I hope I’m not stepping on anyone’s toes but I didn’t see a post scheduled.
Backtalk: A Medium Place
Sunday, June 30, 2024
The 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, June 29, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Hello and welcome to Fur Face Friday, where we pay homage to our true rulers. Last week we had poetic levels of cute. This week we’re holding court.
Best Coast’s Flora is queen of all she surveys.
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Blaurgh!Talk
Blaurgh to disqus borking my .gif
Hullo, it's blaurgh o'clock. What's the what in your life that needs a good swift kick?
Thursday Morning Open Thread
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Wednesday Night June 26
I don't remember the Tanizaki story being longer than fifteen to twenty pages. The movie is a different beast altogether. At least I learned one or two things about courage.
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| Ayako Wakao in Yasuzō Masamura's Irezumi, 1968. Based on "The Tattooer" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki |
Same with 3:10 to Yuma. Somehow a ten pager turned into a two hour movie and everyone was twenty to thirty years older than in the Elmore Leonard story. I learned a few things about honor though. Come to think of it, Johnny Mnemonic... On second thought, let's not speak of that one ever. New Rose Hotel either even if it has Christopher Walken at his goofiest. I learned nothing.
THE LAST WEDNESDAY MORNING of June
We are just about halfway done with the year. Think about your favorite book, album, movie, game, etc., at the midpoint of 2024. Tell us something about your choices if you wish. Here are a few things I found excellent this year. Some pretty new, some pretty old, all new to me:
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Tuesday Haiku
Should I laugh or cry
Once the morning glory
Has withered away?
- Matsumoto Basho
| Rakusan Tsuchiya |
Monday, June 24, 2024
Still Midsummer, Later OT
What time is sunset today? Insert jokes about Sweden, bear suits, and Florence Pugh here. Something or other about Chidi and maybe this is the Bad Place? Or whatever.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Sunday evening OT
So much sportsball this month! Just look at these exhuberant Dutch fans.
The English fans aren't quite as happy so we'll move on to the Scots and the Germans.
The 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, June 22, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
Friday Evening Post
Good evening.
Ace Of Base - The Sign (Live Dance Machine) - 1994
byu/JohnWick3271 inOldSchoolCool
It is Friday, June 21st, Two Thousand Twenty-four. Not exactly a favorite song, but The Sign is catchy, and I like the video.
Fur Face Friday
Yesterday was the summer solstice. The Fur Face Players performed A Midsummer Night's Dream to mark the occasion.
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| k2b's ruh "Though she be but little, she is fierce." |
Friday Morning Open Thread
On June 21,1939, Lou Gehrig of the NY Yankees announced his retirement from baseball.
*Gif from the "luckiest man alive" speech which didn't happen until July 4th.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
I don't know if I'll be back when this goes up; if not, talk amongst yourselves.
Thursday Morning Open Thread!
Today in 1975 Jaws premiered. I think it's safe to go back in the water, but doesn't hurt to double check.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Juneteenth Evening OT – Apropos of Nothing in Particular
Congratulations to this year's grads, especially to those who marked their ceremonies with protest. Don't care what the powers that be have to say about it. It's fucking American. I asked my kids to say "Congraduations!" to their classmates as a joke. Talk about protestations! "It's not funny and I'll sound like an idiot," said the older, and younger concurred. They're not wrong.
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| Antioch College, est. 1854, Yellow Springs, OH. Virginia Hamilton attended Antioch before transferring to OSU. She was born in Yellow Springs, and readers familiar with the area surrounding Antioch will recognize the town and school in The House of Dies Drear, even though they're not named in the book. Thomas Small's father teaches in one of the towers where they find one of the mysterious triangles. |
Juneteenth Morning OT
A flag that Martha-Ann (who, she'll have you know, is German. German! she spat, sounding more like a mob moll than Frau Alito, née Bomgardner) won't fly today. But I will drink a toast to friendly neighborhood rabble-rouser Emily Baden, and if she were still neighbors with the Alitos, I would recommend she fly it:
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Tuesday Haiku
Life- a solitary butterfly
Sways uncertainly on slender grass.
Nothing more. But ah! How exquisite.
-Nishiyama Soin
Ikegami Shuho
Monday, June 17, 2024
Monday 3 Women OT – Not the Movie, But Yes, I Do Like the Movie
One Saturday morning (doesn't matter which Saturday, but it was wet and cold and not this past Saturday) whilst warming up the car, a beautiful vintage Bentley pulled up alongside me. The young woman behind the wheel gestured and mouthed "Are you leaving?" with a sorry-to-trouble-you smile. I said I was waiting for my kid but could pull forward, although she had ample space already.
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| Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall in 3 Women, Robert Altman, 1977 |
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Sunday evening OT
We're having our first heat wave of the season this week. Putting on my happy face and trying not to be consumed with how much I dislike heatwaves.
Codco Mom and Dad are arriving any moment for dinner. What are you up to BT?
The 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, June 15, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Welcome to Fur Face Friday! Summertime means summer sports. And last week's friends are raring to go.
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| It's Ginaaa's Cosmo in his fitness gear. |
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Thursday Morning Open Thread!
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
2nd Wednesday OT: Dear Sassy Boy
Tried to read the comments to all my OT posts from January–May of this year since I'd initially just dumped them and run off to do something else. I only got through January before I gave up. I have no idea what some of those comments mean. I thought for a second Kay Okay had had a baby and was startled. Congratulations, Kay Okay, on your nephew's birth. That is indeed a very large baby.
Wednesday Morning OT — I Want My Two Dollars
Olde girl will be housesitting the week of July 1 for a neighbor friend who has one cat and two standard poodles. She's had no experience walking and caring for dogs so she'll need some support from me, I guess. I did warn her that the breed is smarter and more athletic than most. Also dogs in general are needier than any of the neurotic boys she's dated. City dogs are downright co-dependent as compared to cats. Cats are their own kind of crazy.
| Random poodle from a dead site, not either of the dogs mentioned here |