Two new treats on the tip of our tongues via the Gray Lady at 3am PST Tuesday.

Neighborhoods in China and Mexico which will definitely never have gang problems, nosiree.

Here, via the computer internet, is that Chinese neighborhood.

They don't like foreigners.

I think this is the Mexican neighborhood.

Dooyoo reelee wantoo hurrrt himmm? ♫ ♬

Dooyoo reelee wantoo....

It'll never catch on.

A secretly interesting legal thread.

You have to wear your pee jays.

Comeuppance.

These guys.

My place is O.K.

"A secretly interesting legal thread."

He'll lose. It's well known in the dance community that dance moves and patterns are not copyrightable.

Isn't this a violation of campaign finance laws? what is the value of skewing search results so favorably?

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1074790076607918080

Cats and learning.

https://twitter.com/fluff/status/1074210939786846209

A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. "For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year," wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record "a failure of bread from the years 536–539."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

From "don't be evil" to "whatevs", that didn't take long.

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1068542058175098882

> He'll lose.

Mebbe. If I used software (virtually identical packages) to track Tom Hanks' face for a feature cartoon in which Hanks had no participation, I bet he could win a judgment. This is a silly comedian with a trivial joke, but lucrative showbiz is all about very distinct expressions of identity, and when juries learn how readily software can copy those distinctions, there will be some payouts.

If he's smart, he won't contest the use of it or charge others for using it - just insist they credit him and call it "The Carlton." Insisting on payment will cause others to create their own goofy dance steps. This way, he'll always be the creator or "The Carlton."

Fresh Prince has been off the air for too long. The dance is just not as monetizable as some people seem to think it is.

I think this is satire.

https://spectator.us/comedy-problematic-konstantin-kisin/

The government isn't going to protect you.

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom dismissed a suit filed by 15 students who claimed they were traumatized by the crisis in February. The suit named six defendants, including the Broward school district and the Broward Sheriff’s Office, as well as school deputy Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.

Bloom ruled that the two agencies had no constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-ne-douglas-survivor-lawsuit-federal-judge-20181217-story.html

This guy

The citizens of Memphis should file suit against the city council for failing their fiduciary duties. This seems to suggest they're $32 million in the hole.

Health Science and Memphis Park were sold to Memphis GreenSpace, Inc. – statues and all - for the sum of $2,000. The properties were valued at around $1 million each.

...

Earlier this year the family offered to settle with the city for $30.6 million to take possession and move the monument, but the offer was rebuffed by the city.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170727

> just not as monetizable

Agreed-- Those two gifs cover the most famous individual dance performances of their decade.

You guys are right, I'm just saying people should be careful about using motion-tracking software which performs with such fidelity to original sources. Never watched the Prince show, but the first time I saw the karate guy GIF I totally recognized it.

If I see a too-reminiscent rendering of a gorgeous, B&W, Swedish face weeping on the misty tarmac in the style of you-know-who, I'm gonna file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of freaking Warners. That's right, I will.

Then I will come to your (the new producer's) house, I will track you with hounds, and I will cut you. Do not fuck with Ilsa.

Additionally—

Note the sort-of domed structure in this view of Strasser's arrival at the Casablanca airport in daylight. If you watch the movie, it's in almost every shot of the scene, which was filmed at the Burbank airport in '41... It was presumably the only Mediterranean-looking architecture near the Warner studios. I believe it was demolished in 1985 or so, give or take a decade.

And then note the seemingly unnecessary tower structures near this unremarkable warehouse adjacent to the southernmost runway at Los Angeles International, just across the freeway from the AT&T building. From starboard window seats, it's plainly visible in United & American departures over the coast, as most of them are.

I think somebody in the shipping business (or his architect) was a film buff.

I hope he one day found his Ilsa, but that she hadn't become married since Paris.

I thought this was obviously satire. Am I wrong?

> I thought this was obviously satire. Am I wrong?

You need to stop mainstreaming the normalization of cishet patriarchal privilege through the commodification of blackness in proxifascistic opposition to the sociopolitically marginalized subject to erasure by the rehabilitation of transmisogynistic biological essentialism.

You guys are right, I'm just saying people should be careful about using motion-tracking software which performs with such fidelity to original sources. Never watched the Prince show, but the first time I saw the karate guy GIF I totally recognized it.

You're talking about Jet Li and his refusal to work on the Matrix sequels?

“It was a commercial struggle for me,” Li said, “I realized the Americans wanted me to film for three months but be with the crew for nine. And for six months, they wanted to record and copy all my moves into a digital library. By the end of the recording, the right to these moves would go to them.”

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/jet-li-rejected-the-matrix-sequels-martial-arts-1202013491/

I hope he one day found his Ilsa, but that she hadn't become married since Paris. ~ Crid at December 18, 2018 12:13 PM

Actually, Ilsa was already married to Victor when she had the affair in Paris with Rick. Victor was in captivity then. Victor's release/escape and injury were the reasons she deserted Rick in Paris; to stay with Victor and see him healed and on his way to freedom.

His subsequent status as an icon to the Resistance meant that Victor's safety and escape were about more than Ilsa's feelings. She had to go with Victor. That she loved both of them made her choice all the more difficult.

Let's also hope he found his Louis. When the Nazis come, everyone could use a friend who doesn't rat him out to save his own skin.

Whiskey makes you live longer. Of course, this is being reported by Irish Central, so consider the source.

"I'm not killin' meself, I'm fightin' cancer."

Take that, vodka.

You need to stop mainstreaming the normalization of cishet patriarchal privilege through the commodification of blackness in proxifascistic opposition to the sociopolitically marginalized subject to erasure by the rehabilitation of transmisogynistic biological essentialism.

Word soup.

Toxic word soup.

Also: BINGO! Buzzword bingo is still a thing, right?

http://reason.com/blog/2018/12/13/top-10-worst-helicopter-parenting-moment

I especially cherish #6.

Brenda Snipes wants to be reinstated to her supervisor of elections position, just in time to be impeached by the Florida Senate and removed from office.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/12/brenda-snipes-sues-for-reinstatement-as-broward-co-elections-supervisor-seeks-emergency-injunction/

> Ilsa was already married

Well, yeah... But maybe the architects Paris girl quietly secured a divorce in those years when he was running guns to Ethiopia (or designing strip malls in Orange County... Same thing). So he'd never know.

A few weeks ago I was reading about how Bogey had spent the movie jumping on top of boxes so he'd be taller than Bergman. And I thought of this scene, and how it always seemed like that woman had the longest left thigh our species had ever grown.

Perhaps only in comparison to Bogart

Total C & U, if you ask me.

“Personal isn't the same as important.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

And that is why Ilsa left with Victor. Personal also isn't as important as important.

(She had been told Victor was dead before she started the affair with Rick.)

You guys, with your facts and details, are seriously cutting into my pretense of expertise about this movie.