12 A terrific sendup of Les Misérables gacked from shelly_rae. The thing that struck me most about this is that you couldn’t imagine the McCain campaign making it, or anyone making it about the McCain campaign.
Great piece by @sikhtoons
https://stopasianhate.medium.com/i-am-sikh-and-tired-74a3c53b81cf
This 👇🏼 https://twitter.com/muellershewrote/status/1392165036848672769
I would appreciate it if the MSM stopped saying there’s a “labor shortage”. There’s no labor shortage. There’s a shortage of people willing to risk their health and safety for shit money and no benefits. I don’t understand how people are surprised by this.
MAJOR INVESTMENT BY USCG on Seattle waterfront as U.S. ramps up Arctic presence https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/coast-guard-could-triple-base-size-on-seattle-waterfront-as-u-s-ramps-up-arctic-presence/
Whenever I check in with the state of the world of late, this sentence by Isaac Babel (in Boris Dralyuk's translation) comes to mind: "And the sweetness of dreamy malice, bitter contempt for the curs and swine of humanity, the fire of silent and intoxicating vengeance..."
karen_w_newton
This is fantastic! And very clever. Loved the McCain and Palin stand-ins, too. Someone know his/her Le Miz! I was super impressed for about three seconds until I realized they were lip syncing.
silk_noir
Hooorayyyy!
*leaping to feet, all excited*
admin
Yeah, they’re apparently an improv troupe. Very impressive.
admin
Ha! Here’s looking up your nostrils, Kid.
steelbrassnwood
Well done, though I’m sure it would have made more sense had I ever seen Les Miz.
admin
I saw it: I’m not so sure. All you really have to know is that the scene takes place the day before the Paris uprising of June 1832.
shelly_rae
Five points to Mr. Howe for the correct conjugation of the verb Gack.
While you might miss the nuances of the love triangle or that Javert/McCain is hiding his evil doings under the disguise of a revolutionary (can you say maverick? change?) I think the main idea of young people gathering together to fight for what they believe in comes across.
Anon
admin
The painful point of that triangle is Fielding Edlow.
baron_elric
Wow. Just . . . wow.
Reminds me how much I like Les Mis, too.
admin
Hey! I have to read the book. I saw the Broadway version and wasn’t enthralled. Say hello to the Birthday Girl for me.
ecmyers
So awesome.
admin
It’s almost hypnotic, isn’t it?