Standing in a hotel room with a limo driver and a Mexican actor listening to a rich guy with his robe wide open rant about how the FBI and CIA are trying to kill him because he’s come up with a solution to end poverty.
He gave me his laptop and told me to guard it with my life because it was the laptop that changed the world and it would be in the Smithsonian someday. I tossed it in the dumpster on the way out.
He never revealed what his plan to end poverty was. He just bought three yellow H2s, had the Mexican actor drive some kids whose mom had died of cancer around to look at Christmas lights, then got institutionalized.
Same guy also kept a captain on staff to pilot his yacht. Spent most of his time running various errands for him, not in a captain’s hat as often as I’d like. We had to address him as captain as well, like it was a fucking rank. Calling him Captain Greg took some polish off.
I still think about that nice old limo driver. He was a driver for the hotel and the dude hired him to be his personal driver. I was like oh no, run. But he was so excited. I’m sure it was a nice raise for the week or so until he cratered.
In general I would like to avoid seeing the genitals of my employers, but maybe that’s just me.
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Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most underrated Baroque painters. She's become more well known the last ten or so years, but I appreciate her work more than some of her more famous contemporaries like Caravaggio because she breathes life into her female subjects.
When I look at a lot of paintings of the time, the women in paintings feel like beautiful objects d'art, not people. The real expression and complexity is reserved for the men at the center of paintings. Not so with Artemeisa.
For instance her depiction of Judith Beheading Holofernes, one of the most painted scenes in art, is easily my favorite. There's this grim, dispassionate resolve in the face of Judith and her maid as they dispatch their would be invader. Fukkin slaps.
Tasers shouldn’t be used as compliance tools. They’re not non-lethal, they’re less lethal. People still die from their application and that’s without considering cases where cops “grab the wrong gun”, yet cops continue to blast away with them with impunity.
As if 2012 Amnesty International had tracked 500 deaths after taser applications since 2001. In another report they found 90% of the time when a taser was deployed the person shocked was unarmed. amnestyusa.org/press-releases…
Our police are militarized and the thin blue line mentality that they’re the last line of defense between civilization and barbarism is an inextricable part of cop culture. They operate like an invading force, terrified of many of the people they’re supposed to be serving.
A nearly 80 year old Donald Tump in the presidential debates in 2024, slumped over on his stool looking like an overstuffed haggis marinated in turmeric, rambling about Hillary Clinton killing Vince Foster.
“You know that’s a very interesting question, Tim.”
“My name is Chris, Mr. President. And I didn’t ask you a question.”
“Thank you, Tim. I appreciate that.” *stares into the distance horrified* “I still hear his voice, Tim. Can you hear it?”
“Mr. President, if we can move on. Polling shows that climate change is a key concern for the public, how do you propose to address it.”
“Great question, Tom.”
“Chris.”
“Exactly. Change concerns me too, ok. How does a woman change over night, Dom?”
I may have mentioned this before, but my grandmother was incredibly racist against, of all things, Finnish people. She warned us early and often to avoid Finns because they're clannish and carry knives.
Don't get me wrong, she was regular 'ol racist as well, but for whatever reason she had a special hatred in her heart for Finns. This is doubly funny to me because her husband's family came from an area of Norway known as Finnskogen, Forest of the Finns.
When my mom and dad first started dating she expressed concerns about their potential kids struggling in society as products of a mixed marriage.
Everyone who spoke out against these clowns got so much pushback. They produced low-rent, ineffective resistance porn. Your dollars would have been better spent going to places like Fair Fight Action or candidates in competitive districts.
The guy that introduced me to her was a character. The first time I met him he came to our offices and called to ask if we had an elevator. This was an odd question considering our office started with 2 so it was clearly on the second floor, but I answered yes.
I sat there wondering what the bell he was bringing. Some kind of display? Food? The company he repped was a diet supplement company, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Then he arrived and I saw why he asked about the elevator.