#Rudy & Minstrel

[spacecircusofklowns]

Literally klowns From Outer ✨SPACE✨😆 Love is so strong that open space without a spacesuit - is no barrier x))) art-gift for @demikhaotix

[wormbehindtheslaughter]

It took me a whole month but my half is finished! @demikhaotix

• drawing klowns kissing is hard

• this file corrupted 3 times, and 3 times did I have to restore it. (Ibispaint x problems)

• this was fun, and I'm open to doing more!

[demikhaotix]

OOOOOH POOKIES The lil guys ALSO THIS WAS INSPIRED BY @springbonnie2024 and a little doodle they did of Rudy and slim >:) (OR MAGORI AND SLIM DONT JUMP ME) I rlly wanted to draw the same with minstrel and Rudy HEHE ^^

[obsessedwiththebatman]

57 years ago today...

"Batman" premiered on ABC TV, January 12th, 1966. The series quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Children were able to watch it as a straight adventure series, while adults could appreciate it's camp sensibilities and dead-pan humor. The series had a colorful pop art style that was unlike anything else on TV. The series also had a huge impact on sales of Batman comics, as well comic books in general, and helped launch Batman into his current status as the most popular comic book character of all time.

The series was originally intended to be an hour long, but ABC only had two half-hour time slots available, so the episodes were split in two. Which the first part of the Episode would leave our Dynamic Duo in a cliff hanger for the BATFAN’s to stay tuned into the the second part of the story and wonder how their Heroes will escape from the rogues gallery of villains

Batman ran three seasons 120 Episodes and the

series spun-off a motion picture in 1966 featuring most of the TV cast.

Principal Cast

Adam West as Batman/Bruce Wayne

Burt Ward as Robin/Dick Grayson

Alan Napier as Alfred

Neil Hamilton as Commissioner Gordon

Stafford Repp as Chief O'Hara

Madge Blake as Aunt Harriet Cooper

Yvonne Craig as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon (Season 3 only)

And what would Batman be with out his Villains who portrayed by the Big Names of Stage and Small screen

Main Recurring Comic Book Villains

The Joker (Cesar Romero)

The Penguin (Burgess Meredith)

The Riddler (Frank Gorshin and John Astin)

Catwoman (Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether (motion picture), and Eartha Kitt)

Other villains were used from DC Comics

The Mad Hatter (David Wayne)

False Face (Malachi Throne)

Mr. Freeze (George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach)

The Puzzler (Maurice Evans)

The Clock King (Walter Slezak)

The Archer (Art Cartney)

Some Villains that were created for the show which also some came Fan Favourites To BATFAN’s

King Tut (Victor Buono)

Egghead (Vincent Price)

Shame (Cliff Robertson)

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds (Carolyn Jones)

Olga, Queen of Cossacks (Anne Baxter)

Lord Ffogg (Rudy Vallee)

Lady Penelope Peasoup (Glynis Johns)

Freddy the Fence (Jacques Bergerac)

Other show Villains

The Bookworm (Roddy McDowall)

Ma Parker (Shelley Winters)

The Minstrel (Van Johnson)

Black Widow (Tallulah Bankhead)

Zelda The Great (Anne Baxter)

Chandell and Harry (Liberace)

The Sandman (Michael Rennie)

Siren (Joan Collins)

Louie the Lilac (Milton Berle)

Lola Lasagne (Ethel Merman)

Colonel Gumm (Roger C. Carmel)

Nora Clavicle (Barbara Rush)

Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft (Ida Lupino)

Minerva (Zsa Zsa Gabor)

Calamity Jan (Dina Merrill)

Cabala (Howard Duff)

The other things which made this Live Action TV Series Great was the Bat gadgets such as the Ironic Batmobile which was designed and built George Barris using 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car he had purchased from Ford for $1.00. Ford had used it for many years to promote "the car of tomorrow"

And Mr Barris had only three weeks and $15,000 (US) to turn it into the Batmobile, which included adding a Ford Galaxy chassis

Even to when people see the Original TV Batmobile it turns heads it’s the most Famous car from TV and film History

This past last year we lost the legend Batman himself Mr Adam West 9th June, 2017 at the age of 88

I was so grateful to had meet Mr West while attending LA Comic Con 2016 I was able to have a few laughs with the Man himself who was a kind and friendly gentleman it only lasted a short time meet and greet but I will never forget it as I Met My BATMAN

Mr West will live on as he made TV History and worldwide fans young and old and he will always be in our heart

[demikhaotix]

AAAAAAAAAAAAA AA A AAAA Rudy and minstrel is BETTER MUWHAHAHAAHAA snatches this and runs to place it neatly in my corner and does a satanic ritual around it OOOGGAAA BOOPOGGAAAAA

An art trade I did for @the-dimentio-lover

I think it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself, even though I ship Rudy with Slim, but hope you enjoy!!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Police "unions" are not unions

Periodically, some dimbulb will pop up and say, "Hey, you love unions but you hate police brutality - so how about police unions, huh? Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?"

Yeah, I know. Thing is, police unions aren't "unions" in the traditional sense.

To understand the different, try William Finnegan's incredible, long New Yorker piece, "How Police Unions Fight Reform," a masterful history and analysis.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-police-unions-fight-reform

Police unions got off to a rocky start. Policing was an ugly and dangerous job in the 19th century (it's not dangerous now, it's not even in the top ten most dangerous careers), but the labor movement wasn't interested in helping cops.

And with good reason! As cops transitioned from being "slave patrols," hunting Black people who'd escaped bondage, they found a new role in brutalizing and murdering striking workers.

The first US deaths of unionists was in 1850, when NYC cops clubbed striking tailors to death. Despite the role of cops in striker deaths (in 1937, Chicago PD opened fire on striking steelworkers and families, murdering 10), the AFL started chartering police unions after WWI.

But the solidarity went one way: by the 1960s, the NY Police Benevolent Society promised politicians they would never "strike or affiliate with any other union."

Front-line workers' unions like teachers and nurses strike to improve conditions for the people they care for; police unions' main cause is reducing oversight and accountability, waging a decades-long war on civilian oversight boards.

There is an explicit racist agenda in resisting oversight: cops do not want Black people, or politicians who answer to Black people, having a say in police procedure. When NYC Mayor Dinkins - the city's first Black mayor - proposed civilian oversight, the response was UGLY.

They ran ads showing a white woman emerging from the subway, looking terrified, warning against civilian review: "Her life...your life...may depend on it."

In 92, cops protested Dinkins' plan with a 10,000 person rally in which cops brandished firearms, consumed alcohol, and waved racist signs with slogans like "Dump the washroom attendant." Others depicted Dinkins as a minstrel, engaged in lewd sex acts.

A drunk, off-duty cop stopped Black councilwoman Una Clarke from crossing Broadway during the rally: "This n_____ says she’s a member of the City Council," he told his partner.

On of the rally's highlights? Rudy Giuliani, screaming obscene chants through a bullhorn. He ran for mayor the next year.

In most regards (public interest, solidarity), police unions are not real unions, but there's one area in which they excel: getting sweet deals for their members. NYPD cops  retire after 20 years on $74.5k/year pensions.

As terrible and corrupt as the NYPD are, they're far from the most racist and brutal police forces. That's saying something, because BOY is the NYPD racist and brutal:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/27/ip/#nypd-who

Compare 'em with St Louis, where cops murder at 14 times the rate of NYPD; or Chicago, where the racial disparity in police murders is 27.4:1 black:white (in NYC it's 7.8:1).

Police unions hate the public. Their overall message is that the public are hostile and must be controlled.

As Kirk Burkhalter - multigenerational cop turned NYU law prof - says: "imagine a nurses’ union that hated patients, that went on TV and talked about how much trouble the patients give them."

American cops are among the worst-trained, most undisciplined in the world. Cops in the US can start work after 11 weeks training (mostly in "firearms and survival").

In some Western European countries, cops compete for entry into highly selective police academies where they study for 3+ years under top professors.

US cops' training is both inadequate and inappropriate. Again, policing just isn't that dangerous. Roofing is more dangerous! Only 5% of patrol callouts involve any form of violent crime.

Real unions focus on solidarity, and while cop unions will protest anti-union bills that threaten them, when they are carved out of anti-union bills (like Wisconsin's bill that targeted sanitation, education and nursing), it's crickets.

The main focus of police unions is omerta: as the 1931 Wickersham Commission reported: "It is an unwritten law in police departments that police officers must never testify against their brother officers."

As Rhode Island College sociologist Ben Brucato wrote: "These organizations function as lobbies to both resist accountability legislation and shield implicated officers."

Fixing policing is a long road, but it must start. We can begin by getting the AFL-CIO to sever all ties with police "unions."

[oconnormusicstudio]

February 6: On This Day in Music

February 6: On This Day in��Music

. 1497 ~ Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, died at the age of 79 . 1843 ~ The first minstrel show in America, “The Virginia Minstrels”, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City. . 1903 ~ Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist . 1917 ~ Arthur Gold, pianist, born in Toronto, Ontario . 1929 ~ Rudy Vallee and his orchestra recorded Deep Night. It says in the fine print, under the…

[ducktracy]

35. the queen was in the parlor (1932)

release date: july 9th, 1932

series: merrie melodies

director: rudolf ising

starring: n/a

another cartoon with goopy geer! the last merrie melody, moonlight for two, DID star goopy geer, but i was hesitant to say so, unsure of whether it was just a lookalike, but the fact that he’s in this merrie melody leads me to believe that he was a bit of an entity for awhile. as the title suggests, the king returns to his castle to find his queen in the parlor, refusing to see anyone else.

as all good cartoons do, this one opens with a swaggering king atop his mule, greeted to thunderous applause as he steps off and marches down the aisle, eating up the attention.

quickly he grows tired of the “long live the king!” chants, snarling “but where’s the queen?” a group of knights whisper “the queen!” to each other down the line (imagine “hermie doesn’t want to make toys” from the rudolph special. it’s basically that), including a stereotypical jewish king at the end of the line. that certainly didn’t age well and makes me cringe as i watch it, but i digress.

a group of squires launch into a call and response rendition of “the queen was in the parlor”, the king providing various interjections throughout. love the barbershop harmonies as always! gags including a mouse popping out of a knight’s helmet to interject a verse, and a dog (an actual dog) clad in armor itches itself through the armor and lets out a bunch of fleas that have been hiding.

look at the personality in that walk! you know me, i’m all about my walk cycles and how they’re great indicators of personality when executed properly. great example of a prideful, no-nonsense and ultimately hard-to-take-seriously walk! the king marches into the castle to see what the fuss is about.

it turns out the queen WAS in the parlor! who would’ve guessed? she’s knitting away at a sock, while the poodle from the goopy geer cartoons (and freddy the freshman) is riveting away at a suit of armor. the king enters as his throne takes a life of its own and scuttles up to him, ready to be sat on in an act of servitude.

the king summons his jester, who is none other than goopy geer. again, another great walk cycle! unfortunately, it doesn’t say too much about his personality: it seems he adapts to whatever setting he’s in, whether he’s a lounge piano player, a redneck, or a jester. gotta give him credit on his versatility, though!

goopy provides a few bars about the king (old king cole), who “called for his crooners three!” the dog on his jester stick(?) says “crosby, columbo, and vallee!”,

which prompts the rudy vallee caricature from crosby, columbo, and vallee to pop out of a jack in the box and sing “for you”. i love my caricatures, so i find this particularly amusing, especially when old king cole hits rudy on the head and gripes “I’D RATHER HEAR AMOS N’ ANDY!”, a reference to the popular radio comedy show hosted by freeman gosden (amos) and charles corell (andy). unfortunately, as you can probably guess, the comedy show was a minstrel show—but it was adapted to television in 1951 where actual black actors took the stage. you learn something everyday! even though i was oblivious to what amos ‘n andy was until a google search later, the delivery is spot on and the joke hits just as well. i’m loving this bastard of a king—finally, personality!

after a brief impression of amos ‘n andy (again, this aged poorly), goopy skips down through the parlor, pressing his ear to a door. a dog, doing an impression of tony wons, asks “are ya listenin’?” he raises his fist and asks “HMMM?” to which goopy stammers “yeah, i’m walter winchell”, referring to newspaper columnist and radio commentator walter winchell, known for trading gossip around. a few alcohol bottles explode and goopy runs towards the camera, yelling “OKAY, CHICAGO!”, another reference to winchell. even though these icons aren’t at all relevant or known today, these jokes still fascinate me and i can only imagine how funny they were to a relevant audience!

we have our standard merrie melodies dancing interlude, with goopy dancing around and bouncing his feet off of a few spittoons. fun synchronization as always! there’s also a shot of a cat (the one from it’s got me again!) hunting a mouse, but getting scared off once the mouse emerges from its hole, clad in armor.

once more, the villain enters! he slams the door in the face of the fan-faring trumpeter, who blows out a few notes (sounding like a car horn) on his crinkled horn. the trademark “harman-ising flameball spit” comes into play once the villain spits on a suit of armor, reducing it to nothing but bones.

the poodle girl who was riveting a suit of armor is singing, and the villain advances on her, ready to kidnap. he runs off with her captive, but goopy swoops in to save the day.

spittoons, flaming spit, villains, damsels in distress, all of the essentials to a harman-ising produced cartoon all in one! sword fights can also be added to that list as goopy and the kidnapper engage in combat. goopy momentarily gets thrown into a cabinet, the crash forming a suit of armor made of pots and pans. goopy charges are the villain, who swings at him. now, a stuffed goat’s head falls on goopy.

in the manner of a goat, goopy rams into the villain, forcing his armor to break. the villain is exposed in his long underwear, and in some delightful, melty, rubber hose goodness, he mixes the shrapnel in a cocktail shaker (just like bosko in ups ‘n downs) and pours himself a brand new suit of armor, iris out as he runs for the hills.

as for as merrie melodies go, this one wasn’t half bad! the highlight of the short was definitely old king cole. i love him! i wish he had a bigger role in the short, he’s oozing with personality and all sorts of great possibilities. no offense to goopy, but he doesn’t do much for me. he’s pretty bland and lacking in personality, maybe even moreso than foxy and piggy. he comes off as more of a plot vehicle than a standalone character. i enjoyed the celebrity references—i learned some interesting new information today (though goopy talking in a minstrel dialect doesn’t age well at all, even for a quick joke, and the jewish knight joke is in extremely poor taste). there are better merrie melodies out there, but there are worse ones, too. i’d give it a watch, just because the king amuses me so much, but it wouldn’t be a crime if you skipped it this time.

link!

[amivitale]

Photo by @amivitale. Today, I'm sharing an image of Rudy Jacobs and Abdul Baasit Gaffoor who are part of the Minstrel band the Street Kings in the Bo-Kaap district of Cape Town! Thank you to @volofu and @sbstownshipdevelopment who worked with me on this incredibly inspiring shoot for @NikonUSA. It was a privilege to meet so many people who shared their lives as I was trying out the new #NIKKOR Z 24–70mm f/2.8 S in South Africa. This lens is my go to lens. The best technology is the stuff that is almost invisible. It's fast, light and sharp. Good technology should never come in between you and your story. It helps you and enhances your story and ideally it should disappear. Hear more about my reaction to this new lens and see work I shot with it at bit.ly/AmiNIKKORZ @thephotosociety @natgeoimagecollection #southafrica #capetown #africa #everydayafrica #photojournalism #nikon #z7 #nikonambassador #nikonnofilter #nikonlove #amivitale (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9T01alQuY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mpigo5ee1uqa

[borismann]

Music from Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock

We watched the Lovers Rock movie, part of the Steve McQueen’s Small Axe BBC film series. It’s all about music.

The Independent has a write up, and embeds a Spotify playlist in the article.

This means I can do another playlist deep dive, and find where to look for the artists and tracks separately.

Robin Hood, Cry Tuff & The Originals

On YouTube:

Didn’t find this track on Bandcamp, but did find this one by Cry Tuff:

Dub to Africa by Prince Far I & the Arabs

The entire Pressure Sounds catalog is amazing. In fact, the album covers are all the original 45 records, which you see them playing in the film:

You can buy the entire discography for only like £500!! Tempted…

Kinta Kinta Dub by The Revolutionaries

Kunta Kinte by The Revolutionaries

I originally found the none dub version, which lead me to asking, what does dub / dubplate mean Wikipedia?

A dubplate is an acetate disc usually of 10 inches diameter, traditionally used by studios to test recordings prior to mastering for the subsequent pressing of a vinyl record, but pioneered by reggae sound systems as a way to play exclusive music. They would later become an important facet of the jungle/drum and bass, UK garage, grime and dubstep music scenes.

The first use of dubplates is commonly attributed to sound engineer King Tubby and reggae sound systems such as Lloyd Coxsone and Killamanjaro.[1] Special and one-off versions would be cut to acetate for competing in a sound clash, utilising vocals specially recorded to namecheck the sound system. As such, these would become known as “dubplate specials” often remarking on the prowess of the sound system playing it, in a bid to win the clash.

Oh, interesting, so a reggae sound system is…?

The popularity of a sound system was mainly contingent on one thing: having new music. In order to circumvent the release cycle of the American record labels, the two sound system superstars turned to record production. Initially, they produced only singles for their own sound systems, known as “Exclusives” or Dubplates—a limited run of one copy per song.[4] What began as an attempt to replicate the American R&B sound using local musicians evolved into a uniquely Jamaican musical genre: ska. This shift was due partly to the fact that as American-style R&B was embraced by a largely white, teenage audience and evolved into rock and roll, sound system owners created—and played—a steady stream of the singles the people preferred: fast-shuffle boogies and ballads. In response to this shift in supply, Jamaican producers introduced to their work some of the original elements of the Jamaican sound: rhythm guitars strumming the offbeat and snare-drum emphasis on the third beat, for example.[3] As this new musical form became more popular, both Dodd and Reid began to move more seriously into music production. Coxsone Dodd’s production studio became the famous Studio One, while Duke Reid founded Treasure Isle.

Yeah, this is awesome, and depicted in the film, or at least the version that immigrated into the UK.

He’s the Greatest Dancer by Sister Sledge

Remix version by Lucas D:

He's The Greatest Dancer (The Lucas D Remix) by Sister Sledge

Probably a little too clean compared to the version on the film.

How Long Will it Take by Pat Kelly

Darling Ooh by Errol Dunkley

And found it still available on vinyl as a re-issue. Here’s the description:

Errol Dunkley was an early reggae star and one of the youngest, recording his first side (“My Queen”) at the age of 12 for Prince Buster in 1964 and scoring his first hit (“You’re Gonna Need Me”) in 1967. Later, he became a key performer in the ‘70s Brit-Reggae scene, just missing the Top Ten in 1978 with his remake of John Holt’s “OK Fred.” Helmed by groundbreaking female producer Sylvia Pottenger, Darling Ooh! is actually his 1972 debut album, but like a lot of records that came out on small Jamaican mprints that later got swallowed into the mammoth Trojan label, its history is complicated; this record came out on the Gay Feet label under the title Presenting Errol Dunkley and also on the Trojan imprint Attack the same year as Darling Ooh! with different art and an expanded track listing (and, just to make things more confusing, a 1979 Trojan reissue had the Gay Feet track listing and the Attack artwork).

Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglass

Classic.

“Kung Fu Fighting” is a disco song by Jamaican vocalist Carl Douglas, written by Douglas and produced by British-Indian musician Biddu. It was released as a single in 1974 on the cusp of a chopsocky film craze and rose to the top of the British, Australian, Canadian, and American charts, in addition to reaching the top of the Soul Singles chart. It received a Gold certification from the RIAA in 1974 and popularized disco music. It eventually went on to sell eleven million records worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. The song uses the quintessential Oriental riff, a short musical phrase that is used to signify Chinese culture.

Wikipedia <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung…>

Things in Life by Dennis Brown

After Tonight by Junior English

Lonely Girl by Barry Biggs

Different track, also from Pressure Sounds label:

Next Cut by Barry Biggs

Here it is on YT:

Baby My Love by The In Crowd, Jah Stitch

Whole Flabba Holt / Roots Radics / Jah Stitch discography looking great, here’s a one track:

Danger Zone Chapter 3 - (12" 45RPM. DJ & dub) by JAH STITCH

Actual track on YT:

Silly Games by Janet Kay

Yes! On Bandcamp:

Silly Games by Janet Kay

This was one of the key songs from the film. Looks like it was released on BC for the film:

Janet Kay also is known as the Queen of Lovers Rock earned the title when she made history by becoming the ‘First British born Black Female Reggae Artist to have a No. 1 in the British Pop Charts’ - Music Guinness Book of Records. With this classic song ‘Silly Games’ it was a hit not only in the UK but also in Europe.

Keep it Like it is by Louisa Mark

Another Trojan Records, on YT:

Minstrel Pablo by Augustus Pablo

I’m mainly seeing some sweet melodica action (a keyboard you blow into). Found this in Rockers International Discography.

King Tubbys meets the Rockers Uptown by Augustus Pablo

Actual track on YT:

Dreadlocks in Moonlight by Lee “Scratch” Perry

Absolute legend:

Lee “Scratch” Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936)[1] is a Jamaican record producer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks.[2] He has worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Congos, Max Romeo, Adrian Sherwood, the Beastie Boys, Ari Up, the Clash, the Orb, and many others.

Wikipedia <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_…>

Well, now I want to go listen to The Orb. Their latest comes out this year:

Abolition Of The Royal Familia - Guillotine Mixes by The Orb

I have Live 93 in my collection already (one of their earliest), so I now have the pleasure of working my way forwards.

Looks like The Orbserver in the Star House features Lee “Scratch” Perry. Yeah, this is a rabbit hole I can fall down.

Have a Little Faith by Nicky Thomas

Another Trojan Records.

Yes, Trojan Records exists:

Trojan Records was founded in 1968 when Lee Gopthal, who operated the Musicland record retail chain and owned Beat & Commercial Records, pooled his Jamaican music interests with those of Chris Blackwell’s Island Records. Until 1975, they were based at a warehouse in Neasden Lane, Willesden, London.

Trojan was instrumental in introducing reggae to a global audience and by 1970 had secured a series of major UK chart hits. Successful Trojan artists from this period including Tony Tribe, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Upsetters, Bob and Marcia, Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Harry J All Stars, The Maytals, The Melodians, Nicky Thomas and Dave and Ansel Collins.

The bulk of the company’s successes came via licences for Jamaican music supplied by producers such as Duke Reid, Harry Johnson and Leslie Kong. While the company’s focus was firmly on the sale of 7” singles, it also launched a series of popular, budget-priced compilations such as Tighten Up, Club Reggae and Reggae Chartbusters.

Wikipedia <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troj…>

Also credited with getting us to rude boy:

Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi, and rudy are slang terms that originated in 1960s Jamaican street culture, and that are still used today. In the late 1970s, there was a revival in England of the terms rude boy and rude girl, among other variations, being used to describe fans of two-tone ska. The use of these terms moved into the more contemporary ska punk movement as well. In the UK, the terms rude boy and rude girl are used in a way similar to gangsta, yardie or badman.

Wikipedia <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude…>

Which could take us to two-tone ska and ska punk, but I think we’ll leave it there :) Watch the film! It’s pretty intense, and some of the energy around how women are treated is horrible, but it’s an amazing look into west London Jamaican music parties.

[papermoonloveslucy]

A HOME IS NOT AN OFFICE

S5;E4 ~ October 2, 1972

Directed by Coby Ruskin ~ Written by Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs

Synopsis

Harry finds he can't run the office efficiently with Lucy at home with a broken leg, so he brings the office to Lucy's home causing Lucy to resort to some elaborate schemes to get him to leave.  

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter)

Guest Cast

Susan Tolsky (Miss Quigley)  is probably best remembered for playing Biddie Coom on the TV series “Here Comes the Brides” (1968-70). Tolsky played Kim's friend and neighbor Sue Ann in “Kim Finally Cuts You-Know-Whose Apron String” (S4;E24), a possible spin-off that was not picked-up for production. This is her last appearance on “Here's Lucy.”

Miss Quigley is said to be the fourth substitute secretary Harry has had since Lucy broke her leg.  

Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane, above left) played Betty Ramsey during season six of “I Love Lucy. ” She also played Cynthia Harcourt in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;E23) and Evelyn Bigsby in “Return Home from Europe” (ILL S5;E26). She played Audrey Simmons on “The Lucy Show” but when Lucy Carmichael moved to California, she played Mary Jane Lewis, the actor’s married name and the same one she uses on all 31 of her episodes of “Here’s Lucy. Her final acting credit was playing Midge Bowser on “Lucy Calls the President” (1977). She died in 1999 at the age of 83. 

Vanda Barra (Vanda, above center) makes one of over two dozen appearances on “Here’s Lucy” as well as appearing in Ball’s two 1975 TV movies “Lucy Gets Lucky” (with Dean Martin) and “Three for Two” (with Jackie Gleason). She was seen in half a dozen episodes of “The Lucy Show.” Barra was Lucille Ball’s cousin-in-law by marriage to Sid Gould.

Gloria Wood (Doris, in black) was one of the off-stage back-up singers in “Lucy and Rudy Vallee” (S3;E12) and will do one more episode of the series, also singing.  

Peggy Clark (June, in violet) began singing as the Clark Kiddies lead singer. She was later part of The Sentimentalists. She was a very busy studio singer for decades in Los Angeles, heard on TV, film, records and commercials.   Gwenn Johnson (Mercedes, in floral print) is making her only screen appearance here.

Doris, June, and Mercedes (along with Mary Jane and Vanda) are members of Lucy's Canary Club, an a cappella singing group. They are not individually identified by name except in the final credits.  They have no dialogue other than their group singing.

Robert Carson (Officer Hurlow, Police Officer) was a busy Canadian-born character actor who appeared on six episodes of “The Lucy Show.” This is the fifth and final appearance on “Here’s Lucy.”

The surname Hurlow was used as the name of the driving instructor (Jack Gilford) in “Lucy Helps Craig Get a Driver’s License” (S1;E24) and the nurse (Mary Wickes) in “Lucy and Harry's Tonsils” (S4;E6).  

Sid Gould (Sam / Jerry) made more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show” and nearly as many on “Here’s Lucy.” Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by marriage to Gary Morton. He is married to Vanda Barra (Vanda).

For the role, Gould wears dark glasses and a false mustache, perhaps so that he looks noticeably different to Harry, who might recognize him from the office coffee shop. Kim tells her mother that “Sam from the coffee shop is ready” but the name Jerry is listed in the final credits and never spoken aloud during the scene. 

Phil Vandervort (Tommy) appeared in two episodes of “The Lucy Show” where he met Lucie Arnaz. The two were married from 1971 to 1977. This is third and final episode of the series.

For the role, Vandervort wears a false beard and wire-framed eyeglasses. Harry says he looks like he crawled out of the woodwork.

Emile Autuori (Mr. Munson, Painter) makes his fifth and final appearance on “Here’s Lucy.”  He passed away in early 2017. He was the uncle of writer / director P.J. Castalleneta.

In his introduction to the episode on the series DVD, Autuori says that his sister, Theresa Autuori Price, was Gary Morton's secretary at the time. Munson was also the surname of Grace and Harry, characters who appear on “I Love Lucy.”  

Orwin C. Harvey (Painter, uncredited) was an actor and stuntman who played one of the singing and dancing teamsters in “Lucy Helps Ken Berry” (TLS S6;E21). This is one of his six appearances on “Here’s Lucy.”

Bob Harks (Mover, uncredited) was born on September 20, 1927. Harks appeared in his first film in 1968 and was seen in the background of Mame (1974). In 1970 he popped up on his first television show and was seen in more than a dozen episodes of “Here's Lucy.” He died at age 83 in 2010.

Hank Robinson (Mover, uncredited) was a busy background player in Hollywood seen on such shows as “Kojak,” “The Rockford Files,” and “Gunsmoke.”  This is his last appearance on “Here’s Lucy.”

The other movers and painters are played by uncredited background performers.

This is the series' 100th episode! It is the first of only a few episodes not to have a personal name in the title.   

This episode is the fourth installment in the longest story arc (Lucy’s broken leg) of the series. This storyline was dictated by the fact that Lucille Ball actually broke her leg skiing, necessitating scripts for the first half of season five be tailored to her being in a cast. 

The evening this episode first aired, Susan Tolsky (Miss Quigley) also appeared on CBS's “The New Bill Cosby Show.” Tolsky was a regular on the variety show, which lasted just one season. That evening the show also featured insult comic Don Rickles, who had played a washed-up boxer on a 1967 episode of “The Lucy Show.”  

The evening this episode first aired, Lucie Arnaz guest-starred on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” which aired on NBC the hour prior to “Here’s Lucy.”  Desi Arnaz Jr. had also appeared on the madcap variety show in 1970. “Laugh-In” was frequently referenced on “Here’s Lucy” during its first two seasons.  Initially, “Laugh-In’s” second half hour on NBC overlapped “Here’s Lucy” on CBS. 

Harry is looking for the file for the Charles Bradshaw account. Lucy filed it under 'G' because Mr. Bradshaw reminds her of Cary Grant. Grant was frequently mentioned on all of Lucille Ball's sitcoms. The name Bradshaw was often one used by Gale Gordon in his dictation directives as both Mr. Mooney and Harrison Carter.  

Lucy is the head of the Canary Club, a group of a cappella women singers consisting of Mary Jane, Vanda, Doris, June, and Mercedes. They give her the “Humpty Dumpty Award” for skiing which cost the members (including Lucy) $2.50 each.  The figurine has red hair and a cast on her right leg, just like Lucy.

To welcome Lucy home, the Canary Club sings “Hello, Lucy” to the tune of “Hello, Dolly.” The song is by Jerry Herman who also wrote the music for Mame, which Lucy was about to start filming when she broke her leg. In its original form the song is from a Broadway musical of the same name based on Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker. In “Lucy and the Undercover Agent” (TLS S4;E10, above) it was sung as “Hello, Solly” when Lucy Carmichael dressed up as Carol Channing (Broadway's original Dolly) to get into an Army base. First, she had to distract “Sol” (aka “Solly”) the base guard.  

Lucy tells her daughter she’s never had a song written for her before. For Lucille Ball, that is just not true. The theme song to “I Love Lucy” by Eliott Daniel was written for her (as Lucy Ricardo). The statement is also not true for Lucie Arnaz. Her father and composer Eddie Maxwell wrote “There’s a Brand New Baby in Our House” for the birth of Lucie in 1951. It was re-released to coincide with the birth of Little Ricky / Desi Jr. in 1953.  So although the Carter gals may not have had songs written for them, the Arnaz girls have! 

According to the back of their coveralls, the moving men are from Dart Movers.

Lucy is surprised she is no longer Harry's candidate for “Miss Boo-Boo of Nineteen Seventy Two-Two.” In order that episodes not seem 'dated', the year was rarely spoken in the dialogue of “Lucy” shows, especially considering their popularity in syndication.  

The framed photograph of Gale Gordon seen in many previous episodes of “Here's Lucy” and “The Lucy Show” has been hung in Lucy's living room, although it is not usually part of the office set.

Lucy says that having Harry doing business in her home is like having a rest cure at Devil's Island. Devil’s Island (aka Bagne de Cayenne) was a penal colony in French Guiana. It was previously mentioned in “Lucy's Bonus Bounces” (S4;E16)  and on “I Love Lucy” in “Paris at Last” (ILL S5;E18).

When Kim suggests giving the office furniture to the Salvation Army, Lucy says “Harry has spies there. That's where he gets his clothing.” Lucille Ball was a supporter of The Salvation Army. 

The charitable organization was indirectly satirized on “I Love Lucy” as The Friends of the Friendless and in “Lucy Moves To NBC” with Lucy playing Sister Hitchcock, a character on “The Music Mart”. 

To drive Harry away, the Canary Club sing “Camptown Races.” "Camptown Races" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–64) published in 1850.

Upon seeing the room turned into a place of business, Kim sings “Be it ever so humble...” then drops the song and flatly states “there’s no place like an office.”  The 19th century song “Home Sweet Home” was composed by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop with lyrics by American actor John Howard Payne. 

Harry starts to dictate a letter to Mr. Frank S. Leach, Fayetteville, Arkansas. This is the name of an old World War II Army buddy of writer Seaman Jacobs. The two kept correspondence over the years and Jacobs wanted to surprise his friend with his name being spoken on television. When CBS legal department checked they found there were two people named Frank S. Leach in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and suggested the name be changed to Frank S. Larson. Jacobs wrote to his friend to sign a release, which allowed the name to be used. On filming day, however, Gale Gordon had trouble pronouncing the name Leach, so Jacobs informed him of the reason it was so important to him that he get it right. Gordon got the name right, but then mispronounced Fayetteville as Fayettesville. The extra 's' was later removed in post-production.  

Harry says he didn't think the painters were interns from “Medical Center,” a CBS hospital drama that aired from 1969 to 1976 on Wednesday nights. 

At the end of the episode, Harry gets wet – this time soaked in yellow paint.

Lucy Ricardo also had a broken leg and used a wheelchair in 1953's “The Girls Go Into Business” (ILL S3;E2). Both episodes also feature police officers. 

Miss Quigley (Susan Tolsky) tells Harry that at secretarial school she learned typing, shorthand, and Karate (to defend herself). Susan Tolsky previously played Sue Ann on “Kim Cuts You-Know-Whose Apron String” (S4;E24), an episode that was centered around Kim and Sue Ann learning self-defense from a book.

Character Clarity!  Standing in the living room/office, Harry tells Kim to “go home.” Kim calls it “her mother's house.”  It can be assumed this means Kim is still living in the Marina Del Rey apartment that she moved into in “Kim Finally Cuts You-Know-Whose Apron String” (S4;E24), although is not specifically stated. It also could mean that Kim is staying at the college dorm, as was hinted in “Harrison Carter, Male Nurse” (S5;E3).  

“Miss Quigley, in this letter you just typed up for me...” - The camera catches a quick glimpse of the ‘letter’ and it is obviously bold handwriting, not typing. It is likely a portion of the script in order to remind Gale Gordon of his lines. Reports from the set by writer Seaman Jacobs confirm that Gordon did not always perform the script word for word. 

Bad...Worse...________! Of the three previous substitute secretaries he has had, Harry says that Miss Quigley is the “worse-est.”  When Quigley differs, she says “I don’t think there’s such word as “worstest”. It is unclear whether the original script said “worse-est” or “worstest” (both are grammatically incorrect), but traditionally, for consistency sake, if an actor makes an error of this sort, their scene partner should repeat the word spoken, not the scripted word. 

Brand X - Lucy’s manual typewriter has the brand name redacted with blue tape. This is the same typewriter she will use a year later in “The Big Game” (S6;E2). 

“A Home is Not an Office” rates 3 Paper Hearts out of 5

This is a sprawling episode, with lots of characters and activity. Although restricted to a wheelchair, Lucille Ball still manages some funny physical comedy with a feisty file cabinet. Ball appears to be happy to be back in her element and enjoying the company of her co-stars. There are also some sweetly sentimental moments between Harry and Lucy.  

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Arrivals & Departures - 11 May 1888 Celebrate Irving Berlin Day!

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin (Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Бейлин) May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. It is commonly believed that Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F-sharp unless using his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever.

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Berlin's native Russia, which also "flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania." Over the years he was known for writing music and lyrics in the American vernacular: uncomplicated, simple and direct, with his stated aim being to "reach the heart of the average American," whom he saw as the "real soul of the country." In doing so, said Walter Cronkite, at Berlin's 100th birthday tribute, he "helped write the story of this country, capturing the best of who we are and the dreams that shape our lives."

He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him famous before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 20 original Broadway shows and 15 original Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Easter Parade", "Puttin' on the Ritz", "Cheek to Cheek", "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)", and "There's No Business Like Show Business". His Broadway musical and 1943 film This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's "God Bless America" which was first performed in 1938.

Berlin's songs have reached the top of the charts 25 times and have been extensively re-recorded by numerous singers including The Andrews Sisters, Eddie Fisher, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Rosemary Clooney, Cher, Diana Ross, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, Ruth Etting, Fanny Brice, Marilyn Miller, Rudy Vallée, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jerry Garcia, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Buble, Lady Gaga, and Christina Aguilera.

Composer Douglas Moore sets Berlin apart from all other contemporary songwriters, and includes him instead with Stephen Foster, Walt Whitman, and Carl Sandburg, as a "great American minstrel"—someone who has "caught and immortalized in his songs what we say, what we think about, and what we believe." Composer George Gershwin called him "the greatest songwriter that has ever lived", and composer Jerome Kern concluded that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music."

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I did the thing :3 this page was inspired by @klowntoon27 animation meme with Rudy 👹💔 I added minstrel bc seeing slim x Rudy makes me light aflame like a satanist walking into a church

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QRKY Radio Playlist For 03/08/20

QRKY – Quirky Radio Playlist For 03/08/20

Listen Free.  Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Old Time Radio Shows & More.

Click on the individual song titles in BOLD below.  They’re linked to music videos or to online audio files of the old time radio shows.  Or, if you’d prefer to autoplay the music video playlist, just click HERE.  It;s all for fun and for free, so enjoy.

An American Dream -- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Linda Ronstadt

Voodoo Voodoo -- LaVern Baker

Rhythm Is Our Business -- Jimmie Lunceford

Liquored Up And Lacquered Down -- Southern Culture On The Skids

Ain’t Nobody Home -- B.B. King

True Blue Lou -- Ethel Waters

JUBILEE Radio Show (06/04/45) with Benny Carter -- Armed Forces Radio Service

Ovaltine (Retro Commercial)

Women Have A Way With A Fool -- Coco Montoya

Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson

Land Of 1000 Dances -- Wilson Pickett

Mama Roux -- Dr. John

Bayou Tortous -- James McMurtry

Wine-O -- Jack McVea & His All-Stars

I’m Bad -- Katie Webster

GI JIVE Radio Show #601 -- Armed Forces Radio Special

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer (Retro Commercial)

Make My Dreams Come True -- Elmore James

When My Dreamboat Comes Home -- Fats Domino

Garlic Bread -- Gary & Larry

How You Want It Done -- Big Bill Broonzy

Skyliner -- Charlie Barnet

Let The Juke Joint Jump -- Koko Taylor

Seduced -- Leon Redbone

PINTO PETE Radio Show #73 -- Pinto Pete & His Ranch Hands

Kellogg’s Cereals (Retro Commercial)

Love And Happiness -- Al Green

Change It -- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

My Lady -- Crusaders

Fever -- Maria Muldaur

I Put A Spell Ony You -- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Rum And Coca-Cola -- Andrews Sister

Give Me One Reason -- Tracy Chapman

Ford Motor Company (Retro Commercial)

Biscuits And Gravy -- Waddie Mitchell

Big-Boned Gal -- k.d. lang & the Recliners

Big River -- Johnny Cash

Bayou Blood -- Kenny Neal

She Won’t Say Yes -- Love Dogs

Tomi Tomi --  Rudi Wairata & his Mena Moeria Minstrels

Wild Injuns -- Neville Brothers

Texaco Sky Chief Gasoline (Retro Commercial)

Messed Up Again -- Lonnie Brooks

Bad Luck -- Erin Hay

Taylor’s Rock -- Sonny Landreth

Thibadeaux, Louisiana -- Marcia Ball

Oops, My Bad -- Yalloppin’ Hounds

Summertime -- Janis Joplin

Night And Day -- Frank Sinatra

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Dickheads of the Month: October 2019

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of October 2019 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

In a really, really mature move proven liar Boris Johnson sent a letter to the EU to request a Britait extension but didn’t sign it, in a feeble attempt to try and say that an official letter from his office doesn’t count if he didn’t sign it and he absolutely should not have to fulfill his promise of claiming he’d rather be dead in a ditch than request an extension

Of course Priti Patel would try and claim the Tories are the party of law and order during her conference speech in spite the minor issue her speech came a week after the Tories were ruled to have unlawfully suspended parliament, because what else did she have other than a strawman about he “North London Liberal Elite” to say for herself?

...although we can thank Geoffrey Clifton-Brown for completely undermining Patel’s speech by his being arrested at the conference due to getting into a punch-up with event security  an hour before Patel even took to the stage

Hapless businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri would look a lot less like she’d been handed a script if she asked what business of ours is it to ask why a six-figure sum of public money ended up in her bank account courtesy of proven liar Boris Johnson, rather than the narrative she attempted to spin asking who we are to ask whether or not he had an affair...because the actual question is a matter for the courts instead of the court of public opinion, as whoever wrote her script knew all too well

In the latest bout of the Liberal Democrats showing how they’re definitely not Tories in disguise, all nineteen of the MPs abstained on a vote to keep the NHS out of Britait negotiations and, in the process, handed Boris Johnson his first-ever parliamentary win over Jeremy Corbyn - which Jo Swinson attempted to defend by squawking “something something antisemitism” in an attempt to distract people from noting the day before she couldn’t stop talking about the handful of Labour MPs who voted in favour of the proven liar's Britait timetable as she continues to try and delude herself and others into believing she’s a kingmaker and not a Tory enabler

...although she’s not alone in that regard, as Gavin Shuker took to Twitter to say how The Independents would do anything in their power to prevent Jeremy Corbyn getting into Downing Street, which only serves to justify him losing a No Confidence vote from his constituents when standing as a Labour MP 

It says a lot about Blizzard that their response to Hearthstone streamer Blitzchung voicing support for the Hong Kong protestswas to boot him out of an upcoming Hearthstone tournament, suspend him from any further Hearthstone tournaments for a full year, and withhold the earnings he had made - and attempting to hide behind their competition rules does not adequately explain why they also ditched the two commentators who happened to be hosting when Blitzchung made the comments in spite their cutting to commercial as soon as he made them, which definitely does not make it look like Blizzard are shit scared of losing the Chinese esports market or anything considering they didn;t do a damn thing to any American players or commentators who subsequently spoke up on Blitzchung’s behalf...

It didn’t take long for the BBC to start gaslighting the public during the election campaign, with Fiona Bruce telling a Question Time audience member that Vote leave was cleared of breaking electoral law in spite the fact that they were found guilty of breaking electoral law, at which point panellists Paul Scully and gaslighter extraordinaire Isabel Oakeshott piled in to continue the bullying somebody who showed more aptitude for journalism than Bruce, Oakeshott and Scully managed between them

I have no idea how Rudy Giuliani managed to give a journalist on the Orange Overlord’s no-no list reason to further investigate the Trump regime leaning on foreign governments to dig up dirt on their opponents when his right buttcheek somehow dialled their number, but what I do know is that it does not surprise me in the slightest that the stop fell into a journalist’s lap because Giuliani was so careless he managed to butt dial them

I’m sure it’s a coincidence that both James Cleverly and Mark Francois both used their Tory conference speeches to threaten rioting on the streets if Britait isn't done, which definitely isn’t a well-worn trope of the Leave camp by this point and certainly not something the police should look into

Isn’t it interesting how Lib Dem staffer Steve Wilson was quick to accuse Dawn Butler of making up incidents of experiencing racist abuse, which not only undermined the Lib Dems’ attempts to portray themselves as anything other than the Tories under a different coat of paint, especially considering the fact that Wilson just so happens to be husband of recent Lib Dem appointee Angela “funny tinge” Smith?

I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot about how Matt Hancock tried to claim that the 20,000 new police officers the Tories claim will be on the streets by 2025 will replace the 21,000 they have laid off since 2010 in an interview with Good Morning Britain, just as I am sure people will mention he kept repeating his soundbite even when being told that the UK will still be 1000 police officers worse off than they were ten years ago several times until he started to look like a malfunctioning computer

Of course Louise Ellman responded to a vote of no confidence being called against her by her local party by resigning from the Labour party and using the usual “Corbyn is an antisemite” arguments we heard numerous times before from people facing deselection.  It’s passed cliche and is rapidly headed towards high camp at this point

...especially when Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust posted a video to her Twitter telling her followers how terrible it is that Labour are looking to have Jo Bird replace Ellman and regurgitated the exact same claims of antisemitism...yet never once deigned to mention that Bird is Jewish, which looks uncannily like the “wrong type of Jews” argument we’ve heard more than once from the Board of Deputies

Of course Anne Sacoolas expressed regret at her reckless driving being responsible for the death of Harry Dunn...after she legged it back across the Atlantic as soon as humanly possible, waiting a few days for the heat to die down, and then issuing a press release saying she regrets her actions but will not actually face consequences for them due to scurrying to hide behind diplomatic immunity in record time

On paper it looked as if WWE had merely given wrestler Jordan Myles a really unimaginative shirt design because the character they gave him is Smiley Guy Who Is Happy To Be Here 708...but the thing is that, on paper, the design didn’t look uncannily like something from a minstrel show, which Myles was particularly vocal about when he saw it - and even more vocal when WWE’s statement in response was the usual ass-covering gaslighting they issue when the company is shown in a bad light 

It appears that the BBC are taking the threats against politicians so seriously that they invited Julia Halfwit Hartley-Brewer onto the Question Time panel little more than a week after she shared the home address of Jo Maugham on her Twitter account so her followers could happily dogpile

You would think that Bethesda would have learned that Fallout 76 has been nothing but a humiliation conga line for them by this point, but apparently not, as they had the genius idea of charging $99.99 (or £99.99, because fuck British players amirite?) for a premium subscription for a game that came out to critical derision and commercial stagnation a year before someone hit on this idea, and if that wasn’t humiliating enough it soon transpired that the supposed benefits of paying $13 a month didn’t work to the point where players paying the premium were losing items while those who weren’t had no problems at all  

Once again it seems nobody told Extinction Rebellion that there’s a way to protest that doesn’t mainly involve being a bunch of dickheads and generally pissing people off with dickheaded stunts, with James Brown taking the prize for most dickheaded act after he climbed on top of a plane at Heathrow, although the bloke at Canning Town getting a shoeing after trying to hold up the train runs him a close second

I have no idea how Roland Rudd imagined his boardroom coup to take over the People’s Vote campaign would have gone, but I’m going to guess the mass walkout of staff when his plan to make the campaign a fully-fledged political party who would position as pro-business “liberals” in an obvious bid to try and split the Labour vote may have had something to do with it

The sheer spinelessness of the BBC was exposed for all to see when it emerged that a solitary complaint from a viewer was all it took for the corporation to reprimand Naga Mulchetty for suggesting that Donald Trump saying non-white congresswomen should go back where they came from, yet when Brendan O’Neill saying people should take to the streets and riot if Britait isn’t delivered received over 600 complaints no action was taken.  And as if that didn’t make it any clear, when Priti Patel was called out by Andrew Marr for smirking through an interview when a list of businesses facing bankruptcy due to Britait drew a couple of hundred complaints, the corporation issued a grovelling apology that said they should not make light of Patel’s natural facial expression, even though there’s a wealth of evidence that smirking is not her natural facial expression

Funny how the dogwhistling boneheads have nothing to say about Jess Phillips’ mental flub during an interview when she claimed she'd knocked on the doors of 25,000 doors in the previous two weeks when she meant to say 2500, yet have spent the past two years continuously howling about the one time Diane Abbott flubbed her sums in an interview.  Hmm, I wonder why the white middle-class Phillips gets better treatment than the black working-class Abbott...

Luckily for Rebekah Vardy it isn’t exactly difficult to do a disservice to the image of footballers wives, but her being caught out leaking stories that Coleen Rooney planted on her Instagram to find out who was leaking stories to The Sun wasn’t the logical defence of trying to claim that The Sun hacked Rooney’s phone as they have previous in that regard but to reel off ever-more spurious attempts at a denial and threatening legal action

In a desperate bid for attention Tracy Ann Oberman accused Jeremy Corbyn of stalking her at her place of work by posting a selfie of herself standing near a table where Corbyn, his wife and Shami Chakrabarti were having a cup of tea at a theatre in Corbyn’s constituency, and to prove she’s definitely not unhinged this soon degenerated into her getting into the usual vicious Twitter spats that occur when her behaviour is called out

Pity poor Savid Javid for having to endure the pain and humiliation of Hugh Grant not shaking his hand at a film premiere.  Of course, maybe if Javid didn’t publicly dismiss the concerns of those who have been victims of press intrusion, maybe he wouldn’t be in a situation where a victim of press intrusion such as Hugh Grant would not want to shake his hand at a film premiere...

It was finally revealed how mug salesman Steven Crowder looks borderline informed when in debates with other people.  It’s because his father prevents him from taking part in debates against opponents who will show him up as the ill-informed blowhard that he is.  Yes, really

Sentient testicle Toby Young decided this month’s dogwhistling about Meghan Markle would be how she obviously can’t be depressed as the rich and famous are never depressed, which plumbed new depths of ignorance even for him 

Britain’s most triggered man Piers Moron Morgan thought he was being clever when asking Good Morning Britain viewers to vote in a poll about whether he should be fired or not.  The look on his face when 56% of voters said he should be sacked revealed how clever he actually is... 

And of course, what would a month be without Donald Trump being utterly moronic, on this occasion saying it’s okay for the Kurds to be attacked as they didn’t help the US in World War II in spite the act that a.) They did, and b.) KURDISTAN IS NOT A COUNTRY.  But then again, he does seem to be running out of material as the best he can say about Joe Biden is “But his text messages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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Hello, wanted to ask if you can write fun facts on Minsrtal?

YESYES I HAVE SO SO MANY EHEHEHE!!

Minstrels eyes/ pupils are usually in the shape of a goat or frog ig? But when she’s around Rudy or jst smth she likes they get rlly big and dark like a cats!

Minstrel has longer claws than the other klowns due to her still being a THING so she’s got sharp nails hehe!

Minstrel is very funny very very funny and has a very likable personality along with his extreme bombastic energy about everything :] ppl just seem to like him! That could also be bc the thing DNA

Minstrels bottom jaw splits open ! He doesn’t do it often but he thinks it’s a cool party trick! He likes to scary Rudy with it too HEHE

When it comes to minstrel he never understood the concept of one lover or just loving someone at all! Usually when a thing “mates” or join together it’s for benefits the other gives. Like health and safety stuff! But minstrel much rather would be with just one person if they ever fell in love LOLOL!

If minstrel likes you or crushes on you YOU WILL MOST DEFINITELY know, every act and choice is made with their S/O in mind that’s why minstrels such a good lover HEHE!

Blood is very important to minstrels species, sharing blood or giving blood to minstrel could give him some mixed feelings about what your trying to ask from him lol 😭