Has anyone else experienced the following: You’ve been stressed out past your limit so much for so long that you stop holding back about things? That’s where I’m at right now. Whether that’s good for my mental health–or anyone else’s–is up for debate. Film at 11, as they say.
- RIP to Richard Belzer, most likely the first comedian I ever saw on TV and knew what he was. A brilliant comedian. The character of John Munch will have him on TV from now until the heat death of the Universe because SVU is playing on TV somewhere on the planet. I heard yesterday that he took the settlement money when Hulk Hogan dropped him and bought a house in France that he named Chez Hogan. I don’t know if that’s true, but that sounds like him. And, of course, let’s never forget his brief moment of MTV stardom.
- MTG posted this tweet this morning (it’s there as I type it, card subject to change) where she says:
“We need a national divorce. We need to separate into red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”
Honestly, I’m warming up to this idea, but not for the reasons she would like. It would appear that the red states are more dependent on Federal Aid than the Blue states, which generally have a higher income and GDP. The Blue states pay more taxes, and the Red states appear to be the–to be generous–slightly larger beneficiary of those taxes. But, of course, this ‘national divorce’ will never happen. She knows that. This is just red meat for the ignorant. Her citizens will expect the same services they’re getting today with a fraction of the tax base. You have to make up for that somehow. Someone should ask her how she plans to….oh, wait. Right. What plan, right?
- MTG Related: Could someone please tell her that giving access of the 1/6 tapes to Tucker Carlson is not the same as releasing the tapes? If there are 41,000 hours of footage, you can bet Tucker is going to release about 30 seconds of some guy from Dubuque taking a leak in the Bushes and claim it was Antifa, so TOTAL EXONERATION. Of course all that footage will NEVER be made public, but that’s ok. We have C-Span.
- To get back into photography, I’ve signed up for a newsletter from Digital Photography School. This week’s challenge appears to be about using lines in your images. ByI received a beginner’s guide to street photography for signing up for their newsletter. I was today years old when I realized one of the best tips about street photography is to find a place you like aesthetically and JUST FUCKING WAIT THERE. I’m the Goofus walking around with a camera making everyone uncomfortable. Plus, the last time I went out shooting street photography, I had my Canon T5i. My iPhone 12 camera with the Moment Gear is much more suited to this purpose. So, I think I have two things to work out this week. Let’s see how it goes.
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- Photography related: I see that Canon is releasing the R50, which seems to me to be the entry level mirrorless camera. This is clearly meant to be replacing the M50; the M Line was Canon’s first excursion into Mirrorless cameras and after a while it was clear that Canon wasn’t going to devote more time to it. A fine camera, but a limited amount of glass. The R50 along with an 18-45mm and 55-210mm lens is out for pre-order for 1029.00, and I have to tell you I’m wanting this one. There is an adapter for my EF Lenses, so there’s a way to keep my current glass involved. My more professional friends might laugh at wanting just the entry level camera. I don’t need more than that. I’m not a pro, but I do want a new camera. My T5i was out of date when I bought it at a pawn shop with two lenses for 300 bucks. I’ve held off on getting a new camera until Canon made an ‘affordable’ replacement they were going to stand behind, and this R50 is that camera.
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- Jimmy Carter is entering hospice care, and the amount of tributes he’s receiving for the life he’s led post-Presidency is nice to see. Honestly, he wasn’t the greatest President, but he’ll be leaving this Earth knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that he wasn’t the worst. I stand by my belief that Carter freed the Iranian Hostages in the hours before Reagan’s Inauguration, and Ronald Reagan got credit for it, and I hope in the coming weeks the tributes make that abundantly clear. Of course, there will be the vultures, you’ll see them come out of the woodwork the moment the announcement is made. I suppose I’d ask them how they felt when someone spoke ill of Reagan when he died, but they’ll never answer that question as long as the white hot hatred of Carter/Clinton/Fonda/Ted Kennedy fills them with impotent rage. That Venn Diagram is the most perfect of circles, you can be assured of that.
- The human equivalent of the slime you scrape from a hull under the water line James O’Keefe has resigned from Project Veritas. No doubt he’ll find another grift, they always do. On the other hand, maybe he’ll end up doing dinner theater in Branson. Kind of a coin flip, truthfully.
- At last, the true power of AI: Let it decide who gets laid off. You know this is how we get Friend Computer, right? Please report to the Food Vats for…uh…Reassignment.
- Lastly, I’m starting a little experiment. This post is also a Podcast on my Patreon Page. It’s got what you see here, plus a little more in the way of my flavor of crazy because it’s me. I’m making every Monday Patreon show public so it can be shared and promoted. Feel free to check it out, share and subscribe. Thank you.