“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
— Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits”
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They’re still looking for the camera …
… that can take a bad photo of Mrs. Palin. They haven’t found one yet.
Pet pics with Santa at North Grand Mall
photo by DME
Gratuitous naked baby shot.
e e cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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E. E. Cummings, American poet
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“You know what ya gotta do Jake …”
The photographer for all the local photos. Next to her is a random naughty dog.
Take that H.P. !
The most overpriced substance on earth!
Swiss stuff should run like stolen artwork.
The Pappajohn Sculpture Park!
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The 4 (point 5) Million Dollar Man
The excitement is palpable. One week until the start of the college football season. In Iowa, a good amount of the season involves waiting to see how bad the Hawkeyes choke. We know what the Cyclones will do. They will try way hard and play light years above their potential, and end up 6 – 6.
The Hawkeyes provide the real entertainment though. Not because of how good they will be, but how bad. The Hawks have several great tendencies that have always helped them to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Phil Steele’s 2014 strength of schedule rankings has the Hawks with the 70th weakest schedule in the nation. You’d think 9 – 3, my money is on 4 – 8. The opener next Saturday against the UNI Panthers should be a real indicator. I would just die if the win went to UNI. My guess is the UNI coach doesn’t make one million a year, let alone 4.
After watching the Hawks for 30 years, this is what I always see them do. During the first series of the year, it will look like their feet are in molasses, they have to be the slowest starting team in the history of college football. Every year. The running game will be spotty. The quarterback will complete just 3 passes over 10 yards (in the air), everything else will be for 5, 6 and 8 yards. On third and 8 he will throw for 7. On passes over the middle, the passes will be kicking dirt in front of the receiver. All other passes will be against the sideline just out of reach. The receiver chosen will be the one with 3 defenders around him. The tight ends will be wide open and completely ignored. The defense will have the other team at 3rd and 26, and give up the first down. 2 students will die from alcohol related deaths. AD Gary Barta will extend Ferentz’s contract to 2030.
“Philip Seymour Hoffman died of drug mix”
“Final results of actor’s autopsy rule death an accident”, Haley Blum, USA Today, 3/1. Once again, for reasons unknown to me, we are urged to feel especially sad when a famous person dies.
The irony in a celebrity’s drug death never occurs to the media. The entertainment industry for decades has given a wink and a nod to drug and alcohol use and abuse in their movies and music. The Hollywood types in fact ridicule “old-fashioned” morality and virtues that might help keep people alive.
People like Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and the cast of SNL get rich promoting how “cool” drug use is. Then, when their life is about to self-destruct, the resources and support network of the rich kick in and pull their bacon out of the fire. Meanwhile, their fan base, who bought the bill of goods, go on to unstopped destruction. Never do these rehabilitated celebs apologize for what they promoted and glamorized. Never do they go on anti-drug campaigns. Never do they do community service to right their wrongs. Nope. They just hold a big show funeral and the crap continues.
SNL gets thumped
Sasheer Zamata
The 1/20 DM Register had a brief “People in the News” blurb about the Saturday Night Live debut of Sasheer Zamata. The liberal icon SNL got seriously whacked last fall when it was pointed out by their own, that out of 137 previous cast members, only 4 had been black females.
I can’t help but be a little admiring of Sasheer for having the guts to be on the show with such an embarrassing spotlight on herself. True, the spotlight should have been on Lorne Michaels (Lipowitz). Even though SNL is out of NYC, it is all part of the entertainment industry, whose flagship, Hollywood, has one of the most blatant track records of racial discrimination, yet never gets called on it.
The history of Hollywood is the history of exclusion. It continues to this day. The seventies had more diversity, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Different Stokes, Webster, among others. Today it is just embarrassing. Look at the primetime offerings, who do you see? 30 years after The Cosby Show, where is the inclusion? Hollywood has always been rife with a Jim Crow mentality, and this latest indictment of SNL almost makes you feel sorry for them. But I don’t.
Who did you see in the old movies? Unless it was the occasional maid or butler, you saw white people. What did you see on old TV? Did Bonanza or the Andy Griffith Show ever have a black person on it? Pretty sure they didn’t. How about more modern TV, like The Golden Girls? Lots of diversity on there was it?
The irony of it all is there is no more liberal a bastion than Hollywood, and there is none more racist. I wonder how it got that way? I wonder who controls it? It’s almost like their is a click there that works to keep out others that they feel don’t belong.
Looking at the history of comedy, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Brad Garrett, Billy Crystal, Jon Stewart, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Madeline Kahn, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, George Burns, the Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Albert Brooks, Fran Drescher, Fanny Brice, Ben Stiller, Henny Youngman, Don Rickles, Larry David, Rodney Dangerfield, Seth Rogen, Richard Lewis, Gilda Radner, Gene Wilder… it is almost like there is a common thread tying them all together, I just can’t put my finger on it. Almost tribal in nature. Not that I’m saying publishing, broadcasting, movies, and the music industry are dominated by one group.
So when SNL got busted for their exclusionary behavior, I was not completely surprised. My only surprise was how long it took the public to begin to get an inkling of what has been going on for over 100 years.
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