The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.
I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:
We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.
Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?
But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?
There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.
“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat
Starbucks is now using a silica-based blending powder, which has a tendency to become airborne and easily inhaled.
After hearing about health concerns, we asked baristas if they have felt sick since the ingredient's launch.
Our union received hundreds of responses.
Scroll for just a few...
"we've all had bad headaches my shift lead and manager both went home over it yesterday and today, l've also had TERRIBLE headaches like a brick inside my head that won't stop"
"i was having trouble breathing randomly during my last two shifts"
"Ever since we got that powder I'd been sneezing, have a bad stuffy nose, itchy/swollen throat..."
"i knew i wasn't trippin when i breathed it in and my stomach started hurting as well as my chest..."
"OMG I WAS FEELING KINDA SICK TODAY AFTER A SHIFT FROM YESTERDAY AND YES MY LUNGS AND THROAT KINDA FELT ITCHYY AND I BE SNIFFIN"
“I literally got a migraine for the first time in years after work"
"I almost passed out after making one of those drinks and the headache came on immediately after I scooped that powder into the blender"
"Me with nonstop coughing fits every shift since the powder dropped🧍♀️”
"i've had headaches both my last shifts which i never have"
"you inhale those powders everytime you scoop them. Especially when they're on a raised shelf at eye level... but corporate never seems to listen or care 🫠”
"i have asthma and i have noticed that ever since i have started crafting the blended beverages with the blending powder, my chest has been hurting so badly and i have had to take my inhaler more than normal."
"I have asthma and it does make it harder to breathe:/ had to take my inhaler today"
"oh my god my fucking asthma has been AWFULLLL"
"Legit went to the doctors yesterday and was prescribed an inhaler"
"Yes I have very nauseous and it was right after l inhaled that powder, we were restocking and it just goes in the air it's literally unavoidable"
"Omg a partner today was telling me his hand started to tingle after he spilled some on his hand!!!"
"Ive been getting weird hives from it like bumps and rashes"
"No but lowkey since yesterdays launch I've been getting these rashes"
"Omg one of my co workers also got a rash!
"my coworker got off bar with hives"
"eyes have been SUPER irritated, red and itchy since launch day, even worse today after working cold bar this morning."
"Had a barista leave shift looking pale and sweating and they worked in the morning peak making those a lot."
*our lawyers want you to know that while these comments surrounding Starbucks' blending powder were posted publicly, SWU cannot verify their accuracy.
one of my favorite lines from harrow the ninth is “love is a revenant” which comes from ianthe tridentarius of all people, who only TWO PAGES earlier also says “your fist is so big and my butthole is so small”
Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year
in re conversations that thankfully seem to be occurring only on other sites, i actually love when the fiction i'm reading uses words i don't know and have to look up! admittedly it does not happen often, because i am an adult who read a lot as a kid and has since done what is frankly maybe a bit too much education, but please do casually drop words like phalanstery in your book so i have to look it up and then find myself reading wikipedia pages about 19th century socialist utopianism! please do throw around rare plants and birds whose names i don't know because they're not native/common anywhere i've ever been! then i get to look at pictures of things that i've never seen before!
watching sinners with an inflation calculator open in a second tab so i can understand just what kinda money the smokestack twins are throwing around. nerdiest possible movie experience i think.
Okay coming out of lurking for this because among the many great features of Sinners is you don't actually have to go outside of the movie to understand what kind of money they're throwing around. The movie tells you itself.
In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.
Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.
She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.
The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.
Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.
And that's just ONE detail which, thanks to props (Hannah Beachler), editing (Michael P Shawver), and cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw), told you almost everything you needed to know about how finances work in this environment. This movie is unfair to all other films in how fucking good it is.
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