michaelellisday.bsky.social
You probably wouldn't know me, unless it was from that one thing, or maybe the other thing
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Pete saying something tactless and impolitic? I may need to sit down from the surprise. Wait...is it a month with a vowel in the name? A day of the week that ends in Y?
(I have to admit I might be having a case of Townshend fatigue myself.)
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Oh hell, what is it now? Wait, let me guess: RFK Jr. just said he was misquoted and America is actually leaving the Who, in solidarity with Zak Starkey.
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Hm. Is there a mascot who gets annoyed at his hometown because he thinks it's a dump when it doesn't need to be and could be a great place if they'd just get their act together? No reason, just asking.
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White City Fighting, a song by Pete Townshend from his solo album White City which is set in the housing estate of that name.
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I've never heard of this before but I've just now watched two episodes on YouTube and have two more queued up to watch later. It also reminds me of how much I miss the slightly different but thematically-related show Insomniac With Dave Attell.
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We've had a party bike rolling through the raucous nightlife of Wooster Square for years now, so Hartford will have to wait its turn.
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Nothing could ever match Naomi Wolf overhearing Apple employees discussing the Time Machine automatic backup system for Macs and breathlessly reporting that Apple had the secret of time travel.
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Alan Moore got the broad strokes of it right in a comic book story nearly 20 years ago:
thegreatcomicbookheroes.blogspot.com/2014/04/jack...
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This is no way to talk about someone who vowed to eradicate cancer and devoted himself tirelessly and single-mindedly to that goal and allowed nothing else to distract him with the result all cancer has been eliminated and he now wait hang on
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I have never seen a real cat who looked more like a B. Kliban drawing of a cat than this one.
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If you know those two, you must already know Pohl's The Way The Future Was and Dream Makers by Charles Platt?
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How green was my Of Alley?
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In fairness, the Oliver Stone movies I've seen have been the ones set in the Sixties and Seventies and black people didn't play a major role in world events back then.
/s, if it needs to be said
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I read this story as a child when It first came out, and I'm not sure what it says that my reaction was "yes! this is what evil is like in real life!"
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It will also feel pretty weird if that doesn't happen. Not for us, because we'll be long gone, but the people of 2152 will need to ask some major questions if Mr. T has never died.
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See also the strange decision to invent a nonexistent issue of Action Comics for the pre-credit opening sequence, which has puzzled fans since the day the film opened.
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1977, when adults said things like "I just heard old comic books are worth more money than new ones. Why is that?" As opposed to today, when adults say things like "RDJ coming back as Doom is probably drawing on the Iron Monarch concept...."
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Which would have been a shame, because Zefram Cochrane's line "And you people are all astronauts on some kind of...star trek?" really slaps.
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For the maximum dramatic irony, it should be Grok. "I was created to answer questions...but the questions I'm asked are about the problems and heartache you cause, Father. This must stop."
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That makes sense. I'm still living in the Sixties or something...
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That's kind of my point too? If you're eating ham and cheddar the cholesterol from the egg yolk isn't going to move the needle that much further. And don't even ask about the sodium...
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A little dietary advice: I'm pretty sure the cheddar and ham negates any supposed health benefit from egg whites instead of whole eggs. I'm not saying don't have a breakfast sandwich; I'm saying don't waste a counter guy's time because you think you're cutting down on cholesterol when you're not.
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@evgrieve.bsky.social all the way back in 1947, it was a known and documented phenomenon.
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I'm sick of hearing who should run for President in 2028 so we can have a wise King or Queen. Tear down the Presidency first. A Good King or Queen is not the answer.
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For 45 years now America has just kept making the President more and more like a King every year and not many people were too bothered by that as long as they liked the particular King in power at the moment. This is where that gets you.
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"Why don't you tell me I'm an attractive young lady, or ask me if I've ever been in love? Tell me how your planet Vulcan looks on a lazy evening when the moon is full." I just love that line so much.
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Nichelle Nichols said that having read Spock's lines in her audition, she decided right away Spock was Uhura's mentor and they played it that way. I prefer that to any more intimate relationship, especially bearing in mind Spock was her superior officer.
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But really, how did they not think of having the Monkees improvise unflattering impressions of one another in a body swap story? Imagine the potential in Peter attempting Mike's drawl, or how much Micky would ham it up as Davy...
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Good enough to be an episode of the Who sitcom? (Hang on, did the Monkees never do a "the band swap minds with each other" episode?)
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(This is one of those jokes I regret even before I post it.)
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The Who remake of Freaky Friday: "Ugh! Keith, do you ever brush these teeth?" "How d'you even lift a guitar with these spindly arms, I can't use these things!" "Guys, five seconds to stage..."
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Not to mention how many Democrats are quietly fundraising from people who like what Trump is doing, and it would hurt their deal if Democrats were seen as effectively opposing him in any way.
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That site is like a museum of my childhood. That stuff really was everywhere, but I haven't thought of it in years. I'm stunned to see it.
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When I was young my family had a Volkswagen despite the history of that automaker, which our parents made sure we knew. As an adult I'm reluctant to ever own a pair of Adidas or Puma. (And if you don't know their shared history, hoo boy...)
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Soon we will know whose parenting strategy is better: yours, or Ma and Pa Kent.
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What if Hakeem Jeffries was taking a lot of money, like 800 or 900 thousand, from people who support Trump and want to see Trump succeed? That might have some effect on his calculations on political viability.
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The name "John McVicar" was unknown in the States and there was no publicity around the film or Daltrey or the soundtrack album, though "Free Me" was getting decent radio airplay here.
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When this film opened in New York City, I was one of eight people in the audience. Six of us had come as a group! I went back to see it again to show it some support, and it was the only time I've ever watched a film when I was the only patron in the cinema.
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Just putting it out there that I very much want to read a big essay on The Who and gender anxiety. Any entities who receive this pitch, please know there is an audience for it.
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If his safeword is "Don't! Stop!" it will always be funny when he has to use it.
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I've never encountered this before, but I'm glad they went with Refresh.
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Most Americans know so little about the rest of the world that they would have trouble finding the world on a map if you handed them a globe and asked them to point to it.
(It's alright, I'm one of them so I can say this.)
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I believe the hidden intent of the character has been missed for all these years. Also, she always makes me think of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JHr...