1. What does your dog do when you drop the leash?
2. There's this really creepy bird.
3. The nerve of this thing....
4. Let's tell President Clinton how much we love The Internet.
5. College kids are glued to The Facebook Dot Com.
6. Camille Paglia on pronouns. [ADDED: Linked deleted because the video has been removed. It was a clip from this longer video from 2017.]
7. Trump, the cab driver, talks about nuclear.
8. Perfect Ring-camera joke-telling technique.
9. Using nonsense words to ask AI for images.
10. Creating a weird sound for each state.
3. The return of the influencer.
4. Asking people to name 3 songs by the band whose name is on their shirt.
1. What Ricky Gervais said that got some tweeters calling him transphobic.
2. And Ricky Gervais explaining cancel culture.
4. A man imitates his introverted wife (she's filming and laughing).
5. What's really going on this painting?
6. One too many turtles.
7. "The frog is not available...."
8. When The Band was The Crackers.
9. That nod!
I own a cuddly tortoise sewn by my mother, which she gave me when I was 7. It has a floral shell, a red underbelly and black felt eyes. Even though I’m notoriously prone to losing things, I’ve managed to keep hold of that tortoise through sundry house moves and even changes of country. My mother died over 30 years ago, so I’ve now lived more of my life without her than with her. I find more comfort in that tortoise than I do in photographs of her, which are now so faded and dated, and emphasize how long she’s been gone. What consoles me is the permanence of the object she made — its unchanging nature, its stolid three-dimensional reality. I’d give up many of my possessions to keep that tortoise, the few exceptions being things that have their own allusive power, like my wedding ring....
She has a new book, we learn, "The Christmas Pig" — "a story of objects lost and found, of things beloved and things unregretted."
It's the day before Christmas. Are you thinking about things — things to give and receive, to want and not want?
How powerfully do you imbue things with magic — or do you have anything going amongst your possessions that you could even vaguely term "magic"?
So reads an intertitle 1 minute and 19 seconds into the 1924 Harold Lloyd movie "Girl Shy" (which I watched because my son John identified it as his favorite movie of that year).
The character is what these days we might call an "incel." He's also, essentially, a pornographer, to the extent such a person could appear in a mainstream movie in 1924. He is writing "The Secret of Making Love" by thinking up a stereotypical female and dictating the right approach for the male to gain the quickest possible sexual access...
The access is indicated by his putting a check by her name in his little book. If you watch that clip, you'll see his visualization of the seduction of, first, the "vampire" (i.e., the vamp) and, second, the flapper. In case you'd like to know this pathetic little man's imagined mode of conquest, the vampire is seduced by ignoring her (negging?), and the flapper responds to his acting like a "caveman" (domestic violence?).
Of course, this is played (successfully!) as comedy, and of course, our little man — Harold Meadows — finds a real woman to love. Here, he tries to tell her about his book, gets carried away in rhapsodizing about the new direction of his next chapter, and is thwarted by a turtle who slowly drags him into the muck where he becomes embarrassingly gooey and sticky. He's sitting on the turtle, which I have to say represents his genitalia:
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