The Onion clearly does not have the money it used to but I think it is better than ever. In the article "Bill Maher Returns To Show Over Fears Aging Fan Base Will Die Off Before Writers’ Strike Ends" it quotes Maher, "I wish I could help out the writers, but my captive audience of people who are literally too old and infirm to change the channel when Real Time With Bill Maher comes on is not long for this world." Brilliant!

https://www.theonion.com/bill-maher-returns-to-show-over-fears-aging-fan-base-wi-1850843363

Elon Musk Claims Women He Impregnated Were All Terminal

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-claims-women-he-impregnated-were-all-terminal-1850835928

The world has just gotten too weird for me.

"US Rep Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the 'Beetlejuice' musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and 'causing a disturbance' during the performance."

Fox News, of course, says she was removed just for "laughing and singing loudly."

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/12/lauren-boebert-removed-beetlejuice-musical-denver/

Carnival of Souls is one of my very favorite films. I just learned from the following reunion video that it was paired with The Devil´s Messenger for drive-in distribution. It makes sense. They have a similar mood. But it is nowhere near as good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-BkJ5ix6lQ

I just watched What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Amazing film. I don't think I could take it again. I want to watch some 1970s Italian horror just to recover from it. That stuff is intense in an entirely different way. Much easier to take! By the end of this film, I didn't even want Bette Davis to get justice. She was so tragic!

Great free print here:

https://archive.org/details/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane-62-1422547421797

I got 20 minutes into The Pope's Exorcist. It's not bad. Beautifully lit and shot. And Russell Crowe is compelling. I'll probably finish it later. For now, I'm going to put on The Exorcist III, which is one of my very favorite films. It's sad that Blatty only made two films. No one made better and more entertaining films!

This seems important. PC Mag, which normally fluffs Elon Musk, just sent me a newsletter with the headline, "Musk Is Whining About Twitter Again."

I've been a huge Stewart Lee fan for years and I've seen every one of his stand-up specials. But he can still make me laugh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CwqVuq6Ro

I just remembered this great Tom Tomorrow cartoon from the 1990s about the phrase, "An armed society is a polite society."

@LnzyHou Had the exactly same experience -- except it was to Seoul!

"For travelers who want to avoid babies and kids, one airline will test an adults-only section"

Now if they just get rid of the adults!

https://www.kcra.com/article/adults-only-section-airlines/44952877

I was walking around the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery this morning and I came upon a grave marker of a couple with only one death date. So I looked it up.

On June 23, 1921, a cousin who also worked as a hired hand for Virginia and Robert Mills got into a quarrel over the size of a wood pile. He shot both of them in the back and then killed himself. "[A] neighbor stopped by the house and discovered the grisly scene and rescued the Mills' 2-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter."

I love cemeteries!

Some kind of space debris about 100 feet across hit Jupiter and we got it on video!

https://www.iflscience.com/something-just-smacked-into-jupiter-and-amateur-astronomers-captured-it-70524

Arrival Is the New Arrival!

One great advantage to CoSo is the lack of ads. This is especially clear with the number of ads on Twitter going way up (~3X what it was a year ago). Additionally, the ads are more poorly labeled than ever before. What I can't figure out is how even with all this the site isn't profitable. But sure: Elon Musk is a business genius.

I'm watching The Full Monty TV series with a friend. It definitely maintains the charm of the original movie. (It's on Hulu for those interested.)

I just saw David Jolly on MSNBC. I have no problem with some never-Trumpers but most are like Jolly: they are there to argue that the problem is just Trump and the GOP was just fine before 2016. Sorry. The rot goes back more than 60 years. I don't know what MSNBC is going to do if Trump dies. Turn into CNN?

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Mathematicians have the best t-shirts!