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Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
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How bizarre. They're actually not cheap
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2010s food culture didn't know Monty Python was comedy
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Give me a hefty European-style cake or a lighter-than-air East Asian-style cake. Box cakes are fine for home but if I am paying cash, I want that good crumb!
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This is nacho cheese that is smooth without needing it
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So my response was "HELP IT IS FUSED TO THE ROOF OF MY MOUTH!!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS?????"
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It won't work. They have been indoctrinated. My very crunchy mother refused to have the stuff in the house and so I was never infected and by the time I tried it, I was past that all-important toddler window. I do, however, rather enjoy wheat germ and alfalfa sprouts
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I actually find the secret is homemade vegan nacho cheese, which consistently wins over carnivores and I actually prefer myself (I am not vegan)
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But but but TEXTURE of process cheese food product!!!!
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And this has been around for a while but if you touch my food with your food and say "Cheers" I am going to smack you so hard. Yuck.
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Americans get so weird about texture.
Shortening over butter because flaky
Cake mix over scratch because fluffy
American cheese because smooth and melty (I hate that word)
They will eat literally any lethal chemical to avoid facing anything resembling natural texture.
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No.
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The smear/drizzle obsession was awful! They had them on plates, glasses, everywhere.
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Ooo ooo ooo and the other one: Putting onion rings and cheese and shrimp and lobster and other stuff on top of the steak and stabbing it in place with the steak knife, forcing the server to also be a carnival act as they delivered the perilous thing.
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Home bakers using cake mix for their extremely expensive creations. Given a choice between beautifully decorated box cake and a scratch baked cake with zero decoration, I will take the scratch bake every time.
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And now, trends of the 2020s I would like to see go away!
Americans trying to convince people that American cheese is Good Actually (it is not) and should be the only thing on certain burgers (go to hell)
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Seriously, what was their deal?
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To add insult to injury, the brussels sprouts roasted with a reduction of unicorn spit served with a bacon truffle dark chocolate aioli would be $80.
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Also, the unspeakable things done to vegetables in hip restaurants. Everything was roasted (that's fine) with a weird sauce drizzle and another weird dipping sauce and it was all very confusing.
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La Marr is more known for her untimely death than her films, which is a shame because she had considerable charisma. Best friend ZaSu Pitts raised La Marr's son after her passing.
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Anyway, nothing annoys me more than dismissing serious concerns with platitudes, which is often the case when BOAN is brought up, so I like to shatter those easy little phrases the classic movie fandom likes to chirp.
I play rough because I care.
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(That said, I would have paid cash money to see Robeson bury her Republican/America Firster self in the Communist Manifesto. It would have brought about a meltdown unseen outside of reactor accidents.)
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And you will see the same arguments today whenever you fact check Gish. "How could you? You beast!"
Like this, in fact. Like this.
Gish gets fact checked like everyone else. I am not making her look bad, she spent most of the 20th century doing it to herself.
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The movement to rehabilitate the Confederacy put women front and center, lovely genteel creatures. How could you think of contradicting them? You cad! Picking on a poor fragile woman!
Well, since I am a chick, I guess that little trick doesn't work on me.
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Yet her interviews and letters show that she was sharp and extremely aware of current events, keeping up a lively correspondence with the Reagans and commenting on his political speeches.
The sweet old thing understood exactly what was going on.
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I can well imagine!
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The fact is, she consistently would paint Griffith as the victim, refused to acknowledge any harm done by BOAN, nonsensically claimed it wasn't racist because one of the antagonists was white. This was generally written off as "Oh, the sweet old thing doesn't understand."
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Sometimes, the defenses of Gish get bizarre. I once heard "But she wanted to make Othello with Paul Robeson! She couldn't be racist!"
Othello.
Opposite the US's top Black actor.
Othello.
But more importantly, and something they never consider, did he want to work with her?
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Gish also was heavily involved with America First and it seems to me, that if someone is constantly falling in with groups that hold particular opinions, perhaps they might... agree with them?
Like, I consistently hang out with gardening folks, so you might conclude, correctly, that I like gardens.
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When students advocated to rename a theater named in Gish's honor, counterprotestors claimed that Gish was just an actress doing a job.
She clearly was more than that, spearheading the defense of the film while fully aware of politics and the state of civil rights in America.
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I bring this up not to demand that Gish's films be banned but because she is constantly used as a source (generally with zero factchecking or pushback-- who would dare question the first lady of film?) for the contemporary reaction to BOAN and she consistently downplayed its harm.
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Further, Gish lists one of the film's interracial attempted rape scenes as the standout sequence of the picture (the scene in which Mae Marsh is pursued by a white actor in blackface, who is subsequently lynched).
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It's a paraphrase and not a direct quote but nothing about these sentiments contradicts what she has said in other interviews and in private correspondence.
She also spoke respectfully of Thomas Dixon, who got the same kittenish "Mr." treatment that Griffith enjoyed.
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Yeah, it gets out of hand much more quickly, I think perhaps because of the Discover tab.
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The idea is to have something fun to do that costs you exactly $0 and is entertaining. I think we can all agree that such a thing is needed badly.
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Anyone can join, just read the book and comment on the thread. I will have discussion prompts but feel free to chime in with your own. Everything will be done here on Bluesky, no other website, no sign ins needed.
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We will be discussing the book, how it contrasts with the silent film, how it fits into the pulp hero tradition and why we have had just as many Welsh Zorros as Latino ones from Hollywood productions.
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In an interview in the 1960s (in fact, in the wake of the Klan's murder of five little girls in Birmingham) leading lady Lillian Gish gave an interview stating that the civil rights protestors were just like the people who harassed "poor Mr. Griffith"
The line is straight and it is direct.
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Yep. Incredibly typical and no less ridiculous and clueless for it.
A recent study showed that racist violence followed in the film's wake and Griffith's subsequent films toed the KKK party line, supporting their views.
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My plan is to convert it into an office/catio
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I surrounded mine with poky succulents and that seemed to work
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I get it. I don't remember actual usernames either. Those novelty holiday names drive me bats. Change your avi and I am hopelessly lost.