Guilty! As a young impressionable kid, my comedy staples were my Dad’s comedy staples…Carry On movies and Benny Hill! One of my favourite comedy movies is still Up The Khyber! As for the US election and the normality of the Democrats…hmmm! Less weird than the Republicans, is as far as I’d go at the moment! Waltz the Schmaltz!
It is very annoying as a woman. I make it a personal point to not ask women about pregnancy unless they bring it up.
I have 3 kids. And long since said goodbye to anything resembling a flat stomach. Someone asked me recently (I’m 44) when I was due. I told them my youngest was 6. They looked embarrassed.
Just STFU about women’s physical appearance in general 😂
I can understand picking up the pregnancy news line, given it had just been announced. But “little bump” is objectively weird, ick phrasing and as the interviewer, if your subject doesn't want to talk about the “bump”, it's your job to move on.
Grew up listening to Bill Cosby records, dancing to Michael Jackson music, before the concept of "date rape" was named. I've seen things, man...it is wild how much has (and also hasn't) changed.
I wonder what cancellation rate amongst hipsters is like. They’re v reluctant to give up on things they like. Just look at Gill Sans, the font of choice for any po-faced design mag throughout the noughties. They weren’t going to let Eric Gill spoil that for them. (Just making a massive sweeping generalisation there based on my evidence pool of Gill Sans in a few magazines and a cafe playing Michael Jackson 😂)
This reminds me that I have a wholel taxonomy of cancelled things that I've been vaguely working on. I think of there being two axes - the Y is "relatedness of the thing potentially to be cancelled to the cancellable action" and the X is "value of the thing potentially to be cancelled". So Gill Sans is low right quadrant - a font never groomed anyone, and it's a great font. Jackson is just below mid-Y but far to the right - the music is implicated in his grooming but it's not ABOUT the crimes he committed, and also it's incredible. Losprophets would be mid fat left - a bit implicated, but completely shit. You will notice there is no axis for how bad the crime is! That's because I'm not sure that matters as much as "implicatedness" vs "value". But probably this should be a 3D model and then it gets hellishly complicated and that's why I've never tried to write this up.
OK I’m on board for this. My initial thought was it definitely needs to be 3D, but thinking about it i”m not sure how much it’s needed. R Kelly’s crimes have been dreadful (and he was convicted which you’d think would make a difference) but his music is still around. Jackson, everyone seems to just pretend it didn’t happen (along with all those rock stars, incl. Bowie). Everyone was happy to ditch Gary Glitter* and Rolf Harris… Hmm. Ok this is going to occupy me for a while.
*Although my friend’s dad won’t stop telling everyone that Gary Glitter on the Hastings pier was the best gig he’s ever been to.
Our comedy has so many fingerprints on our references and viewpoints doesn’t it. The other day I said “what did your last slave die of?” to my daughter (like some kind of professional stereotypical parent). I realised after that probably it’s not an ok thing to say these days. But it made me realise that a big difference between the UK and the US is that when you talk about being treated like a slave, there’s a whole generation of Brits thinking of Frankie Howerd.
Chappell Roan needs a new kind of fan; I recommend boring dads who like synthpop but wouldn't really bother going to her concerts unless it's to bring the kids.
This is all such bullshit. Lively is not the best at pulling off what she's trying to pull off. But the overall point, that a man wouldn't have been asked those questions, is 100% right. it's hard not to see the current round of criticism as an ebb backward. Some seem to have decided actually a little bit of sexism is good and we should embrace it again. I think those people are wrong.
Guilty! As a young impressionable kid, my comedy staples were my Dad’s comedy staples…Carry On movies and Benny Hill! One of my favourite comedy movies is still Up The Khyber! As for the US election and the normality of the Democrats…hmmm! Less weird than the Republicans, is as far as I’d go at the moment! Waltz the Schmaltz!
A Substack haunted by the ghost(s?) of Pauline Kael’s boobs. 10/10.
This is a harrowingly fair summary not only of this substack but of my life
It is very annoying as a woman. I make it a personal point to not ask women about pregnancy unless they bring it up.
I have 3 kids. And long since said goodbye to anything resembling a flat stomach. Someone asked me recently (I’m 44) when I was due. I told them my youngest was 6. They looked embarrassed.
Just STFU about women’s physical appearance in general 😂
I can understand picking up the pregnancy news line, given it had just been announced. But “little bump” is objectively weird, ick phrasing and as the interviewer, if your subject doesn't want to talk about the “bump”, it's your job to move on.
Grew up listening to Bill Cosby records, dancing to Michael Jackson music, before the concept of "date rape" was named. I've seen things, man...it is wild how much has (and also hasn't) changed.
Yes… although I will say that I was in a v hipster cafe today and they were playing Michael Jackson. So only some things change.
His music never went away. Thriller gatherings didn’t stop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder what cancellation rate amongst hipsters is like. They’re v reluctant to give up on things they like. Just look at Gill Sans, the font of choice for any po-faced design mag throughout the noughties. They weren’t going to let Eric Gill spoil that for them. (Just making a massive sweeping generalisation there based on my evidence pool of Gill Sans in a few magazines and a cafe playing Michael Jackson 😂)
This reminds me that I have a wholel taxonomy of cancelled things that I've been vaguely working on. I think of there being two axes - the Y is "relatedness of the thing potentially to be cancelled to the cancellable action" and the X is "value of the thing potentially to be cancelled". So Gill Sans is low right quadrant - a font never groomed anyone, and it's a great font. Jackson is just below mid-Y but far to the right - the music is implicated in his grooming but it's not ABOUT the crimes he committed, and also it's incredible. Losprophets would be mid fat left - a bit implicated, but completely shit. You will notice there is no axis for how bad the crime is! That's because I'm not sure that matters as much as "implicatedness" vs "value". But probably this should be a 3D model and then it gets hellishly complicated and that's why I've never tried to write this up.
OK I’m on board for this. My initial thought was it definitely needs to be 3D, but thinking about it i”m not sure how much it’s needed. R Kelly’s crimes have been dreadful (and he was convicted which you’d think would make a difference) but his music is still around. Jackson, everyone seems to just pretend it didn’t happen (along with all those rock stars, incl. Bowie). Everyone was happy to ditch Gary Glitter* and Rolf Harris… Hmm. Ok this is going to occupy me for a while.
*Although my friend’s dad won’t stop telling everyone that Gary Glitter on the Hastings pier was the best gig he’s ever been to.
Our comedy has so many fingerprints on our references and viewpoints doesn’t it. The other day I said “what did your last slave die of?” to my daughter (like some kind of professional stereotypical parent). I realised after that probably it’s not an ok thing to say these days. But it made me realise that a big difference between the UK and the US is that when you talk about being treated like a slave, there’s a whole generation of Brits thinking of Frankie Howerd.
Chappell Roan needs a new kind of fan; I recommend boring dads who like synthpop but wouldn't really bother going to her concerts unless it's to bring the kids.
This is all such bullshit. Lively is not the best at pulling off what she's trying to pull off. But the overall point, that a man wouldn't have been asked those questions, is 100% right. it's hard not to see the current round of criticism as an ebb backward. Some seem to have decided actually a little bit of sexism is good and we should embrace it again. I think those people are wrong.