Apologies... (Patreon)

...subscribers, for the multiple postings. I have discovered, painfully, that Patreon is indeed not a blog, and goes well out of its way to protect the (perceived) proprietary rights of others. All I wanted to do was make a Cannes joke, by cutting immediately to Sir Mix-A-Lot and a bunch of women in evening gowns twerking, as he performed "Baby Got Back" with the Seattle Symphony. But this platform wouldn't let me start the video at a specific time. And then when I tried to post it as a link, rather than as a video, it forcibly posted an elaborate YouTube description of the video. In other words, there would not be an element of surprise, and this was getting to be a lot of trouble for a dumb joke. Boredom does strange things.