Day: December 17, 2021

OT Advent Calendar Day 25: Lullay Mine Liking The Wexford Carol

OT Advent Calendar Day 25: Lullay Mine Liking

Bryan O'Nolan December 17, 2021

The word “lullaby” is, in fact, onomatopoeia; it is the “lu lu,” “la la” and “bye bye”...

OT Advent Calendar Day 20: Two Catalan Christmas Songs The Friendly Beasts

OT Advent Calendar Day 20: Two Catalan Christmas Songs

Bryan O'Nolan December 17, 2021

Today’s tunes are both from the region of Catalonia in Spain: “Ríu Ríu Chíu” and “Caga Tió.”

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: The Sociosexual Kobayashi Maru

Burt Likko December 17, 2021

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is maybe the art-housiest of every art-house movie I’ve seen in...

POETS Day – Chaucer’s Prologue and High School Chaucer

POETS Day – Chaucer’s Prologue and High School

Ben Sears December 17, 2021

We say Shakespearian and act as if that’s archaic. It’s not. It’s Modern. Chaucer wrote in Middle...

The Pancake Show 2021-12-17 Sport 2110

The Pancake Show

Clare Briggs December 17, 2021

Right smack bang in the front window!

Issac Faulk in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Panamanicans: U.S. Troops in Panamadude - that is perfect. haha
Jaybird in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025He's going out of his way to not mention his party affiliation. Republicans would *NEVER* vote for a…
Andrew Donaldson in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025He ran for congress last year IIRC and made headlines for shopping which seat to run for
Philip H in reply to Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Or raising revenue … ya know like a business would to meet expenses.
Jaybird on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedIt's the 1970s all over again! Was it a liberal who hates the fact that he's kind of centrist? Was i…
Philip H on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedWhen you normalize political violence by pardoning those who attacked the capitol you should expect…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025This ad showed up in my feed. It's a young man running for Governor of Colorado (so it most likely w…
Andrew Donaldson on Panamanicans: U.S. Troops in PanamaWas tempted to go with "Panamaniacs" here, to be honest...
David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Um, no. Literally none of what other people do is relevant to if a specific person committed a crime…
Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025This situation reminds me of the whole "U leaders don't deal with sex offenders" problem. The compli…