“La Meute failed. Only about 150 of their members were able to mobilize from all over the province to Quebec’s major metropolis, Montreal, on a holiday Sunday. They were not able to march anywhere on Montreal’s streets, as they intended. They were forced, instead, to spend hours baking in the sun, or hiding in the shade, pinned in on St-Antoine Street West, between de la Cathédrale and Peel, in front of the federal Immigration Canada offices. Their (by all appearances) “whites-only” demo was surrounded by riot police and, on either side of St-Antoine Street, a total of more than 200 anti-racists held both sides of the streets, defiant, and refusing to allow any attempt by La Meute to march. Essentially, the self-described “best demo in our history” involved La Meute members stuck behind police lines, limited to one block for three hours until they dispersed under police escort. Some of their buses were apparently also vandalized. One attempt by La Meute security to get by police lines and try to take the streets was met by chants, an anti-racist smoke grenade, and some well-aimed projectiles. La Meute members were forced to retreat. They never tried to take the streets again.”
— Jaggi Singh on La Meute’s failed anti-immigration march in Montreal today.
Tonight at the gym a man who looked like fuckin Thor asked me out and when I told him I was a lesbian he goes “oh. Chill. You know, my sister and I work out a lot together. She’ll be here tomorrow, same time.”
Like…did Thor just wingman me?
God of lesbians
This is totally something the MCU Thor would do
Thor: “Fair maiden, would you join me on an excursion this evening, for merrymaking and perhaps a more intimate end to the night?”
Lesbian: “If I were into men, I’d totally take you up on it, but I’m gay”
Thor: “I hope I have not been impertinent! However, if you are not otherwise engaged, I may know someone more suitable to your affections.”
The canon comic-book Thor as well.
Then it really would be his sister
Extra bonus points for her being canon gay.
😀
Every time this post re-appears on my dash it has gotten even better and cuter ❤
And now I need fanart of Thor trying to help set up the various Magical Lesbians he knows up with cute girls he thinks they may like ❤
I NEED THIS NOW
Valkyrie: Thor remember what I said I don’t wanna treat this like a hook up just introduce us casually and
Thor: YONDER SAPPHIC WARRIOR!
(Waves frantically)
I HAVE RETURNED WITH SHE WHO I TOLD YOU OF, WHO ENJOYS WOOING FELLOW MAIDENS
This clip of Leo Slezak in Gasparone (1937) made me sorry the man never got to work with the Marx Brothers — he so clearly belongs in the same universe and I could imagine him running the next country over from Freedonia.
As a legit opera star turned movie comic after his retirement from the stage, he more-or-less had the same career path as Margaret Dumont — and now I’m trying to imagine a cisswapped version of the Marx Brothers movies using comediennes active at the time.
Marjorie White definitely could have been one, from the one movie I’ve seen her in (Just Imagine, 1930.)
She worked with the Three Stooges at least once, and while I don’t know if any actress at time would have been allowed to play as weird as Harpo, White definitely had the manic energy. Also she was about 4’10”, and Slezak was something like 6’3” or more and 300 lbs; I’d love to see her gleaming up impishly at him while he looked bewildered.
Thelma Todd worked with the Marx Bros. and starred in a bunch of her own films. Unfortunately both she and White died in 1935.
I can’t recall if I’ve ever seen Patsy Kelly in anything, but she played for Todd’s wisecracking best friend in a bunch of things.
Susan Fleming was pretty funny in a clip I’ve seen from Million Dollar Legs (1932), and can’t seem to find again, but she apparently didn’t like working without the energy of a live audience and quit movies (though she must have like zany comedy, as she ended up marrying Harpo Marx).
My spouse suggests Lillian Roth, who played Margaret Dumont’s daughter in Animal Crackers (1930); I agree she’d be a pretty good Groucho equivalent. Unfortunately I can’t find a good short clip of her in that movie (finding clips that feature any of these actresses is tricky).
I just remembered that when I was a kid I put serious thought into an idea for an edgy villainy themed department store, like as a genuine career goal I devised to be completely within the realm of possibility and if I remember correctly my idea included:
Satirical ads and signage just bragging about being a soulless corporation
Scary uniforms with optional helmets for employees
Only sinister music ever plays
Large, obvious security cameras with visible laser sights
Menacing but technically correct signage, like “corpse flesh” for meats
A pet section with only snakes, spiders, scorpions and piranhas
A moat outside with live alligators. Bass Pro fishing shops already actually do this so why not.
Overwhelmingly large horror dvd selection, all other genres condensed into a smaller section presented kinda like the weenie hut from spongebob
“Skeletons” as an entire department
Carnivorous plant nursery in the garden section
The store holds very frequent raffles and contests but the prize is always knives
My reasoning besides it being fun was that everyone was probably sick to death of businesses pretending to be wholesome and caring about you and people are also just bored in general so the spectacle itself might pay for the cost of its gimmicks and actually all the regular items would be as cheap as possible
Trump regime is using the power of the state to chill dissenting voices. In addition, it is perpetuating a culture that doesn’t just condone, but requires, lying to the American people.
These fucking pigs have absolutely no right to interrupt someone giving an interview to the press and should have been barred from entering the CBS studios
it was at his house, Sam
they conveniently turned up whilst being interviewed for max intimidation
O.O
That makes this even more utterly disgusting/horrifying…
“In 1900, the Russian archaeologist Friedrich Zibold discovered the remains of a mysterious domed structure in the Byzantine Crimean site of Theodosia. After studying the ruins and some terracotta pipes found nearby, he proposed that the structure was an air well designed to condensate moisture from the air into water, and built a replica to test it. This replica was successful and became the precursor of modern air wells. However, it was discovered later that the ancient structure was actually a tomb, the pipes were not related to it, Zibold had used the wrong materials for his replica, and weather conditions at the time (which had included thick fog) had exaggerated the results of the experiment. But by sheer coincidence these materials were the right type to make a working air well—had Zibold used the real ones in the tomb his experiment would have been a failure—and had weather conditions been more characteristic of the area (not as much fog), it wouldn’t have worked as well as Zibold reported it did. Neither of these problems were discovered until 90 years after Zibold’s experiment. In other words, Zibold inadvertently invented a new technology as a result of a failed attempt to replicate a lost technology that didn’t actually exist in the first place.”
I love this kind of thing.
I kind of hope, if we ever meet aliens, that this is our thing. Other species might be better athletes, or record-keepers, or logical thinkers, but we’re the ones who can basically say “Well, I know now that you were kidding about having a ray gun that turns things into sugar, but while you were laughing over how I actually believed it was possible I went and actually made one, and then improved it to the point that I can choose macro-level structures as well so I now have a gun that turns things into skittles.”
This is basically the Thermians from Galaxy Quest.
Mooncustafer 