OMG Sarah L., I almost typed a similar thing about a pattern in my area, back in the late 60s and early 70s. I never did the actual painting, but it was a real true phenomenon - I saw the results - at least in the suburbs north of Detroit.
Every NYT reporter who goes on these Cletus safaris must have phrases like “it was all in good fun,” “that was a different time,” and “people read too much into these things” as auto-fill phrases on their laptops.
Today an NYT editor took a break from Cletus Safari-ing to write about the insights and relevance of Ann Coulter. You could lose one salary like hers and hire several people like Roy to contribute something of value.
What is this nation coming to? Getting rid of racist statues is an offense to the racists who worship at the feet of those statues! (Worse, the m&m cartoon representations of the candies have been somewhat desexualized, leaving poor Tucker Carlson nothing to jerk off over while enjoying a snack.)
"I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills, just before dawn,
And knock the little jockeys off the rich people's lawns
And before they get up, I'll be gone. I'll be gone."
Yes, great dis to the people controlling the nation, sharing their freedom with the 'rona, and godless comes are having the statues that fill them with pride torn down.
Yes, what *is* this nation coming to? Or, maybe more pertinently, has come to?
Oh, so now I'm supposed to be anti-lawn jockey? What's next? People offended by my attitudes won't want to associate with me?! That's not right! You have to listen to me when I speak to you! That's in the Constitution. Or the Bible. Maybe both.
I never realized the political implications of this line, or why it was in a song called "Uncle Remus" until much much later. That FZ, he was purty kewl...
The whole song is one hell of a statement. As a person, Zappa had more issues than National Geographic, but he knew racist bullshit and called it out on the regular.
Cartonville is just up the road from Ark Encounter - a life-size replica of Noah's Ark. AE is a low point in American religious expression.
Think about that.
I'll be honest, I wish I could run amok. Seems like after all these years I'd have gotten around to giving it a try. I've never even been on a rampage.
I went on a spree once.
The only thing I ever got to cancel was cable, and, to tell you the truth, the cable company did all the canceling when I "forgot" to pay the bill.
True fact- I may be related (by marriage) to the Grand Wizard of Licking County.
I was thinking the same thing about amok-style running – like, how fast do I need to run? How would I know the exact moment I achieved amokitude? Oh, and wouldn't it be fun to run amok with the Play Doh? And what is it about Play Doh? Why the sudden resurgence? Is it just republicans keeping a hand in? Are they pinin' for the days of yore, when they ruled the sandbox? And wouldn't the sand muck up the doh? And why is it we spell amok amok instead of amuck? That's mucked up.
Elephants enraged run amok. An elephant never forgets. Isn't that symbolic of something political here. I am sure there's something humorous one could make of it but I have been thinking about a character like Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan for climate change. Greta Climate Change. It doesn't quite have the ring I'm going for. Ask an elephant! I hear they are hanging out at diners, ready to run amok on journalists asking impertinent questions!
One of my favorite old movies is 1954's "Elephant Walk" with Elizabeth Taylor. That's how learned that when I build my mansion and plantation in Ceylon, do NOT block the ancient elephant commute lanes. If I could find it free to stream online, I'd watch it again and again, each time imagining the elephants take down (a) the patriarchy, (b) predatory capitalism, or maybe (c) Tucker Carlson. (They could take down Tucker as the end credits run.)
Thanks, I had never heard of that. There are times when Wikipedia with its Earnestness About All Things makes me LOL:
"Ruth's initial delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is quickly tempered by her isolation as the only European woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance and angry outburst; by Appuhamy's polite but nonetheless insubordinate attitude toward her; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants."
Wow, you learn something new every day. A psychiatric condition, huh? I might have been able to use that if I'd known about it back when I was practicing.
It’s actually a Javanese word (I lived there for a long time) and refers to a somewhat rare phenomenon of simultaneous communal madness, a phenomenon mostly found in rural villages and usually precipitated by a person having a mystical encounter of the kind the rest of the village would be very familiar with (e.g. an important spirit in the form of an animal). The panic may quickly spread in a riot form but then die down almost as fast. I personally witnessed only one occurrence during my field research but it was fascinating.
Nothing to do with Malaysia; the Javanese culture is a couple of thousand years more developed and sophisticated than Malaya, frankly. Also amok (never amuk; the short “o” is stressed)has nothing to do with Eskimos.
Interesting. I remember taking an ethnomusicology class in college, way back in the distant past. The instructor's expertise was in gamelan traditions, but he also discussed his experiences in Indonesia. He told about a thing that happened in a fairly remote village that was usually quiet and peaceful, but one day there was a loud, terrible car crash on a nearby road, and the villagers basically ran amok and attacked the drivers and passengers. I don't know if this is true, but it makes sense in terms of a sudden communal freak-out.
I canceled my cable TV years ago. It was highlarious. They didn't actually stop the service for a whole year. I kept thinking, okay, so far so good. They finally came out...and disconnected my neighbors instead, so I had an extra day till they corrected that.
I got close to a frenzy few years ago, but I'm mostly inclined to a good mope.
Sometimes I look things up and Licking County did have a big Klan presence, and was "where the group held its state konklave (convention) in 1923 and 1925. More than seventy thousand people attended each event. The konklaves were held at Buckeye Lake, a popular tourist attraction in the early twentieth century." I could have used Summit County which had the "largest local [Klan] chapter in the United States" but, LOL "Licking County." https://ohiohistorycentral.org/index.php?title=Ku_Klux_Klan&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile
I think it's right up there with "The right not to feel bad about your slave-raping grandfather" which, sadly, has been lost everywhere except the state of Florida.
There's this moment in Wreckx-n-Effect's "Rump Shaker" when the rapper in the first verse, A Plus, says, "Slide off my clothes from New York down by your Virginia /
Ticklin you around Delware before I enter."
And if you think about for two minutes you realize according to this metaphor there is necessarily a Florida, and that means.... you know.
I get the point, but note that that's how American bigots have seen (for example) black and gay Americans' desires to be treated as full human beings and citizens.
(Similarly, just as we spent four years unhappy because Mr Trump's criminality, lying, bigotry, brutality, and lust for power made him unsuitable for the Presidency just as they spent eight years seething due to Mr Obama's being fundamentally unsuited to the office because he was black and not in absolute agreement with them—I'll allow that many could've accepted an evangelical, business-worshipping, misogynist, black man…if he'd treaded _very_ carefully.)
(They see action against racism, climate change, and COVID-19 the way we see their vote-suppression laws: punitive government over-reach using a problem that isn't real as an excuse.)
(I tell ya, ol' Noam just never seemed to fully embrace all the Marketing Potential of his books, it's like he doesn't understand how to be a good capitalist or something. I pitched my brilliant Transformational Grandma Seminar to him and he didn't say nothing, he just made a disgusted sound and walked away.)
Cheer up, good people of Cartonville! Joe Biden, through a great expenditure of his scarce political capital, has won you a hugely expensive upgrade of your internet service, so you can more easily access the Plandemic and "Let's Go Brandon" videos you crave. No doubt you'll make your gratitude evident when you vote for Donald Trump once again in 2024.
OMG Sarah L., I almost typed a similar thing about a pattern in my area, back in the late 60s and early 70s. I never did the actual painting, but it was a real true phenomenon - I saw the results - at least in the suburbs north of Detroit.
Or, in Beverly Hills, right before dawn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHIhsq9qHPk
The NAMES. Sheer brilliance.
Every NYT reporter who goes on these Cletus safaris must have phrases like “it was all in good fun,” “that was a different time,” and “people read too much into these things” as auto-fill phrases on their laptops.
Today an NYT editor took a break from Cletus Safari-ing to write about the insights and relevance of Ann Coulter. You could lose one salary like hers and hire several people like Roy to contribute something of value.
I saw that, poor Ann doesn't have other ways to get her views out the public, I guess, so it's nice of the Times to lend her a hand.
I’m sure they go in knowing the quotes they want.
What is this nation coming to? Getting rid of racist statues is an offense to the racists who worship at the feet of those statues! (Worse, the m&m cartoon representations of the candies have been somewhat desexualized, leaving poor Tucker Carlson nothing to jerk off over while enjoying a snack.)
"I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills, just before dawn,
And knock the little jockeys off the rich people's lawns
And before they get up, I'll be gone. I'll be gone."
Frank Zappa, "Uncle Remus"
Yes, great dis to the people controlling the nation, sharing their freedom with the 'rona, and godless comes are having the statues that fill them with pride torn down.
Yes, what *is* this nation coming to? Or, maybe more pertinently, has come to?
Oh, so now I'm supposed to be anti-lawn jockey? What's next? People offended by my attitudes won't want to associate with me?! That's not right! You have to listen to me when I speak to you! That's in the Constitution. Or the Bible. Maybe both.
How else are we to learn about lawns and jockeys? And the libs say conservatives are anti education!
Just don't sell those jockeys short...
I never realized the political implications of this line, or why it was in a song called "Uncle Remus" until much much later. That FZ, he was purty kewl...
Trump’s dad’s house was the last to keep their lawn jockey painted the traditional color.
The whole song is one hell of a statement. As a person, Zappa had more issues than National Geographic, but he knew racist bullshit and called it out on the regular.
"more issues than National Geographic" is a great line that I fully intend to steal, as often as possible.
More than Carter got liver pills?
And the colored girls sing...
Brilliant.
So brilliant that my lips are sealed re a very minor quibble or two.
Quibbles are and always will be in the minority, so, you know...
Fire away.
Walmarts don’t shut down, at least as a rule. Maybe to be replaced by a yet bigger one.
Too, while I loved the Rexall reference, I dunno, they’re part of the distant past now, no? Of course, we’re all dotards here so it works.
Listen, Sarah Palin got goosed by the ‘Rona so I’m putting all my energies into appropriate thoughts and prayers.
I'm taking it as artistic license: "A town so depressed even the Wal-Mart shut down."
That's my favorite episode of Star Trek -- "Quobble with quibbles"
Cartonville is just up the road from Ark Encounter - a life-size replica of Noah's Ark. AE is a low point in American religious expression.
Think about that.
I'll be honest, I wish I could run amok. Seems like after all these years I'd have gotten around to giving it a try. I've never even been on a rampage.
I went on a spree once.
The only thing I ever got to cancel was cable, and, to tell you the truth, the cable company did all the canceling when I "forgot" to pay the bill.
True fact- I may be related (by marriage) to the Grand Wizard of Licking County.
Funny article!
I was thinking the same thing about amok-style running – like, how fast do I need to run? How would I know the exact moment I achieved amokitude? Oh, and wouldn't it be fun to run amok with the Play Doh? And what is it about Play Doh? Why the sudden resurgence? Is it just republicans keeping a hand in? Are they pinin' for the days of yore, when they ruled the sandbox? And wouldn't the sand muck up the doh? And why is it we spell amok amok instead of amuck? That's mucked up.
"Amok" is an Eskimo word. After being cooped up all winter it's expected they blow off some steam when the thaw comes in the spring.
I think maybe the Eskimos borrowed from the Malaysians. Anyway, it graduated to the DSM-IV as a psychiatric condition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amok
At my age, I be lucky if I could walk amok.
Start by mucking about.
"He's so old, he'd need knee-replacement surgery to run amok"
Elephants enraged run amok. An elephant never forgets. Isn't that symbolic of something political here. I am sure there's something humorous one could make of it but I have been thinking about a character like Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan for climate change. Greta Climate Change. It doesn't quite have the ring I'm going for. Ask an elephant! I hear they are hanging out at diners, ready to run amok on journalists asking impertinent questions!
One of my favorite old movies is 1954's "Elephant Walk" with Elizabeth Taylor. That's how learned that when I build my mansion and plantation in Ceylon, do NOT block the ancient elephant commute lanes. If I could find it free to stream online, I'd watch it again and again, each time imagining the elephants take down (a) the patriarchy, (b) predatory capitalism, or maybe (c) Tucker Carlson. (They could take down Tucker as the end credits run.)
Thanks, I had never heard of that. There are times when Wikipedia with its Earnestness About All Things makes me LOL:
"Ruth's initial delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is quickly tempered by her isolation as the only European woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance and angry outburst; by Appuhamy's polite but nonetheless insubordinate attitude toward her; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants."
Those elephants are bad ass!
Wow, you learn something new every day. A psychiatric condition, huh? I might have been able to use that if I'd known about it back when I was practicing.
Why must run? I prefer to walk amok -- or even sit amok
I ran backwards once and fell into a koma!
Once I was bitten by a möose
It’s actually a Javanese word (I lived there for a long time) and refers to a somewhat rare phenomenon of simultaneous communal madness, a phenomenon mostly found in rural villages and usually precipitated by a person having a mystical encounter of the kind the rest of the village would be very familiar with (e.g. an important spirit in the form of an animal). The panic may quickly spread in a riot form but then die down almost as fast. I personally witnessed only one occurrence during my field research but it was fascinating.
Nothing to do with Malaysia; the Javanese culture is a couple of thousand years more developed and sophisticated than Malaya, frankly. Also amok (never amuk; the short “o” is stressed)has nothing to do with Eskimos.
Interesting. I remember taking an ethnomusicology class in college, way back in the distant past. The instructor's expertise was in gamelan traditions, but he also discussed his experiences in Indonesia. He told about a thing that happened in a fairly remote village that was usually quiet and peaceful, but one day there was a loud, terrible car crash on a nearby road, and the villagers basically ran amok and attacked the drivers and passengers. I don't know if this is true, but it makes sense in terms of a sudden communal freak-out.
I'll be honest , I pulled that Eskimo thing out of my butt.
We talk all the time about how Roy deserves a paying gig at the Post or the Times, but there are some contenders among the commentariat as well.
Although to be a true Timesman, you'd need to say you heard it from your cabdriver.
Per “The Dawn of Everything”, some “eskimos” spent the winter months engaged in orgies so dunno if they needed to blow off anything come spring.
I canceled my cable TV years ago. It was highlarious. They didn't actually stop the service for a whole year. I kept thinking, okay, so far so good. They finally came out...and disconnected my neighbors instead, so I had an extra day till they corrected that.
I got close to a frenzy few years ago, but I'm mostly inclined to a good mope.
Sometimes I look things up and Licking County did have a big Klan presence, and was "where the group held its state konklave (convention) in 1923 and 1925. More than seventy thousand people attended each event. The konklaves were held at Buckeye Lake, a popular tourist attraction in the early twentieth century." I could have used Summit County which had the "largest local [Klan] chapter in the United States" but, LOL "Licking County." https://ohiohistorycentral.org/index.php?title=Ku_Klux_Klan&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile
Up the road from Cartonville...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bone_Lick_State_Park
Ah, Cincinnati: The South's North, The North's South. (They won't be removing the statue of Marge Schott anytime soon either.)
"And isn’t that what America’s all about — if you feel like you have a right, it’s yours?"
Oh mama, when has it ever been NOT? And implying that may be a bad thing is what has the CRT-ijits all angried up.
Of course, it depends on who "you" are.
I think it's right up there with "The right not to feel bad about your slave-raping grandfather" which, sadly, has been lost everywhere except the state of Florida.
There's this moment in Wreckx-n-Effect's "Rump Shaker" when the rapper in the first verse, A Plus, says, "Slide off my clothes from New York down by your Virginia /
Ticklin you around Delware before I enter."
And if you think about for two minutes you realize according to this metaphor there is necessarily a Florida, and that means.... you know.
I never metaphor I didn't like...
Roy, you should collect a few of these as writing samples and apply for a job at the Times. I'd love to see your cover letter and the response.
Roy could make up the cover letter and then craft the best NYT response ever all by hisself.
"If you feel like you have a right, it's yours." That's what America's all about. Make America Great Again Mac's motto.
I get the point, but note that that's how American bigots have seen (for example) black and gay Americans' desires to be treated as full human beings and citizens.
(Similarly, just as we spent four years unhappy because Mr Trump's criminality, lying, bigotry, brutality, and lust for power made him unsuitable for the Presidency just as they spent eight years seething due to Mr Obama's being fundamentally unsuited to the office because he was black and not in absolute agreement with them—I'll allow that many could've accepted an evangelical, business-worshipping, misogynist, black man…if he'd treaded _very_ carefully.)
(They see action against racism, climate change, and COVID-19 the way we see their vote-suppression laws: punitive government over-reach using a problem that isn't real as an excuse.)
Yes, that's right.
Somebody tell me I'm not the only one who thought this was a legit think piece for the first two "grafs" or so.
Thanks. No doubt it's the clumsy construction of the lede that led to the confusion.
It took me to the second graph.
I’m at the age that I hate being tricked like that. It’s a distraction from the Maestro’s genius, reduces the enjoyment a little, blah, blah, blah.
But that’s the risk of being a REBID reader…
I have a Gnome Chomsky garden gnome.
…right next to the 'Manufacturing Compost' bin.
(I tell ya, ol' Noam just never seemed to fully embrace all the Marketing Potential of his books, it's like he doesn't understand how to be a good capitalist or something. I pitched my brilliant Transformational Grandma Seminar to him and he didn't say nothing, he just made a disgusted sound and walked away.)
Manufacturing compost was brilliant.
At your lawn sale, even if you sell the jackeys short, don't even THINK about shorting the gnome...
'Look out! HE'S GOT A RAKE!!!'
Cheer up, good people of Cartonville! Joe Biden, through a great expenditure of his scarce political capital, has won you a hugely expensive upgrade of your internet service, so you can more easily access the Plandemic and "Let's Go Brandon" videos you crave. No doubt you'll make your gratitude evident when you vote for Donald Trump once again in 2024.
"a brass buffer at Trophy Warehouse" - wonderful. A descendant of the swan feeder of Bad Tolsbad, perhaps?
Tearing down statues is a lefty thing. The real thrill is tearing down statutes. Just ask Roberts and Supremes.
Fuck tearing down statues -- tearing down actual kings is far more satisfying
lese majestie, more revolution