This is interesting because it's a bit at odds with what I understood to be the cultural norms for the era. Brigg's youth "skin-nay" cartoons are usually nominally set in small town 1880s Midwest (where he himself grew up.)
My understanding was that first of all, this was still 'the west' culturally, so gender 'norms' were a bit looser, (compared to say either New England or the South, where there norms, tho different from each other, had more social stricture). And in any case, (but esp in 'the west') didn't really make really strong differentiation until around 11-12 years old.
Even in New England-set "Little Women," a girl sledding down a hill would have probably been unremarkable. (Though on the other hand, Little Women was set about twenty years earlier than when this comic takes place, so two more decades of creeping Victorianism has happened. And the March's are super-proggie by the standards of the day is half the point of the books)
I've only seen the first episode so far, and I agree with all this.
Then another. Finally, with the whole band present, they make music together, along with the joking, comradery, and brotherhood shining through for a few moments along with snippets of music and smiles of those involved.
And just to echo this point again, the diamond in the whole thing is that these guys were so talented, the performances they gave when just futzing around trying to think of 'real work' were dazzling and electrifying.
A pivot that made the latter efforts revolutionary but the absence of the former taking away some essential life force a band needs to center itself
One thing I never knew is how their manager died really young, and at perhaps the critical point in the trajectory of the Beatles as a band. One wonders if they would have someone they trusted to handle the 'business' and free of the stress of that they would have been able to keep it going another couple of years. And moreover someone to manage the tension of that 'essential life force' - balancing the need for an audience but having enough 'infrastructure' to not be overwhelmed by them.
Though really, that part of the job probably wasn't one of Brian Epstein's strong suits* and why they quit performing in public - in that opening montage they were numerous scenes where there could have been (and was?) similar tragedy to what happened in Houston a few weeks ago w/ Travis Scott
*but to be fair to him - nobody had experience with that sort of thing, it was pretty much the dawn of modern celebrity culture
"Obviously Siskel And Ebert was nothing groundbreaking,"
would respectfully disagree a bit. Sure, by 1998 they had been on the air (between this and Sneak Previews) for over twenty years, but they started this genre. (unless you count Gene Shalit, doing it with much shorter segments on the Today Show, per wikipedia started two years earlier). (it's also unclear when local tv personalities, like Arch Campbell started doing their segments, but from personal memory, were certainly in full swing by the early 1980s)
edit - should have read the entire post before commenting, but where's the fun in that?
Well, honest question, for anyone willing to answer - what is the actual legal standard? My understanding is that if evidence is exculpatory, and the prosecution hides that from the defense, yeah, that's a big no no.
But what if the evidence is inconclusive, and/or doesn't reveal very much at at all? Is that still a Brady(?) violation?
I thought we had something about bricklayers before, but we had his counterpart, the hod carrier https://ordinary-times.com/2020/08/11/real-hod-carrier-at-home/
Interesting contrast in phase of life as well as 'support on the home front'.
Huh, this does relate to what I just wrote below. It seems to me that you can see the shape of the intention of the law, in that having too short of rifle/shotgun is illegal, but a longer one ok. As the longer gun is more difficult to conceal, etc, and so one's intentions and escalation/provocation status probably become more 'level' - i.e. with a big gun, it's always going to be visible from the outset, and your handling of it more obvious.
There is still the debate over whether he was legally armed; however, as a question of law, there is not and should not be a standard that mere presence of a weapon is provocation.
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What is, is. and I am of course going to defer to your expertise.
But what 'should be' is a proposition that, well, is and should be an opinion that any layperson could have.
Which is to say I disagree with the statement 'the mere presence of a weapon should not be considered a provocation' I'm not sure I'm in agreement with it's complete opposite (i.e. the mere presence of a weapon should *always* be considered a provocation). But I'm not at all willing to give carte blanche to any and all escalations, which displaying a weapon (especially when not previously displayed), I'd say usually is. (and isn't that part of the law, 'brandishing'?)
This is why everyone in the North east converted from coal to fuel oil (and/or natural gas) as soon as possible, (though gas was a bit later) - for the convenience. Being better for the environment (relatively speaking) was a good benefit, but one not mandated for another generation or two.
That's wild, I don't remember that one. Wild in that, yes, in universe, he's writing a check with all the paper trail that entails*, and the meta-narrative that there is not present any scintilla of 'wink wink nudge nudge', just the wife saying that "the bootlegger" contacted her....
...wait that might be the 'subtle' part? He's sweating and taking care of the business right away because the bootlegger talked directly to his wife? which is then a threat to her safety?
*though looking it up, Capone wasn't convicted of tax evasion until 1931
I do often wonder if there are any 'lost' Briggs comics because they were censored for being a bit too explicit about alcohol use. Though this one in 1919 - if I'm reading the panel correctly - is super duper early in the prohibition era, and may not even be in it, given the Volstead Act only went into effect between Oct 1919 and Jan 2020.
(some other sources have the number at 13, but are a couple of years older)
edit - and the link above does *not* include Oregon as one of them, so there may be issues with accuracy (and probably, definitions of what tests people are talking about)
Arlington is not unique in a unified city-county government. And it's a de facto city by almost any definition.
Honolulu (Hawaii) has had a unified city-county government for decades, and has rural areas* in addition to suburban and urban.
Macon and BIbb county merged sometime in the last twenty years; that was small city merging with suburbs.
*maybe not in the strict census sense since they are rather small area wise, and I'm not sure the central pineapple fields are there anymore (as open fields) as they had shut down most operations as of my last visit 6-7 years ago.
The commission has been a soup sandwich* and hasn't been able to come up with maps everyone agrees with, so it's (by the implementing constitutional amendment) going to go to the court system - which in Virginia is not elected, but does currently still lean GOP.
*and really multi-layered soup sandwich. Initiated as an idea when the Republicans had longstanding control of one or both houses of the legislature, but then the Democrats tried to put on the brakes when 1) they actually got control and 2) realized the necessary failsafe clause would not be in their favor. But it was too late and the consitutional amendment passed because, among other things, the NoVa voters that lean Dem but are not hardcore partisans *really* love 'good governance'** and this was right in that wheelhouse.
**which is fair, and a legacy of two to three generations ago when the Byrd machine ran everything at the expense of (among others) both Dems and Republicans in the rapidly growing and changing Depression/World War2/Cold War era DC suburbs.
On “No Fun to be a Girl”
This is interesting because it's a bit at odds with what I understood to be the cultural norms for the era. Brigg's youth "skin-nay" cartoons are usually nominally set in small town 1880s Midwest (where he himself grew up.)
My understanding was that first of all, this was still 'the west' culturally, so gender 'norms' were a bit looser, (compared to say either New England or the South, where there norms, tho different from each other, had more social stricture). And in any case, (but esp in 'the west') didn't really make really strong differentiation until around 11-12 years old.
Even in New England-set "Little Women," a girl sledding down a hill would have probably been unremarkable. (Though on the other hand, Little Women was set about twenty years earlier than when this comic takes place, so two more decades of creeping Victorianism has happened. And the March's are super-proggie by the standards of the day is half the point of the books)
On “Hungry on New Years”
Huh, so that was the country for ‘eat your vegetables, there are kids starving in X’ in that decade.
On “The Parable of The Beatles: Get Back”
I've only seen the first episode so far, and I agree with all this.
And just to echo this point again, the diamond in the whole thing is that these guys were so talented, the performances they gave when just futzing around trying to think of 'real work' were dazzling and electrifying.
One thing I never knew is how their manager died really young, and at perhaps the critical point in the trajectory of the Beatles as a band. One wonders if they would have someone they trusted to handle the 'business' and free of the stress of that they would have been able to keep it going another couple of years. And moreover someone to manage the tension of that 'essential life force' - balancing the need for an audience but having enough 'infrastructure' to not be overwhelmed by them.
Though really, that part of the job probably wasn't one of Brian Epstein's strong suits* and why they quit performing in public - in that opening montage they were numerous scenes where there could have been (and was?) similar tragedy to what happened in Houston a few weeks ago w/ Travis Scott
*but to be fair to him - nobody had experience with that sort of thing, it was pretty much the dawn of modern celebrity culture
On “Things I Learned From Binging Siskel And Ebert”
"Obviously Siskel And Ebert was nothing groundbreaking,"
would respectfully disagree a bit. Sure, by 1998 they had been on the air (between this and Sneak Previews) for over twenty years, but they started this genre. (unless you count Gene Shalit, doing it with much shorter segments on the Today Show, per wikipedia started two years earlier). (it's also unclear when local tv personalities, like Arch Campbell started doing their segments, but from personal memory, were certainly in full swing by the early 1980s)
edit - should have read the entire post before commenting, but where's the fun in that?
On “The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial: Em Carpenter’s Blunt Take On The Whole Thing”
"started'?
The foundation of the modern conservative movement is 'complaining about the refs'.
And it's well before Limbaugh went national and gave diatribes against 'the liberal media'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_and_Man_at_Yale
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Well, honest question, for anyone willing to answer - what is the actual legal standard? My understanding is that if evidence is exculpatory, and the prosecution hides that from the defense, yeah, that's a big no no.
But what if the evidence is inconclusive, and/or doesn't reveal very much at at all? Is that still a Brady(?) violation?
"
Right wing twitter was clearly making shit up (quelle surprise) because they 'source' was an impossibility.
On “The Brick Layer”
I thought we had something about bricklayers before, but we had his counterpart, the hod carrier https://ordinary-times.com/2020/08/11/real-hod-carrier-at-home/
Interesting contrast in phase of life as well as 'support on the home front'.
On “No Bananas, No Heat”
And even Louis Prima's version is roughly like someone doing a cover of The Macarena today.
On “The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial: Em Carpenter’s Blunt Take On The Whole Thing”
Huh, this does relate to what I just wrote below. It seems to me that you can see the shape of the intention of the law, in that having too short of rifle/shotgun is illegal, but a longer one ok. As the longer gun is more difficult to conceal, etc, and so one's intentions and escalation/provocation status probably become more 'level' - i.e. with a big gun, it's always going to be visible from the outset, and your handling of it more obvious.
"
.
What is, is. and I am of course going to defer to your expertise.
But what 'should be' is a proposition that, well, is and should be an opinion that any layperson could have.
Which is to say I disagree with the statement 'the mere presence of a weapon should not be considered a provocation' I'm not sure I'm in agreement with it's complete opposite (i.e. the mere presence of a weapon should *always* be considered a provocation). But I'm not at all willing to give carte blanche to any and all escalations, which displaying a weapon (especially when not previously displayed), I'd say usually is. (and isn't that part of the law, 'brandishing'?)
On “No Bananas, No Heat”
This is why everyone in the North east converted from coal to fuel oil (and/or natural gas) as soon as possible, (though gas was a bit later) - for the convenience. Being better for the environment (relatively speaking) was a good benefit, but one not mandated for another generation or two.
On “Oh Man! The Surprise”
Though in that comic you linked, it was called 'a certain package' (wink wink, nudge nudge).
I think I do remember the other one you are talking about too.
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That's wild, I don't remember that one. Wild in that, yes, in universe, he's writing a check with all the paper trail that entails*, and the meta-narrative that there is not present any scintilla of 'wink wink nudge nudge', just the wife saying that "the bootlegger" contacted her....
...wait that might be the 'subtle' part? He's sweating and taking care of the business right away because the bootlegger talked directly to his wife? which is then a threat to her safety?
*though looking it up, Capone wasn't convicted of tax evasion until 1931
On “Steve Bannon Indicted On Two Counts Of Contempt of Congress”
[1] again
On “Oh Man! The Surprise”
I do often wonder if there are any 'lost' Briggs comics because they were censored for being a bit too explicit about alcohol use. Though this one in 1919 - if I'm reading the panel correctly - is super duper early in the prohibition era, and may not even be in it, given the Volstead Act only went into effect between Oct 1919 and Jan 2020.
On “From the Washington Examiner: Oregon governor signs bill ending reading and math proficiency requirements for graduation”
As of All Covids Eve, only 11 states had some sort of test to graduate high school
https://www.fairtest.org/graduation-test-update-states-recently-eliminated
(some other sources have the number at 13, but are a couple of years older)
edit - and the link above does *not* include Oregon as one of them, so there may be issues with accuracy (and probably, definitions of what tests people are talking about)
"
here(PDF) is a link to the bill as passed.
(only 2 pages really, the third is for signature blocks)
(from here - https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Measures/Overview/SB744)
On “Restating: Rethinking States, Cities, and Redistricting”
Arlington is not unique in a unified city-county government. And it's a de facto city by almost any definition.
Honolulu (Hawaii) has had a unified city-county government for decades, and has rural areas* in addition to suburban and urban.
Macon and BIbb county merged sometime in the last twenty years; that was small city merging with suburbs.
*maybe not in the strict census sense since they are rather small area wise, and I'm not sure the central pineapple fields are there anymore (as open fields) as they had shut down most operations as of my last visit 6-7 years ago.
On “Oh Man! The Banquet”
And this gentlemen just invented blogging.
On “The Radio Announcer”
I heard tell the lady invented podcasting that very night.
On “Does Virginia Matter to the Midterms?”
The commission has been a soup sandwich* and hasn't been able to come up with maps everyone agrees with, so it's (by the implementing constitutional amendment) going to go to the court system - which in Virginia is not elected, but does currently still lean GOP.
*and really multi-layered soup sandwich. Initiated as an idea when the Republicans had longstanding control of one or both houses of the legislature, but then the Democrats tried to put on the brakes when 1) they actually got control and 2) realized the necessary failsafe clause would not be in their favor. But it was too late and the consitutional amendment passed because, among other things, the NoVa voters that lean Dem but are not hardcore partisans *really* love 'good governance'** and this was right in that wheelhouse.
**which is fair, and a legacy of two to three generations ago when the Byrd machine ran everything at the expense of (among others) both Dems and Republicans in the rapidly growing and changing Depression/World War2/Cold War era DC suburbs.
On “Old Songs: Casey & The Strawberry Blond”
yeah, my ear is tin (or maybe bismuth). I was able to find the sheet music for this one, and I'm not even close.
https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/140/031
https://pianosongdownload.com/Take%20Me%20Out%20to%20the%20Ball%20Game%20Sheet%20Music.pdf (pdf)
"
isn't 11 to 12 sec (approx) the same chord progression and cadence as "The Ol' Ball Game"?
On “The Antenny”
The First Home Owner's Association Busybody NIMBY.
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