They didn’t want to stump up the cash for the fines & other costs.

But there was nothing progressive about the fines the city was racking up: San Francisco’s Supreme Court win negates proposed EPA penalties in the hundreds of millions of dollars and mandatory sewer system upgrades that would cost billions and billions.

Every time you load the page, the hosts (“Provided by…”) change. Mostly.

Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield

When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes’s Shaft title track get all the attention, but it’s basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn’t hold up nearly as well.

But Super Fly is a whole album’s worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.

Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!

My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:

1. I was a sucker for 90s action, especially with a hip-hop angle.
2. It’s been three decades since I’ve seen it (but been listening to the soundtrack pretty much ever since).

My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn’t get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!

Admittedly not original compositions, more a “greatest soul hits of the 70s” compilation.

The Nazis literally took Jim Crow as inspiration for the laws they made that eventually took millions down the path to the death camps.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/08/25/long-read-review-hitlers-american-model-the-united-states-and-the-making-of-nazi-race-law-by-james-q-whitman/

The last few years I lived there, my rent went up 20-25%. Every. Damned. Year.

And that was before every last oligarch, monarch, and plutocrat in the world went all in on London property to store their {#$%}-gotten gains.

Hopefully that ↑.

But I suspect most will be like ↓

The future of European procurement?

Because they only lip sync. (You didn’t think they could really sing, did you?)

Why the hell did you have to put that image in my head?!?!

Nobody google biden-choking-chicken.jpg!

Also,

Whoa, whoa, whoa! There’s still plenty of albumen on those eggshells! You take 'em home, throw 'em in a pot, add some broth, a potato…

Also, Fox supports coops.

Note: the “p” is silent.

Fox is in our henhouse?

Can’t believe it’s my first time hearing this!

Grew up in… the place of the preceding polka, ain’t been back since before this album was released. Listening to the whole thing now.

Thanks for this :)

Looking it up, pretty close.

The work done on the film to date was nearly lost in 1998 when one of the animators, while routinely clearing some files, accidentally entered the deletion command code /bin/rm -r -f * on the root folder of the Toy Story 2 assets on Pixar’s internal servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2#Troubled_production

Not an actual option, of course, just to get them to remember the saying “Be careful what you wish for…”

Just found the response:

Dear President Trump and the Republican Party of the United States,

Canada is a federation of 10 provinces, each with sovereignty equal to, if not greater than, the states in your Union, whose sovereignty and rights you are such great champions of.

Therefore Canada would not become the 51st state. It would become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th states. Each with two senators and a proportional number of representatives in Congress.

Your kind offer of joining your Union has been accepted. Please prepare accommodations for 20 new senators and dozens of new representatives, and kindly inform Senator John Thune and Congressman Mike Johnson there will be new elections for Senate majority leader and Speaker of the House.

Please do not worry about security for the new senators and representatives, which will be provided by units of Joint Task Force 2 that will be arriving shortly in the DC Metro area.

Looking forward to working with you,

Yours truly,

Canada

TIL I’ve read my last complimentary article.

Let me list all the problems I have with Trump voters being deported: