there are plenty of things to call the Kardashians out for (especially in this vein) but this hardly seems like theft of anything; she didn’t claim to invent it and at least as of yet, she doesn’t seem to be profiting off of it either. it’s extremely plausible that she has no idea what Furoshiki is; i’m sure plenty on…

They could join every other guy hawking seafood off the back if a truck, which was a thing the 40 years ago when I lived out there. That was when my neighbor, whose brother was a lobsterman, gave us one of the two 35 pound lobsters his brother had given him, because we had a pot big enough to cook the damned things.

“The Friends of Eddie Boil”

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Plus, the deductible on the trucks is probably less than $10,000.

Also, getting reimbursed for $10,000 in lobster takes time, whereas not delivering $10,000 in lobster hurts both their bottom line (not getting paid for them) and their customers’ (not having any to sell).  

This story has too many R’s

I have a friend who is a time traveler. His name is Jim Spanfeller, and he is determined to bring the usability of websites from the late 1990s to the modern internet.

I’m pretty sure Saab would love to travel back in time.

That’s awesome. What’s not awesome is the new layout. I know you probably had nothing to do with it... but... it’s bad.

I had never picked up until now on how disappointed she is that what he brought her was something wrapped in a box.

Emma was familiar to North American audiences long before anyone heard of Saoirse, though.  Fame is often more about familiarity than talent.

Agreed. They sound like dentist drills being dragged across a chalkboard. I’d actually prefer it if they WERE silent like their road-going counterparts. The only exception is the dual-motor ones (do any of the teams even run dual motors anymore?) Those actually sound properly futuristic (and without requiring any…

You know how I know Formula E is a joke?

On a somewhat happier note, let’s remember Tyrus Wong, the Chinese-American illustrator who was hugely influential on the art of Bambi, who was sadly not recognized for his contributions until the 2010s. If you’re looking for a way to talk about race in the time of classic Disney, this is a good place to start.  https:…

yes, depictions of accents can be nuanced and serve good purposes re: representing different kinds of people. Evil Siamese cats are not nuanced, and the intent of the evil Siamese cats was certainly not to represent the Asian American community in all of its diversity...I mean for god’s sake, the cats have BUCKTEETH.…

preferably before they’re capable of repeating racist things they pick up to other people? I remember other kids teasing me about being Asian when I was about 6. So someone else’s kids managed to pick up the ideas that Asians eat cats/dogs, were godless heathens, couldn’t see out of their eyes, ate disgusting/dirty foo…

Or, you know, you could just not show blatantly racist movies to little kids. It’s not like there’s a shortage of children’s media that isn’t old Disney movies.

I still think that there’s a difference between “doing a silly accent” and disparaging a culture or race of people. Some of the above examples do the latter for sure. Others I would say are minor. But different strokes.

Now the Dumbo one is egregious, as is Peter Pan, but for the rest, I’m of two minds about it.

I don’t see how an accent by itself is considered racist. People don’t consider british or german accents racist. Only accents of non-white people. Now, if you’re doing an accent of a certain race/country, and then make a…

Can’t have video evidence of theft if no theft took lace.

I’d bet dollars to donuts that Starbucks comes around and says that it was theft of intellectual property, because she showed how to make their “proprietary” recipes.