Tag: animals

Barnum’s Animals

Barnum's Animals

I’m against caving in to PC pressure, which is part of the reason Barnum And Bailey stopped doing circus shows; activists protested because animals were allegedly mistreated; but the “new look” on the box makes sense. The illustrated animals have been in cages since these Crackers were first introduced to the world. Now, after well over a hundred years, they’re free.

It’s a slick metaphor to mark the end of Barnum’s circus, but they’re not really crackers. They’re cookies; shortbread cookies; just like the ones from McDonaldland with a taste that’s nearly indistinguishable. It’s a sweet buttery vanilla-like if not fortune-cookie-like blend that, when eaten with vanilla ice cream or a cup of milk, tastes even better than most animal meat.

my rating : 4 of 5

Ship Those Niggers Back ( song lyrics ) … Odis Cochran

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Gather all those equals up and herd them on the pier.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Twenty million ugly coons already on the pier.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Boats are ready for the trip. We won’t shed a tear.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Hand that chimp his ugly stick. Hand that buck his spear.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Twenty million jigaboos Africa will steer.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
There they go far out to sea. See them disappear.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Boats are leaking badly now. They sink we sadly fear.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
No more nigger civil rights led by nigger queers.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
Our homes, our schools, our city streets of niggers will be clear.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

Ring that bell. Shout for joy. White man’s day is here.
America will be all white; the land we love so dear.

America for white. Africa for black.
Send those apes back to the trees. Ship those niggers back.

1964

video review : Orange Is The New Black [ Season 7 ]

video review : Orange Is The New Black [ Season 7 ]

This is the final season of Orange Is The New Black, a Netflix series that started off good then lost its way. The first half of this season is a return to form; it’s the best, or at least the longest, consecutive episode run since Season 2; but before long, it too drops the soap.

That’s about the time Lolly; the show’s most annoying character after Suzanne, whom she takes care of chickens with here; shows her face and loose ends start to tie. Cue the reemergence of more faces you haven’t seen in a while, including dead ones in flashbacks.

The focus ultimately goes back to Piper, appropriately enough considering the series began from her perspective. It’s a shame her story, having to do with her adjustments to the free world and her romantic feelings for Alex, is among the most mundame.

my rating : 3 of 5

2019

video review : Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

video review : Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino says he wants to retire after ten movies. This is number nine. If he were to ask me what I think he should do to end his career on a high note, I’d sum it up with one word; suspense. That’s what makes his best movies; Inglourious Basterds and Jackie Brown; the classics they are. They’re filled almost to the brim with moments of suspense.

There’s a scene in Hollywood in which one of its two leading men; Brad Pitt as stuntman Cliff Booth; drives a sexy hitchhiker girl to Spahn Movie Ranch, where she says she lives. She invites him on the premises to meet her hippie friends. The tension that follows could be cut with a knife, but it leads nowhere. The suspense doesn’t return until the movie is about to end.

That ending, in which members of Charles Manson’s killer cult target Cliff and his famous actor buddy Rick Dalton; Leonardo DiCaprio as the other leading man; is violent and enthralling. Most of what comes before it is relatively uneventful. A lot of the movie is spent watching Dalton act in movies that are more entertaining than the one you’re watching.

my rating : 3 of 5

2019