Just a little video to share with you this week. The song may not be to your liking — though I liked it and my daughter literally ran into the room to find out what it was — but it’s the video that’s really a lot of fun. None of this will be entirely new to fans of Ray Harryhausen or Art “Gumby” Clokey or the Aardman Animations studios or some of other great stop action animators, but has the advantages of being tuneful, dreamy, and sexy. And if you don’t like it — well, you have the whole weekend to recover.
This is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about this or whatever else you want, within general bounds of decorum and discretion. And … sweet dreams!
In honor of Rand Paul, I was going to make a filibuster joke here — “stop motion,” get it? — but I shall instead be merciful.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
So I’m not the only one with a camera over their bed…..cool.
I did not see that one coming. Vern, delete entire post?
Life is like this video. One big 360.
That is an absolutely beautiful music video Greg! And for this weekend, i forgive you for being a Neo-Liberal, Border-Less piece of poo! Just for this weekend! YOU Jerk!
Just For This Weekend.
Greg’s a Neoliberal? In what way?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Because he doesn’t agree with all of Double-Eye’s late-night theories about Neo-Liberalism.
In the sense that Lippmann and Rüstow rebelled against von Mises and Hayek under the banner of “neoliberalism,” I’d have been on their side, but they were trying to push European liberalism (i.e. laissez-faire capitalism) to the left by introducing a regulatory state.
The meaning of the term has changed, though. I find myself mostly agreeing with everything in the portion of that piece that describes “Opponents of Neoliberalism.” I think that market economics is a very useful tool, but that it has to be handled and constrained, without which it turns into something as bad or worse than a pure command economy. I think that Double Eye’s calling me “neoliberal” is of a kind with his calling me, in the same comment, “a piece of poo” — sure, it’s within me, but I try not to allow it to typify me, as by far most of me is something other than that.
I seem to recall GSR calling you a Neoliberal. Double Eye may simply be parroting that label, ignorant of its current meaning.