on a similar theme you should watch the movie Bad Education, it's petty good!
― calzino, Monday, 22 February 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
DJP is that in relation to this story:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-districts-school-board-resigns-comments-bashing-parents/story?id=76020108
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
why yes it is
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
wow those fuckers were getting paid? lord....
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
I saw some Gizmodo commenters saying "how dare they do this, they should forfeit their salaries" and my reaction as someone who grew up in a state where the school board is a volunteer elected position was "are you high, why do you think they get paid... oh no, wait a second" and I've been flipping back and forth between a state of horror and bemused puzzlement at why I feel so vehemently that school board members shouldn't be paid because I don't have a strong argument beyond "they just shouldn't"
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
i could see an argument for being paid if it was like "otherwise only rich people will do this" kind of thing? idk.
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
all work should be paid imo
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Let me talk to you about journalism internships some time...
― illumi-naughty (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 February 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
That Pamelyn Ferdin did the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in some Peanuts specials and a movie.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
Who?
She is an actress, known for The Beguiled (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973) and A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
well, today I learned who Pamelyn Ferdin is.
― stilt in the wings (sic), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
She was a pretty busy child actress back in the day.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
I remember her from a made-for-TV movie where the catch line in the promos was "Daddy, I hate being dead." After that I noticed her popping up in various things.
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
Like for one thing I know there is nothing shocking about me coming across some hitherto unconsumed crumb of television trivia at this late date.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
xp Lolololol i love you so much, James Redd and the Blecchs!!
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
It was only while looking at IMDB last night that I finally realized that the rather hunky and mysteriously familiar looking Michael B Jordan who was Erik Killmonger in Black Panther, is familiar looking because he’s somehow the same person who played gangly little Wallace in early seasons of The Wire.
― Kim, Monday, 1 March 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
JUst had teh post I made about the black take on teh Meet me At McDonald'#s haircut i made after seeing the fillm repaear on FB a couple of days ago.Did strike me at teh time that the same people wearing taht haircut 3 years ago would have been exactly the same people bullying those who were wearing it when it was first appearing in the early 80s. the white version of the do anyway, tended to denote one was playing in an indie band and may be slightly more enlightened in one's attitudes to homosexuality and things.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/haircut-924718.jpghttps://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529b67dfe4b06bb4b8f64fcc/1518492451848-SDZ2A6P9KT6JHMT9URB1/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kGFVPdioKLjvLPyZtExePgsUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8N_N4V1vUb5AoIIIbLZhVYxCRW4BPu10St3TBAUQYVKcKdjJv59OPFora4UgArJqnTmVKBRn7Np-K9bZIgaTQmUCaRAT4KyiScmnuuGfS8_r/blackpantherhaircut1.jpg
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Kim, I think the only reason I knew about Jordan was because he played Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, and I recognized his face immediately.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
A few days late to this discussion, but watching a friend of mine on the school board work 20-35 hours a week on school board stuff makes me reconsider that they do indeed deserve to be paid. It's been eye opening, to say the least. Obviously a lot of it is intensified because of the pandemic and changing requirements/logistics on an almost weekly basis, but I've learned that it's not just a meeting every month and that's it.
I mean we had an outdoor dinner with them before it got cold out and she took no less than three board related calls between 7:00 and 9:00 on a Friday night. It basically is a full-time job and hats off to anyone willing to take on that burden for free, I guess.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
2/3rds of LFO died, one of leukemia, another of cancer
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
(LFO aka Lyte Funky Ones, the American band)
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
1/2 (-to-all) of the real LFO died too, of "complications after an operation"
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
Whoa @ grim LFO news
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
Pop stars just don't last as long anymore. A bunch of old-ass bands have most if not all of their members still alive + kicking but I've been listening to early '90s pop this week and remembering that half of Milli Vanilli, Kris Kross, and PM Dawn are all gone.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:46 (three years ago) link
Set Adrift on Memory RIP
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:53 (three years ago) link
A grim one for the "bands with no original members" file. Before Prince Be died, his brother DJ Minutemix was fired for repeated sexual misconduct (a mere ten years after being arrested for fucking his 14-year-old cousin), and replaced by a (different, male) cousin. After Prince Be was incapacitated by a series of strokes and had a gangrenous leg amputated, the cousin Doc G continued to perform his own material live as PM Dawn. In 2018, two years after Prince Be died of diabetic renal failure, Doc G added a new rapper, who had @-ed him on twitter to say "sorry Prince Be died, check out my studio."
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:44 (three years ago) link
New dude is called K-R.O.K. (Kings Respect Other Kings).
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:45 (three years ago) link
Lyte Funky Ones
Late Funky Ones, now :-(
― wake me up before you cuomo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
KIss having a different logo in Germany to avoid the ironic Sigel SS. So the parts of teh S are more horizontal . Just foun dout thsi week.Or is taht actually a coincidence initially, cos i thought that was intentional but seems a little unthinking if the idea that the SS didn't look exactly like the military group's insignia. Utterly tasteless if one's family history is Jewish, but who wanted taste from these shock rockers?aargh.Anyway looks different in Germany anyway.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
^^^ This made me look up more info on Gene Simmons (birth name: Chaim Witz) and I found this on his Wikipedia page:
1989, Simmons managed the recording side of Liza Minnelli's entry into mainstream pop.
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
original version of the song was "Chaim with a C, not Haim with an H"
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Can I just say I’m deeply aggravated by the Wikipedia house style of making sure the birth names of Jewish public figures known professionally as something else appear in the first paragraph of the article? Honestly smacks of (((this bullshit)))
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
tbf it's not just Jewish figures, I've seen it on tons of famous figure AKAs - it either born X or known professionally as Y
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_(singer)
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Keys
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
I think it’s scuzzy to do it for everyone else too but I’m less sensitive about it obviously
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
Who the hell needs to know Alicia Keys’ government name in the first sentence?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
I didn’t know her name wasn’t actually Alicia Keyes so I learned a new fact right there in the first sentence. Honestly I’d be kind of pissed if I needed to know a public figure’s government name for some reason and it wasn’t listed on Wikipedia
― joygoat, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
They do it for Chelsea Manning and Ellliot Page too, which I imagine has been a source of debate in Wikipedia editing circles.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
What was wrong with Alicia Cook as a name anyway?
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
I assume it's because she plays the keyboard
― rob, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
Doh!
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Just move it below the fold is all I’m asking.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
I think that's reasonable. Stick it in "early life"
― rob, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Still waiting for her instrumental jazz album, Cookin' with Alicia Keyes
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
I'm actually surprised that hasn't happened yet
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
Keys bcs she's a pianist. Wow. Shockingly old indeed. All that "Horrible album titles that pun on the artist's name" potential going to waste.
― mahb, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
Duets album with Peter Coyote.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link