" What Thoreau offers, instead, is "a utopia for curmudgeons.
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No, curmudgeons, we'll never be able to answer that question.
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These are abysmal curmudgeons saying the stuff you wish you could.
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Probably better to just let the neighborhood curmudgeons publicly shame them?
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Westaby's book will be a balm to the hearts of curmudgeons everywhere.
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Each one is staffed by neurotics, casual drug users, and short-fused curmudgeons.
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However, there are other curmudgeons out there who think that enough is enough.
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Even for the most boring of curmudgeons, it's difficult to tire of power pop.
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Curmudgeons would dismiss these as hardly real words, much less deserving of a style entry.
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Like all Pixar's best grouchy old curmudgeons, he's full of one-liners and hidden empathy.
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Languages constantly evolve, and curmudgeons like me are always taking umbrage at some new idiom.
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"As curmudgeons rightly note, charging EVs with coal-based electricity isn't very 'green,'" Potter wrote.
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Yeah man, it was the go-to complaint of curmudgeons who didn't want to use Twitter.
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Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts.
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It's Humbug Day, and we want to know where the rallying cry of curmudgeons throughout history comes from.
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In a surprisingly touching essay, Wegman describes his dogs as moody friends, loving companions, curmudgeons, impatient children, and workaholics.
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Many people who have seen the most have cheered on the two curmudgeons: You're looking at your future, humans.
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That hasn't prevented curmudgeons in Battery Park and Brooklyn Heights from complaining about the occasional whump-whump-whump over their heads.
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Curmudgeons like me will happily munch on the prose and leave everything ragged right for those with an appetite for it.
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Lewandowski: It varies from people wanting to be mentors, to curmudgeons that get upset when you [enter the information] in wrong.
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We see dissatisfied people as curmudgeons who halt progress, or, worse yet, Dementors who suck the joy out of the room.
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People who consider the glass half full tend to live lives of "exceptional longevity," making it past age 85 more often than curmudgeons.
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For a long time it was where the counterculture techies went, the curmudgeons, the renegades, in black boots and leather and tattoos and colored hair.
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Oakland Raiders punter Marquette King is fantastic, and good at his job, which makes his joy that much easier to defend when curmudgeons have a problem with it.
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A common advertising campaign strategy, especially in subway and bus ads, seems to involve trading on New Yorkers' mythic negativity by reminding them what curmudgeons they still are.
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So, after clicking through a multitude of Persian curmudgeons and scruffy calico kittens, maybe you'll consider more closely what personal information might be revealed through your own social media sharing.
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That is why the curmudgeons' debate with themselves matters: because it could do harm; it could result in dismissing the tools of publicness just when we most need to safeguard them.
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Image: Wikimedia CommonsIn the halcyon days of yore, people put away money with the hopes of retiring somewhere warm, where they could argue about chicken salad with other curmudgeons until they expired.
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The connection between Larry David and Bernie Sanders — two balding Jewish curmudgeons — was solidified when Mr. David, the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator, played Senator Sanders to a T in several "Saturday Night Live" cameos.
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Time and again over my 30 year career I&aposve seen that likable people who are easy, fun to work with, and are easy to rally around have far more successful careers than curmudgeons.
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The wonder that is New York exists thanks in large part to the kind of pie-in-the-sky projects — impossibly ambitious, realized despite the objections of naysayers and budget curmudgeons — that Bloomberg now dismisses.
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While the term is handy for curmudgeons, "millennial" encompasses a wide range of ages and experiences, as the Wall Street Journal style guide pointed out when cautioning against the overuse of the term in the paper's pages.
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There have been a lot of movies about old curmudgeons and plucky orphans, like Kolya, Annie, Ernest & Celestine, and Up. Did you look at any of them, either for inspiration, or to avoid walking into familiar territory?
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But in the age of our great common internet living room, it's kind of striking how that Greek chorus of disapproving curmudgeons stands ready to tell you clearly and absolutely that you're dangerously overindulgent, criminally underinvolved, cruel in your adherence to traditions, or unconscionably cavalier in your willingness to let them go.
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Curmudgeons in Washington state might not understand or be happy about the agenda of the Transsexual Empire to eradicate the categories male and female, but they will die one day, and the people who replace them will have been born into a world where they are not obligated to figure out how to fit into a binary.
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I went forward in the Strout canon and read My Name is Lucy Barton, and the quasi-sequel, Anything is Possible; I went backwards and discovered Amy and Isabelle, the novel that first put Strout on the national radar, and The Burgess Boys, Strout's first attempt to address how those WASP-y curmudgeons of Maine have grappled, in both the present and the past, with the arrival of people who aren't exactly like them.
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I, Curmudgeon is a 2004 documentary film by Alan Zweig about curmudgeons, himself included. Self-declared curmudgeons interviewed in the film also include Harvey Pekar, Fran Lebowitz, Mark Eitzel, Cintra Wilson, Bruce La Bruce, Andy Rooney and Scott Thompson. The film was shot with a camcorder, with Zweig using a mirror to record his own experiences.
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This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
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DeVito played a fictional version of himself in the music video of One Direction's song "Steal My Girl". He also appeared in the short film Curmudgeons, which he also produced and directed.
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The Elvis Encyclopedia. Overlook, 2008. Presley's film, Viva Las Vegas, filmed during the summer of 1963 before Kissin Cousins, was released after Kissin' Cousins. Both Arthur O'Connell and Jack Albertson were cast alongside Presley, thus providing the film with 'double-barreled curmudgeons,' per Variety.
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DeVito has directed eight short films between 1973 and 2016, five of which were released across 2010 and 2011. These are The Sound Sleeper (1973), Minestrone (1975), Oh Those Lips (2010), Evil Eye (2010), Poison Tongue (2011), Skin Deep (2011), Nest of Vipers (2011) and Curmudgeons (2016).
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Curmudgeons is a 2016 American comedy short film directed, produced by, and starring Danny DeVito. It is written and co-produced by Joshua Conkel. The film was nominated for the Best Narrative Short award in the Tribeca Film Festival. It was also selected as Vimeo's first official Staff Pick.
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A Publishers Weekly review praised the characterization of the main characters, labeling them "endearing curmudgeons", but noted that, as in most of her novels, Krentz's villain was essentially a parody. Sharp Edges reached number 9 on the New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover fiction. It was her 20th consecutive novel to appear on the list.
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I quatro rusteghi (The Four Curmudgeons, The Four Ruffians, in Edward J. Dent's translation School for Fathers) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a libretto by and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century play I rusteghi. The opera is written in Venetian dialect, hence "quatro" instead of "quattro".
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Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony is a multi-award–winning web show which ran biweekly on Movies.com from June 2005 until September 2006. The series spawned more than 35 episodes and featured many Muppet characters, both well-known classics and newly created characters. The two elderly curmudgeons would discuss upcoming films, watch the latest movie trailers and share the week's "balconism" from their theater box.
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Rahovart Rahovart (or Rahouart) is a demon identified in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal (1818), according to which he is referenced in Durzel's Moralité, a Renaissance book. Rahovart is a companion of Satan; little is known about the demon himself. In Durzel's undated account (allegedly printed at Rouen), which plays out to the end of the 15th century, Rahovart is attributed to the torment of evil, rich misers and old curmudgeons. He is also charged with avalanches and ghostly torment.
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Of the west coast production, Hollywood Progressive wrote “Grumpy’s upbeat music is in the Broadway musical tradition of hits such as, say, The Pajama Game … unexpectedly heartwarming, moving and at all times, highly enjoyable.”Rampell, Ed. "Curmudgeons and the Meaning of Life", Hollywood Progressive, September 24, 2019 The Los Angeles Times demurred, suggesting the result was "a considerable loss of the movie's warmth" while acknowledging it "didn't seem to faze the opening-night audience, which tittered at each scandalous line. The score—a slick Broadway sound echoing pop styles from the 1940s through the '80s—also kept the room energized.”Miller, Daryl H. "We liked the movie Grumpy Old Men.
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Quarter bin is a phrase common in the American comic book community used to describe discount boxes of comic booksFunnybooks: Dumpster Diving - Tales from the quarter bin, 31 October 2006 sold for far less than the cover price. Typically going for $0.25 each, these comic books may be used, damaged, or new material that's been overstockedHowling Curmudgeons: The Quarter Bin, 1 October 2005 by the comic book retailer. Quarter bins tend to be unique to the comic book direct market, though they may be found in thrift stores and other stores selling used media (video games, compact discs, DVDs, etc.). Due to the nature of demand in comic book collecting, retailers will purchase entire comic collections just for a few rare books and the rest of the books go into the quarter bin.
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While he considered Amy and Rory "criminally underused", they were responsible for "heavy laughs" and left the Doctor to be the "delight of the episode". The Daily Telegraph Chris Harvey was less enthusiastic about the episode, saying that it "started nicely", but that "by the time she was singing to the shark, I'd had enough," while thinking that, "It's not really for old curmudgeons like me, who got more of a kick out of Michael Gambon's miserly Kazran Sardick when he was sneering and snarling at the beginning of the episode than when he had been thoroughly heartwarmed by the end." "A Christmas Carol" was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), but lost to the preceding series finale "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang".
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Kerrigan was accused of harboring Confederate sympathies, and of not maintaining good order and discipline among his troops, and was allowed to resign his command.Thomas P. Lowry, Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels, pages 94–95New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs, Undressed for Battle: The Short Civil War Career of Col. (Congressman) James Kerrigan, July 3, 2011 He was elected as an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863). While serving in the House, Kerrigan was arrested and removed from the floor for continuing to speak after his allotted time had expired in opposition to a bill funding the abolition of slavery in Missouri.Paul N. Herbert, God Knows All Your Names: Stories in American History, 2010, page 140 After leaving Congress, he became an enthusiastic Irish Nationalist and when the invasion of Canada was planned in 1866 led a company across the border.
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