Month: April 2022

All Alone

Gratuitous Chick Pics

Who is the loneliest person at any red carpet affair?

That would be Oz actress Elisabeth Debicki, because at 6’3″ tall, she towers over the average Hollyweird squirt actor (Tom Cruise, coff coff ) and she loves them Louboutin 5″ heels, making her even more of a social outcast.  Here she is, recumbent:

…seated:

…slouching:

…in characteristic red carpet mode:
 

…and standing next to Hugh Laurie, who is 6’2″ tall and clearly not concerned about his masculinity:

In fact, were she not Australian, I’d say that this was definitely a tower worth climbing.

Classic Beauty: Myrna Loy

Classic Beauty

I was watching The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer  the other night (for about the tenth time), and once again was struck by the beauty of Myrna Loy.

As a silent star, she was girlish:

…and then she grew up into the early 1930s-era of cute, witty and sexy women:

…and finally blossomed into full, sophisticated womanhood:

And she did all this despite having had the world’s worst hairstyles inflicted on her.

Gorgeous.

Oh, No

Gratuitous Gun Pics

Here’s a gun which ticks all my shotgun lust boxes save two (and oh by all means. right-click to embiggen):

Let me just get the two disqualifiers out of the way:  12ga and price ($16,500, cheap for a Purdey), the combination of which means I’m unlikely ever to buy it.

But if I did… I don’t think that I would shoot it that much.  I’d mount it on a facing wall where I could look at it all day.

Or I’d just keep it next to my chair where I could pick it up now and then, and lovingly fondle it and talk to it like I would a small puppy or a mistress.

Great Vulcan’s bleeding nostrils, that is a beautiful gun.

News Roundup

Bad News

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Today, we’ll first be giving an in-depth look at the Dept. of Maleducation:


…because knowing how to read and write is of no importance whatsoever.


…where today’s teenage boys know more about “incel culture” than most teachers.


…non-White and female mathematicians having contributed SO much to the field since 300 BC, you see.


…I’m just amazed that anyone complained, in a suburb of San Francisco  Madison.


…I always said the legal drinking age should be lowered… but maybe not that much.


…spoken by someone who’s obviously never taken a hard punch to the face.

From the Heart of Stone Dept.:


…Method Acting at its finest.


…looks like those fifty Nile crocs I dropped in haven’t reached that part of the Rio Grande yet.

And:


…

Also, in talking of mental health:


…because I think the 25th can only be invoked by Congress, which will be controlled by Democrats until after November.  Then we’ll see.


…why so?  Perhaps her name will reveal the secret…

Speaking of Indians:


…I’ve dated women like that.  In every case, they didn’t want to have sex;  they just wanted to stop me having a good time with my buddies.

But let’s move to INSIGNIFICA:

   

And:


…see, it’s only “sexist” and “revolting” if there’s no money or PR involved.

And that be da nooz.

No Surprise

Business, Entertainment

There are really three elements to the story of Netflix’s share price collapsing and their market cap falling through the floor.

The first is the simple stuff:  Netflix’s offerings are dire.  I think there should be an award for the guy who can scroll through their movie menu and find something he really wants to watch, in under 30 minutes.  Speaking for myself, I find myself looking for movies on Netflix longer than I actually spend watching any.  This is because Netflix’s own movies are about 10% decent and 90% utter trash.  The 10% includes the brilliant After Life  (Ricky Gervais).  The 90%?  Oy.  They run from endless permutations of women finding themselves while reconciling with a dying parent / sibling / whatever, to mindless celebrity pablum (“my Scientology experience”) to cartoonish rubbish action movies featuring female superheroes, and woke “dramas” riddled with angst.

After a while, I either turn off the TV altogether, or else take the option of Netflix’s other problem:  I go to another movie outlet.  Not that Amazon Prime is much better;  in terms of content, they’re about the same as Netflix:  10% decent, the rest ugh.  Even worse are Prime’s options, in that they’ll show you the first season of a show for free, but then you have to buy the rest.  Fuck that.  There, Netflix’s offer is at least consistent: subscribe, and everything’s “free” thereafter.  Hulu and Roku throw in atmosphere-destroying commercials, so forget that shit as well.

I rather like Discovery+, especially their true crime documentaries, while New Wife likes all the shows about Alaska, and some of the real estate shows.  But that’s pretty much it, because I absolutely refuse to subscribe to any other of the streamers like Britbox.  Thank gawd for Turner Classic movies, because I think I’m nearing the end with Discovery+.

Netflix’s third problem is a common one in the business world:  over-demanding shareholders and accountants.  You see, once a startup company reaches a commanding market share, further growth becomes increasingly difficult if not impossible, especially if new players enter the fray with similar offerings.  None of that matters to the shareholders and finance people, who have grown used to and got rich from annual gains of 25% in market share and / or the share price, and who want that gravy train to last forever.  It can’t, of course, even absent stupid business decisions (like embracing wokedom).  Market growth is finite, and expanding markets by getting into bed with evil yet populous societies like China or Russia have risks that could (and do, and have) endangered many, many corporations and organizations(Apple, NBA, coff coff ).

So there you have it:  a classic case of corporate hubris.

And I see that Disney is starting to see its own ass, too.