Weird things I want to tell you about

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This blanket dance

This is amazing.

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British people making funny of Americans

I’m at home, hanging out with my dog, of course.

When I discovered this gem:

Question 1: The United States is governed by two major parties. Can you name them?

The gun lobby and Big Tobacco.

Which reminded me a little bit of Spitting Image.

And y’all didn’t think I learned anything during study abroad.

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For the angel was hitting him, with his own hands

I should totally be going to bed, but instead I’m going to write about the story of why Jacob is wrestling an angel who is “hitting him, with his own hands.”

First off, can we take a second to admire how someone took this masterpiece by Gustave Doré and somehow made it even more of a masterpiece? Combining high class art with a dash of ridiculousness is one of my great loves.

Jacob was the son of Isaac. Isaac is famous for being the child who was almost murdered by his father, Abraham. Abraham was like, “Son, we’re gonna make a holocaust sacrifice to the Lord,” Isaac gets there and is like, “Neat, where’s the sacrifice?” and Abraham says, “Listen, don’t get mad.”

Anyway.

Jacob has a twin brother who was born a few minutes earlier named Esau. Esau’s defining characteristics are that he’s “reddish and his whole body was like a hairy mantle.” (Genesis 25:25) That’s Esau’s description as a newborn baby so it’s pretty clear which twin drew the short stick.

The story of Jacob wrestling an angel comes several years after Jacob has tricked Esau out of his birthright and Isaac’s blessings. Like, Isaac was blind and Jacob put a lot of fur on his arms to trick his dad into thinking that Jacob is Esau.

Jacob is going to meet Esau for the first time in long time and he’s hella nervous that Esau still has hard feelings. In the giant precession of Jacob and his wives and children and cattle etc Jacob brings up the tail end because he wants Esau to see the things that Jacob is trying to bribe him with first and worst case scenario maybe Jacob has time to run away if Esau starts killing everyone. I don’t know.

Jacob was left there alone. Then some man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. (Genesis 32:25)

I’m sorry, what?

Then some man.

The passage continues

When the man saw that he could not prevail over him, he struck Jacob’s hip at its socket, so that the hip socket was wrenched as they wrestled. The man then said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.” (Genesis 32:26-27)

Not only does the meme make it seem like the two fighters are children arguing with each other, but the actual passage this meme is based on is a bit like two children fighting each other. So in other words, the argument between Jacob and the angel was really, more or less, “Stop hitting yourself.”

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John Roberts’ early work

My Son is Gay?

I want to send this video to every gay man I know.

It’s John Roberts from before Bob’s Burger as a mom having an existential crisis about her son being gay. The video ends with her warning, “HEY. Watch it. My son’s gay,” followed by Roberts brightly asking, “Who wants pancakes?”

Jackie and Debra

Jackie and Debra was my first early John Roberts video. One of my coworkers sent me this video because she fell in love with it and I have a second cousin once removed named Jackie and sometimes people get us mixed up.

Jackie and Debra chronicles the argument between Debra, played by Roberts, and Jackie. The video alternates between Roberts arguing with Jackie and explaining his argument with Jackie to a third party. In both cases Roberts is speaking to the camera thus making Jackie and Debra a monologue.

The writing is an excellent satire of "fights” between pre-teen and young girls with brilliant one liners such as, “She’s just jealous. That’s what my mom said.”

The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree is our reminder of why we don’t help our mothers decorate the Christmas tree.

From start to finish, viewers experience the roller coaster ride of getting the tree, decorating the tree, turning on the tree, cleaning up after the tree, and saying goodbye to the tree. You can expect the same intensity from Roberts’ performance as seen in Christmas Vacation, just picture Clark Griswold as a sassy gay man dressed as a woman.  "Why isn’t the tree on? Come on, turn on the tree, please, for me. Turn on the tree. And pick up all that shit.”