lucius septimius 6/25/2020 5:13:41 AM

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vxbush 6/25/2020 6:16:09 AM

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In #1 lucius septimius said: There's something about that first sip of coffee in the morning.

I will have to take your word for it, not being a coffee lover and now banned from tea and chocolate. 

Morning, campers. IT audits continue to be so much fun. They always generate lots of work that has to be done in record time. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 6:31:11 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 7:12:36 AM

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The new Uptickle Me Elmo™ plush toy comes with its own face mask!

Playing with it from six feet away is problematic, however...

JCM 6/25/2020 7:18:17 AM

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Capitol Hill businesses file lawsuit against city for handling of 'CHOP'

SEATTLE (KOMO) — More than a dozen businesses in Capitol Hill filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday evening against the City of Seattle for how officials handled the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as "CHOP."

The businesses based in Capitol Hill said they support free-speech rights and the efforts of the "Black Lives Matter" movement, but they filed the 56-page class action because of the constitutional rights of employees and residents in the Capitol Hill area.

“The lawsuit isn't seeking to interfere with the message that is trying to be sent by protesters,” said Angelo Calfo, who is representing the plaintiffs. “Our clients want public order. They want public safety. They want access to their streets and to the properties."

Petition the court to waive sovereign immunity for the Mayor, Police Chief, Fire Chief and Members of the Clowncil. They conspired with the protestors to violate the rights of the residents. Make them personally liable for this.

lucius septimius 6/25/2020 7:34:28 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

At the same time, given how much they love BLM and Antifa, maybe those businesses should just be willing to put up with "unplanned donations" and "dialogue (at the end of a gun)."  They want to keep their leftard props and have police protection too?

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 7:39:25 AM

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In #6 lucius septimius said: "unplanned donations"

There's an old "Mr. Natural" cartoon where Shuman the Human is on the street with a begging-bowl doing an "Ooooooommmmmmmm" thing, and the local street brothers come up asking him if he's going to share any of his takings "wif us, an' wif de black community?"  R. Crumb was ahead of his time.

vxbush 6/25/2020 10:17:30 AM

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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: There's an old "Mr. Natural" cartoon where Shuman the Human is on the street with a begging-bowl doing an "Ooooooommmmmmmm" thing, and the local street brothers come up asking him if he's going to share any of his takings "wif us, an' wif de black community?"  R. Crumb was ahead of his time.

Is it this one? 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 10:19:18 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 8:

That's it!

lucius septimius 6/25/2020 10:49:09 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9:

Good lordy -- you'd be cancelled for that nowadays.

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 10:58:24 AM

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In #10 lucius septimius said: Good lordy -- you'd be cancelled for that nowadays.

Hell, Crumb's "Angelfood McSpade" cartoons would get him cancelled in a nanosecond.

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 11:06:55 AM

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lucius septimius 6/25/2020 11:24:55 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12:

Oh, I know of people who are blissfully ignorant of the term.  And they're all liberals of the first order.

lucius septimius 6/25/2020 11:25:48 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 11:27:17 AM

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In #14 lucius septimius said: So should I start a GoFundMe page to support my research?  See if I can get anything in the begging bowl from old students and former so-called colleagues.  I'm dead serious.

What do you have to lose?

doppelganglander 6/25/2020 11:50:56 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 14:

Why not? It's a worthier cause than some I've seen, e.g. a dog that needed surgery.

Another option might be Patreon. People can set up recurring contributions and you can provide benefits, like exclusive content, to high-level donors. It's more professional and dignified, IMO. 

lucius septimius 6/25/2020 11:53:46 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 16:

With Patreon, though, don't you have to have some kind of standing gig?  I suppose I can look into it.

As far as dignity goes, I can't afford that any more.  I figure I might as well go full grifter.  It's not like being honest and upright has done me a damn bit of good.  Might as well rip people off.

doppelganglander 6/25/2020 12:04:28 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 17:

Go look at it. The two categories you might fit in are writing and education. The point is, you create what you want and fans pay you.

I can think of dozens of things you could offer as content, regular and premium, that would complement your research. Or if you decide to write on politics and culture for outlets like Medium, for example, you can drive traffic to your Patreon. This is how Jordan Peterson monetized his work. There were some deplatforming issues around Patreon, and Peterson and Dave Rubin were working on an alternative. I'm not sure what the status of that is, given that Peterson has been so ill.

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 12:19:35 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 18:

Great advice!

And buzzsawmonkey, this might be the sort of thing you could use, as well, to both spread your knowledge and make some cash.

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 12:20:37 PM

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doppelganglander 6/25/2020 12:23:16 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 19:

I've spent some time looking into it, though I'm no expert. I agree, it could be a great platform for buzz too.

doppelganglander 6/25/2020 12:31:21 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 21:

Actually,  what buzz needs is a podcast. Playing all the great old songs you know, comparing recordings,  and talking about the lost meaning behind the lyrics. There's a potential copyright issue, but that's your wheelhouse. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 12:40:15 PM

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Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 12:47:01 PM

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Random observation:

So I decided to add to my SHHTF supplies, a helmet of some sort, in case I have to make my way through an area that's experiencing rioting, in order to protect my head.

Try to buy a simple police-type riot helmet-with-face-shield online, and you get met with "Restricted to law enforcement and military sales".

On the other hand, you're perfectly free to buy a Level IIIA ballistic military helmet online (which will stop pretty much any handgun round), and add a similarly bullet-resistant face shield to it.

[shrug]

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 1:01:39 PM

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At the risk of boring you all to tears, a little research into "The Yellow Rose of Texas."  Again, my apologies if I've already done this, but I don't see it in the archived threads.

This was sparked by the fact that a few blocks from me there's a stand of cactus in the front "yard"---well, "area"---of a row house, and every spring it erupts into yellow cactus roses.   The cactus rose figures in a number of scenes in the classic Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," and is also the flower mentioned in the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas"---which is also about a girl.

Well, this started me thinking; Texas has always been a highly-mixed-race state.  There were blacks, whites, Indians, Mexicans, slaves and slaveowners, free blacks, etc., etc.---and the old term for someone lightskinned, of mixed race, was "yellow," or, as Cab Calloway sings it, "Yaller."

So, could "The Yellow Rose of Texas" actually be a song with racial coding?  I initially looked it up in the Variety Cavalcade of Music, and it mentioned being "adapted" in 1955 by a songwriter, Don George, who was associated with Duke Ellington.  Well, that seems to have a possible racial connection, but surely the song was older than that?

Indeed it was.  While the song was apparently a favorite anthem of Texas Confederate cavalry during the Civil War, it was originally written in 1853 as a "darkie song" which the blackface performer is singing to his lightskinned love.  If you follow the link to the Wiki entry, there's a bar which has the original lyrics if you click on it.  The 1955 "adaptation" by Don George deracinated the song, and it became a hit in that year when performed by Mitch Miller.

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 1:12:21 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:

I don't recall your having posted that before; quite interesting, thank you.

More than once in my life I've been taken aback when a black American describes a relative/acquaintance/etc. as "high yellow", without batting an eye.  

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 1:14:44 PM

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In #25 buzzsawmonkey said: the blackface performer is singing to his lightskinned love.

Reminds me of my purely anecdotal observation based on my (very limited) viewing of rap/hip-hop videos; almost invariably, if the video features a black male rapper and black female eye-candy, the women are lighter-skinned than the rapper, usually markedly so.

Note to black people in America; we're not doing this to you.  You do it to yourselves. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 1:20:32 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 27:

As I mentioned in the comment where I posted the Ethel Waters version of "Black and Blue," she clearly is addressing that color line/preference within the black community.   If you've not done so, give it a listen.

doppelganglander 6/25/2020 1:25:00 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 27:

But...but...internalized racism due to the imposition of white standards of beauty! Cisgender heteronormative patriarchy! The [white] male gaze! 

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 1:26:18 PM

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In #29 doppelganglander said: The [white] male gaze! 

Well, by definition they're not interested in black women anyway... 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 1:59:48 PM

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lucius septimius 6/25/2020 2:17:32 PM

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In #27 Occasional Reader said: Note to black people in America; we're not doing this to you.  You do it to yourselves. 

Oh no!  It's "internalized racism."  When I told a friend visiting town about the "paper bag" test employed by the sororities at the local HBC he just waxed on how horrible it was that blacks had internalized all those horrible ideas from white racists.

You can't win with these people.

Occasional Reader 6/25/2020 2:27:32 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 32:

Well, every good anti-racist knows that black people have absolutely no moral agency.  Or, um, something. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2020 2:37:36 PM

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In #32 lucius septimius said: the "paper bag" test employed by the sororities at the local HBC

??????????

JCM 6/25/2020 2:47:21 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 34:

Brown Paper Bag Test - Wikipedia

doppelganglander 6/25/2020 3:23:26 PM

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