• This was a great reply to Amy's tweet. Basically, once I've heard about something "cultural" in the street sense (i.e., beyond copyright) it's as much mine as yours. You don't get to tell me what kind of haircut to wear or food to eat by your, or anyone else's, judgments of authenticity & heritage. Does your culture have something great you'd prefer only appear in a particular contexts? Great… Don't tell anybody.

• Meanwhile, as the holiday approaches (and even though it's likely to be lame this year), this is still the best kid's costume I've ever seen. Mom & Dad cared enough to make Hank look convincingly stocky.

• This is at least half-right, and maybe two-halfs right.

• Teicholz at her best.

If the world is copying you, it means you probably did something right. Why not be happy about that, instead of whining about cultural appropriation?

Anne Boleyn, please call your office. What do you mean, "my hands a full"?

Apparently cultural appropriation is now deserving of not only condemnation and cancellation, but also jail time.
Decapitation — a la Islamist fanatics — is probably not far behind.

In The Guardian...

In the photograph, [Adele] wore a string bikini decorated with the Jamaican flag and had her hair in Bantu knots – small coiled buns typically associated with people of African descent.

However, Adele was quickly accused by Twitter users, many of them from the US, of cultural appropriation for using the hairstyle.

One tweeted: “If you haven’t quite understood cultural appropriation, look at Adele’s last Instagram post. She should go to jail no parole for this.”

Such a lovely burn:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TextAuras/status/1317906655233908736

Ever wonder how an assembly of Nevertrump Republicans look like?

https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1318005967586459649

Can't remember can't remember whether it's Darth or Ord who has the secret love for California, but here you go…

In case you were wondering what the counter-protest at a pro-life rally looks like:

https://twitter.com/RealBasedMAGA/status/1318206445549195265

As opposed to violence by counter-protesters?

Well...that's good, right?

She's clearly trying to be funny. Without touching anyone. Good for her. Especially during the pandemic. She clearly isn't vain, either. That's also good.

But I will say that rallies and protests became juvenile cliches decades ago anyway, which is one reason I almost never have gone to one. IMO, they should be a last resort, in the U.S. (Politics, religion, etc., are serious subjects and need to be discussed carefully and with dignity, and rallies, too often, dissolve into frivolous behavior.)

In the same vein, even if I happen to agree with the signs that all my neighbors have in their windows, I will never put a sign in any of my windows, of ANY kind.

As Fran Lebowitz said: "If people don't want to hear from you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?"

Not to mention that such signs lead to mutual bitterness and mob mentalities. Example: Anyone knows that if you belong to a political minority and have a yard sign that reveals that, it's likely to get destroyed. So why should it be considered civilized for ANYONE to wear political clothes or display/carry political signs, unless you're already inside the stadium or park where the rally takes place? (Same goes for clothes with sports logos, IMO. Aside from the fact that sometimes sports fans have killed their rivals just for their clothes, at the least, the sports teams should PAY their fans to wear them.)

I realize that that's almost like saying "we should never have started the nuclear arms race," but stranger things have happened, after all.

And, from someone I've quoted here before - quite recently, in fact:

"...There is danger in numbers. They may nudge you into performing an action which is beyond the limits of your chosen style. And in public! The striker makes demands on the dreary grounds that he is one of many, all of whom are alike. But the stylist asks for what he wants in the name of the fact that he is unique. And everything in the world is subject to the law of scarcity value, because deep down, there is only one of each of you. When the time for serious bargaining comes, you will win."

That is ONE flexible fat girl.

Here we are.

You know what to do.

> how an assembly of Nevertrump
> Republicans look

Will you seriously contend that Trump represents a meaningful thread of Republican principle?

Care to put it in a sentence?

> rallies and protests became juvenile
> cliches decades ago anyway, which is
> one reason I almost never have gone
> to one

I boycotted grapes, with signs in front of groceries (probably), in the mid-70's.

This was a while ago.

Trying to remember the protests I've been to since then:

1. __________
2. __________
3. __________
4. __________

Most, MOST protests, are about burning through your adolescent energies before you put your head down for work, reading, and humble growth.

So while I like some big girls, most especially when they're young, dewy, flexible, audacious and athletic, this particular one seems not to have accepted the assignment for humble growth.

There are civilized ways of expressing your policy and political preferences.

Not one Trump sign in my neighborhood, but we have three of those “We believe love is love”. No Biden signs either.

Took my mother to her fifty year college reunion in 1996. One of her classmates, asked us where we were from. We told her, Wyoming. She replied in a low country accent you could cut with a knife.

“We certainly all admire your Mr. Simpson”

All of this wreaks havoc on relationships.

My ex challenged me with her new position and I swear I needed remedial yoga for a week after.

God, that girl was flexible.