Black knight syndrome continued at the lizard Oz this day. There had already been signs of it ...
... then amidst the fury and the ferreting through the entrails came signs of renewed hope.
The cry went out yet again to flick the switch, to nuke the country ...
There was simplistic Simon handing out a pass mark in the far right perch at the top of the digital edition, though the pond couldn't understand how coming second in a two horse race counted as a pass ... in olden times, it would have been given an F, but in these woke times, apparently we must pander to the slow witted losers and dropkicks ...
Meanwhile, Dame Slap was still on about the Lehrmann matter - automatic red card - while down below there were the usual regulards, including The Caterist, the Major and the Lynch mob* (*movie title rights patented and secured ...
Climate science denialism, a hate monger brooding about fuelling hate and the usual lynching?
Something snapped in the pond ... it had ignored the bromancer and yet over the weekend he had produced a Meisterwerk.
For those who struggle with their German, try using it in a sentence: Dieser Column ist wahrhaftig ein zeitloses Meisterwerk.
Dammit, the Monday regulards could wait their turn.
Hits are down, comments are down, there's only one way to produce a Monday spring in step ...
Oh sure the bromancer has been mocked. Why that wretched venerable Meade was at it not so long ago in the Weekly Beast ...
Of all the words published about Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour last month, you can’t go past Greg Sheridan’s analysis of the “cultural meaning” of the pop star for sheer absurdity.
“I had my rock concert-going days some little time ago,” Sheridan says, before going on to compare Swift to the performers he enjoyed in the 1970s: Billy Joel, Supertramp, Lou Reed and Elton John.
Sheer absurdity?
In a world full of sheer absurdity, what's wrong with living in the '70s, or better still the 1950s?
What's wrong with a walk on the wild side? What's wrong with a hustle here and a hustle there? Everyone knows that the bro never lost his head, doo do doo do doo do ..
Attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. You called him crazy... no, a lot of people think he's lost his... balance.
But you don't have to be very smart to know what his trouble is. The man is exhausted. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. He works for a company for more years than anyone can remember, opens up unheard-of territories to their trademark ratbag Xian ravings, and now in his old age all he's got is a long, rambling column ...
Attention must be paid!
The bro is just speeding away
Thought he was James Dean for a day
Then I guess he had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
He said, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
The pond said, "Hey, honey
Take a walk on the wild side"
And the coloured girls say
"Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."
The pond has said it before and will sing it again! Attention must be paid ...
Sure a few might suffer ... but so what. Oh and the reptiles had a snap field day ...
Why as the bro's favourite singer once emoted ...
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
Bro says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Bro said, "Hey, honey
Take a walk on the wild side"
Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
Bro says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Bro said, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Duelling gods, a bit like duelling banjos ...
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, but the pond will allow that things aren't right in the world and came across this evidence of the suffering of motorists having parking spaces limited ...
He's in a state of transcendental fury!
Please join the bromancer in his chorus of despair ...
Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia on Saturday, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nominee who has made a string of such gaffes...
“Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word. You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk nuclear weapons today,” said Trump, on Saturday night in Richmond.
The crowd reportedly went silent as the Trump referenced Obama, who left office more than seven years ago. It’s the third time Trump has made the blunder in the past six months.
The former US president’s other gaffes include confusing his Republican rival Nikki Haley with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
But this brings no solace to the bromancer, no sense of a good shepherd helping him out of the valley of sorrows, into the path of the righteous.
Oh how could Faux Noise abandon him to such a cruel fate ...
But the pond remains convinced it has walked the path of righteousness with the righteous.
If you want the usual boring twaddle, come back at 4 pm.
Meanwhile, sing along ...
Little bro never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay Chairman Rupert
To get behind the paywall
A hustle here and a hustle there
The lizard Oz's the place
Where bro said, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Because the world is ending tomorrow
The pond said, "Hey, bro
Take a walk on the wild side"
What a tragedy the pond couldn't find room for the Sugar Plum Fairy ...
A great poet? Here at last the pond must note that even a meisterwerk can strike a bum note.
Everyone knows that Yeats wasn't the solution, he was part of the disease, not the cure ...
Yeats's father was a religious skeptic, but he believed in the "religion of art." Yeats himself, religious by temperament but unable to believe in Christian orthodoxy, sought all his life for traditions of esoteric thought that would compensate for a lost religion. This search led him to various kinds of mysticism, to folklore, theosophy, spiritualism, and Neo-Platonism―not in any strict chronological order, for he kept returning to and reworking earlier aspects of his thought. In 1890 Yeats joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (a Rosicrucian society) and in 1893 after a ritual examination he was inducted into a higher order of the Golden Dawn. He retained the membership until his later years.
In middle life he elaborated a symbolic system of his own, based on a variety of sources, which enabled him to strengthen the pattern and coherence of his poetic imagery. The student of Yeats is constantly coming up against this willful and sometimes embarrassing esotericism which he cultivated sometimes playfully, sometimes earnestly, sometimes treating it as though it were a body of truths and sometimes as though it were a convenient language of symbols.
Modern scholarship has traced most of Yeats's mystical and quasi-mystical ideas to sources that were common to Blake and Shelley and which sometimes go far back into pre-Platonic beliefs and traditions. But his greatness as a poet lies in his ability to communicate the power and significance of his symbols, by the way he expresses and organizes them, even to readers who know nothing of his system.
Eek, the Golden Dawn...rampant pagan mysticism ...
Never mind, what a great way to start a Monday, and there's a guessing competition to close ...
Black knight syndrome continued at the" The Nightly.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you call a flock of cashed up wannabe newscorpse-ish feeding Zombies?
A Nightly.
(DP - please weave in "A Nightly of ...)
A Nightly's raisin' DEBTra is to "... fucked the republic now”.
As Baldwin's son said in Chapter 10: "A Motley of Enemies" - the sperm of Reptiles and Nightly's.
Etomology of which The Nightly's are ignorant of: "night (n.) ... late Old English niht "the dark part of a day; the night as a unit of time; darkness," also "absence of spiritual illumination, moral darkness, ignorance," from Proto-Germanic *nahts". Too true.
A Nightly diagnostic Aid to GP's at The Loonpond: ““blisteringly readable content” erupting as lesions on the brain and on democracy and the body politic. Blisters exhibit as IRWNJ - ignorant right wing neutered jobs - the job excrement as dried puss sloughing off after a laboriously capitalistic day working to unkowingly enrich The Nightly's.
A dangerous condition The Loons have been squawking about for decades under the Pond. Only the Venerable Meade is able to right the ship so we see The Nightly condition - IRWNJ - above the mainstream, feeding the Pond.
Sooo much projection!
Show them the Dore!
Venerable Meade: "...almost exclusively unsourced, is littered with expletives _
“It’s fucked the republic now”.
The Nightly "environmental bodies"... "Gerry Harvey" ... and ... "environmental bodies which have been overtaken by fanatics”
Zombies! Cashed up Zombies!
Anthony De Ceglie: “hobbled by over-zealous" - ...Lots... "Mineral Resources founder Chris Ellison, Harvey Norman chief executive Katie Page and mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, as well as an in-depth interview with Gerry Harvey
environmental bodies which have been overtaken by fanatics”.
The Nightly's - turning Day into Night.
Only a strong dose of Legislated Limitarianism Disinfectant will quell the job of pussy IRWNJ's and starve The Nightly Zombie Pox of the bllod of Lord Beavers Brook.
propaganda (n.)
1718, "committee of cardinals in charge of foreign missions of the Catholic Church," short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "congregation for propagating the faith," a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions.
Thanks...
https://loonpond.blogspot.com/2024/03/in-which-theres-polonial-prattle-much.html?showComment=1709459436266&m=1#c6291456376178282747
propaganda (n.)
ReplyDelete1718, "committee of cardinals in charge of foreign missions of the Nightly Catholic Church," short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "congregation for propagating the faith," a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions.
Nightly's, Reptile's, & A Motley of Enemies* Infographical Propaganda Expose...
"Occupational norms and practices may account for some of the biases identified, but cannot account for the breadth, range and consistency of bias found across the sample, which constitutes an example of mid-twentieth-century propaganda.
"Just Fancy That
An analysis of infographic propaganda in The Daily Express, 1956–1959"
Murray Dick
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2013.872415
* My Father: The True Story by A. W. Baldwin (Arthur Windham Baldwin), Chapter 10: A Motley of Enemies 1923-1937, Quote Page 161, George Allen & Unwon, London. (Verified with scans) [/ref]
‘What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.’"
Bro: "...it's the extremes that display the greatest energy..." Yair, you could say that, or you could say: "Murdered Russian dissident and opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a deeply religious Christian and this sustained him in heroic resistance to tyranny."
ReplyDeleteSo it goes.
The real Woke Death, Laurie Anderson style.
ReplyDelete"The pond said, "Hey, Bro
Take a chat on the wild side"
"Sheridan says, ... he enjoyed in the 1970s: Billy Joel, Supertramp, Lou Reed and Elton John.
Sheer absurdity?"
Or the Bro, as he's down with Lou, may try a chat with, "a vast cache of Reed’s writing, songs and interviews into the machine. A decade after his death, the resulting algorithm lets Anderson type in prompts before an AI Reed begins “riffing” written responses back to her, in prose and verse."
"Anderson’s input had a similarly Old Testament quality, generated by an AI Laurie Anderson.
“It was a 9,000-page document [written] in my style, telling the stories of the Bible. It was deeply creepy, and really fun. Because the Bible is already insane – a snake that was talking? A guy who lived for 800 years?”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/28/laurie-anderson-ai-chatbot-lou-reed-ill-be-your-mirror-exhibition-adelaide-festival
More machine woke death musing to come.
Sour Grapes Fairy came
ReplyDeleteand hit Holt Street
Whingin’ ‘bout wokeness
and the evil Tweet
Listen to the Judeo-
Christian ravings of the Bro
I said hey, Dame - take a walk in the wild side
Hey, Major - take a walk on the wild side
And the Lizard Oz goes
No nonono, no no no no….
Update of sorts on speculation that Capt Spud and the Chats might see advantage in setting out an energy policy with specific reference to nuclear installations (first step might be to have verse-speaking sessions in the joint party room on pronouncing 'new-clear' rather than 'nuke-u-lar'). On Sky, Senator Hollie Hughes, and the 'presenter', both shouting over the representative - Matt Thistlethwaite - who fronted for the government, and mentioned Small Modular Reactors as likely elements in a coalition policy. Senator Hollie came the rhetorical 'How can you say that? You have no idea what might be in our policy.' Well, nobody does right now, but that is another tangent.
ReplyDeleteBecause, within minutes,, on ADH tv, Daisy Cousens was in dialogue with Keith Pitt - with Pitt, as ever, spruiking SMRs, and informing viewers of his understanding that the reactor in a nuclear submarine was the size of a wheelie-bin.
Time for a new 'artist's impression' of an SMR, to replace the one the reptiles have been running of substantial building in landscaped grounds. New image should include size comparison, of installation person trundling wheelie-bin-sized reactor into defunct coal-fired power station. Perhaps several persons/wheelies - a quick commission of the 'search engine of my choice' delivered a figure of c. 200 MW output for a nuclear submarine, where a large municipal power station rates above 3 000 MW; so - about 15 of those wheelie things should do it.
I can grasp the size of a wheelie-bin as being maybe the size of a 'module', if ever modules actually get built on an assembly line - which is how these mythical 'modules' are supposed to be manufactured - but the actual nuclear reactor would consist of a number of different modules assembled together. If, that is, there ever is any "modules".
DeleteOf course, the entire unit comprising reactor, shielding and propulsion connections would, I reckon, be just a little bigger than a wheelie-bin.
But, but - GB - that is Keith Pitt - whose 'Wiki' entry tells us he has degree of bachelor of engineering from QUT. And he was in conversation (Daisy really does not 'do' interviews) with Daisy Cousens, before a watching audience of almost a hundred people, at the time. Surely, as a Nat from Queensland, he would be extra careful to get his terms correct. Surely?
DeleteYou make a strong case, Chad. I did a bit of a websearch but couldn't readily find any actual sizings. But the reactor 'core' - where we're told the 10 to 30 years of fuel lives and radiates - could be quite small and hence the name SMR.
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