I have had occasion to find her amusing, but have not understood how she earned a living. I guess I could check Reader’s Guide to see if she’s still placing columns in magazines, which did used to be a source of income for her. She hasn’t published any books in 40 years. I’ve done a little research on her family, and as far as I can tell, she doesn’t come from money.
physicsguy, if you’re around this morning, hope you are okay in the storm. What a mess in Florida!
Just another spectacular rhetorical flourish from our political elite!
File under: Setting the standard!
Hold on a sec! Maybe SHE KNOWS something we don’t?? (Or anybody else, for that matter.)
Word-salad wizardry (continued)…
Hmmm… Not sure I’m really being fair here. It’s a slip of tongue anyone could make…
…but I’d be lying if I said I weren’t waiting with bated breath for a “Biden” announcement that we are withdrawing all our troops from Pyongyang and environs….
Since clearly…
“BIden” will do anything for PEACE.
(And UNITY.)
Everything….
Barry–
Here’s another contestant for the “word salad” championship: “Doctor” Jill Biden, who hosted the winners of this year’s National Student Poets contest:
” . . . allowing each one to read their winning work in a White House room set up to mimic a coffee house. The first lady said she herself has turned to poetry to find joy in other people’s words at times, including when she’d lie awake consumed by worry or when she felt lost.
‘In the words of others, I found the contours of my own joy,’ she said. ‘I found a place to lay down my fears. I found a compass that would lead me through the darkest of woods. And on the page, tangled in hurried lines, in smudges of ink, I found myself. So it’s truly special to be able to welcome the 2022 National Student Poets,’ she said as the five high school poets sat behind her on high stools.”
Well, now we know who 1) writes the VP’s speeches and 2) programs Brandon’s teleprompter. You’ve probably read about Brandon’s shout-out to the Indiana congresswoman who died in August: “‘I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Rep. McGovern, Sen. Braun, Sen. Booker, Rep. ? Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?’ the president asked in his opening comments. ‘She must not be here.’ Indeed, Rep. Walorski was not there.”
Thanks PA+Cat, for that oh-so-apropos proto-poetry from da Foist Lady herself—well Foisted upon us, that is….
(Though the version I saw—and I’m pretty sure it was the original, in fact I think I still have the screen grab–read “bok choy” instead of “joy”, IIRC. Though no doubt they edited that one out pretty quickly. I remember it quite vividly because I was amazed that there was no poetry about tacos. No reference. Nothing. Not even a limerick.)
I have an elderly aunt living in Naples, and inlaws who were just in Ft. Myers setting up their retirement situation there. I think they made it back to their home in CA before the storm, but I need to check up on them. Some aerial photos of Naples look quite grim.
I guess Fran knew everybody who was anybody.
It was a smart move for her not writing – or at least not publishing – much (or anything) lately. People aren’t as sick of her as they are of other writers and public figures.
——————–
Kamala is talking about our alliance with North Korea today.
Oooops.
I was prepared to do some shorter term bond buying yesterday, and then this happened.
MarketWatch
By Vivien Lou Chen
The Bank of England’s emergency intervention in the U.K. bond market on Wednesday is raising a glimmer of hope in the U.S. that the Federal Reserve might back off its campaign of aggressive interest-rate increases.Treasury and U.K. bond yields fell sharply after the Bank of England took action to shore up the market for U.K. gilts, or government bonds, by pledging to buy “whatever scale is necessary.”
– – –
Wednesday’s emergency intervention by the Bank of England came in response to what Rabobank’s Richard McGuire described as “crisis-style moves” in the U.K. bond market, where rates started to skyrocket last Friday on worries that the British government’s new tax-cutting budget could put the country’s finances on an unsustainable path. Adverse market reaction to the budget plan also sent the British pound to a record low against the dollar on Monday.
The Bank of England’s action created some confusion over why policy makers would be buying government bonds and trying to ease conditions, not long after announcing a plan to sell them and just two days after Gov. Andrew Bailey said officials “will not hesitate to raise rates.”
– – –
“The upshot in the U.K. is that investors are struggling to understand what’s happening with U.K. fiscal policy pushing in one direction and central bank pushing in another,” McGuire said via phone on Wednesday. He described the current environment as the “U.K.’s emerging-market moment,” or a time when a developed economy is looking and feeling more like a less developed one.
– – –
The pivot by the Bank of England, which is hiking rates at the same time as it’s now buying government bonds or engaging in quantitative easing, is designed to essentially save insurers from default, said trader Tom di Galoma at Seaport Global Holdings in Greenwich, Conn.
Uhg. Bond selling by the BoE was expected, then they started buying instead. The current BoE plan is to engage in bond buying for two weeks. Market manipulation.
Fort Myers looks like Venice, and I never knew there were so many ways trees could be uprooted.
I hope people are alright.
A dear friend has a mother and two brothers in Fort Meyers. No word yet. But then, there’s no power or cell service. I know of another young woman near Port Charlotte who is expecting a baby, due this coming Monday. No word from her, either. In Port Charlotte, a hospital had its ground floor filled with storm surge and the roof ripped off its fourth floor.
Kate, Doing fine here in Yulee. Amelia Island and the area around the St Marys river have been ordered to evacuate. So far about 2″ of rain over 24 hrs which is really minimal. Winds right now about 30 gusting 50; some flickering of the lights, but we are well prepared for any outage. Living throughout numerous winter Nor’easters in CT is good preparation. At least here if the power goes out, there’s no chance of freezing like in CT with power out for days to a week in the winter!
One reason we chose the Jax area is that the historical records show very few major impacts from tropical systems.
My wife has a good friend in Port Charlotte and she decided to stay as her daughter came to her who has(had) a beach house. She’s been trying to reach her but no luck so far. Sheriff there was saying hundreds of fatalities. I think this will tally worse than Katrina.
I heard about my friend’s family. Mother okay, brother owns, or owned, a house on Pine Island, north of Sanibel. All roads cut off, so there’s no information on the house. But he’s alive, thanks to his having evacuated.
Every time you think Democratic pols have hit bottom and cannot sink any lower, they prove you wrong. You can’t make it better, you laugh at it.
@ TommyJay > “inlaws who were just in Ft. Myers setting up their retirement situation there. I think they made it back to their home in CA before the storm”
I don’t want to make light of the situation, and am very sad about the damage and deaths from Hurricane Ian, but the note about your relatives moving from California to Florida made me think of this from yesterday.
I enjoyed Fran Lebowitz in her younger, un-writer’s-blocked days. I have no idea how she pays the bills in NYC.
I was bummed by the documentary Scorcese made of Lebowitz titled “Public Speaking” (2010), which showed Lebowitz in complete slavish thrall to Toni Morrison. While Morrison appeared to me an obvious intellectual huckster.
Still, I find Lebowitz, in this clip, interesting and appealing. Maybe not at a deep level, but at least entertaining and I take my entertainment where I can find it these days.
Fran L. remembers learning about ballet in ’82 — I was learning about punk rock in ’79. Learning to like it, and New Wave, a lot (Ramones, Dead Kennedys, the Clash …).
It’s not quite punk, but Machine Gun Kelly’s music was described as “fierce”, and it has far more energy than most stuff. Plus interesting visuals.
Here’s a good concept album in a 48 min video, available for pausing after every few (teeny bopper?) hit songs, for a few more, with story. Different (for me). Cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07VKXydCUw
Going out for Karaoke tonight; maybe sing some Clash, or Kinks, Stones, or Animals, but not yet MGK (younger than my older kids, attractive to those even younger).
Don lightly covers many highlights Neo misses/ doesn’t have time for real depth.
I’m surprised that Fran is surprised. I remember hanging around the ballet studio before and after class, and I watched my teacher creating the performance pieces, and that’s just how she did it.
So, I was aware that it was an organic form of creation.
Linda Fox:
Twyla Tharp’s book, “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life,” which discusses how she learned to create as a choreographer, is magnificent.
She gets into dance as group collaboration.
Fun Fact: Her mother named her Twyla to give her something to live up to.
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I have had occasion to find her amusing, but have not understood how she earned a living. I guess I could check Reader’s Guide to see if she’s still placing columns in magazines, which did used to be a source of income for her. She hasn’t published any books in 40 years. I’ve done a little research on her family, and as far as I can tell, she doesn’t come from money.
physicsguy, if you’re around this morning, hope you are okay in the storm. What a mess in Florida!
And—wait for it—looks like we have a word-salad spinner WINNER (from—whom else?—our reigning word-salad spinning champion!! Yep, she done us PROUD, once again…):
‘ Kamala Harris…At DMZ Hails Strong US “Alliance With Republic Of North Korea” ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kamala-harris-high-stakes-gaffe-dmz-hails-strong-us-alliance-republic-north-korea
Just another spectacular rhetorical flourish from our political elite!
File under: Setting the standard!
Hold on a sec! Maybe SHE KNOWS something we don’t?? (Or anybody else, for that matter.)
Word-salad wizardry (continued)…
Hmmm… Not sure I’m really being fair here. It’s a slip of tongue anyone could make…
…but I’d be lying if I said I weren’t waiting with bated breath for a “Biden” announcement that we are withdrawing all our troops from Pyongyang and environs….
Since clearly…
“BIden” will do anything for PEACE.
(And UNITY.)
Everything….
Barry–
Here’s another contestant for the “word salad” championship: “Doctor” Jill Biden, who hosted the winners of this year’s National Student Poets contest:
” . . . allowing each one to read their winning work in a White House room set up to mimic a coffee house. The first lady said she herself has turned to poetry to find joy in other people’s words at times, including when she’d lie awake consumed by worry or when she felt lost.
‘In the words of others, I found the contours of my own joy,’ she said. ‘I found a place to lay down my fears. I found a compass that would lead me through the darkest of woods. And on the page, tangled in hurried lines, in smudges of ink, I found myself. So it’s truly special to be able to welcome the 2022 National Student Poets,’ she said as the five high school poets sat behind her on high stools.”
https://news.yahoo.com/jill-biden-hosts-white-house-225621873.html
Well, now we know who 1) writes the VP’s speeches and 2) programs Brandon’s teleprompter. You’ve probably read about Brandon’s shout-out to the Indiana congresswoman who died in August: “‘I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Rep. McGovern, Sen. Braun, Sen. Booker, Rep. ? Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?’ the president asked in his opening comments. ‘She must not be here.’ Indeed, Rep. Walorski was not there.”
https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-mistakenly-gives-shout-183332161.html
The country is in the very best of hands.
Thanks PA+Cat, for that oh-so-apropos proto-poetry from da Foist Lady herself—well Foisted upon us, that is….
(Though the version I saw—and I’m pretty sure it was the original, in fact I think I still have the screen grab–read “bok choy” instead of “joy”, IIRC. Though no doubt they edited that one out pretty quickly. I remember it quite vividly because I was amazed that there was no poetry about tacos. No reference. Nothing. Not even a limerick.)
I have an elderly aunt living in Naples, and inlaws who were just in Ft. Myers setting up their retirement situation there. I think they made it back to their home in CA before the storm, but I need to check up on them. Some aerial photos of Naples look quite grim.
I guess Fran knew everybody who was anybody.
It was a smart move for her not writing – or at least not publishing – much (or anything) lately. People aren’t as sick of her as they are of other writers and public figures.
——————–
Kamala is talking about our alliance with North Korea today.
Oooops.
I was prepared to do some shorter term bond buying yesterday, and then this happened.
Uhg. Bond selling by the BoE was expected, then they started buying instead. The current BoE plan is to engage in bond buying for two weeks. Market manipulation.
Fort Myers looks like Venice, and I never knew there were so many ways trees could be uprooted.
I hope people are alright.
A dear friend has a mother and two brothers in Fort Meyers. No word yet. But then, there’s no power or cell service. I know of another young woman near Port Charlotte who is expecting a baby, due this coming Monday. No word from her, either. In Port Charlotte, a hospital had its ground floor filled with storm surge and the roof ripped off its fourth floor.
Kate, Doing fine here in Yulee. Amelia Island and the area around the St Marys river have been ordered to evacuate. So far about 2″ of rain over 24 hrs which is really minimal. Winds right now about 30 gusting 50; some flickering of the lights, but we are well prepared for any outage. Living throughout numerous winter Nor’easters in CT is good preparation. At least here if the power goes out, there’s no chance of freezing like in CT with power out for days to a week in the winter!
One reason we chose the Jax area is that the historical records show very few major impacts from tropical systems.
My wife has a good friend in Port Charlotte and she decided to stay as her daughter came to her who has(had) a beach house. She’s been trying to reach her but no luck so far. Sheriff there was saying hundreds of fatalities. I think this will tally worse than Katrina.
I heard about my friend’s family. Mother okay, brother owns, or owned, a house on Pine Island, north of Sanibel. All roads cut off, so there’s no information on the house. But he’s alive, thanks to his having evacuated.
Looks like Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen may be transitory…
“Larry Summers Pre-Empts Coming Crash, Says Market Feels Like 2007”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/larry-summers-pre-empts-coming-crash-says-market-feels-2007
(OTOH, if she’s “transitory” she may well be Treasury Secretary for a long, long time…)
FWIW,
A text message may get through when a call won’t.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/27/reefer-madness-the-new-york-law-on-legalized-marijuana-is-a-triumph-of-politics-over-logic/comment-page-1/#comments
Every time you think Democratic pols have hit bottom and cannot sink any lower, they prove you wrong. You can’t make it better, you laugh at it.
@ TommyJay > “inlaws who were just in Ft. Myers setting up their retirement situation there. I think they made it back to their home in CA before the storm”
I don’t want to make light of the situation, and am very sad about the damage and deaths from Hurricane Ian, but the note about your relatives moving from California to Florida made me think of this from yesterday.
https://babylonbee.com/news/authorities-warn-that-hurricane-could-cause-florida-to-have-almost-as-many-water-and-power-shortages-as-california
I enjoyed Fran Lebowitz in her younger, un-writer’s-blocked days. I have no idea how she pays the bills in NYC.
I was bummed by the documentary Scorcese made of Lebowitz titled “Public Speaking” (2010), which showed Lebowitz in complete slavish thrall to Toni Morrison. While Morrison appeared to me an obvious intellectual huckster.
Still, I find Lebowitz, in this clip, interesting and appealing. Maybe not at a deep level, but at least entertaining and I take my entertainment where I can find it these days.
Fran L. remembers learning about ballet in ’82 — I was learning about punk rock in ’79. Learning to like it, and New Wave, a lot (Ramones, Dead Kennedys, the Clash …).
It’s not quite punk, but Machine Gun Kelly’s music was described as “fierce”, and it has far more energy than most stuff. Plus interesting visuals.
Here’s a good concept album in a 48 min video, available for pausing after every few (teeny bopper?) hit songs, for a few more, with story. Different (for me). Cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07VKXydCUw
Going out for Karaoke tonight; maybe sing some Clash, or Kinks, Stones, or Animals, but not yet MGK (younger than my older kids, attractive to those even younger).
For Neo, here’s a good Don Surber news Highlights which includes two quick vids,
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/09/highlights-of-news_0393707142.html#more
Good vid of PM Georgia Meloni’s speech [subs]
https://twitter.com/i/status/1574251105940377607
And Rita Hayworth + Fred Astaire dancing … to Led Zepplin!
https://youtu.be/YbuFLUJ89Kw
later Don links to election fraud conviction in PA:
https://conservativebrief.com/30-months-66890/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=258
Don lightly covers many highlights Neo misses/ doesn’t have time for real depth.
I’m surprised that Fran is surprised. I remember hanging around the ballet studio before and after class, and I watched my teacher creating the performance pieces, and that’s just how she did it.
So, I was aware that it was an organic form of creation.
Linda Fox:
Twyla Tharp’s book, “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life,” which discusses how she learned to create as a choreographer, is magnificent.
She gets into dance as group collaboration.
Fun Fact: Her mother named her Twyla to give her something to live up to.