slider of a Free Candy van?
Bill E Pilgrim
Interesting back story about the filming location, apparently they shot that clown in Reno just to watch him pie.
Spanky
@Steeplejack (phone): I warned you!
Clowns.
Raven
A couple of years ago they filmed a segment of Offbeat Eats at White Tiger and Puddles was part of the show. They show it from time to time and I am actually given some FaceTime! Next showing is April 20.
http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/offbeat-eats-with-jim-stacy/episodes/the-big-top
Seanly
@Wag:
Yeah, that was pretty awesome.
Major Major Major Major
Man, having only half the internet is weird. No YouTube, no Facebook, no gmail. No, I’m not buying a VPN for a three hour layover. Yes, I was aware of this.
Temporarily Max McGee (Until Death!)
Puddles Pity Party covering Badfinger
Day After Day
hovercraft
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap:
Abu means father, in my culture, (Ndebele), once a person has kids, they are no longer referred to by their first name, they are only referred to as mother or father of their first born as a sign of respect. So they may be using the name to honor him? Who knows, he did ostensibly strike Assad, or they could be mocking him, (more likely). Now it is definitely an insult to Uday and Qusay, treating them as if they don’t exist, SAD!
trollhattan
Speaking of mashups did folks see this?
Bill E Pilgrim
@hovercraft:
Reminded me of this:
Raven
Here’s Puddles and Jim Stacy in front of the Tiger.
https://flic.kr/p/o3EkWC
MomSense
Clowns ruin everything.
p.a.
asshole. I’ve never in my life been scared of clowns. until now.
SiubhanDuinne
Good friend of mine — former colleague from my days with the Government of Canada — is among the key Foreign Service people tasked with greeting and accompanying PM Justin Trudeau on his visit to France for the 100th anniversary observances of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The PM just landed there a short time ago. I was never at that exalted level, of course, but have been on local teams That planned and executed visits of various ministers and ambassadors (and two or three PMs over the years) and I well remember both the exhilaration and exhaustion of such events. They are usually months in the planning, and the final couple of weeks before the visit are just insane.
I always tried to get my overtime in compensatory time off rather than money. What I mostly needed to do was just sleep for days after the event was safely in the rear-view mirror.
There’s a reason for the expression: “The sweetest aroma in the world is the smell of a departing VIP’s plane.”
FlyingToaster
It’s lovely to see that someone’s moved into Brave Combo’s old space.
And yeah, I know how old that makes me.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Granddaughter went to the last Ringling Brothers show today. Her mommy reports that the clowns no longer wear traditional makeup and do the traditional acts.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: You have B-J. That’s more than half the Internet right there.
Aleta
I like the guitar.
Oblio
I Just discovered P3 yesterday, now he’s my new musical crush. Guy is brilliant, mesmerizing to watch. His live version of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ from SFO brought tears to my eyes, and was funny too!
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: I guess I’m getting all the fun of people reacting to a clown video with none of the fuss of having to watch it.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
You have Balloon Juice. What the hell else could you possibly need!
Adam L Silverman
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: But do you know why it’s funny?
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: Why is it funny?
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: I have Slate and not the New York Times, which is in fact an accurate description of my media habits, I mostly just keep getting perplexed by the number of services I’ve authorized through Facebook and can’t use.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: @schrodingers_cat: Nope, this is intended to insult him and indicate that he has no `ar or male honor.
In Arabic most men who have children are given a kunya or little name. Usually starts with Abu (father of) and the name of the eldest son. Or if one of the other sons have done something famous then the name of that son. Mothers are sometimes given the same type of names, but usually it is of the eldest daughter/most famous daughter. These types of names, however, are also used as nom de guerre and in those cases sometimes, rather than the name of the son, the designator has to do with martial prowess or something related to war. So you’ll see Abu Jihad (father of holy war).
In this case, by referring to Trump as Abu Ivanka, the Father of Ivanka, they are shaming him by indicating that none of his sons have any honor or provide him with any honor. That he must draw his male honor/familial honor from his daughter. It is an insult to him, his three sons, and, perhaps, to his son in law.
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: You sure that isn’t Cole? He’s wearing overalls.
mainmata
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: Wow, Mr. Ivanka the American, that’s a real insult in Arab Society.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Is it funny? Is it brilliant? Is it terrifying? I don’t know how to feel about this!
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: Not a fan T or his daughter, but this is some sexist bullshit. Do. Not. Want. Not funny at all.
ETA: The notion that you need to have a son to be respected as a man. This type of sensibility is what makes female lives less valued than male lives.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: You asked, I provided the culturally appropriate context as an answer.
I’m not saying I agree with the cultural norms and attitudes. I’m just reporting what they are.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman:
Alternatively, you could just say they are being objective.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: That too…
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: Jim Stacy, you might have known him from the La Brea Stompers back in the day.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman:
Of course not–most are now republican elected officials or pundits
efgoldman
@schrodingers_cat:
You do know that most human societies are not as equality-driven as we’d like ours to be, right? Literally billions of people
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL: You get caught up on sleep?
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: Tracking, but the overalls gave me a chance to make a gratuitous Cole/overalls remark.
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: I was not criticizing you, but this type of thinking touches a raw nerve. In Hindi, a daughter is sometimes referred to as “other people’s wealth/property” (paraya dhan). Not cool.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Have you seen our’s recently?
schrodingers_cat
@efgoldman: Do know and do not like.
Central Planning
@SiubhanDuinne:
When I was hourly, I once asked if I could get 1.5x hours of overtime instead of 1.5x pay. They balked at that so I took their money instead.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: not yet. I’m getting too old for that shit. On the other hand, being half asleep is a good way to spend a Saturday when the most awesome golf tournament is world is on TV.
Felanius Kootea
Ooh – just discovered Puddles. Thank you. I think my favorite is his cover of Sia’s Chandelier! I had no idea what the lyrics were until I heard his cover.
On another topic, the New York Times has an article up on an analysis by Standard & Poor’s showing that there will be no
death spiral in the individual health insurance market and that insurers will break even this year and some will even
make a profit from the individual market by 2018.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: I understand, and I’m familiar with the Indian cultural concepts too.
Steve in the ATL
@schrodingers_cat:
So you’re not down with OPP?
Iowa Old Lady
I’m reading about the Bannon/Kushner faceoff with great dismay. If I have to choose which one I want to go, I choose the white nationalist. But that leaves the WH even more controlled by Trump’s family.
schrodingers_cat
@Steve in the ATL: Not any body’s property, thank you very much!
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
That’s why “we’d [where we is the people that hang out here] like ours to be.” I have no illusions about the mouth breathing. knuckle dragging flying monkeys, none at all.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
My late father in law used TV golf as a sominex-substitute for years. He’d be in his recliner snoring, but try to turn it off or change the channel! Oy!
GxB
Funny how the actually talented singers have to resort to gimmicks and youtube to get any attention. Puddles has one of the best male voices I’ve heard in a long time. Check out “I want you to want me” just Puddles and a strummed acoustic – it is spectacular. All of PMJ’s stuff is at least interesting, IMO, though hard to take in large doses.
As they say – music was better back when it was done by ugly people. Mostly tongue in cheek for the snark deprived – actually it’s autotune that needs to be strapped onto a rocket and launched into the sun.
hovercraft
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Too funny. Incedentally, while we do value boys over daughters, they continue the family name, daughters are more profitable because men have to pay a bride price. Since the family spends years raising and training them, men have to pay for them since their family will be the ultimate beneficiary of all that nurturing. So the better educated and skilled you raised your daughter to be, the more you can charge for her. (Lobola). Back in the day, you couldn’t marry without paying Lobola, these days some people, (50/50), no longer charge it which is controversial depending on who you talk to, either your saying your daughter is worthless, or you’re selling your daughter.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Ancient Aliens for me. Whenever the narrator says: “according to ancient astronaut theory…” I’m out like a light between ancient and astronaut.
glaukopis
@gene108: My favorite Postmodern Jukebox is still their Talk Dirty
(with Klezmer band)
Steve in the ATL
@Iowa Old Lady: I thought the Mercer family would not let trump dump bannon. Has another rwnj billionaire overridden their orders?
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major: “For centuries (in China), all kinds of juggling were admired by the people, who were willing to applaud and pay for feats of manual dexterity. Fu Qifeng, the leading Chinese scholar of acrobatics in China, speculates that juggling began during the Stone Age as a sporting variation of boomerang-throwing.
…
The connection between juggling and combat appears often in Chinese literature; and there are some wonderful tales about the power of juggling virtuosity … The grand prize for effective juggling must go to the incomparable Xiong Yiliao of Shinan.
Quifeng relates the following story about Yiliao, juggler extraordinare in the time of the Warring States:
“Once, in a battle* between the states of Chu and Song, the troops of the two sides were confronting each other in a fight at close quarters. Yiliao appeared in front of the Chu troops and calmly, in the face of the enemy’s axes and spears, juggled nine balls at the same time. His superb performance stupefied the officers and warriors. The Song troops fled helter-skelter without fighting and the Chu troops won a complete victory.”
It was during the time of the Han Dynasty that juggling truly came into its own. During this era, an entertainment extravaganza called “The Hundred Entertainments” grew up in the courts of the Chinese ruling classes. To the traditional daring of sword-juggling and the sheer virtuosity of numbers juggling with balls was added a host of innovations: gyroscopic juggling with diabolos and devil sticks, foot juggling, plate spinning, and “swinging meteors.” In addition to the juggling specialists, the Hundred Entertainments shows included acrobats, magicians, fire-eaters, pole balancers, lion dancers, animal trainers, equestrians, – in short, everything Europeans would much later come to associate with the circus.
For centuries, Chinese jugglers and other virtuosos of manual dexterity enjoyed the applause and patronage of the upper class. But beginning with the advent of the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.), and carrying through into the middle of the twentieth century, these performers fell out of favor with aristocrats, who began to feel that such entertainments were too vulgar for their refined taste. Chinese jugglers returned to their village roots for the support and patronage now denied to them at court. There were exceptions, of course. But even when jugglers performed at court, they were treated as charlatans and buffoons, not as artists or even as skilled artisans. Only in the twentieth century, with the new emphasis on “the people’s culture,” have jugglers regained something of their old status as artists.”
-Arthur Chandler in The Journal of Popular Culture, 1991
ETA * in about 603 BC according to wiki
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
Very interesting. I guess that makes my people less chauvinistic, we simply go with the first born regardless of gender for both parents. “Sega” for the father, and “Naga” for the mother.
The fact that they are belittling Twitler. delicious.
Just One More Canuck
@Temporarily Max McGee (Until Death!): he does a pretty good version of Crying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjpILkmrSE
Iowa Old Lady
@Steve in the ATL: Anything is possible. Too many evil people for me to keep track of.
These people illustrate why we need a 90% top bracket and all income taxed the same. In my dreams.
waysel
@schrodingers_cat: I’ll never forget John Lennon said it: ‘Woman is the nigger of the world.’
Steve in the ATL
@Iowa Old Lady: damn straight. And I say that even after paying inheritance taxes back in the 90’s.
schrodingers_cat
On a positive note, the highest grossing Indian movie of all time was last year’s Dangal (Fight), based on the real life story of the Phogat sisters of Haryana, whose father (also a wrestler) trained them as wrestlers, who went on to represent India and win medal in international competitions. Haryana has one of most skewed gender ratios (less than 900 women per 1000 men) in the country.
Zaira Wasim who plays younger Geeta Phogat won the National Award for best supporting actress.
Here she is fighting boys because girls her age didn’t wrestle in Haryana, then.
Moral of the story: You don’t need sons to make you proud.
Here is the trailer.
schrodingers_cat
@hovercraft: Nope, in traditional Indian families, the woman’s family has to pay dowry.
hovercraft
@Steve in the ATL:
Not that I know of, but this is like the problem the GOP had with the Teabaggers, I mean Tea Party, they rode the crazy train to power assuming they could control it, but they can’t. SAD!!
Temporarily Max McGee (Until Death!)
@Just One More Canuck:
I like.
He’s been releasing a lot more rock songs than he was in the past, when he was covering contemporary pop in the past. I think he’s less ironic, now, and it suits him better.
Temporarily Max McGee (Until Death!)
And that said, he’s still pretty ironic. He often makes me think of Richard Thompson covering Oops! I Did It Again.
hovercraft
@schrodingers_cat:
Yeah I know, we are one of the only cultures I know where you don’t have to pay for someone to take your daughter off your hands. But it’s still demeaning in it’s own way, as I said the reason you’re charging is because you want compensation for all the money and effort you’ve invested in educating and raising her. All of it needs to end, be it buying or selling. We should be valued as human beings who are priceless.
waysel
@hovercraft: Yes!
RandomMonster
I’m rather fond of Puddles and this cute partner taking a morose song like “Mad World” and turning it into something charming.
Applejinx
I Want You To Want Me
Just completely amazing. Not even joking. That guy’s instrument, man.
A professional sound engineer hearing him said ‘I hate that he thinks he has to dress up like that to have any chance of being heard, and I hate that he’s right’.
J R in WV
@Steeplejack (phone):
From an eariler thread, you asked about small pieces of laminate, etc.
Habitat for Humanity has stores that resell left over construction material, remodeling removed pieces, some old, some new, etc. There’s one everywhere Habitat is active, I believe. Their left overs go there too, all to raise money for the next new house building project. Otherwise, check kitchen installers for tnhe piece removed for a drop in sink, kitchen stores for a sample, etc.
joel hanes
@efgoldman:
the last Ringling Brothers show
The last of the magic died long ago, when they replaced the steam calliope with a giant electronic organ/boombox wagon, and replaced the live circus band with pre-recorded music.
But anyone who saw or read Toby Tyler can tell you that circuses were always tragedies.
There’s a reason that Dumbo is the darkest of all Disney animations.
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
Back in the day, when I was building up our farm and helping the elderly batchelor farmers next door to learn how they did it, we would start work at dawn, break for lunch around 1, and then turn on Channel 3 (IIRC) for Cincinnati Reds baseball. It was hot and still, with just a fan to move air into their farmhouse.
We would all 3 gradually fade into a nap, until someone at bat made contact with the ball, at which point we would all start a little, and look to see if it was a hit or what. Those were the good ole days for sure. Hard work farmin’, then restful baseball watchin’.
opiejeanne
@joel hanes: I remember watching the circus being unloaded from the trains in Los Angeles, on tv in the 50s. I think they set up in a field nearby but it’s so long ago that I’m not sure.
When I was about 9 I went to the circus for the first and last time. It was not in a big top, but in the Los Angeles Sports Arena. I remember horses and elephants and people riding them around the ring, a slack-wire artist who was about my age, and only the vaguest memory of a clown making balloon animals and handing them to kids in the arena. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t at all like the movies had shown it.
Aleta
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m not thinking straight, but I don’t see that we can assume that whoever placed the Abu Ivanka al Amriki stories wasn’t writing assisted fiction. If so, any interpretation of what the Syrian people “meant by it” may not even apply. Could even be more like, for a simple example, ad copy requested by a non-native speaker, or written first by a native of a different but similar country, and then OKed by someone who’s trying to be obedient to the request but not get into the complexity.
Then, there’s also that tweet in Arabic that supposedly originated in Syria saying ‘Trump is a man of his word. For eight years, no previous US president did anything”– that’s such a blatant administration theme. There sure is a lot of other fakish news being spread in a hurry the last 2-3 days.
LeonS
@Iowa Old Lady: Eh, more stupid, less evil…