Deprived of the savvy Savva's scintillating insights - where is she, why has she abandoned us? - and with that heroic greenie Lloydie banging on about the importance of coal, oi, oi, oi, in saving dinkum coral reefs - what a crusading environmentalist he is - the pond decided it needed a little relief for a light-hearted Thursday …
The Terror offered no joy, with the pond almost choking on its cream puff …
Have a go at mocking the Bolter, but there he is worrying about the sexism suffered by attractive male leaders?
How to get past the gale of laughter that greeted that opening thrust? Wolf whistle Malware as he walked past a building site?
Men being burnt at the stake? Only in the world of the Terror and Louise's fervid imaginings ...
Desperate for a distraction, the pond remembered the good old days when it would rush off to an early session at the flicks …
Then the pond turned to the Speccie mob, and decided that there'd be no harm doing a simple William Burroughs style cut and paste about a recent social and cultural phenomenon …
Then the pond turned to the Speccie mob, and decided that there'd be no harm doing a simple William Burroughs style cut and paste about a recent social and cultural phenomenon …
Now up front the pond confesses it has very little interest in comic book super heroes or Marvel movies or all the rest of it, but this is a popcorn Thursday, so it's on with the show ...
Uh huh, and so to the cut and paste, because while the pond has no time for super hero movies, it finds it marvellous that a preacher should seek to trade off on one … and considers it moving, even poignant, to compare and contrast the ideas mocked in the movie with the ideas available on the preacher's website … as with this one, putting Marvel comics in their place ...
And so to that tweet ...
And now a cut and paste bookend to the tweet ...
Uh huh, that feels about right, ideas are flying, things are cooking, sparks are jumping …
The pond won't bother with a synopsis, with or without spoilers, since the ideas in a super hero movie are about as silly as people rising from the dead, and everyone heading off in a rapture, or complimentary women harassing the Bolter ...
The pond won't bother with a synopsis, with or without spoilers, since the ideas in a super hero movie are about as silly as people rising from the dead, and everyone heading off in a rapture, or complimentary women harassing the Bolter ...
Did someone mention colonialism, with a topping of universalism?
Hey nonny no, on we go ...
There are at least three even deeper problems?
Never mind, could complimentary women be one of them?
Did someone mention Divine Rights?
As for pesky difficult patriarchs, what was the state of play in the Presbyterian church in 2009, as outlined here?
Oh that's not fair of the pond, it's stepped outside the rules of the cut and paste, and what do you know, the Victorians here, believe in complimentary women …
That's passing strange, and there the pond was thinking that it was the movies that celebrated patriarchal lifestyles ...
Okay, okay, the pond should play fair and get back to the cut and paste … art must operate according to certain rules and signifiers, and no sinning against this is allowed ...
Okay, okay, the pond should play fair and get back to the cut and paste … art must operate according to certain rules and signifiers, and no sinning against this is allowed ...
Did someone mention rising from the dead?
Well, there's no doubt that being respectable in any way is extremely crass and suspect, and quite possibly might harm the prospect of eternal redemption … and instead offer up the possibility of eternal damnation ...
So where has this cut and paste led the pond?
Well there's the rich question of what is sillier … a Marvel movie, or the sight of a Presbyterian trading off on it …
Naturally the pond tossed the remaining popcorn on the floor and the seats, just to help the art department out ...
Naturally the pond tossed the remaining popcorn on the floor and the seats, just to help the art department out ...
The hero is Trump?
So not all is lost?
At least there's Hope, until she goes … and it's time for another session of savaging Sessions …
And at least there's a chance to add a few Donald cartoons ...
At least there's Hope, until she goes … and it's time for another session of savaging Sessions …
And at least there's a chance to add a few Donald cartoons ...
First the pond must apologise to the ABC, and now the pond must apologise for forsaking Lloydie, dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi?
Never mind, it'll be back to the reptile crusades soon enough, the pond is sure of it ...
Rather than making a politics-related comment, I'll just be Comic Book Guy for a moment and note that the Black Panther's own _comic_ wasn't first published in 1966 - and in fact he didn't receive his own series until 1973. Rather the _character_ made his debut in 1966, in Issue #52 of "Fantastic Four" - the first issue of that comic I ever bought.
ReplyDeleteOkay I know I'm being pedantic, but I'm not Gerard Henderson - honest (I suspect that Hendo would have found even Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge stories too left wing for his tastes).
Well Wikipedia agrees with you Anony:
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanda_(comics)
so you can't be just being a Polonial Perfectionist (ie the kind that never comes even close to basic accuracy, much less to any degree of perfection).
But I wonder if Wakanda would be one of those African nations where the Guardian has urged native Chiefs to apologise for fostering the slave trade:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/18/africans-apologise-slave-trade
It didn't mention the Arab middlemen though.
Anyone who can mention Comic Book Guy and the pond's beloved Carl Barks in the one comment immediately enters the pond's hall of fame ...
DeleteLouise Roberts: "Chivalry and equality must be allowed to coexist".
ReplyDeleteAbso-bloody-lutely, Louise. As an aged and aging senior, I fully expect fit young women to open doors for me, to give up their bus or train seat for me and even, once in a while, let me get in front of them in queues. But I also insist on equality, especially of the genders, sexes and preferences. So if there's somebody else on the bus or train - regardless of age or self-identification - who is more frail than me, then I too will surrender my seat.
So, worry not, Louise, chivalry and equality manifestly coexist even as we commune..
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteThe idea of a strong independent African country locked away in mountainous terrain, which had successfully resisted colonisation by Western powers, has strong echoes of the way Ethiopia caught the imagination of anti-colonial groups in the early 20th century.
In 1896 the Ethiopians successfully defeated the Italian Army at the Battle of Adwa;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adwa
Whilst this led to a running joke about the bravery of the Italians certainly amongst other Western countries, in other quarters this African victory was seen as a sign of what an independent Black country could achieve.
http://www.blackpast.org/gah/ethiopianism
That Ethiopia could also claim to be one of the oldest Christian countries in the world (maybe from as early as AD330) had great appeal to many communities in ex-slave owning countries.
When Haile Selassie appeared in front of the League of Nations in 1936 condemning the use of chemical weapons by Italy in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, he was seen as an inspirational figurehead for many in the African colonies, the Caribbean Islands and in the nascent civil rights movement in the United States.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zqqx6sg
It was of course Haile Selassie’s birth name of Ras Tafari that was taken by poor black Jamaicans for their messiah.
Not so much Black Panther but Lion of Judah;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaf0zC3q9Y
DiddyWrote
I thought it wasn't really so much a comment on the Italians' courage - they aren't cheese eating surrender monkeys after all - so much as on their level of enthusiasm and commitment to pointless military adventurism. In short, a form of mutiny.
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