Dolls Ahoy!

have started cutting out another sewing project

so excited to work on it*. it's going to be absolutely obnoxious.

*well, not excited about the 'cutting out' part. but. as I said before: ya gotta slog through the preparation to get the project started right.

Outside pieces are cut! Now need to cut lining and interfacing.

maybe not tonight

Have cut the lining and interfacing, and the interfacing has been fused. Tomorrow, I hope to get all the welt pockets done, then maybe move on to construction of the shell.

So obnoxious 💗

The shell is almost finished, and I can probably get the lining constructed and installed tomorrow, since the facings/lining is considerably less complicated than the shell (although I do have an idea to make it a little more complicated. just a little.)

When I was younger, I wouldn't start a project if I didn't think I could get it finished the same day. I didn't like the idea of leaving things, and I didn't always have the room for the unfinished projects.

I still won't let a project turn into an indefinitely unfinished object, but I am much more wiling (and able) to let a single project take a while...although "a while" for me probably could be longer--I can start to feel overwhelmed by a project that isn't finished.

Still need to attach the lining to the cuffs, then to the lower facings, followed by some unavoidable hand stitching, then top stitching the cuffs and around the lower edge.

I could have finished today, but I didn't want to push myself. I'm always trying to find balance between getting a project finished--and thus avoiding that feeling of being overwhelmed--versus avoiding that ol' feeling of burnout.

I guess it's all part of how hobbies are interactive, and not just passive, huh.

panic at the bathroom

She Is Watching

“Rayban charity glasses event” is a scam don’t click any link in a post that says that.

Old tumblr users remember this scam back when it first went out.

Also no, this isn’t a joke. This phishing scam is 100% running its course again so watch out for your mutuals long abandoned accounts suddenly posting it. Please make everyone aware of it since most users here are newbies who have not seen it before!

Reminder that, in The Before Times (before the internet was common), almost all of our memes (not that we knew that's what they were) came from commercials or funny TV shows

before TV, they came from radio and print

before that, word of mouth (or perhaps a lot of people witnessing the same memorable action)

and, while some of those memes are still recognizable as memes today, most of them are as opaque as the next generations' memes will be to the previous generations, when there's no context. (Or as, say, Tumblr memes seem to nonTumblr users.)

(I am of the opinion that it's fun to learn the context, instead of just dismissing any other generation--past or future--as inscrutable, or, worse, having no sense of humor.)

@masterkree replied: "Please make a post with examples of vintage memes? I love this kinda stuff. ex: my Dad's favorite meme of all time is still "Come with me if you want to live" "

Oh, this is one I'm going to have to open up to other Old People, because I'm better at identifying them when I see them than I am at thinking of examples XD

The big one I do think of is "Where's the beef?" from some early 1980s Wendy's commercials

"Where's the beef?" was everywhere for a while, even making its way into the 1984 presidential election. I think, when people hear "Where's the beef?" now, they do still have a vague idea where it comes from.

From the late 1960s is "Sock it to me," from the comedy variety show Laugh In. Laugh in didn't coin "Sock it to me," but they certainly used it a lot. A lot. There's a section on the Laugh In wiki listing all the "catchphrases" made popular by the show; I'm pretty sure we'd call any phrase started in one place and used in general pop culture a meme now?

That got a presidential candidate involved, too

An even older example (which, as far as I know, wasn't referenced by a potential president) is the ACME corporation from the 1940s Warner Brothers Wile E Coyote theatrical shorts.

Now, young people today see the ACME gags, and can tell they're supposed to be some sort of joke, to the point that I've seen posts claiming it's an acronym, standing for A Company [that] Makes Everything. This is incorrect.

When the jokes were written, people would have turned to the phone book to find things. With the phone book entries being listed alphabetically, a lot of companies tried to give themselves names that would not only put them near the top of the listings, but also denote quality...whether they were quality or not. This led to companies having names like A1 Supply, with A1 not only being associated with things that are high quality, but also being, y'know, right at the top of the listing in a phone book category.

Acme also fits this scheme, because the word "acme" means "the top, highest point, peak, or summit." You also can't find too many superlatives that will be closer to the beginning of the alphabet.

References to companies (of dubious quality) named acme predated the Wile E Coyote shorts

but the Warner Brothers writers really ramped up the irony, by not only showing that their Acme's products were very much not the summit of anything, but also heavily implying that Coyote was just ordering his stuff from the first listing in the phone book, with no research whatsoever. There's also room to interpret it as being not one single Acme company, but a series of shady companies that are just trying to get the early 20th century version of SEO.

I don't see this quite so much as making a meme that went on to be used by others as I see it as using an existing meme, a cultural reference that viewers would ~get~

Those are the only examples I can think of offhand. I know there are more--and older--example out there!

I’m always jarred by that post that includes Life Is A Highway in a list of country songs, because the country version is a cover of a regular ol’ late 1990s rock song

that I volunteered to record enough times to fill up both sides of a 90 minute cassette for someone to take to a trade show representing a business that was using the song in its commercials at the time.

firespirited said: I just went to listen to the original and he’s so marbled mouthed I thought it was a foreign language!

His first hit (although moreso in Canada than in the US) was a song called Lunatic Fringe in 1981 with a band called Red Rider, so Mr Chochrane had a lot of time to make that voice gravel by 1991.

I was exposed to Red Rider as a kid because Dad liked them but I never paid much attention to the Lunatic Fringe song before and I just looked it up and Wikipedia says

and that was not what I expected to learn, especially after looking at YT comments and seeing that a lot of people believe it was written about the murder of John Lennon.

And Wikipedia says Life Is A Highway was written as a response to witnessing crushing poverty

so…huh.

Thinking about Lunatic Fringe again lately (can't imagine why eh)

and seeing there are still people saying it was inspired by Lennon's death. Here's Cochrane himself saying it was already written before that happened, and that he expressly wrote it to be antiracist, which made the label said "Um that's not a good subject for a pop song" (he does say that Lennon's death made him feel like the song was even more necessary to get out into the world)

1985.

Joe Flaherty for Wendy's Canadian-Only Hot Dogs

i love you vampire-based advertising campaigns for otherwise normal products

That's not just any vampire, that's Count Floyd

So, in addition to the running gag of the character himself always howling like a dog (hot or not), there was a layer of Extreme Canadianness going on there.

have started cutting out another sewing project

so excited to work on it*. it's going to be absolutely obnoxious.

*well, not excited about the 'cutting out' part. but. as I said before: ya gotta slog through the preparation to get the project started right.

Outside pieces are cut! Now need to cut lining and interfacing.

maybe not tonight

Have cut the lining and interfacing, and the interfacing has been fused. Tomorrow, I hope to get all the welt pockets done, then maybe move on to construction of the shell.

So obnoxious 💗

The shell is almost finished, and I can probably get the lining constructed and installed tomorrow, since the facings/lining is considerably less complicated than the shell (although I do have an idea to make it a little more complicated. just a little.)

When I was younger, I wouldn't start a project if I didn't think I could get it finished the same day. I didn't like the idea of leaving things, and I didn't always have the room for the unfinished projects.

I still won't let a project turn into an indefinitely unfinished object, but I am much more wiling (and able) to let a single project take a while...although "a while" for me probably could be longer--I can start to feel overwhelmed by a project that isn't finished.

picking through the joann fabrics liquidation sale like a trilobite at a whale fall

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: what we want is for these things to be run like a HOUSEHOLD… a home. A household still has a budget and an income and resources to manage; all the moving parts are the same but the focus is different.

a business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it’s last dollar to keep the people in it safe and healthy.

A household will use money as a resource to add value to the lives of the people in the household. A business will use people as a resource to add monetary value to the business

We don’t want a government run like a business, we want a country run like a household. Because we live here.

Y'all I sincerely need to know all there is to know about why there are nonstop vulvas in the Metroid Prime 4 trailer.

I screenshotted just some not all! There were more!

I really genuinely need to hear the honest explanation from the team. I don't want speculation from the audience. I want the fictional-truth-serum-dragged-it-out-of-them HONEST reasons.

Do you think they can dance around this in the art book. Are they just gonna ignore the giant clits.

there are similar questions about the dais on Geonosis in Attack of the Clones

done!

looking at the notes, I wonder how many of those "yes" votes should be "no"