The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

TP2000

TP2000

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I thought of @Dear Prudence here when reading this news about native peoples, and it's really fascinating to contemplate....

Human remains and settlements have been discovered in Oregon that are at least 18,000 years old. Likely the oldest found in North America by far. Amazing to consider what those folks must have been like and how they lived in what is now Oregon, about 800 miles north of Disneyland.

It kind of makes you think about the Indian Village along the Rivers of America circa 1850, and how that scene shows a culture that would have been dramatically different and featured more advanced peoples than the pre-Clovis original settlers 18,000 years ago. Wow.

www.oregonlive.com

Oregon could be oldest site of human occupation in North America, UO find indicates

Ice Age evidence shows people lived in Oregon 18,000 years ago, long before the Clovis culture and far earlier than previously thought.
www.oregonlive.com www.oregonlive.com
 
NobodyElse

NobodyElse

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In honor of today's stage of le Tour de France finishing in Bordeaux, here's a shot I took about a year ago.

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(Don't think I didn't have the "Club 33 window appreciation crew" in mind when I took it.) ;)
 
Too Many Hats

Too Many Hats

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Okay, this is a Friday night back-from-the-bar post, but on the topic of miscellaneous thoughts... I've always wondered -- Walt trusted Marty Sklar to essentially create/write the character "Walt Disney" for all of America. You know, the version that doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, etc. That's at least one piece of evidence that he wasn't the raging anti-Semite, closeted Nazi that pop culture would have us believe he was, right? Maybe?
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Ne'er-Do-Well Cad said:
Okay, this is a Friday night back-from-the-bar post, but on the topic of miscellaneous thoughts...
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Those are always the best thoughts. Go on...

Ne'er-Do-Well Cad said:
I've always wondered -- Walt trusted Marty Sklar to essentially create/write the character "Walt Disney" for all of America. You know, the version that doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, etc. That's at least one piece of evidence that he wasn't the raging anti-Semite, closeted Nazi that pop culture would have us believe he was, right? Maybe?
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Yeah, that whole Walt was an anti-semite who socialized with and employed and promoted Jewish professionals throughout his entire company thing is a late 20th century trope cooked up by the usual humorless and charmless and shockingly uneducated folks in "Academia" and "Journalism".

I wouldn't worry about it past that. They're "experts" on a man long since dead, and so they know practically nothing. 🤣
 
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TP2000

TP2000

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Well, I didn't get out to the bars tonight. But I did have dinner with a group of friends, and then had a nightcap at home, so I can play too...

As of this evening I have decided that I am going to be Ken for Halloween this year. I'm being serious. The version of Ken in the black cowboy outfit with the jaunty pink neckerchief. Of course, I've aged out of the Ken role by decades, but that will make it even funnier. I'm going to start shopping and procuring my outfit RIGHT NOW in mid July before the movie opens, because I'd hate to see the run on Ken costumes this September and October. I'm smart, and I'm always thinkin'. ;)

"Ken isn't something we're worried about" -Mattel CEO

 
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PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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Ne'er-Do-Well Cad said:
Okay, this is a Friday night back-from-the-bar post, but on the topic of miscellaneous thoughts... I've always wondered -- Walt trusted Marty Sklar to essentially create/write the character "Walt Disney" for all of America. You know, the version that doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, etc. That's at least one piece of evidence that he wasn't the raging anti-Semite, closeted Nazi that pop culture would have us believe he was, right? Maybe?
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The word of Jewish employees like Sklar and the Sherman Brothers, who have always and consistently stated that Walt wasn't an anti-semite.
 
Consumer

Consumer

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Ne'er-Do-Well Cad said:
Okay, this is a Friday night back-from-the-bar post, but on the topic of miscellaneous thoughts... I've always wondered -- Walt trusted Marty Sklar to essentially create/write the character "Walt Disney" for all of America. You know, the version that doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, etc. That's at least one piece of evidence that he wasn't the raging anti-Semite, closeted Nazi that pop culture would have us believe he was, right? Maybe?
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I’ve always been under the impression the rumors of Walt’s alleged anti-Semitism stemmed from the animators strike, which I believe was led by a Jewish animator. Of course Walt was angry about the strike and so he was labeled an anti-Semite by certain parties. I’m pulling this deep from the memory bank and from a biography I read in middle school so I could be misremembering this entirely.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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On our trip this last week we drove down Sunset through west Hollywood towards Westwood. Where there wasn't a Pride flag, Barbie advertising was everywhere! The street was practically pink at some points.
 

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