Man it is so hard to think about something to write about and find the motivation to actually write anything when everything everywhere is so terrifying. They flooded the zone with so much shit that there’s shit everywhere, all over, just pouring down, spraying up, getting deep into our joints, our hairs, between our fingers even. Shit all over. So like every terrible blogger I guess I decided to just type out a stream of consciousness just hoping that it would lead to a point somewhere. Maybe it will? I don’t know. Back in the TKTKs, when...
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Poplicola is one of the founding editors of Verities and Vagaries.
The answer—as always—is more ads
I’m sitting here watching the Gotham FC-Kansas City Current match on CBS. KC really came out early and smashed Gotham with two goals in the first 13′, so it’s not that interesting of a match at this point**. It’s nice that NWSL matches are being aired on broadcast television. However, CBS (and some other broadcasters but this post is about CBS) has started placing ads during the game. Sure, it’s usually during short breaks like substitutions or injuries, but they did cut to a commercial when there was no break, but I assume the producers had expected...
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WSJ reports that President Trump is going to give TikTok another extension to get their shit together make a effort to be legal: President Trump is planning to give TikTok another lifeline. With a mid-June deadline approaching and trade talks with China in limbo, Trump is expected to sign an executive order staving off enforcement of a law banning or forcing the sale of the app, according to people familiar with his plan. It would be the third extension since Trump took office in January. The current one expires June 19. Just a note that this, once...
Continue reading...Hatesgiving
Or, The Hate U Give (which I just learned was a book and a movie? Am I so out of touch?). Anyways, with the news that a Democrat has entered the Senate race in South Carolina to run against Lindsay Graham, I feel the need to say: Please do not give any money to a Democrat running a Senate race in South Carolina who does not have a reasonably chance of winning, or even a theory for how they would win (because they won’t). Democrats love giving money to candidates with nothing but a decent bio and...
Continue reading...We are so f**cking back
I would like to welcome you to the next chapter in Verities and Vagaries history. We were a web log founded in the twilight years of the web log golden era (circa 2010). We were founded to have fun with the medium, while also staying true to our probably too-earnest sensibilities as probably too-earnest political thinkers and actors. We also wrote a ton about booze. But as we aged, our jobs got more demanding, and the web blogosphere started fading (so did we). The bastards killed Google Reader. As such, the effort just wasn’t at-hand to keep...
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Can’t say what yet, but stay tuned. It’s been a long time since I used WordPress lol.
Continue reading...The Great Turkey Meatloaf Experiment of 2017
I wanted to make a turkey meatloaf, but goddamn is turkey meatloaf terrible. Dry, tough, tasting mostly of bland poultry and salt—turkey meatloaf is basically the worst kind of “healthy” replacement foods. I thought what if it could be not dry and taste like something? There began Operation Turkey Meatloaf Experiment 2017. So I threw together some ingredients, mostly orthodox but with some added moisture supports and flavor elements that tasted like something. It came out…good? I was surprised: It was supposed to be fine, but not good. Turkey meatloaf is not good. But this was. Damn....
Continue reading...Trump: A (Disgusting) Play in Three Acts
Act the First: \”Well, I\’ll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I\’ll go backstage and everyone\’s getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I\’m allowed to go in because I\’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I\’m inspecting it,\” Trump said. \”You know, I\’m inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good.\” \”You know, the dresses. \’Is everyone okay?\’ You know, they\’re standing there with no clothes. \’Is everybody okay?\’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away...
Continue reading...Great Moments in Campaign Advertising: Confessions of a Republican
Often overshadowed by LBJ’s infamous “Daisy” ad, “Confessions of a Republican” is great mostly because it’s so weird. It’s also really long—four minutes and change. I haven’t been able to figure out when exactly it aired, or how really, because four-minute ad breaks aren’t particularly common even now (and TV commercial breaks have stretched drastically in recent years). In the ad, an actor (although the ad doesn’t say as much) talks about how he’s always been a Republican, but the party’s candidate that year, Sen. Goldwater, is too extreme for his comfort. Sure, this is mostly an artifact of the era during which party...
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