Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:
- Not sure if I’m more annoyed by those who look down on this or that literary genre or those who make a big deal about “genre shaming.” My advice to folks who feel “shamed”: Try not giving a shit.
- The James Whale-directed version of “Show Boat” — the second and probably best of the movies based on the stage musical — is finally available on DVD.
- I say dead.
- “It is like starting a society to study Hitler.” I guess they don’t study Hitler in college these days?
- “Stab a wax Putin” should be an idiomatic expression. “She felt strangely impotent as she electronically ‘signed’ the petition to end hunger in Africa. She believed in the cause, but she wondered if by involving herself in this effort she was merely stabbing a wax Putin.”
- Future ages will see videos of our flashmobs and look for the missing whale.
- Unsafety is a big concern these days. My hunch: Progressives realize they sound like ninnies when they demand that things be banned simply because they’re offended by them. So they run to the “it’s unsafe” excuse as a way of saving face. I had someone tell me that Donald Sterling needed to be stripped of his basketball team because it was the only way to keep his millionaire employees safe.
- Political strongman game.
- On the alleged betrayal of an alleged feminist icon. Why is no one outraged that an underage Fisher was nailed by Warren Beatty in “Shampoo”?
- Boo hoo hoo.
- What if they choose a male name but it’s one of those male names that wealthy urban white people give their kids, like Beckett or Kalan? Nobody’s scared of Hurricane Kalan.
- Strange correlations. (H/T Malcolm Pollack)
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
Lookin’ forward to that “Show Boat” DVD. When Irene Dunne shoves herself off the table and starts to shake her bustle in “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” (at about 3:55 below) it’s gotta be one of the sexiest moments in post-Code 30s films. Most shameful part of the movie is Paul Robeson’s little, shit-eating grin at the end of “Ol’ Man River”. Could they have emasculated the character any further? Commie or not, the guy was a great singer.
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Why is no one outraged that an underage Fisher was nailed by Warren Beatty in “Shampoo”?
Because Beatty is a consummate alpha male, and feminists always forgive alpha males their indiscretions (viz, Clinton, William Jefferson).
That hurricane thing: ahh, a new insta-meme about female hurricane names! Yes, Katrina was deadly because it was named after a woman. Not because of mind-blowing incompetence at every level of government and a populace comprised of a very large percentage of people barely above the level of retardation. ‘Twas the name what did it! Shoulda been Hurricane Kareem. Then them peoples woulda high-tailed it right out of there in all those flooded school buses, or whatever.
And from that whale in the painting story, this quote: “Shan Kuang, a conservation student at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.” The fact that at Cambridge there is a student named Shan Kuang is pretty much all you need to know about why England is doomed.
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Some blog referred to Putin as Vladolf Putler recently.
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