#overall a mixed bag

[factcheckingmclennon]

banana milkshakes in paris: fact or fiction?

"John and I went to Paris on birthday money he received from a relative. He must have been fond of me to spend that money. He let me have all the banana milkshakes I wanted." -Paul McCartney

this quote goes around a lot. so...

did paul mccartney say john "let (him) have all the banana milkshakes (he) wanted?"

rating....

no, this quote is completely fake. however, there IS a real quote about the banana milkshakes. let's get into it!

first let's get into the fake part.

the oldest source of this quote online seems to be this deviantart post from 2011. it's full of other pretty bizarre quotes, including john saying him and paul had sex, and after that it's only turned up on tumblr/other forums. (disclaimer: as it's over 10 years old, i'm linking directly. if you are this user and you want me to take down this link, let me know please! and if you know this user, don't harrass them. it also has a collection of some other quotes that get passed around. i haven't deep dived into any of them, though i do know the quote about sex and love from john IS real as there's video of it, but take a gander and take the rest of these w a huge grain of salt if you see them around as well.)

so the quote itself???

but as for the real quote, it's actually still pretty similar so idk why anyone would make this up honestly. possibly just this user misremembering this quote & paraphrasing without saying they were paraphrasing? anyway.

from a 1987 interview with julia baird (john's sister):

PAUL: We went to Paris – we were supposed to be in Spain, but we couldn’t get past Paris, we enjoyed that so much – on the strength of his hundred quid [given to him] when he was twenty-one. We went hitchhiking. We kind of said, “Well, look, I mean, we can get to Spain on this,” you know, a hundred quid, and he was kind of um… I mean, I don’t think he was funding me as much as he was spending. JULIA: Yeah, yeah. PAUL: And I’d be there for the banana milkshake. [Julia and Paul laugh] You know, I’d just happen to be there while he was spending. I think I kind of paid my own way. But we hitched, we hitched out. And we used – we realised that in – hitching, in those days, was much safer, obviously, than it is to hitchhike now – and we realised that we had to have a bit of a gimmick. So we both had these leather jackets and we had bowlers, we got bowler hats. We thought that’ll take the edge of the kind of hoodie look, you know, that sort of ruffian look, in these bowlers. And you kind of go, “Hey!” and people would stop, you know, because this is just a couple of daft guys in bowler hats, they don’t look like a threat.

(source) (sidenote, yes that source is my blog, but since it's audio, that's something i'm willing to buy from blogs. same with video. there's really nothing too mclennon-y about this audio, so there'd be no reason to go through all that trouble faking it. i just saved it on archive.org for when i inevitably change my url on my main.)

so, did john buy paul banana milkshakes in paris?

(also, quick shoutout to @beatlesbabytrapping for correcting me on this one back on my main! i originally thought it was completely fake but penny came in clutch w this audio)

[finelyagedlemons]

wanted to get some practice in drawing a bunch of umineko characters, most of them for the first time, so i took some requests on stream with my friends. here's the results!

also krauss dying in a glue trap

[sporkberries]

Not to be dramatic or anything but im going insane about this

[popsicle-stick]

okay um. hm yeah. still thinking about the w359 final. hm. interesting. at what point do you stop feeling like kendall-roy-screaming-into-coats-ambiguous-disorder.gif. asking for a friend

[giritina]

2022 was like the best year of books for me

So much Life Changing stuff fr. Only ones I don't really suggest are paperweight & the collected schizophrenias

[nostalgia-tblr]

would it be weird if i changed a character's eye colour based entirely on what pairing they were in at the time?

[likeawildthing]

Came out to all of the conservative Christians in my life this week

[blackbackedjackal]

how are you doing jackal :( ?

[deityofhearts]

all in all today has been a nice day

[flameandignite]

took an edible for the 1st time last night ✌️

[redgemwink]

sooo i beat smtv v. not sure how i feel tbh. definitely better than the original though! i ended up getting the chaos route, which i didn't really mind bc i like yoko more than tao but what was interesting to me was that only after googling post beating the game did i find out i was actually NEUTRAL alignment (bc my icon in the overworld was shaking side to side i guess?), but there's no neutral route in this game (??????) so what actually tipped me to the side of chaos was saying "good to see you!" to yoko or something near the end, which is REALLY funny bc i thought it was just a normal reaction to reuniting with a friend like wow okay i guess saying hi was a world changing decision but that's fine bc even if i knew the result i would have still chosen it. i liked the post credits scene but i feel like this whole ending left something to be desired and the pacing was just weird. oh well! i still enjoyed it, the qol was really nice, i can't even imagine playing the original smtv after this lol. the extra demon navigators were really fun and i loved the haunt. again, my problem was the pacing.. this plot was all over the place lmao which is an issue the original also had but i almost want to say it's worse here.. there's just some really silly moments in the story where i just go "......really? that's what we're doing?" sdfkfdsk there's way too many times we just.. take an extremely suspicious demon at their word or leave a friend behind for no reason. i also really didn't like a certain death/return at the end bc i feel like it defeated the purpose of a really cool moment in the story. anyways yayyy i'm gonna sleep now!! :3

[putonmyfavoriteshow]

S2 opener was a great start to the season. Really got me excited again to be back on this binge but nothing compares to the pilot <3

It was a fun episode reuniting everybody and picking up after their summer break. Everyone’s already growing up 🥺

I think it does a good job setting up the new season. Some characters have regressed, but others are making their way!

And the mystery is finally cooking 🧑‍🍳

I’m already excited to revisit some of my favorite storylines this season while also dreading Matteo’s arrival and some less than enjoyable b plots. But I’m ready for the roller coaster that is s2!

Time to see if it really is my least favorite season, or the best parts of the series actually make up for it.

[jirachuuu]

2023 summary.

Tbh I wasn’t going to do one this year because I felt like I’ve barely drawn anything at all this past year. But somehow I managed to draw something at least once a month so that’s cool ig lol. Overall feeling very meh about my art and I hope to improve more next year 🫰🏼

[spockvarietyhour]

we could have gotten to the same IG-11 ending w/o the whole exosuit interlude.

[daphneblakess]

do u think phantom will ever come back to breadway??? :(

it's tough to say :/ I think there will definitely always be touring and international productions, but it was such a mainstay of Broadway for so long that I have a difficult time imagining a revival unless it were to make some drastic production alteration, and I can't picture that happening at least until ALW kicks it (which good riddance when that happens, but like. who knows when)

[nedlittle]

i read 12 books in september (133% of my yearly goal) and 3933 pages (147% of my yearly goal). my favourite was gideon the ninth (locked tomb #1), and my least favourite was rooks and romanticide by j.i. radke. i did not finish bringing down the duke (the league of extraordinary gentlewomen #1) by evie dunmore [review]

full breakdown of star ratings and reviews under the cut! 🖊📚

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the serpent’s tale (mistress of the art of death #2) by ariana franklin 4 ⭐ [historical, mystery] [review]

the house of dudley: a new history of tudor england by joanne paul 3.75 ⭐ [history, biography] [review]

the needle’s eye: passing through youth by fanny howe 2.75 ⭐ [poems, essays] [review]

rooks and romanticide by j.i. radke 1.75 ⭐ [alt history, steampunk, queer] [review]

crying in h mart: a memoir by michelle zauner 4⭐ [memoir] [review]

dr. mütter's marvels: a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine by cristin o'keefe aptowicz 3 ⭐ [science, medical history] [review]

the living is easy by dorothy west 3.75 ⭐ [classics, historical] [review]

gideon the ninth (the locked tomb #1) by tamsyn muir 5 ⭐[fantasy, queer] [review]

far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy 3.75 ⭐ [classics, romance] [review]

grave goods (mistress of the art of death #3) by ariana franklin 3 ⭐ [historical, mystery] [review]

love beyond body, space & time: an indigenous lgbt sci-fi anthology by hope nicholson (ed.) 3.75 ⭐ [sci-fi, queer] [review]