splinky

My start of the pandemic OTR microwave oven died on its 5th anniversary. The same model now sells for 64% more.

good luck with that one

i have one word for you, young man. CRYPTO

i made the kid a pasta salad this weekend and her write up was much more sophisticated

I always pay, but my neighborhood has a rowdy band of senior citizens who never pay on their way home from the senior center. They hold the back door and board. Many times they’ve invited me to join them. I always thank them and refuse the offer.

I enjoyed the "free bus" pilot program the few times that I got to use it in southeastern Queens, especially on days when my journey would have been a double fare involving 3 buses. The ride was much faster and people were much nicer about giving up their "free seats" to the disabled and elderly. Also, it's not really free because taxes. It's also nice to feel like you're getting something you already pay for, at no additional charge. I do not believe that people who can benefit from free buses are the equivalent of dog shit, but your mileage may vary. The kids probably had school transit passes and many bus drivers prefer that they just go through the back door because it's faster, less annoying to the people in the front and the kids like sitting in the back, anyway

Mazel Tov!

I finally sat down and binged "Chewing Gum" and "I May Destroy You". So well worth the time.

isn't that exactly what you'd say if there were dead bodies?

Condolences to you and your family. May your mother in law's memory be for a blessing.

that's a good haul

Thank goodness she married Dick Ebersol and then Allie and finally got her (1st on the call sheet) bag

Think about the character Django in "Django Unchained"and clothes as a signifier of status. When first we see him, he's in the typical rags of the enslaved/imprisoned, then when Schultz offers him any clothes he wants to wear, in order to pose as Schultz' valet, Django chooses that blue monstrosity of a clown suit because in his experience that's what a "fancy slave" might wear. By the time we see him enter Candieland he has found his own style which is some version of cowboy cool. Finally, having triumphed over evil, Django leaves Candieland, wearing the same bespoke suit that Calvin Candie died wearing.

I think what's being shown is the evolution of how enslaved people, who were once slaves to fashion (in their work clothes), eventually managed to make fashion their slave. The show is about agency and identity. It's about a people who had once been an actual luxury item to eventually owning and designing luxury items. It's about making castoff clothing and trimmings into bespoke clothing. Later, it's about tweaking regular consumer fashion into a personal statement and now it's about consuming high end fashion and styling it for your life and to sending a message about who you are or who you want to be. Clothes DO make the man. I was moved to see articles of ALT's clothing and the way in which he collaborated with designers, to make things work for his personal style but also for his height and his frame, over time.