I will take a 2-hour bus ride each way to see it in the theater, if that's what it takes.
Do they inherit the jingle with the chair?
Woohoo! My like moved it from 999 to 1000!
Don't you mean the Craig Craig Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism?
The loss of my wife of 41 years has taught me that lesson. Every minute spent doing something other than what I wish to do is costing me something that I'll never get back.
Even the German guy who got 217 doses of covid vaccine on behalf of other people is doing fine. www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/h...
Your reminder that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund is the second largest investor in the former Twitter. My theory is that they bought it and gave it to an impulsive man child to destroy in revenge for the "Arab Spring." www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10...
My late wife and I went on two long train trips around the country when we learned she had cancer. Kansas City/Grand Canyon/Los Angeles/Sacramento/Seattle/Chicago/Kansas City. You just have to put in days of slack, because delays will happen. Amtrak doesn't own the tracks outside of the East Coast.
H5N1 has already crossed over to humans. The millionaires and billionaires just don't give a shit, and like Ebenezer Scrooge look forward to "reducing the surplus population."
I have my ticket to see the 50th anniversary IMAX screening of Jaws on the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Japan. #filmsky
AMC and other theaters do have caption devices. They mount on a flexible arm, and have a base which expands to fit in a cup holder. I always make sure to get one before I go into any film by Christopher "Mumbles" Nolan.
I just like to make sure that people know about her and her accomplishments. Here's a woman doing things that no one else has ever done. A kayaking friend told me about her.
She set the record for solo circumnavigation of Australia by cutting across the Gulf of Carpentaria, which meant she had to eat, sleep and perform all of her bodily functions…in the kayak for 3 days. She's also solo circumnavigated Iceland & Greenland, unsupported with all of her gear in the kayak.
Just wanted to make sure you knew about Freya Hoffmeister. She is the German woman who set the record for kayaking around Australia, is the only person to kayak around South America, and is currently working on kayaking around North America. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_H...
I just checked with my local CVS and Walgreens here in Kansas City's Waldo neighborhood at 75th and Wornall. The Walgreens has Pfizer and Moderna but does not plan to get Novavax. The CVS doesn't have anything, they may be coming in "a few weeks". No idea what ones they'll be getting.
This is a news report from 2020. The FBI opened Epstein safe, and left all the hard drives and CDs of photos sitting on top for several days. And when they returned, a lawyer had them all in suitcases. Good thing nobody can copy hard drives, eh? Justice for the girls who were raped.
All I can figure is that some Disney executives visited Jeffrey Epstein's Island. And that Trump got copies of everything in Epstein's safe when his FBI left all the contents sitting on top while they went to get a warrant. www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
Isn't it nice when sociopathic fascist murderers can be friends?
Same here, although with me it was Benjamin Guggenheim saying "We are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down as gentlemen." (The fact that he was on the ship with his mistress rather than his wife doesn't cancel the nobility of the gesture entirely.)
My late wife and I were absolutely destroyed by the opening of Pixar's "Up", each imagining life without the other.
Weren't these people aware that he has hosed anybody who's ever done work for him? Why did they think they were going to be the one who actually got a full day's pay out of him?
Everybody's welcome to come to Chicago! Same terrible weather, same extremely tall buildings, same amazing food, same astounding culture…except that it's full of Midwesterners and they're *nice*.
Compulsory Bluesky: "Don't you mean *fewer* fascists?"
This is some world-class trolling. And I'm saying this as someone who's been on the Internet since 1988.
Sly Stone's band was not just racially integrated, he had talented women players in an era when that was ridiculously rare. I remember when orchestras started auditioning players behind scrims. All of a sudden, they started hiring as many women as men.
They hate anybody who's involved in the vaccines. When I had to acknowledge that my wife was never leaving the hospital, I gave her respirator to my favorite of our nurses. Nurse Sarah was the first person to get the covid vaccine in Kansas city, and had to delete all of her social media.
I know personal testimonials aren't data, but I own four of these sets, including the one designed for Asian & African noses just so I have a demo unit. Check it out if you have a chance.
More importantly, I wore that thing for 12 hours grinding metal overhead, and I was not coughing the next day. I spent every possible moment with my late wife in the hospital, and wore it from the time I walked in the door to the moment I left. Every doctor visit, every chemotherapy infusion.
Yeah, there were a whole bunch of people in Europe and the UK who wanted to get a hold of these. I remember the celebration when they finally set up a European distributor.
I did provide the video showing the NIOSH test.
I understand. They are limited by what testing they can afford, as it is a side project for someone with a full-time job. If we still had a functioning government, maybe a government lab could test this one against all the others. I spent the other day grinding metal, and wearing this mask:
I used to wear those before a good friend bought @flomask.bsky.social for my late wife Vickie and me early in her cancer journey. When I had to acknowledge that she was never leaving the hospital, I gave hers to my favorite of her nurses.
Here's the problem, you need the vertical rotisserie to get that delicious char on each slice that you cut off. Here in Kansas City there is no place that sells enough Gyros that you can get the meat cut right off the rotisserie. It all gets cooked beforehand and warmed on the grill. Not the same.
By the way, my favorite of your films was Brigsby Bear. A lot more people need to see that one.
My late wife snuck into a film exhibitor convention in Kansas City the year Empire came out to meet you. She said you were a sweetheart.
I don't know whether or not you eat meat, but their Al Pastor is the standard by which I judge all tacos. And if you go there on a weekend, there is someone's abuela making fresh tortillas. You get a taco there, it didn't exist other than as potential 10 minutes before.
I'm 64, and my mother was blind in one eye from rubella. You better believe that all of her babies were vaccinated against everything possible.
…and there was some serious competition!
Please do!
If you get a chance, Taqueria San Juanito - about a block from the Kedzie L stop on the Brown line. If Megabus still ran, I would travel up there just to have their al pastor tacos and take the bus back the same night.
This was in Albany Park, Lawrence and Kedzie. Amazing restaurants! Michoacan style Mexican food.
An Indian friend who ran the video store told me that his Ukrainian friend and his Filipino wife were moving out…pretty much a Chicago story. My late wife made a web page about it when we moved in. I have no idea what it rents for now! wretchawry.com/gallery/Home...
Also, all of these groups would bring music from their home countries. Got to see the Bulgarian choir at a Bulgarian Church in Albany Park. Márta Sebestyén in a Hungarian neighborhood. Haris Alexiou with a whole bunch of Greek folks. And the city had the most amazing festivals! I miss it.
We had to move back to Kansas City at the start of the pandemic, but we loved every moment in Chicago. We picked a neighborhood with lots of signs in other languages, so we had the top floor of a two flat for $950 a month. Vickie managed to see 662 films in a year due to the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Vickie and I lived in Chicago for 30 years. The best thing was that every identifiable political or ethnic group in the world has their own neighborhood in Chicago, with restaurants and grocery stores. The second best thing was that they had their own flag. That can be used as a guitar strap!
I only had the pleasure of meeting her once, after the Sugarcubes opened for PiL and New Order. My late wife interviewed her for my wife's radio show. But I did learn how to pronounce her name! (It rhymes with work, not pork.)
All I can really offer is my personal experience with this product as the most comfortable respirator I've ever worn. There's a rigid plastic frame, a soft silicone seal, and a rigid plastic cover that traps the filter. And it comes in three sizes, kids and adult models for different nose shapes.
Personal experience of a year spent in the hospital with my late wife as she fought stage 4 small cell lung cancer keeping her safe and their the NIOSH tests. The thing I like best is that they have different shapes for different faces. I wear the high nose bridge one. youtu.be/s24AAA1F3OQ?...
Hey @drewdietsch.bsky.social, have you seen Tsui Hark's 1993 Green Snake? Maggie Cheung & Joey Wong as snakes trying to become human. They both moved like snakes, and incredibly seductive.
Unions: The People Who Brought You The Weekend.
They have N99 "Pro" filters that are as as easy to breathe as most N95. As far as I can tell, the only reason it doesn't have the higher rating is lack of funds for testing. I have tested it myself by putting duct tape over the opening and tried breathing in. Amateur hour, but it convinced me.
The red tail numbers made me think of this…but with wings.
That looks to be exactly Kodak yellow!
My all-time favorite passages from Pterry's work are in I Shall Wear Midnight - the Rough Music and the excellent death of the old Baron.
Role, not roll. Damn you, homonyms!
That perfectly describes Steve Gibson's freeware. Coded in Assembly language, you get the most useful things in the world in under 200k. www.grc.com/freepopular....
So happy with my @flomask.bsky.social, modified with a @sipmask.bsky.social port to drink. 3X easier to breathe through than most N95s. Filter material does not touch my lips; no fibers in my mouth & stays clean longer. I wear it while working out and it doesn't get sweaty. FAMILYFIRST 25% off.
I just watched it. One of my favorite directors Tsui Hark in a scenery chewing roll.
My theory is that, when the FBI opened Epstein's safe and left all the contents sitting on top for several days while they went off to get a warrant July 6th 2019, Trump got copies of everything. And he's been blackmailing everybody who was in that safe. www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
Thanks for this. It's incredibly depressing, my grand niece is just over 2 years old, and my niece has to get a prescription to protect her daughter.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll watch this tonight! Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock?
I heard Andy @ihnatko.bsky.social on @twit.tv's MacBreak Weekly podcast talking about serving as labor Studs Terkel's hearing aid. Some young person was complaining to Studs about unions. The history lesson Studs gave in response was memorable. "Unions: The people who brought you the weekend."
Whenever I wonder why Republicans want to do something so destructive to themselves as destroy the CDC & NIH, I realize, it's what *corporations* want, and the Republican party is just their tool. They want to go back to the days of the government not "interfering" with commerce.
In @twit.tv Intelligent Machines #834, Leo expresses concern about the Meta one burning gas. The new data center in Kansas City? All the power here is from burning coal…strip mining Montana. Half a dozen huge long trains of coal come into town every day. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @paris.nyc
This. AMC brought Pride and Prejudice back into the theaters earlier this year, and there were many young ladies dressed in Regency apparel (or their approximation of it) in the audience.
I need to visit my local Costco to find out whether or not they are distributing. Unlike CVS and Walgreens, they don't use a global pandemic principally as a method of gathering data for marketing.
There's a screenshot of the GoFundMe that she ran. This is one of the most generous and selfless acts I have ever heard of any artist doing for their fan.
Everybody was masked at Vickie's request. We had a variety of masks at the door. Happy hadn't performed her own music in 15 years, and granted this final wish by her biggest fan. She had to relearn how to play. She refused to accept even expenses, and or to sell tickets. youtu.be/Br3i-0R_FuY?...
Thank you. I couldn't save Vickie from cancer, but I could keep her as healthy as possible to make her final wishes come true…a concert by her favorite artist, singer Happy Rhodes, and an Alaskan cruise. Happy ran the GoFundMe to send us. I can't thank all of Vickie's family and friends enough.
If you look through my posts, I try to find reputable science, and I've read half a dozen studies of this particular substance…enough to add it to my daily self protection regime. Between this and good hand hygiene, I haven't had a cold or flu, let alone covid, since 2020. Recommended.
Yes. It's a New Zealand company. I use the one from Mars Wellness, but NOW and several other reputable supplement companies are using their concentrated streptococcus salivarius. Look for their trademark. I spend $35 for 2 month supply (60 lozenges). blisprobiotics.co.nz/en-us/pages/...
Do you have a link for that article? Need to read it.
I could totally see him demanding that his underlings be buried with him like the Pharaohs of old. I have no objection.
One addition to your self-care? BLIS K12 lozenges. Every night, the last thing in my mouth is a 4 billion unit s. salivarius probiotic lozenge. Worst case? Fresh breath and reduced cavities and tonsil stones. Best case? Less chance of covid. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34249878/
Holy fucking shit!
Oh, I'm perfectly fine. I'm serving as caregiver for my brother's oldest friend, who is dealing with Parkinson's. I spent all of 2023 shepherding my late wife through stage 4 small cell lung cancer, without either of us having a symptomatic case of covid.
Read John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza". The early chapters are a good overview of epidemiology. Another book I can highly recommend is Dr Steffanie Strathdee's The Perfect Predator, about using bacteriophages to save her husband from a superbug. @superbug-slayer.bsky.social
Thank you for posting this. It's truly terrifying. The handful of us who keep up to date on vaccines and wear respirators may be the only survivors. I spent today at a hospital. My N95 was on all day, and I'm pretty sure I was the only person in the building wearing one.
This was a hilarious post… For me to poop on!
"Nixon didn't sweat this much!"
I forgot to mention, I've modified my Flomask with a @sipmask.bsky.social port so I can drink. I was in the hospital all day, and I did not take my mask off. I managed to keep hydrated with a straw through the port that seals shut when I remove the straw. www.sipmask.com
Fortunately, other countries are vaccinating their chickens. Of course, the giant chicken companies that have caused US poultry farmers to have one of the highest rates of suicide in the world (double the general population) don't want to spend the money. www.ruralhealth.us/getmedia/98f...
You're absolutely right, I totally forgot to mention what is the absolute best part!
My mother was blind in one eye from rubella. Bet your ass all of her babies got vaccinated!
Ah, that is much more pleasant to contemplate.
Reverse cowgirl so she doesn't have to look at him.
It was famously "the world's most expensive movie ticket."
I've been forced to be aware of this jerk since the late '80s when Spy magazine had something nearly every month about Donald "Stinky" Trump, the "short-fingered vulgarian". ("Trump" is British slang for an audible fart.)
The inventor is Kevin Ngo, a Google hardware engineer. They have three models, one for kids, one for a European nose like mine, and a differently shaped one for an African nose, or Asian ones like Kevin and his family. It's incredibly comfortable, and I get no fibers in my mouth. www.flomask.com
Let's see, who can deliver his eulogy? E. Jean Carroll? Katie Johnson? Any of a number of Jane Does?
I am with a friend in the hospital, and am wearing my @flomask.bsky.social, the most comfortable respirator I've ever discovered. Try code FAMILYFIRST for a 25% discount.
I just got a drug for a friend of mine, that CVS priced at $157 for $27 from your place. I've told every doctor I know about this, especially the ones who work with people with limited incomes.
Thank you so much for this incredibly clear and helpful illustration.
I'm in a hospital this very minute. One of the schools just closed due to a covid outbreak, and measles is on the march. And I don't seem to be able to get my preferred covid vaccine, @novavax.bsky.social But at least I'm able to tell the nurses about my respirator @flomask.bsky.social.
I remember. Which is why I'm wearing my @flomask.bsky.social as I accompany someone in the ER. The vaccines help keep you from dying, not from getting sick over and over.
That sounds like a job for Schmoyoho! youtu.be/CAXrgl_oF-8?...
