I want to make a quick statement on my article from last week. Given the response to the controversy Budweiser released earlier this week was made in the manner to make me consider joining the Marines, I rescind my statement and now believe the backlash may actually have legs.
That aside—this is my review of Nebraska Brewing Mélange a Trois:
For some reason people are upset at Netflix for casting a black woman as Cleopatra. Silly people upset about historical accuracy for some reason. Some of those people involved in casting responded to the controversy:
Born in Iran, I am a Persian, and Cleopatra’s heritage has been attributed at one time or another to the Greeks, the Macedonians and the Persians. The known facts are that her Macedonian Greek family — the Ptolemaic lineage — intermarried with West Asian’s Seleucid dynasty and had been in Egypt for 300 years. Cleopatra was eight generations away from these Ptolemaic ancestors, making the chance of her being white somewhat unlikely. After 300 years, surely, we can safely say Cleopatra was Egyptian. She was no more Greek or Macedonian than Rita Wilson or Jennifer Aniston. Both are one generation from Greece.
Doing the research, I realized what a political act it would be to see Cleopatra portrayed by a Black actress. For me, the idea that people had gotten it so incredibly wrong before — historically, from Theda Bara to Monica Bellucci, and recently, with Angelina Jolie and Gal Gadot in the running to play her — meant we had to get it even more right. The hunt was on to find the right performer to bring Cleopatra into the 21st century.
Apparently, Cleopatra was also an NPC
The rest of this article is predictably, moronic. For example:
The last thing we needed was another Cleopatra divorced from her womanhood and her power only sexualized. The HBO series “Rome” portrayed one of the most intelligent, sophisticated and powerful women in the world as a sleazy, dissipated drug addict, yet Egypt didn’t seem to mind. Where was the outrage then? But portraying her as Black? Well.
That’s because maybe she was a sleazy dissipated drug addict? If only there was some form of record which we could look and see exactly what Cleopatra looked like to settle the matter. Perhaps they had people during the Roman occupation of Egypt with some ability….wait just a daggone minute…they did.
Woof. The issue here is not necessarily race, rather it is one of beauty. She was supposed to be known as the definitive female standard throughout antiquity. Such standards of course change with time (hence that nose), so if a culture in 1960’s America chose a standard of beauty in line with Elizabeth Taylor, so be it. So in today’s world if someone else is to be chosen, it should therefore track with today’s feminine standard. In which case Adele James was the wrong actress from the beginning. Given our societal push to define beauty by any standard and therefore no standard whatsoever, the correct choice to play Cleopatra today was Lizzo.
A brewery from Nebraska? It happened. Aged in repurposed chardonnay barrels this takes the traditional Belgian Trippel to strange new places: Hillary Clinton’s palate. Don’t be too startled, she’s not going anywhere near Nebraska. This winds up having a light oak character, but still maintains the fragrant loveliness this style is best known. Pair it with a crusty, fruit filled dessert or perhaps just drink it by itself the next time you watch your copy of History of the World Part 1. Nebraska Brewing Mélange a Trois: 4.2/5
Doing the research, I realized what a political act it would be to see Cleopatra portrayed by a Black actress. For me, the idea that people had gotten it so incredibly wrong before — historically, from Theda Bara to Monica Bellucci, and recently, with Angelina Jolie and Gal Gadot in the running to play her — meant we had to get it even more right. The hunt was on to find the right performer to bring Cleopatra into the 21st century.
And that’s why we chose Ru Paul.
I wouldn’t at all be surprised if that idea had been floated.
Speaking of black actresses- I watched part of a movie called “Posse” the other night. It was about a black town in the west getting screwed over and terrorized by the Klansters from their white town neighbors, or something. It was no less moralistic or cartoonish than 90% of the cowboy movies ever made. Anyway…
There was n incredibly beautiful woman in that movie. I’d watch her doing just about anything for ninety minutes. She’d make a fine Cleopatra, or Marie Curie, for that matter.
I thought it was Helen of Troy.
Helen of Troy was clearly a libertarian.
Phryne was rumored to be a smoke show.
My incomplete understanding is Cleopatra was known in her time for her charm and seduction. Making her particularly beautiful was a Hollywood invention.
I tried very hard not to call her a royal skank.
Dangit I just did.
I thought Meghan Markle was the royal skank.
No, she’s still very, very common.
Embrace “and.”
Dafuq is that post picture on the front page? That’s straight out of shemale pornhub.
That’s supposedly a statue they put in front of a museum in Europe. The museum is about the history of women.
And the best women these days have male genitalia!
Blaire White agrees.
I thought she got hers…..[removes sunglasses]….whacked off ?
I could be wrong. I occasionally see her on Twitter and get bits of information. If she went the distance, then hats off to her.
And they renamed it “Gender Museum” or something. Because men are better women than women now.
Or what JI said.
That’s supposedly a statue they put in front of a museum in Europe. The museum is about the history of women.
The moral of the story? Men can do it all.
😂
A brewery from Nebraska? It happened.
Sheesh.
I ate and drank at this place in Nebraska. It is excellent. I recommend it.
Aged in repurposed chardonnay barrels this takes the traditional Belgian Trippel to strange new places: Hillary Clinton’s palate. Don’t be too startled, she’s not going anywhere near Nebraska. This winds up having a light oak character, but still maintains the fragrant loveliness this style is best known. Pair it with a crusty, fruit filled dessert or perhaps just drink it by itself the next time you watch your copy of History of the World Part 1. Nebraska Brewing Mélange a Trois: 4.2/5
Except for the mention of Hillary Clinton, this sounds excellent.
It really does sound good.
Dave Landau is going after Steven Crowder. Cue the whining from conservatives about how why come conservatives can’t be unified.
I like the drama. This shit is entertainment.
It’s like people who complain about comments being off topic.
I’m listening now. I don’t like Crowder at all, so I’m enjoying the drama as well.
I like Crowder. Still enjoy it. It is, as said, entertainment. People take shit too seriously and personally.
I have no doubt that Crowder has an ego and can be a dick to work for.
Michael Malice comes off the worst in all of this to me.
Annoying little prick. Let your guest talk.
I have no idea who Dave Landau is. I’m a spectator in the bleachers watching this dust up. From my vantage point, Crowder is a very well paid personality who wanted an even more lucrative deal, overplayed his hand, and tried to blame others when he did.
No one knows the detail of Crowder’s Rumble deal, but he’s independent now, has built up his own network of rather well known personalities/comedians, is still pulling in millions of views on Rumble, and I strongly suspect making a lot more money than he would have with the Daily Wire.
So, love him or hate him, I don’t think he overplayed his hand.
I did like Dave Landau. He was Crowder’s co-host and a stand-up comedian.
It sounds perfectly understandable to me. Crowder was under pressure to keep YouTube alive and project a somewhat family-friendly image while trying to negotiate a deal with several different platforms. So he needed to keep the people associated with him in line too.
Landau commented on the split at the time, and it sounded much more like he couldn’t wait around and had lined up other deals. They were still doing live shows together,which doesn’t sound like the world’s most acrimonious split. Nobody at the time cited creative differences… In fact they talked about how he would be back from time to time.
Crowder is taking a big risk, rolling his own and trying to make a network. It puts him in a completely different world than the disruptor outsider he started out as.
And it looks like it might work. He has a million people watching his show on Rumble… A number that could help make the platform into a viable option.
Overplayed his hand with Daily Wire. That doesn’t mean his new venture won’t succeed.
Crowder sounds like an epic douche.
Bud light ad parody. Not sure if it was posted before. But it’s funny.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B6PYN50oE1s&pp=ygUbYnVkIGxpZ2h0IGNvbW1lcmNpYWwgcGFyb2R5
I don’t avoid Bud Light because of controversy, I avoid it because it sucks.
Is there anything that Anheuser-Busch ever brewed that didn’t suck?
In the late 90s, early 00s, before the InBev acquisition, Anheuser-Busch decided to hop on the craft brewing/microbrew trend. They had small runs of other styles of beers.
I had one of them. It was a stout. Bare Knuckle I think it was called? It was OK. It didn’t suck. It wasn’t spectacular. It was OK.
I think that is fair to say about all of their products. Except that clamato beer. That is what people drink in Hell.
I tried Bud Light once.
I thought it was bad.
I remember liking Bud Dry.
Why ask why, try Bud Dry
With a slogan like that, The secret ingredient is Hemlock, isn’t it?
Yeah. They used to make a special reserve around Xmas in 2L bottles once upon a time. Sold it at Costco.
It’s all we drank when I was in college because it was the cheapest thing available. After college I never drank it again. And for the reason you stated. It’s a terrible beer.
Fancy man!
We drank Old Milwaukee and Cold Spring. Disgusting, but cheap and effective.
I drank Corona
I think I got started on Sam Adams. If it were anything lite, phfft.
Amstel Light is a suitable alternative when Coor’s wasn’t available.
I literally don’t know anyone who drank that shit, or its non-Light cousin, when there was a choice.
I drank mostly liquor even then, but the cheap go-to beer was usually Rolling Rock. Sometimes Michelob. I don’t know what the really cheap stuff was because it arrived in a plastic cup.
Rolling Rock wasn’t all that bad.
Yep, it was fine.
Look at all the fancy pants college beer drinkers. We had Cuurs or Colt .45 cause it was cheap in AZ. If we wanted fancy foreign beer we drank Dutch Treat or Old Heidelberg.
Koch’s Golden Anniversary
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/302/4942/
It was cheap and, uh… cheap.
Schmidt’s or Ortleibs. Filthy stuff.
I didn’t drink beer back in college, so I don’t remember what was the cheap beer of choice. But I do recall the Stoh’s was pretty popular.
Strohs was the staple of picnics. Keg inside metal trash can filled with ice.
Henry Weinherds was local and Coors was still a recent import.
I consumed many a Henry’s when I was at Ft Lewis. Hamm’s had (has?) a plant in Olympia. Plus there was Rainier. Bad beer with great commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg3ZNn7P2mk&list=PL4hkrePf0QtmjO_spC74SHR62LTtzWj7B&index=3
Meister Brau. Just foul, foul stuff. Schlitz when it was on sale. Later on I discovered Shiner Bock and never went back. It might not seem amazing now, but in 1983, it was astounding.
Meister Brau.
That’s the one that everyone bought in college.
I won’t even drink it when it’s free.
It’s hard to boycott a beer you don’t drink.
The Bee covered that!
Still better than PBR.
In mu youth I drank my share of regular Budweiser in a cold long neck bottle, before they even made light beer. I drank a bottle a few years ago for nostalgia and it was still pretty good, Bud light however is crap.
So the relevant question seems to be, what did Egyptians of the time look like? And you didn’t answer it.
They say that and then ignore that it’s Egyptians objecting.
Even. Ore importantly, how did they walk?
Like Susanna?
Yum.
Hubba x2
There are Roman writings and Egyptian paintings of her. Like said above she was a charmer and not a beauty. She managed to bed both Julius Caesar (had a kid), and Mark Antony (three kids). She was playing a difficult hand to try and keep Egypt independent.
There is a recent dual biography of Cleopatra and Antony that explained their lives pretty well.
Exactly. There are numerous contemporary depictions and descriptions of her. The idea that it’s controversial whether she was white or African is ludicrous.
The REAL reason for the Oakland A’s move is revealed.
https://babylonbee.com/news/oakland-as-forced-to-move-after-another-homeless-camp-pops-up-on-first-base-line
The Bee is unbelievable.
Wife Informs Husband The Minivan Has Suffered A ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’
The Bee with a medical breakthrough!
Into the centerfield seats with:
https://babylonbee.com/news/sesame-street-introduces-new-transition-me-elmo-doll
The black shopper who demanded Target give her free groceries as reparations was literally named Karen.
The spice must flow!
Eagle eye
The Treasury Department’s risk oversight arm on Friday proposed new tools for spotting issues in the U.S. financial system, more than a month after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sparked efforts to prevent further damage to the economy.
The Financial Stability Oversight Council voted to approve a framework on financial stability for public feedback. The plan, which will offer Americans more transparency into the council’s operations and how it identifies systemic problems, will be the first such measure it has released.
“This framework outlines common vulnerabilities and transmission channels through which shocks can propagate through the financial system. And it lays out how the Council considers the tools it will use to address these risks,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in pre-released remarks.
Yellen said that in trying to prevent problems in the financial system, the council does not “broadly prioritize one type of tool over another.” It plans its response to a given risk following an examination, she said.
You could always track short interest. You know… just look at what the people who aren’t government economists are doing.
The Treasury Department, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., backstopped depositors as they feared ripple effects from the collapse of SVB and Signature Bank, which catered in part to digital currency exchanges. Federal regulators shuttered both banks last month, seized their deposits, sold both entities to other financial institutions and prevented the largest banking crisis since 2008.
The FSOC also voted to issue proposed guidance that would enable it to use congressional authority to designate nonbank financial companies for supervision under the Federal Reserve Board when necessary.
Yellen has not identified what companies could be designated, only saying that overseeing more institutions “is an important preventative tool to address systemic risks that may arise from a nonbank financial firm whose activities or distress could threaten the financial system.”
Totally not a threat to forcibly liquidate cryptocurrency brokers.
You know when everything sucks and it’s dark and the light at the end if the tunnel hasn’t appeared and you don’t know when things will get better and the anxiety and adrenaline just won’t quit?
Whats in your melon, Helen?
“When things are at their darkest, pal, it’s a brave man that can kick back and party.”
Yes.
Will say a prayer.
Is this about the condo?
This is where KK succeeds in the most epic manner possible standing athwart her smitten enemies or commits an atrocity.
Either way, I gotta see how it ends.
Best wishes.
Intimately. I hope whatever’s causing it for you will be resolved swiftly and decisively in your favor.
Why isnt the woke left also protesting that Bud calls itself the KING of beers? Isnt that misogynistic and a damn clear sign of patriarchy ?
You’d think the queens would be all about getting that title changed.
There can only be one King. And theirs is a jealous God. Soon the Budweiser plants will burn.
There at about Edward VIII right now, about to abdicate the throne.
We can only hope. Meanwhile, I am enjoying a Batch and Bottle Scotch Manhattan. So easy. So excellent.
That combination of words sounds appealing to my mind.
Look them up, see if you liquor store has it.
Mail order site has it at £25 for a 50cl bottle which is a wee bit spendy for me.
Wow! It’s $8 a bottle here.
https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/alcohol-tobacco
Move to Texas. I’ll leave the light on for you.
I do miss it. Only there for two weeks once but would up and move in a heartbeat.
Girls can be king too, you know.
Because deep down inside, those queens just want the right man to dominate and humiliate them.
Sometimes I forget just how awesome Steely Dan is until MusicBee serves it up and then I go on an hours-long binge.
*MikeS signal lit
Sorry, we could only afford the kockoff, Pig Iron Dan.
How about his unyielding brother, Titanium Dan?
MikeS is too busy seconding a golf ball down a garden hose.
He needs to drink his big black cow.
As long as we are talking about the band and not the item the band is named after.
I’m trademarking Steampunk Junk as my Steely Dan tribute band name.
*standing ovation*
Time Out of Mind
Isn’t Peg the more appropriate song for this post?
JI from the top rope!
Albini is a massive prick, but I have to admit I’m on his side on this one.
LOL
There won’t be a drink available anywhere around Wrexham tomorrow.
You enacted my labor.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/report/_/gameId/647508