Jeffrey T. Larson (Minnesota 1962), Yellow and Blue, 2005, Oil on canvas
Wet beast wednesday IF you even care
We always care about Wet Beast Wednesday
The Trans Joker Movie Is a Sight to See. Too Bad It Might Never Be Seen Again. The People’s Joker premiered this week, then immediately had all of its following showings canceled. By Sam Adams Sept 14, 20225:29 PM
The Toronto International Film Festival’s hottest movie has everything: a trans coming-of-age story, an unauthorized take on an iconic comic-book villain, and a cease-and-desist from one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world.
Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker, an antic collage of live action and animation that stars the writer-director as a thoroughly queered version of Batman’s historic nemesis, had its world premiere at midnight on Tuesday, and by the next morning, it had been withdrawn from the festival, “due to rights issues,” according to a statement on the festival’s website. (Both Drew and Warner Bros., the studio that owns the movie rights to the DC villain, have declined to comment.)
Although The People’s Joker opens with multiple disclaimers proclaiming it an unauthorized parody and includes a full-screen credit for the production’s copyright lawyer, this is not exactly a surprising result. I was about 10 minutes into the movie’s press screening when I wrote in my notes “This will never be shown again.” (The screenings planned for Fantastic Fest next week have similarly been removed from that festival’s schedule.) But these abrupt cancellations are a vivid and particularly dramatic illustration of how little the principles of fair use mean when they come into conflict with a studio’s treasured intellectual property.
today's supposed to be 'get the rest of the plants to Charlotte' day but that gets difficult when you're doing so in a Ford Focus & every time you turn around there's another, probably large one your adhd brain had slotted into 'furniture/background noise'
this is plant carload #2, and there's one more cardboard pallet, like they ship bundles of kale in, to go
almost complete houseplants family picture
yes i will need better lights for my favorite prickly succulent & buttplant children
yes the place came painted like this
(with profuse apologies to the late Mary Oliver)
You do not have to be good, dipshit. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting, diphsit. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves, dipshit. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine, dipshit. Meanwhile the world goes on, dipshit. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers, dipshit. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again, dipshit. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things, dipshit.
it’s now Wild Geese Dipshit Wednesday
a couple who were customers got into an arguement today about whether my boyfriend and i were gay or if we were straight and i was a girl and it escalated to them actually fighting in front of us #girlboyss #eresandthegoldenapple
girl your gender so confusing it causes dionysan rage and a hostile enemy status effect
The 5 love languages of monster fucker:
- Understanding someone so different from yourself
- Loving the unlovable
- Big
- Being turned on and afraid
- Freaky inhuman sex
Getting really sick of all the "There's No Place Like Chrome" ads on youtube. There's Firefox. Firefox saves your passwords. Firefox autofills things if you want. Firefox also does things that Chrome doesn't like allow adblockers, and it does not mine your data and sell your information for advertising purposes. Google is really trying to push people to use Chrome so they can take as much data from users as possible in order to make as much money as possible and it's borderline sinister.
Anyway, download Firefox.
i'm not familiar with this ad because I have so many of firefox's adblocker plugins :3c
I haven't seen a chrome ad since it came out
today's supposed to be 'get the rest of the plants to Charlotte' day but that gets difficult when you're doing so in a Ford Focus & every time you turn around there's another, probably large one your adhd brain had slotted into 'furniture/background noise'
this is plant carload #2, and there's one more cardboard pallet, like they ship bundles of kale in, to go
a walk in the lee valley from homerton to lee bridge station via the “hackney henge”/”throne of nature”
today's supposed to be 'get the rest of the plants to Charlotte' day but that gets difficult when you're doing so in a Ford Focus & every time you turn around there's another, probably large one your adhd brain had slotted into 'furniture/background noise'
does anybody know a company that can print custom ex-libris/bookplate stickers?
idk if there's something that makes ex libris different from regular stickers but i like stickerapp.com so far & i think they have write-on-able options
as a heads up, otoh, if you run into stickermonkey i think they were in a similar boat to Uline with donating to a lot of sketchy right-wing stuff
And there’s an episode where he’s sort of going through a an existential crisis and he’s just sort of walking around lost in a daze. And he, like he goes into- he’s like walking around and some sprinklers go off and they just soak him and he just kind of stands there and just gets soaked by the sprinklers. And then he just kind of like takes his shirt off and just kind of keeps walking. And then you cut to him and he’s in a grocery store shopping shirtless. And then- excuse me- and then like a woman comes over and is like, sir, you have to wear a shirt in here. And he just grabs like a shirt off a rack and just puts it on and smiles and keeps walking. And it turns out that William Jackson Harper is like, cut. Like he’s he’s like a very like, physically fit person, which I did not know. Like that, which I had never seen him with his shirt off before he shot that scene. But him taking his shirt off caused the internet to, like, explode because it was like, Oh my God, the like the dorky philosophy professor guy is also jacked. And and I mean, it was he was only good for him. Like, it wasn’t like th- everybody was happy with the result. But I was like, Oh my God, I never asked him if it was OK that I wrote this thing where he takes his shirt off. Like I should- I should ask actors that more. Like I should say, Are you OK with this? And I think if there were, it’s a it’s a gendered thing in a way it shouldn’t be, right? Like if it obviously if there had- if it had been a woman, I would never in a billion years have written any scene where a woman disrobe in any way without clearing it with her first. There would have been a million discussions and meetings and whatever. And it didn’t occur to me that a man might also be uncomfortable with that. And so I remember thinking, like, I’m so happy that it was OK, that he was OK with it, that whatever. -Mike Schur
The little hummingbird on its nest, which is about the size of a golf ball.
UPDATE! THERE IS NOW AT LEAST ONE BABY! WILL ATTEMPT TO GET A PHOTO TODAY!!
Can you see it?? The tiny beak???
Sorry for bad photo quality, trying to take a photo with a zoomed in camera on a tripod held over my head so as not to leave the back steps.
Fact! Hummingbirds make their nests with normal nest materials like twigs and leaves, but they also use moss and lichen to make it blend into the tree. The secret ingredient, though, is spider webs. It's the glue that holds it all together, and sticks it to the tree.
Some updates:
THERE ARE TWO BABIES!
This was kind of expected since they usually have two at a time, but I wasn't sure because I only saw one beak before, so I thought maybe one didn't hatch.
In other news, I got concerned because the momma bird, who is always always on the nest at night, was not there last night when I peeked. Didn't see any sign of her until a few minutes ago. But now...
Momma bird sighted!!
A fresh batch of nectar for the feeder is currently cooling, but right now she needs to catch a lot of bugs for the babies. Growing hummingbirds need protein.
So uh... I remembered that one can crop photos to get a better view. Yeah, it's been a while since I bothered to edit any photos 😅
Anyway, baby birds are growing FAST! I keep having to check the ground under their nest before I let the dog outside in case they've fallen while trying out their wings.
I never see their mom anymore, but I know she's around by the big healthy babies she's raising. Tomorrow I replace the sugar water.
I can't believe it's only been a week since my last update... they are growing FAST. I fully expected them to be gone when I got home from work today, but they're still there, despite not fitting in the nest anymore. Any day now they'll fly away.
Photos from the last week (final one is today):
Update: ONE OF THEM HAS LEARNED TO FLY!!
It's still hanging out on the nest, waiting for its sibling to learn.
Second update: THE NEST IS EMPTY!
It's been exactly one month since I found the nest and started this thread.
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