I’m pretty down on modern movies. Plenty of really great movies are still made but they can be hard to find. But I am 100% here for a English-Bollywood wuxia film with evil mother-in-law sari kung fu.
Jonathan Majors Is Dropped by His Management, Backs Out of Met Gala Amid Abuse Allegations
Just weeks after Jonathan Majors was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault and harassment of a woman whom police identified as his girlfriend in New York City, the actor’s longtime management and his PR team have reportedly exited stage left.
Per Deadline, the departure—beginning with Majors’ PR firm, The Lede Company, earlier this month— was prompted by “issues surrounding the actor’s personal behavior.” The outlet also noted that Majors would not attend the Met Gala on May 1, where he was invited to be a guest of Valentino. Apparently, Majors and the fashion house “mutually agreed” on the matter.
The Lede Company and Entertainment 360—Majors’ former management—have thus far declined to provide further comment on the parting of ways, but it almost certainly has to do with the charges against him and the subsequent allegations of abusive behavior that quickly began circulating on Twitter. In late March, the Army pulled a new ad campaign that featured Majors as its narrator, and it seemed only a matter of time before his whole team started to distance themselves.
Majors’ was arrested after dispute between him and a woman allegedly escalated into a physical assault. Per reports, the pair began arguing in a taxi on the way home from a Brooklyn bar after she saw him texting another woman; the verbal altercation became violent; and Majors allegedly slapped the woman—causing a laceration behind her ear—and put his hands around her neck.
After Majors was released without bail, his lawyer, Priya Chaudhury, claimed the woman issued statements recanting the allegations, though some have questioned whether those statements were coerced. Chaudhury also shared screenshots of some fairly suspicious texts to TMZ that were supposedly between the actor and the woman and said the defense anticipated all charges would soon be dropped. As of now, the charges still stand.
Integral to the next cycle of Marvel Cinematic Universe, due to make millions. [pac-man dying noise]
— Images That Could Be Album Covers (@ImagesAlbum) April 19, 2023
Swamp Thing is back, and he’s PISSED.
I have a fairly huge historo-musical regret in that I wasn’t the right age to fall in love for the first time with this song as the soundtrack. I love it so much.
“Car”
Built to Spill
There’s Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
You get the car
I’ll get the night off
You’ll get the chance
To take the world apart
Figure out how it works
Don’t let me know what you find out
I need a car, you need a guide
Who needs a map
If I don’t die or worse
I’m gonna need a nap
At best I’ll be asleep when you get back
I wanna see it
When you find out what comets, stars, and moons are all about
I wanna see their
Faces turn their backs and head to slowly get smaller
I wanna see it
Now
I wanna see it
Now
I want specifics on the general idea
I want to think what I should know
Want you to do me what you show
I wanna see
Movies of my dreams
I wanna see
Movies of my dreams
I wanna see
Movies of my dreams
I wanna see
Movies of my dreams
I wanna see it
When you get stoned on the cloudy breezy desert afternoon
I wanna see it
Untame itself and break its own earth
I wanna see it
Now
I wanna see it
Now
Tomorrow is stoned day.
IT isn’t responding to requests.
Maybe they started early, or they are hungover from Tax Day?
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Narrator Voice: “They have not, in fact, tried it. But they will pretend they have.”
They don’t even wait the amount of time it would take for the reboot to finish before saying they’ve done it…
Friday is paper day.
I would not feel so all alone.
“Integral to the next cycle of Marvel Cinematic Universe, due to make millions. [pac-man dying noise]”
Honestly, I have no idea who he is, but I’m not a big MCU fan.
He was playing their next big villain (Kang the Conqueror), like Brolin did with Thanos. He was in Ant Man 3, and I think the Loki show.
I voted for Kodos
That’s all fine and good, but what about puppy pics, huh?
He appeared in a boring 15 min monologue at the end of the show which was supposed to be a Big Bad reveal, except they’d never even hinted he existed before that, so it was stupidly anticlimactic. Then he was actual Kang in Quantumania, where he was no different than any of the other middling, one-off Marvel villains, like, for ex, Sam Rockwell’s Hammer in IM2. And mind you, I know Rockwell can act, so maybe Majors is also really good in other things, but it was very paint-by-numbers and very little actual menace. Michelle Pfeiffer was the most interesting in that movie, probably because she had more to work with than the rest.
WTF?
[Hunts streaming sources for “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” or something similar.]
Just do what they used to do on soap operas. When a different actor played a part, in their first scene a voiceover guy would say “The part of Kang is now being played by…”
Jussie Smollett is probably available.
Dylan Mulvaney can do the “Be All You Can Be” spots.
I think I would prefer “…And the agony of defeat.”
Both would make me laugh.
Who would win a fight between Swamp Thing and STEVE SMITH?
STEVE WIN FIGHT. BY WIN FIGHT, MEAN…
and I’m too slow.
What this world needs…
Is SWAMP SMITH.
SWAMP SMITH!
SWAMP SMITH!
SWAMP SMITH!
STEVE SMITH WINS VS SWAMP THING AND BY WINS HE MEANS….
That’s not Swamp Thing. It’s KUDZU SMITH.
KUDZU SMITH GROW FAST AND SMOTHER YOU. AND BY SMOTHER, MEAN…
Swamp Thing is a part of the green, and is above the laws and concerns of petty men and beasts.
ST.
STEVE would be too distracted.
So would Q.
of a woman whom police identified as his girlfriend in New York City
Police identified? How do we know they didn’t misgender the individual?
They consulted the Staff Biologist.
Lee Majors beat up Farrah Fawcett? Are they going to cancel the Fall Guy?
ISTR that Majors may indeed been accused of slapping her around.
I do vaguely remember something about that. Hopefully didn’t use his bionic arm.
Dam, SF great music choice today. I hadn’t heard this since it came out. I have their later stuff in heavy rotation.
My indie rock band friend got me into them in the late 90s. So, so good. The first 3 or 4 albums were on a constant loop for weeks.
Car song
Car song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRX_NZ7kTt0
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/Q6NQcO9KTBY
Mandatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw
Still a really great song.
I’d agree. Bit of a one hit wonder. I think she a had only a few other songs that got any play and disappeared.
Yes, it is.
So is this.
Greatest Car Song!
I can’t decide. But the fact that both bands lie Rickenbacker basses says something.
Rickenbacker Bass (not about cars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ66wAwgEJo
Chick band!
I think I’ve bragged on my daughter’s chick band, but she plays a Fender.
Car song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=868DSi85odQ
https://youtu.be/BsrqKE1iqqo?t=27
I knew that was coming, GT
Camaro, Camaro…
https://youtu.be/1v3CzvQ9e_w
Yes!
https://youtu.be/BRAkUWwp9Ec
Any idea if this is actually legal?
This NJ Bar May Be One Of The First To Hop On This 23+ Trend
it would appear so, but it would seem age discriminatory to me.
You cannot discriminate against old people. Young people are fair game.
I think that’s actually true. I seem to remember it from one of the training classes I have to click through every year.
That seems a strange cutoff. Do they think the two years really makes a big difference?
It cuts off a big chunk of the college crowd. Don’t know if that is relevant in this case.
High-school friendships tend to span a couple of years and carry over for awhile.
I assume it helps to eliminate 21+ trying to helps their younger friends get into the joint.
I wasn’t thinking of the college crowd, that would make more sense.
Yes, you could do that. I would like a bar for people 40 and up. It could sell mixed drinks with Geritol.
I think bars mostly self-sort by age anyway.
There’s a sports bar around the corner where I swear I’ve never seen anyone under about 50 go in or out.
An obscene Grandpa Simpson could be the sign. He could be shouting at clouds. I have it all worked out.
Hah. Sell Piledrivers. Vodka and Prune Juice.
I would legit love a bar that’s 35+ only.
Ha ha ! Great minds think alike.
What? You don’t want to drink with a bunch of Woo Woo Girls?
No. I do not. Or jumpy young men with too much testosterone.
Who you calling jumpy?!?
Did you start your hormone treatments?
Look. I just want to be someplace where a bunch of old men get together and snark about the news, share drink recipes and…
And…
Oh yeah.
Really. You get all that here and none of the strange smells.
I just want a bare where the Happy Hour coincides with the Early Bird Special.
Now, where did I put my walker?
No idea but I would refuse to patronize just out of principle.
Think most get around it by selling “memberships”
Around here they just price the yutes out of their clientele.
Project Veritas’ latest
Project Veritas released a new video today exposing the transgender surgery industry — where several medical professionals were surreptitiously recorded admitting that children as young as eight years of age are considered for gender transitions.
According to industry experts, transgender surgeries are a lucrative business which leads certain doctors to conduct them for profit at the expense of patients – who are often young teens.
Dr. John Steever, who works in the Pediatrics division of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in New York City, explained to a Veritas journalist how he views the gender transition process. He believes that most teens can make life-altering choices on their own.
“I follow the WPATH guidelines, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health guidelines, and really what they would say is, the way to go at this age – age 10 — would be something like a puberty blocker…and that really stops puberty pretty quickly so that no further development of the secondary sexual characteristics happen. So, things like, there’s no real chest development. There’s no menstruation. Things like that,” Dr. Steever said.
“When you then get to age 14 is when I’ll consider some, you know, cross-gender hormones. 14 [years-old] is a reasonable age. Most kids are mature enough to make a relatively informed decision,” he said.
CWAA
I never knew that ‘relatively informed’ was now the standard for consent.
Well, fuck me ever going to the doctor’s again…
Try to make a “relatively informed” decision about not getting vaccinated and see how far that gets you.
It’s gotten me to this point, anyway…
Informed is very relative…
I don’t see how people like that can sleep at night.
On a big pile of money.
Next to a coke whore.
Yeah, I guess Jaime missed the part about “profit”.
“He believes that most teens can make life-altering choices on their own.”
There’s not even a slippery slope from that to “it’s OK to have sex with kids”. They are both at the bottom (I hope) of the slope. If you can consent to have your dick or tits cut off, then consenting to sex is nothing.
I’m something of an expert on medical informed consent, and if one of my docs ever said anything like “relatively informed consent”, I would land on xim with both jackboots.
I love that song so damn much.
Love.
Not sure about that flick, though.
That flick looks absolutely batshit nuts. When its shows up on streaming, I’ll be there. I predict RJ will have it for us at some point.
You predict correctly. It might take a year though.
Dr. John Steever, who works in the Pediatrics division of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in New York City, explained to a Veritas journalist how he views the gender transition process. He believes that most teens can make life-altering choices on their own.
If you allow them to go through puberty naturally, the “problem” pretty much solves itself. And we can’t have that.
There are “cut happy” doctors in any specialty, I guess this is no different.
Yup, and that’s why they push the puberty blockers so hard.
What a tidy vicious and profitable circle they created
At least on the guy side, the idea that boys don’t want their testicles to drop, their body hair and beard to grow, and their muscles to, err, muscle, as soon as possible is just bizarre. If you had offered us puberty blockers when I was a kid, you’d probably get beat up in the parking lot by a bunch of 12 year olds.
Pretty funny:
https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/1648490947301507074
Lots of youngsters in the crowd laughing their asses off. Ray of sunshine?
That was good.
Lol. Thought it would resonate with you.
Want to take a guess what I’m gonna call you next time we hang out?
As long as it’s not “Trans-Portation” I’m ok.
If you show up with titties, all bets are off.
Seconded
Thirded
It reminds me of the old Bloom County where someone was asking Cutter John what he wanted.
Cutter John was an awesome character
SMOD? You out there, bro?
How much of transgenderism is a kink instead of an actual embrace of one’s “true” gender?
Q, you want to weigh in?
Blaire White weighs in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_8E4vTDlw
I mentioned it before and I think I’m so clever for pointing it out but NASA have basically gamed the system now so that SMOD can never win. DART is basically the space version of all the election reform hoodwinkery that the Ds were pulling in every state they could prior to the 2020 election. I think if SMOD can gain a majority in the EC then xe should be eligible to be sworn in and wreak explodey apocalyptocracy (within the limits of the Constitution) for xis term as POTUS.
None of “transgenderism” is a kink or an embrace of one’s true gender. It’s a political ideology.
If the question is, how many people transition because of a kink, gender dysphoria, or some other reason? No one knows. There aren’t any good numbers.
Does it matter? The people who could truly use compassion and love are being trampled by freaks. I think that’s the worst part of this clown show.
I think it matters in order to understand the issue. It also matters, once understood, that none of those reasons apply to children.
Although, yes, I agree the politicization — the left turning trans into a big culture war issue, which of of course meant the right was going to respond by making it a big culture war issue — does not help trans people.
Neither side gives a fuck about the poor people who are truly hurting. I still hate the left more for using them as a bludgeon.
People who claim that Twitter is a cesspool are wrong.
There are gods among us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0tax34AbQ
Perfect.
Scrolling down, the Bee:
NASA Frantically Building Real Moon For Elon To Land On
Fetterman Filibusters Senate For Seven Hours While Attempting To Say ‘Hello’
*snork*
I saw that he rolled in for work yesterday in a sweatshirt and cutoff sweatpants.
WT everlovin’ F? I wouldn’t even go to the office like that on weekends when I would be the only one there.
I saw a video clip with him dressed like that. I did not know he was “at the office” when that video was taken.
He’s just showing his workplace the respect it deserves. If I were a senator I’d wear cargo shorts and vintage concert tees everyday. But just shitty bands like Kansas and The Beach Boys, not Humble Pie or anyone cool.
I can’t even.
That’s fucking blasphemy.
Forget it, Tundra. It’s Hyperboletown.
Thanks, GT.
When I was a yute, I used to check albums out of my local library.
This was one.
Also, America. I’m a punk, but awesome is awesome.
Their “Best Of” was one of my first cassette purchases. My buddy I used to spend vacations at his house and we played (and programmed) computer games had it, so when I left to Europe I bought my own copy while I was there.
I’m very very late.
Wrt Joemala, Di Fi has intertrigo. The fungus that results is smelly and gross. Di Fi is gross. I’m grossed out like to the max.
So she’s basically composting at this point?
I. WANT. TO. SEE. THAT. MOVIE.
Hipster 90’s music either kills it or really sucks, Built To Spill didn’t kill it.
I would def check out that flick, if only because Anglo-Indians are my weakness.
Build to Spill… never found them comparable to Pavement or Archers of Loaf, both of which they remind me of. But, speaking of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQN5KTXtUH8
I just got off the PATH (NJ subway to NYC) and the whole car I was in was taken up by Tinder ads. The message I get is that any relationship except conventional, both straight or gay, is what they are going to deliver. It was odd in the art and the color palette.
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/tinder-campaign
https://www.tinderpressroom.com/2023-02-27-TINDER-REDEFINES-EXPECTATIONS-WITH-NEW-BRAND-CAMPAIGN-THAT-CELEBRATES-GEN-ZS-AUTHENTIC,-FLUID-AND-BEAUTIFUL-CONNECTIONS
🙄
Every e-harmony ad I see is gays, so I guess Tinder had to one-up.
I thought the whole e harmony we don’t do gay war was interesting.
Their reason was their algorithm wasn’t designed for homosexual relationships. This was promptly shit upon by the courts and the states.
So I guess now it not only works for gays, but it works really well…
I make really great sour ales. If I went into business, that’s what I would sell.
Of course, someone would sue me for not making IPAs, so I would be forced to make shitty IPAs that no one would drink and that I would lose money on.
Specialization is discriminatory.
Honestly have no idea if that passes the smell test. There are obviously lots of factors that don’t apply in the majority of gay relationships so maybe there’s something to it.
The people who haul them into court because NOT FAIR can go and bake their own damn cake.
Honestly have no idea if that passes the smell test.
As I recall, eHarmony was not a “dating” site per se. They advertised heavily all the couples that found their life partners through the site. I have no idea what gays and lesbians look for when trying to find a spouse to live happily ever after with. And if eHarmony was basically saying the same thing, I take them at their word at it.
The courts said that wasn’t a legal defense. But it’s a pretty straightforward customer-service argument.
From memory long ago they tried to “science” their matching and the results.
They never used and tested the results on gay relationships. For whatever reason they didn’t want to do so or felt there was a market justification for doing the it.
You could liken it to a pharmaceutical only developed and tested on males. It may work on women or it may not or it may work differently.
I can easily see doing the research/revisions to extend it to, what 3 – 5% of the market not pencilling out.
They should have just not bothered, added a “gay” option, and run the same algorithm. Maybe treat it as a beta and tweak as the live data came in.
Since I just woke up and am late to the party-
Car Song
Bonus Car Song
Speaking of Bone Us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw