"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus Being the weekend before Christmas, how about some tunes from the Soviet Army Choir? Here’s Jingle Bells, I love how they have Russlish lyrics. If you are playing Whamageddon, don’t click on this next one! Baba daba dop! Fun fact: At the beginning, the female weathercaster says something like “Oksana says don’t … Read more
by liberal japonicus Part 1 and Part 2. Unfortunately, part 2 is behind a paywall, so if anyone has a gift link, send it on. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, … Read more
by liberal japonicus Earlier, I wrote about Alex Karp here. This NYT Daily talks with a reporter who has interviewed Karp multiple times over the past decade. In the thread about Truss going for the MAGA gravy train, we were talking about her Oxford degree qualification and hearing the reporter talk about Karp and his … Read more
by liberal japonicus It’s a small drop in the ocean of crap, but the deranged post about Rob Reiner’s death on Trump’s account on Truth Social has me wonder. This Axios piece will get you up to speed if you were blissfully unaware of this. I would observe that seeing pieces like this makes me … Read more
by liberal japonicus The New Statesman podcast listens so we don’t have to!
by liberal japonicus If you don’t know the old joke referenced in the title, the answer is ‘Practice. Lots of Practice’. And with that, here is the first youtube video. Yes, that’s elementary school kids. If you didn’t notice, they don’t have any sheet music, everything is being played from memory. Even more shocking to … Read more
by liberal japonicus I have, as I’m sure you all have, seen Doctorow’s writing about enshittification, but I guess he’s teeing up a book tour, so he’s doing the round of podcasts. He’s got his soundbites, which there is nothing wrong with, except for the fact that it gives me a sinking feeling in my … Read more
by liberal japonicus I was going through a backlog of links I had saved and finally got to listening this NPR Fresh Air interview about dreaming. I’ve had a small bit of success with lucid dreaming, but it has not been to the extent of being able to alter my dreams, I just realise I … Read more
I have mentioned before that at a different site I maintain an odd WordPress plugin named State of the Discussion that provides a comment-centric view of a site. With lj’s blessing, I installed it here at ObWi. It was as much a test to see if the code was actually portable as much as being … Read more
by liberal japonicus I was looking at some pages about the war in Ukraine and it noted in passing that Donetsk airport, which was the site of Ukrainian resistance in 2014 before the Minsk agreement, was officially named Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev airport because Prokofiev was born in the region. This had me think that Prokofiev … Read more