Backtalk: A Medium Place
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Tuesday Evening
Tues AM Open Thread
Good morning, everyone. It’s cold and icy outside for a lot of us, so I hope you get to stay home and warm and dry today. If not, I hope for safe and easy travels as you go about your day.
Monday, January 30, 2023
Monday 🌔 OT - January Dregs Are Really Cold Dregs
Dregs rhymes with legs and now that ZZ Top song is stuck in my head. One would have to be an idiot to misunderstand their meaning, but the exclamatory "She's got legs! She knows how to use them!" sounds way too excited a discovery for worldly rock n rollers. As if the boys in the band had recently crash-landed here from a planet of guitar wielding beardos and stub-legged or betentacled women. Suddenly, WOW, women walking and jogging and dancing and other miraculous stuff with their legs. Like shopping at the mall.
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| DotD '78 should have been the last word on consumerism, capitalism, human nature, zombies. But no, there's money to be made, chaps, and here we are in 2023 with thousands of imitators and only a handful of decent ones at that. Snyder naturally got it exactly wrong (as he usually does, hilariously) in his remake. When you have fast undead predators, dread at the mall is replaced with something like an enthusiasm for shopping. Yay! To the mall we go! Akin to watching slobs do cardio or Tae Bo for two hours. A waste of decent actors, esp. Sarah Polley. |
Your (late) Monday discussion thread
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It’s the weekly opinion post. Share your feelings on the topic and hear what others have to say.
Monday Morning Open Thread
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Sunday evening OT
We're a full week into the Year of the Rabbit, but so far not trending towards peaceful as promised. The only way to hop is upwards one hopes.
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Caturday Morning Open Thread
Morning, all. It's the last Saturday of January 2023 and a lot of the same old shit.
Friday, January 27, 2023
Friday Evening Post
Good evening.
It is Friday, January 27th, 2023. Artwork is "Evening" by Stanislav Nemyrovskyi.
Fur Face Friday
Welcome to Fur Face Friday! January is coming to a close. How is everyone doing with those resolutions? Last week's fur faces were cheerful, this week they are determined. Sylvie is trying very hard to stay on her diet but 415s30 doesn't make it easy.
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Blaurgh!Talk
Thursday Morning Open Thread
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Goooooodd morninnnggg
Some Wednesdays are just like this I guess... How about yours?
I'm posting from a new computer. We'll see how it takes to all this. School is starting again so I need to make sure all my techno gadgetry is in order.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Tuesday Haiku
So what if the past was hard?
Today, you can
Begin again.
-Buddha
| Miyajima in the Snow by Tsuchiya Koitsu |
Monday, January 23, 2023
Monday Just Past the New Moon 🌑 OT (A Sliver of a Waxing Crescent Tonight)
Happy Monday PM, all. Are you alone? Wouldn't you like to be?
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Bunday Evening OT
In honour of the Year of the Rabbit (or cat, I guess) here is another short video of Alice doing rabbity things.
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Caturday Morning Open Thread
Friday, January 20, 2023
Fur Face Friday
Hey howdy and welcome to Fur Face Friday, where we recover from whatever the week has thrown at us with a healthy dose of cute endorphins. Last week, we were blessed with the good luck of cute, and aminals finding their happy places.
Kiltedpadre’s Cornbread is just a happy (quasi-)lappy doggo and not afraid to show it.
Photobombing 101 classes signing up now!
In case you're new here, favorites are chosen by one of the Snout Selectors (facw, k2b, Hannibal, leahaven, and myopicprophet), entirely on our own whimsy. WHIMSY! However, in the interest of solidarity, we try to select one dog picture and one cat picture (minimum!) each week. Other pets will also, of course, be considered. We love all your rats, bunnies, ferrets, and other furry, feathery, and finny pals. WE WILL NEVER DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CUTE.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Thursday evening open thread
Nice beaver! I've had beaver lodges on my property at the cottage, and you can hear the babies and the adults calling to each other. One day I was walking along the shore and heard a rustling in the bushes behind me, turned around, and there was a baby beaver. It ran past me and into the water and the little tail, about the size of my hand, gave a tiny "warning! danger!" slap on the water.
From Geobeats Animals;
Blaurgh!Talk
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Good morning?
The wet has left us and now the cold has returned, it seems. How are things with y'all?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Tuesday Haiku
Across the wintry forest
The winds howl in rage
With no leaves to blow.
-Natsume Soseki
| Evening Snow on Mount Hira- Utagawa Hiroshige |
Monday, January 16, 2023
Monday 🌘 OT - MLK Day 2023
MLK's 93rd birthday was yesterday. I have nothing to add to that except thank you, amazon algorithms, I guess? Suggested just about every movie and show with a Black actor in it, like maybe I should spend MLK Day bingeing Moesha or Sister, Sister.
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| One of the minor pleasures of Nope was the horses and this reference. The character of OJ and his horse Ghost. That would be OJ with a white bronco. Yup. He did that. |
MLK Day Monday Morning Open Thread
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Sunday Evening Ohtee
I have high blood pressure right now beacuse this month's Doc Soup film series is Battleground, a documentary about anti- abortion activists' strategies. It's a well-done doc, but I found it hard to watch until after seeing the Q&A with the filmmaker, Cynthia Lowen, where she talks about how the organizations involved (especially Students for Life, I thought) co-opt other movements, or use misinformation, to have clout beyond their relatively small numbers. Battlegroundfilm.org
I will do some dry reading for my course about math assessment to bring my blood pressure down. 🧮
The cat calendar should help too!
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Sun Day O Pen Thre Ad
Hi there! It’s morning, and it’s the weekend so hopefully you have some time to relax today.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Caturday the Fourteenth: The Floppening
