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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Violin and Guitar
Juan Gris
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
3rd! (also Fibonacci sequence)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (T4tVD)
Big fan of Gris. Died young, sadly.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2024 09:31 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (nC+QA)
Creator: Juan Gris
Creator Death Place: Boulogne-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Creator Birth Place: Madrid, Spain
Date Created: 1913
Style: Cubism
Provenance: Douglas Cooper Bequest, 1985
Physical Dimensions: w600 x h810 mm
Original Title: Violon et guitare
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Obviously at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (ReKWQ)
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (JunzL)
How young was he ?
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (T4tVD)
So young, he could climb a set of stairs without stumbling!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (w9Wax)
It doesn't look realistic
It doesn't evoke emotion
It just looks...stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (+EGzv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wait, wut? at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (NBVIP)
When the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opened its doors in 1990, it stood as a modern, contemporary Spanish museum on an international scale.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (nC+QA)
That's a slide for the guitar.
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)
Good morning!
I think my breakfast bourbon will be Michter's.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (gSZYf)
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (2fAIr)
In response to an earlier statement: who would want to claim Polka? It's lively, but like this painting, that is pretty much it's only recommendation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
It's got a groove, it's got a meaning
Gris is the time, is the place, is the motion
Gris is the way we are feeling
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2024 09:36 AM (2fAIr)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
How young was he ?
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:33 AM (T4tVD)
Maybe 40, IIRC?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2024 09:37 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)
Ah! Thank you.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 09:37 AM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (gSZYf)
Rocks? Neat? w/a splash?
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 09:38 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (gSZYf)
Rocks? Neat? w/a splash?
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)
Maple syrup.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:38 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:38 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:39 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 09:39 AM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (Akjoo)
What?
Oh.
Never mind...
Posted by: Emily Litella at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: troyriser at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (7Cx1V)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)
Ice with breakfast? Heathen!
My wife had an uncle who would drink Scotch with milk...starting at 6:00am!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (gSZYf)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (9yWhg)
I think my breakfast bourbon will be Michter's.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (gSZYf)
Solid choice. Underrated. I think people are starting to catch on though.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 09:41 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (MvF+J)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
That would make me upchuck so fast.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (Akjoo)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:35 AM (gSZYf)
******
Might I suggest this recipe-
Bourbon French Toast With Bourbon Maple Syrup:
http://tinyurl.com/3mkhfamt
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
That's a waste of good milk
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
That would make me upchuck so fast.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (9yWhg)
I know. Milk? Gross.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (AwYPR)
I some violin-ish and guitar-ish aspects mixed in there.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:39 AM (zZu0s)
Oh.
I read that as Mabel.
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (AwYPR)
When you play in Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (Akjoo)
Horizontal. Bottom 1/4 of the image
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (BfGcT)
Posted by: Some publick school music teacher at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (GshMh)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: huerfano at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (Q4KYm)
Posted by: You started it at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:40 AM (zZu0s)
The guitar is laying down horizontally across the bottom. You can see its sound hole and strings on the lower left. The tuning keys are on the right, in green and blue (the 6 black dashes).
Posted by: Kris at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (Akjoo)
Think so. Cubism is like Where's Waldo mixed with Minecraft.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (2ijlT)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (Akjoo)
Horizontal. Bottom 1/4 of the image
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (JunzL)
4 strings...tenor guitar.
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (B3ASk)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (Akjoo)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SfhV1)
72 Garbage.
Would Not Hang.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (2ijlT)
And so it goes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (zZu0s)
Nope.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (88xKn)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (Akjoo)
Think so. Cubism is like Where's Waldo mixed with Minecraft.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (zZu0s)
******
I thought it was the green and brown thing on the left.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SfhV1)
72 Garbage.
Would Not Hang.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (2ijlT)
And so it goes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (zZu0s)
Art is in the eye of the beholder as they say
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (Akjoo)
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (88xKn)
? Maybe a set of tuning pipes?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
That would make me upchuck so fast.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
"Lactose intolerant? Try Scotch!"
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (B3ASk)
Posted by: Kris at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (NYzgN)
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (88xKn)
? Maybe a set of tuning pipes?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (zZu0s)
peg head
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Did the uncle have ulcers?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:46 AM (AwYPR)
And yet there are 6 tuning pegs
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Or else one of us is redundant at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (Akjoo)
Which one? The big one in the middle or one of the smaller ones on the stalks?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: David Hogg at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 09:47 AM (DyHJQ)
*points to the guitar*
See it now??
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:50 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:50 AM (gSZYf)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:51 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:43 AM (ibTVg)
I think the "image" or whatever you'd call the subject of his work is a bit amateurish, but I'm awfully impressed at how he can paint in straight lines.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 09:51 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: Or else one of us is redundant at February 21, 2024 09:49 AM (NBVIP)
Missed opportunity to sock Dalton from Road House on that comment
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:51 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Kris at February 21, 2024 09:48 AM (OyyDO)
Have a good one and stay safe Kris !
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2024 09:51 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Hint, hint at February 21, 2024 09:52 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2024 09:52 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2024 09:45 AM (zZu0s)
Let that be the rubric.
Posted by: Rex B at February 21, 2024 09:52 AM (yMfrK)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 09:52 AM (2yu8s)
I knew it was something.
Posted by: red speck at February 21, 2024 09:53 AM (0Id0S)
Here are some excerpts (just snippets since there's a character limit):
"The Prince is keen to use his platform to highlight the plight of millions of innocent civilians on both sides."
-- That's the closest I find in the actual text to what the headline claims. And there are innocent civilians on the Gaza side. I don't know about "millions" but there are some... sucks to be them but it doesn't hurt to recognize that they exist.
"The comments come after the Prince and Princess condemned Hamas’s “appalling terrorist attack upon Israel” in October 2023, warning that both parties would be “stalked by grief, fear and anger” as “Israel exercises its right of self defense.”"
-- Is he wrong? He doesn't say that Israel shouldn't defend itself, merely that it'll be yet another in a long line of grievances (legitimate or otherwise).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 09:53 AM (z99Zw)
New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’
A new study published in PNAS has demonstrated, once again, that climate models fail to simulate what happens in the real world with regard to fundamental climate change variables like water vapor. This is a devastating finding, as water vapor is the most significant greenhouse gas due to its alleged “feedback” capacity, accelerating warming well beyond what CO2 is said to be capable of alone.
The authors do not understate the significance of this climate modeling failure.
“This represents a major gap in our understanding and in climate model fidelity that must be understood and fixed as soon as possible in order to provide reliable hydroclimate projections for arid/semi-arid regions in the coming decades.”
Perhaps we should do that before we destroy our economy. Just a thought.
http://tinyurl.com/537t36bp
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 09:54 AM (bWsRe)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2024 09:52 AM (Sgq8y)
Yo, DDS!! How you doin'??
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 09:54 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 09:55 AM (2yu8s)
I suspect it will be terrible. But...Black can be entertaining if paired with a good director and script.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:55 AM (ibTVg)
Supposedly Picasso was jealous of Gris.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 09:50 AM (gSZYf)
I guess it makes a difference, who did what first, but with Picasso, if he was jealous of the guy, I wonder if it had to do with picking up girls.
I just looked him up, Gris is at least a few orders of better looking that Pablo.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 09:55 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 09:52 AM (2yu8s)
Quite a few makers have the angled head stock...has nothing to do with "modern".
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (Z00tC)
A few years ago another study documented how wildly wrong 102 state-of-the-art climate models have been with regard to a 60-year temperature trends (1958-2017) over tropical regions.
The models say the tropical warming rate should have been nearly 3 times larger than the observations show... – due to the assumed feedback response to CO2 forcing over warm regions. Instead, there is a “clear and significant tendency on the part of the models to overstate warming.”
These authors also do not understate the significance of this modeling failure. Climate models are not even realistic.
“Instead, we observe a discrepancy across all runs of all models, taking the form of a warming bias at a sufficiently strong rate as to reject the hypothesis that the models are realistic.”
“The major hypothesis in contemporary climate models, namely, the theoretically based negative lapse rate feedback response to increasing greenhouse gases in the tropical atmosphere, is incorrect.”
There may be no other branch of physical science with model-observation discrepancies (failures) this profound, this fundamental
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: red speck at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Ruprecht at February 21, 2024 09:57 AM (BfGcT)
Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg at February 21, 2024 09:57 AM (IwrVA)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)
Perhaps we should do that before we destroy our economy. Just a thought.
http://tinyurl.com/537t36bp
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)
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The anti-climate change people have been calling out this error for literally years.
CO2 isn't a particularly strong greenhouse gas. The assumption is that CO2 leads to increases in water vapor, but no one has been able to prove it at all, not even in lab conditions.
It's the core of the climate change science, and it's unproven nonsense. No wonder they rely on computer models.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Göbekli Tepe - it means Potbelly Hill in Turkish
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (bWsRe)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)
Gobekli Tepe ?
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (Akjoo)
There may be no other branch of physical science with model-observation discrepancies (failures) this profound, this fundamental
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (CsUN+)
========
It helps that climate science isn't actually backed by much science at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
Cream of Wheat
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)
Heresy. Grits are not cream of wheat.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Tiny ground up pieces of corn at February 21, 2024 09:59 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)
Gobekli Tepe?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 21, 2024 09:59 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:59 AM (Akjoo)
Potbelly Hill would be a good name for a song.
"I ate some swill
On Potbelly Hill"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 09:59 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Now, In 3-D! at February 21, 2024 10:00 AM (V5BDR)
Angkor.
Posted by: Say Wat? at February 21, 2024 10:00 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2024 10:00 AM (byGob)
GIGO
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: it's me donna at February 21, 2024 09:59 AM (Akjoo)
Hominy grits does it take to fill a bowl?
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (BVrf9)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 09:56 AM (Z00tC)
Not a drain -- it's the head of the guitar. Those are the tuning pegs. Follow the blue leftward and you'll see the curved body of the guitar
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (JunzL)
http://tinyurl.com/bdfr84c6
Whole statement but as an IMAGE
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Some models are useful at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Some models are useful at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (NBVIP)
=======
It's Zombie George Box! Kill it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:02 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Some models are useful at February 21, 2024 10:01 AM (NBVIP)
I’m a structural engineer and this is my favorite comment on the thread.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:02 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 09:58 AM (bWsRe)
The Tenacious D series on HBO was pretty good, IMO. Jack Black definitely plays Jack Black most of the time though.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:02 AM (9mfKN)
built any bridges?
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (ibTVg)
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It's my understanding that they used to try, it never worked, and they just gave up because Michael Mann is a god.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (bWsRe)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (ibTVg)
Bet we can show they “work” if we apply this “fudge factor” post facto!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:04 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Qmark at February 21, 2024 10:04 AM (gasr6)
Posted by: New England yankee in a Deep South diner at February 21, 2024 10:04 AM (NBVIP)
One reference says Gris was a "disciple" of Pablo, another is a quote from Gertrude Stein, saying Gris is the one person Picasso "wished away." Whatever that means.
Clearly these fellas had influence over one another, in one area of their work or another. Apparently Gris started out as a newspaper/magazine illustrator, and was talked into painting.
I stand by my rather flippant comment above though, there appear to be few photos of the guy out there, but he's obviously not bad looking. Picasso, who of course looks like a troll, would very likely have been jealous of him in that regard.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (GtZ7X)
The Tenacious D series on HBO was pretty good, IMO. Jack Black definitely plays Jack Black most of the time though.
To be fair most actors do this. Ahhuld or Gwen Paltrow or The Rock are always themselves. Just maybe a robot version of themselves, or in Elizabethan England, or with super powers or what have you.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:04 AM (9mfKN)
+/- 30%?
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (Sgq8y)
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Thanks, I didn't know its name; and I thought more modern [without knowing anything about guitars] because all the acoustic guitars and electric etc. guitars I've seen artists use are straight unless it's a mandolin type one.
Sorry, I fretted you with my ignorance.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Qmark at February 21, 2024 10:04 AM (gasr6)
Haven't listened to them in a while. Thanks for the suggestion!
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (AwYPR)
Helped design some when I was in grad school.
Guess you could say a catwalk supporting a grain conveyor above storage bins counts as a bridge, which is more of what I do these days.
FTR, most civil-side engineers don’t get to build. Just design, occasionally have a site visit.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (byGob)
Posted by: Doof
I'll have to take your word for it. Looks like pegs inside a box, or a drain. I do see many other elements of the guitar. Like the artist hadn't seen a real guitar but yearned to.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (Z00tC)
Gotta love Barky Obama, global warming advocate, buying a beach front house on the ocean.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)
How did Keanu not make your list? ;-)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (AwYPR)
Whatever it takes - we’ve got a world to control!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:07 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: As any structural engineer can tell you at February 21, 2024 10:07 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2024 10:08 AM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Some models are useful
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Some more useful than others.
Posted by: zombie farrah fawcett at February 21, 2024 10:08 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Carol Alt at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (BfGcT)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)
Back in the day I would watch pretty much anything HBO cooked up, because I thought that's where the cool, quality work was being done.
I think Tenacious D was funny for about 5 minutes at a time. After that it just gets annoying.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: As any structural engineer can tell you at February 21, 2024 10:07 AM (NBVI
Until you hit yield in the outer fibers.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)
Saw a photo comparison once. Two images of Liberty Island. Taken from the same spot on shore, 100 years apart... no perceptible increase in sea level.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (z99Zw)
Gotta love Barky Obama, global warming advocate, buying a beach front house on the ocean.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)
Not just one, but two. One in Hawaii and one in Massachusetts.
This is always my counter argument to the global warming fanatics. If it were really happening people like Obama who have all the information available, would buy houses at 5000 ft above sea level not on the ocean.
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (bWsRe)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (z99Zw)
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That's because it's being offset by the waters off of Florida's coast boiling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (GBKbO)
Paging Sarah Palin!
Posted by: Rex B at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (yMfrK)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)
True. Which is why I really appreciated Will Ferrell in "Everything Must Go". A serious and dramatic role for him -- not him just playing himself as a goofball.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:10 AM (JunzL)
How did Keanu not make your list? ;-)
You know if you take Keanu's big movies and just assume its his Ted character it works...
Bill and Ted Discover the Internet (The Matrix)
Bill and Ted play Football (The Replacements)
Bill and Ted Try Paintball (John Wick)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (GBKbO)
I'm hearing free seafood soup down in Florida.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:11 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
You forgot Kathy Ireland and Claudia Schiffer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:11 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 10:09 AM (bWsRe)
So...Denver it is!
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:11 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:12 AM (NYzgN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
You forgot Kathy Ireland and Claudia Schiffer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:11 AM (9yWhg)
Paulina Porizkova
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:12 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (Z00tC)
Taking MY word for it?? Bold strategy! I'm not exactly a reliable witness.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:12 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: But what do I know about art? at February 21, 2024 10:12 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2024 10:12 AM (ufFY8)
The vertical panels of this remind me of the early Next Generation episode with Data looking ahead of himself into snippets of future time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (NYzgN)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)
Of all the people who ever got top billing in any production of fiction, how did you choose those three as your examples?
Quality acting, they ain't.
I was watching the Thin Man movies recently, and William Powell is just fun to watch on screen. He's sorta that way, I guess. Always playing himself, but he's opposite Myrna Loy, who I have seen in many things. Her portrayal of Nora Charles is unique to her body of work. She envelopes the role, seems to have transformed into the character, and makes you forget she's just acting in a movie.
She IS Nora Charles! Except in everything else she's ever done. Then she's not.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (GtZ7X)
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I won't bother with the link but SCTV's How the Middle East Was Won with Sean Connery as the Mufti of All the Bloody Arabs! [Parody combining Lawrence of Arabia, Khartoum, and the Wind and the Lion and explaining British policies there at the same time! Brutal shot at Candice Bergen too.]
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (NYzgN)
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"'Hide the decline' is just typical stats talk for normalizing data."
-Shit some idiot told me once
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
In West Africa, the Caribbean, and Louisiana: a charm or amulet in the form of a piece of paper inscribed with text and placed inside a pouch or bag.
Gris-gris originated in West Africa where they were worn upon one's person for protection. They were introduced to the Caribbean and Louisiana during the transatlantic slave trade.
In voodoo they are also used to cause harm to others.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: But what do I know about art?
They should've gone with that Shickelgruber dude.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (Sgq8y)
Good here, thanks. Nice to see you around these parts. Been a while.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Alternative Art Title at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (JCZqz)
Gotta love Barky Obama, global warming advocate, buying a beach front house on the ocean.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)
His chef turned out to be not such a fan, though.
Boy, talk about a massive story that got memory holed right quick.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 10:15 AM (bWsRe)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:15 AM (NYzgN)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 21, 2024 10:15 AM (X4yCj)
Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2024 10:08 AM (NxC5+)
It just seems silly to me. I'm sure it involves whatever straight edges he uses when he's working on the canvas, but in my mind I'm picturing him doing a complete painting, then taking a sharp knife and cutting it up, then gluing it back together, all jangled up.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:15 AM (GtZ7X)
She IS Nora Charles! Except in everything else she's ever done. Then she's not.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024
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"How many barrooms have you been thrown out of, Mr. Charles?"
"That would be all of them, Mrs. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (J2vNu)
Boy, talk about a massive story that got memory holed right quick.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:14 AM (KbCG3)
Which, if someone thought that the authorities and media were not quite on the up-and-up, would tell you something.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (NYzgN)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)
How did Keanu not make your list? ;-)
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There's a big difference between great actors and movie stars. Always has been. The camera and audience chose movie stars.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (DyHJQ)
Bill and Ted play Football (The Replacements)
Bill and Ted Try Paintball (John Wick)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)
Bill and Ted play Cop Part 1 (Point Break)
Bill and Ted play Cop Part 2 (Speed)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:17 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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And illegally destroyed the program [that he claimed he hadn't multi/backed up at all] after having been ordered to release it by a court, I think because it was funded by tax dollars and ruled not the private intellectual property of the university.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:17 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Fetterman's lump at February 21, 2024 10:18 AM (pkfrc)
Bill and Ted play Football (The Replacements)
Bill and Ted Try Paintball (John Wick)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)
Bill and Ted play Cop Part 1 (Point Break)
Bill and Ted play Cop Part 2 (Speed)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:17 AM (JunzL)
Whoa.
~ Ted
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:18 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Montec at February 21, 2024 10:15 AM (bWsRe)
Insomnia. Set in Alaska during the time of year when the sun never sets. Good movie.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:18 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (DyHJQ)
Is that because most great actors make a lot of shit movies because they're "artists, dahling" and don't want to lower themselves to doing something the common man might enjoy?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:18 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at February 21, 2024 10:19 AM (qgPFD)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (DyHJQ)
Now do the music biz.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:19 AM (GtZ7X)
Gris-gris originated in West Africa where they were worn upon one's person for protection. They were introduced to the Caribbean and Louisiana during the transatlantic slave trade.
In voodoo they are also used to cause harm to others.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 21, 2024
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Voudon, the original spelling I think, is an example of a creole -- a mixture of two things, in this case religions, West African animism and Catholicism. It arose in New World colonies where the European language was French. Santeria arose in colonies that spoke Spanish.
(From my dim memory of a Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion college class -- one of the few in my educational career that I really looked forward to attending.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Beyonce at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (lf83v)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at February 21, 2024 10:19 AM (qgPFD)
I believe comment 343 explains it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: IrishEi at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (0lr2Q)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (ENQN6)
"I'm sorry to say, friends, there are still ammunition in stock in Europe," she continued. "This is not only a question about production, because we have weapons, we have ammunition, we have air defense that we don't have to use ourself at the moment, that we should deliver to Ukraine."
Bravo to Denmark! With tRumplicans putting off aid to Ukraine, all European NATO members need to step up!
Can we give arms to NATO nations without a vote from congress? You would think we might have some loopholes that Joe’s big guns could dig up.
Forbes reported we did that with Greece; they then gave arms to Ukraine!
Until we change control of the House, that ain't happening. Congress needs to pass something larger and more open ended, and quit these pennyante aid packages that are doing little other than keeping Ukraine's nose above the water.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:16 AM (DyHJQ)
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The movie star system was explicitly designed around typecasting actors by Irving Thalberg at MGM.
It was a way to help standardize productions. Certain types of stars went to certain types of movies. The audience knew that if they saw John Barrymore on a poster, they'd see something like Grand Hotel. If they saw Clark Gable, they'd see another kind of movie more along the lines of Mutiny on the Bounty.
Barrymore was a great Shakespearean actor on the stage, but Hollywood intentionally put him in as small a box as possible. Many actors grated under this system because their "art" was sacrificed to the machine's needs. Some, like James Cagney, were really happy to not try that hard and get paid well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)
He had sex with all the critics.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:21 AM (z99Zw)
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No. The camera and audience know what a star is. They want to see a star. Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood both steal every scene they are in. They are eye candy. You know them and want to see them. Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine are eye candy. Female eye candy has a very brief shelf life.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:21 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (JCZqz)
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Man, these people really do love an unaccountable executive to rule them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:18 AM (z99Zw)
Or, audiences like things go boom, and can't be bothered to watch a decent work of fiction on screen.
And then get fooled into believing hacks like Christopher Nolan make art, because they chop up their movies, like Gris chops up his paintings.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (GtZ7X)
Buster Keaton
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
To be fair, I did Othello better than him.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (Z00tC)
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Because he was married to a psycho nymphomaniac for 20 years (Vivien Leigh) and he acted like he was good with it.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (lf83v)
This is genius level elite thinking.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (xhfG9)
Ukraine's problem is that they're running out of people. Maybe these DU folks could step up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (ENQN6)
Eric Weinstein used the term "anti-interesting" for the Epstein murder.
As in, the story had everything the media would normally love to cover - sex, elites, corruption, etc and however they tell you they basically ignored the story because it was old news no one cared about. Yet...any time there is a free forum to discuss the issue there is massive interest.
Hell, Weinstein's meeting with Epstein is generally the first thing interviewers ask him about...
The Obama's chef story is similarly "anti-interesting".
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (+xS4y)
Posted by: Delivery matters at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)
He had sex with all the critics.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Supposedly, he had an affair with Danny Kaye.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (DyHJQ)
Southpark Hippie Jam Band is a great episode.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 10:24 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (JCZqz)
All those comments and not a single one uses a word that rhymes with grease fire.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:24 AM (KbCG3)
Jonathan Richardson, who also goes by Autumn Cordellionè, has filed a civil lawsuit against the chaplain of Branchville Correctional Facility in Indiana after he allegedly stopped the inmate from wearing a hijab outside of his cell, despite identifying as a Muslim woman.
Richardson is seeking $150,000 in damages and the ability to wear the hijab ‘anywhere I go within the facility.’
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http://tinyurl.com/8366fnz5
Photo at link, including face tats and, of course, from your best source for U.S. news -- the Daily Mail UK.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:24 AM (2yu8s)
Ukraine's problem is that they're running out of people. Maybe these DU folks could step up.
Early in the war I saw a lot of threads on leftist boards where nominally eager volunteers to go fight Vlad found reasons they just couldn't go. My favorite? The Uke government wouldn't give them tranny hormones for free...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:24 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: From about That Time at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (PLskM)
It was a way to help standardize productions. Certain types of stars went to certain types of movies. The audience knew that if they saw John Barrymore on a poster, they'd see something like Grand Hotel. If they saw Clark Gable, they'd see another kind of movie more along the lines of Mutiny on the Bounty.
Barrymore was a great Shakespearean actor on the stage, but Hollywood intentionally put him in as small a box as possible. Many actors grated under this system because their "art" was sacrificed to the machine's needs. Some, like James Cagney, were really happy to not try that hard and get paid well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
You seem to have some knowledge of movies. Rumor has it there's a movie thread regularly around here. Do you ever read it or comment?
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (A5THL)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (DyHJQ)
What did the one Deadhead say to the other Deadhead when they ran out of weed?
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (xhfG9)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
Yeah, we know which side of the hot/crazy matrix she fell on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)
hap hap happiest christmas since fucking Danny Kaye
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (DyHJQ)
What did the one Deadhead say to the other Deadhead when they ran out of weed?
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Trucking?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (A5THL)
Now do USA
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:21 AM (DyHJQ)
Then there's a guy like Gene Hackman, who is amazing in everything but eye candy he ain't.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)
I watched "A Bridge Too Far," with its all-star cast, telling a small piece of the story of the disaster that was Operation Market Garden.
Of all the odd choices, Olivier has a very small part, as a civilian who is caught up in the mess. As he's on screen, I kept waiting for him to either go into a Shakespearian soliloquy, or to start asking "is it safe?"
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (JunzL)
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Sounds like a waste of time.
Men should only concern themselves with pursing the path of the ascetic hermit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
Strange to say, I've always been kind of impressed by Jack Black. He plays annoying characters, yes, but he does it so well. His characters, the ones I've seen, are recognizably human -- his musician/substitute teacher in School of Rock and his impresario in the latest version of King Kong, for example.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (ibTVg)
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"It's also mis-interesting, dis-interesting, and mal-interesting h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (+xS4y)
Buster Keaton
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:22 AM (9yWhg)
I loved him in Johnny Dangerously and Mr. Mom. He was also the best Batman.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (GtZ7X)
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Marathon Man is fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
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Trucking?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (DyHJQ)
A: Man, this band sucks!
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (xhfG9)
Although John is really good in Dinner at Eight, where he basically plays himself (an alcoholic).
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)
Men should only concern themselves with pursing the path of the ascetic hermit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
No, not the asectic hermit. There's no violence in that.
Men should concern themselves with becoming peerless warriors.
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: Paul banned at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (8UWCJ)
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Cults. How else to explain The Grateful Dead?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:23 AM (DyHJQ)
And as it always shall be, Tay Tay enters the chat.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:21 AM (DyHJQ)
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Then there's a guy like Gene Hackman, who is amazing in everything but eye candy he ain't.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024
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Borgnine was eye candy? I think we need a new dictionary for this definition of "eye candy."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (sm6Pk)
WAS NOT WAS is no more.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (xhfG9)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (JunzL)
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Sounds like a waste of time.
Men should only concern themselves with pursing the path of the ascetic hermit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (GBKbO)
Especially on Saturday evenings
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (JunzL)
Men should concern themselves with becoming peerless warriors.
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:28 AM (sm6Pk)
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Pray to Crom, and if he does not listen, to hell with him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (A5THL)
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And even more of it winds up in the pockets of those corrupt SOBs in THIS country.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 21, 2024 10:29 AM (0lr2Q)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
In a Nazi dentist sort of way....
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:29 AM (xhfG9)
Posted by: Doof
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Sounds like a waste of time.
Men should only concern themselves with pursing the path of the ascetic hermit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures
Especially now, movies have really gone down hill since they started making talkies.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (Z00tC)
I loved him in Johnny Dangerously and Mr. Mom. He was also the best Batman.
His Birdman is the last movie to get an Academy award for best picture that I've even bothered to watch.
And yes, it is good.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024
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What did the one Deadhead say to the other Deadhead when they ran out of weed?
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Trucking?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024
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I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (J2vNu)
Of all the odd choices, Olivier has a very small part, as a civilian who is caught up in the mess. As he's on screen, I kept waiting for him to either go into a Shakespearian soliloquy, or to start asking "is it safe?"
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (GtZ7X)
Also known as 'A Movie Too Long'.
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (88xKn)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (Z00tC)
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Cinema peaked in 1928.
Once the fad of sound goes away, we'll be back on the right path.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Well, I guess Ethel Merman thought he was. For, like, five minutes, anyway.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)
School of Rock was great. Black's love of music really came through in that, I think. Was pretty obvious he felt that role.
And yeah, it's dumb but I thought he was hilarious in Orange County.
Not to mention his inspired cameo in Workaholics.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
It sure is, but I do wonder, as Olivier is on set, doing his Olivier thing, is he reciting lines, thinking to himself as he works with Hoffman, "this guy is better than me!"
Cuz, he is.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:25 AM (A5THL)
In fairness to the corrupt SOBs, at least some of them have always known that there was absolutely no chance that Ukraine is going to win. If you were thinking forward to a life in exile, why not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (qgPFD)
And yes, it is good.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (ibTVg)
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Spotlight and Parasite are worth your time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (GBKbO)
Dem-led states, cities used millions meant for their citizens on illegal immigrants Dem-led states, cities used millions meant for their citizens on illegal immigrants
If ( am not mistaken this is federal money meant for a specific purpose. It is a Federal crime to use it othrwise.
So why is it that nobody ever goes to jail?
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (A5THL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (DyHJQ)
The thing in the quick cutaway shots before each commercial break? Turned out not to be a thing.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (xhfG9)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
It sure is, but I do wonder, as Olivier is on set, doing his Olivier thing, is he reciting lines, thinking to himself as he works with Hoffman, "this guy is better than me!"
Cuz, he is.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:31 AM (GtZ7X)
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"It's called acting, dear boy."
-Something Olivier said to Hoffman after Hoffman kept himself up for 24 hours for a scene
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)
His co-stars in that movie were Tom Hanks's son and Sissy Spacek's daughter and no neither one of them could act at all.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:32 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:31
A bobby dazzler and a possible clue.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024 10:33 AM (xcrUy)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 21, 2024 10:33 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:15 AM (NYzgN)
And therein is a *major* problem. Not only do we not have accurate current data, we no longer have accurate historical data, and no we to recreate that data either.
Planting dates are already over a week later, and harvest dates earlier, but by the time TPTB acknowledge that we will be in a massive famine.
I don't much like seeing the "day's wage for a loaf of bread" coming to pass, but those with power are doing everything they can to make it happen.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 10:33 AM (nC+QA)
“In the next couple of weeks or more,” Chavis said, “we will probably make an announcement whether or not we will give the ballot access to a unity ticket. A unity ticket means a Republican and a Democrat. And we are talking to Republicans, Democrats and independents.”
File under people that will do anything to prevent a Biden 2nd term. If No Labels run a "reasonable" candidate, then the "reasonable" vote will be split two ways, giving a win to the worst candidate.
Guaranteed that everyone they're considering will draw more votes from Biden than Trump. No Labels is just Republicans trying to hide to siphon away Democratic votes.
I was surprised to see Ben Chavis' name up there. He had been heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement and had been EO of the NAACP after Ben Hooks died. Sad, using his reputation to support/front a Republican rat-fucking operation.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 21, 2024 10:33 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
If you meet The Buddha, Kill The Buddha.
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:33 AM (sm6Pk)
So why is it that nobody ever goes to jail?
I suspect one part of the fear both the GOPe and Dems have in regards to Trump is that he will actually impartially enforce the law in which cases many of them will go to jail...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:34 AM (ibTVg)
And yeah, it's dumb but I thought he was hilarious in Orange County.
Not to mention his inspired cameo in Workaholics.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024
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Nobody would say Black > Olivier, for instance, but his performances do come to life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:34 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Candy comes in many forms. See Pecan Turtles to understand Borgnine. He had an enormous range as an actor and you can't take your eyes off of him when he is in a scene. Same deal with Lee Marvin but he's more of a Baby Ruth bar with gnarly peanuts buried in the chocolate. Compare Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin in The Wild One or Jimmy Stewart and Lee in The Man That Shot Liberty Valance.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:34 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Weed.
Wait... was there another explanation?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:35 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)
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Loved him in School of Rock -- and remember first seeing his funny role in High Fidelity.
Too bad about Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman; they were versatile actors with even more promising futures ... except apparently throughout most of Hollywood now, straight white guys need not apply anymore.
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 10:35 AM (+xS4y)
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As if “Queers for Palestine” wasn’t enough of a self-parody, keffiyeh-donning gay activists in Seattle have declared a “homosexual intifada.”
After another pro-Hamas/anti-Israel march and rally that took over city streets that Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell ceded, the extremists plastered their signage around downtown Seattle. That’s when we started seeing a new flyer showing two men with faces covered with keffiyeh while embracing in a kiss. The pink-hued message says “Homo-sexual Intifada” in all caps.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:35 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:35 AM (A5THL)
my only critique is that the strongest hues/values are all clomped up in the center, I may have slipped in a little lighter color to give the eye some interest in there.
But I defer to M. Gris in all things, including his name, which I spell "Grey" in Anglais.
Posted by: kallisto at February 21, 2024 10:36 AM (dCxaZ)
Then I started to smell all the skunk weed and understood the appeal for certain people...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:36 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:36 AM (hqVaF)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (hqVaF)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Weed.
Wait... was there another explanation?
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The original explanation is LSD. Read The Electric Kool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 10:34 AM (ibTVg)
Does anyone really think that?
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (xhfG9)
After another pro-Hamas/anti-Israel march and rally that took over city streets that Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell ceded, the extremists plastered their signage around downtown Seattle. That’s when we started seeing a new flyer showing two men with faces covered with keffiyeh while embracing in a kiss. The pink-hued message says “Homo-sexual Intifada” in all caps.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:35 AM (2yu8s)
Seattle, the city that got conquered a couple years ago by a Soundcloud Rapper...
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (BVrf9)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: TC at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (FjlUt)
Posted by: m at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (Ncap6)
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A hoard of gold and jewels but the
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 10:35 AM (+xS4y)
Wasn't Hoffman the gay?
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (xhfG9)
LOL
Buttfucking Clown World.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (xhfG9)
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He at least had a son.
The kid starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's last film, Licorice Pizza. Apparently Anderson and Hoffman were best friends and their kids hung out a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Candy comes in many forms. See Pecan Turtles to understand Borgnine. He had an enormous range as an actor and you can't take your eyes off of him when he is in a scene. . . .
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024
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True enough. I watched part of Hannie Caulder w/ Raquel Welch last week on Grit, and Borgnine's vicious and yet hapless bandit-rapist comes to life on screen, esp. when he's with Strother Martin and Jack Elam playing his equally vicious and hapless brothers.
I just can't help but think of "eye candy" = "supremely attractive to the opposite sex." Redford and Newman, EC for sure. Borgnine and Dustin Hoffman, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: TC at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (FjlUt)
It was sawdust!
Posted by: Hunter's attorneys at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (xhfG9)
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2024 10:30 AM (88xKn)
I wish it had been longer, honestly.
Too much left out, but I guess they weren't making the Band Of Brothers mini-series, they didn't really have time to tell the whole story. Which of course, BoB didn't either, when it comes to Market Garden.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (IG4Id)
I will forever appreciate one thing about Diablo Cody: She wrote a script that had a line slagging on Sonic Youth.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:36 AM (hqVaF)
Better than candy corn.
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)
A rock. But not just any rock...
Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (sNc8Y)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:40 AM (hqVaF)
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Tom Hanks was the Jack Lemmon of the Boomers. It doesn't work these days.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:40 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Northernlurker
____________________
Is a bobby dazzler anything like a Gary Glitter?
LETS DANCE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hB1TzoG7M
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 21, 2024 10:40 AM (X4yCj)
It doesn't look realistic
It doesn't evoke emotion
It just looks...stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)
Maybe $$$$$?
Posted by: m at February 21, 2024 10:40 AM (Ncap6)
I just can't help but think of "eye candy" = "supremely attractive to the opposite sex." Redford and Newman, EC for sure. Borgnine and Dustin Hoffman, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (J2vNu)
There were other people in that movie? Thought Raquel Welch was the only one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:41 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Stuart MacKenzie at February 21, 2024 10:41 AM (THTXr)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:40 AM (hqVaF)
That marriage, yeah.
Her hubby was running for Senator for IL.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:37 AM (sm6Pk)
I visited Seattle back in the 70s. it was shit then and nothing can be done to it to make it shittier.
Posted by: vic at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (A5THL)
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:38 AM (xhfG9)
I use the basic truism, which annoys some people, apparently: All actors are gay. Until proven otherwise.
And no, being married and/or having kids is not proof. Obviously.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
Ok, Gen Xer...
( that's how it's done, right...? )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (IG4Id)
http://tinyurl.com/3nzfbv9n
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 21, 2024 10:43 AM (woPEM)
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Hoffman's only memorable role was Little Big Man. Too bad the producers/director decided to invert the authors message about Custer. Custer was a monumental cluster fuck at Custer's Last Stand but his death was a deeply felt loss throughout America.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
Ok, Gen Xer...
( that's how it's done, right...? )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (IG4Id)
I'm more interested in the fact that you may be a Sonic Youth fan.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (hqVaF)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:39 AM (KbCG3)
I have no idea who/what Diablo Cody is, but Sonic Youth is possibly the greatest rock band of the past 50 years.
I would think life isn't worth living, if one were to listen to them and think "too many notes."
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (GtZ7X)
And no, being married and/or having kids is not proof. Obviously.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:42 AM (GtZ7X)
If a man has not killed another man, he is gay.
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (JeYYB)
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When the lumberjacks got outnumbered by the Californians Seattle died.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (DyHJQ)
Compared to this same date in 2020 (the last pre-pandemic January and February), the 2024 box office is down nearly 50 percent.
“Through the first three days of Presidents Day weekend, films that have been released widely in theaters have grossed $764.1 million, down 15% from the same period last year,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Pudinhead
It happened just before the US Centennial, which made it hurt even more.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (xcrUy)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (NYzgN)
Compared to this same date in 2020 (the last pre-pandemic January and February), the 2024 box office is down nearly 50 percent.
“Through the first three days of Presidents Day weekend, films that have been released widely in theaters have grossed $764.1 million, down 15% from the same period last year,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (2yu8s)
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"It's the strikes' fault!"
-most entertainment writers even though the strikes only affected films much further along in production than about to be released.
The movies released so far have sucked, it seems. Everyone's looking forward to Dune 2 to save the industry for the quarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (hqVaF)
A friend of mine was telling a story about her years working at Merriweather Post Pavilion. She told her supervisor that she'd work pretty much any time they needed her -- except when Phish played. She said "If you schedule me to work those shows, I'm telling you now that I'm calling out sick".
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:47 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 21, 2024 10:47 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (sm6Pk)
He is if he killed him by f**king him.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:47 AM (GtZ7X)
Does a Production Assistant count?
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (hqVaF)
Can't it be both?
Posted by: Obama at February 21, 2024 10:47 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (9yWhg)
Me too. I heard rumors that losing to Obama essentially drive Keyes *literally* mad. Then again, they said stuff like that about pretty much anyone with the temerity to stand against Obama.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:27 AM (JunzL)
Also good in The Godfather.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (gSZYf)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (NYzgN)
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 21, 2024
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Pronounce it as if it were Spanish, i.e., soh-do-MEE-tay in-tee-FAH-da. It won't make any more sense, but it will make you sound more cosmopolitan!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Pudinhead
It happened just before the US Centennial, which made it hurt even more.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)
Likely Dem presidential nominee.
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (sm6Pk)
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Heh
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (JeYYB)
Gobekli Tepe. You can hear the UnchartedX guy talk about it here: http://tinyurl.com/47thau5h
Apparently, there are many Tepes in Turkey, some far older and bigger. It's a fascinating channel.
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (CSa9C)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (DyHJQ)
The fact that newspapers were selling the American public on the idea that Custer was some sort of celebrity worth hero-worshipping is proof that nothing really changes.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (GtZ7X)
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You are right. I forgot the Centennial.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (ZV+pB)
Posted by: Obama at February 21, 2024 10:47 AM (KbCG3)
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HA!
I love this place.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Now do Pfish.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (NYzgN)
And Dave Matthews
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2024 09:53 AM (z99Zw)
Yes he’s wrong. 95% of people in Gaza supported the attack so they’re not innocent.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (MNhXM)
Wasn't he supposed to get some reinforcements/support that never came?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)
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All media is a protection/extortion racket. Always has been. There is power in choosing what gets printed or performed and what doesn't.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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It happened just before the US Centennial, which made it hurt even more.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)
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Likely Dem presidential nominee.
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2024
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He did have dreams of being president, but I think Custer might have been more of a Repub. The chances of any Democrat becoming president only ten years after the Civil War were very thin.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (N39Ws)
I can usually get through at least half of one of his songs!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (gSZYf)
That made me laugh. Thanks.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2024 10:51 AM (sNc8Y)
Posted by: Wally at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (hqVaF)
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Heh.
* golf clap *
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 21, 2024 10:51 AM (sR4ST)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
Dude, I'm 29*.
( these are the blog's rules, I'm not in charge. Go ask management. )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:51 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)
I believe the internet/movie reporter industrial complex is collectively creaming itself over the Wolverine/Deadpool thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:52 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 10:52 AM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (9yWhg)
Afterward he ran for President as a Republican (again) and only got minimal traction (again) and then he declared all Republicans racist and went independent and disappeared.
For the record - I saw him in 1996 at a Republican rally for all the candidates in SC. There was a gym with probably 3k attendees. Keyes was a half hour late but the whole room stayed to listen to him. Because he was electrifying.
But Bob Dole won anyway.
Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2024 10:52 AM (xhfG9)
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Wasn't he supposed to get some reinforcements/support that never came?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024
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I think so. The trouble was, Custer thought his patrol could handle any amount of Indians when he was leading them, and ignored any intelligence about there being *many* more hostiles in the field than he expected.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)
Also, when the Feds captured Charlottesville, he forbade the burning of the UVA library.
So, there is good to be said about him.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)
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No. He had the 7th Cavalry, roughly 700 men, and he broke them into four separate units and attempted to attack. It was an epic clusterfuck. The known way to attack plains Indians was to take their horses from them and then grind them to pulp. Custer knew this but had the mother of all brain farts that day.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:53 AM (DyHJQ)
On the other hand, it's a harmless hobby and good for them.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 10:53 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (DyHJQ)
Rain Man and Papillon
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 10:54 AM (MNhXM)
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Wasn't he supposed to get some reinforcements/support that never came?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
I blame Steiner.
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2024 10:54 AM (CSa9C)
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Well, it was almost 100 years ago!
Posted by: andycanuck
Yeah, lost that gig because of Custer.
Posted by: Keith Richards at February 21, 2024 10:54 AM (w9Wax)
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All media is a protection/extortion racket. Always has been. There is power in choosing what gets printed or performed and what doesn't.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (DyHJQ)
I guess it's something worth noting, if your celebrities are out west somewhere, pointlessly killing people, versus making silly movies and music.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:54 AM (GtZ7X)
He was also up against 3x as many men.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 10:55 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 10:55 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Now do Pfish.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (NYzgN)
And Dave Matthews
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (N39Ws)
Musical masturbation. Less enjoyable version of it than jazz. And the best jazz comes from black musicians. So those bands are just evil cultural appropriating white guys.
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2024 10:55 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: m at February 21, 2024 10:55 AM (Ncap6)
Also, when the Feds captured Charlottesville, he forbade the burning of the UVA library.
So, there is good to be said about him.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
And he actually spoke, for the time, well of Native Americans. History! Goo' Gaw! What is it good for?!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 10:55 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (N39Ws)
I can usually get through at least half of one of his songs!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (gSZYf)
Scene from The Office that always cracks me up. They go to a roller rink and the DJ calls out to Andy that he's the only one skating and asks if he has any requests.
Andy yells back, "Dave Matthews. No hits, only deep cuts." And just as he finishes, Ants Marching starts blaring.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:55 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (DyHJQ)
Rain Man and Papillon
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 10:54 AM (MNhXM)
Hook!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2024 10:56 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 10:56 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 21, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)
So much lack at the theaters right now, I ended up taking my youngest to Migration (his bros were at a weekend retreat).
It was, surprisingly, not bad, and even had good family themes in it! It was good enough that I wish I had brought the wife.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 10:56 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:44 AM (DyHJQ)
*
Rain Man and Papillon
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024
***
Marathon Man. And I still have a sneaking admiration for his underplayed light comedy style way back in The Graduate.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:57 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 21, 2024 09:42 AM (MvF+J)
Nice art pun!
Posted by: m at February 21, 2024 10:58 AM (Ncap6)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 10:58 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Now do Pfish.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 21, 2024 10:48 AM (NYzgN)
And Dave Matthews
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2024 10:50 AM (N39Ws)
And Brooooooce.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 21, 2024 10:58 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)
If we're gonna go with rehashing U.S. military follies, I'm gonna go with, Custer was really good at unfair fights. When he came up against a real fighting force though.....
Like a boxer who gets into a title match after taking on assorted creampuffs and tomato cans, against a real fighter, that 29-0 record, with 21 knockouts is gonna turn into 29-1 real quick.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:59 AM (GtZ7X)
"Where did all them goddam Indians COME FROM?"
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 10:59 AM (MeG8a)
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Not as good as McKenzie. Both Custer and Pickett graduated at the bottom of their class at West Point. The difference between was Pickett was loved by his men, his peers and his superiors while Custer was despised by his men, peers and superiors. Pickett became a Major General and Corps commander. Custer was a Brevet Brigadier on LtCol's pay.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 10:59 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: Seems Legit
Can't vouch for this ... and Ambrose was revealed to be somewhat of a plagiarist but,
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:59 AM (GtZ7X)
I also saw Rocky III.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
At a past job, one of the execs was a woman named Elaine. Sometimes, when I needed to talk to her, I would pound on the big glass window of her office shouting "Elaine! Elaine!."
She was younger than I, so I don't know if she got the joke. Never acted as though she did.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (IG4Id)
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Thank you.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2024 11:00 AM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (xpBzi)
Posted by: huerfano at February 21, 2024 09:44 AM (Q4KYm)
Ha!
Posted by: m at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (Ncap6)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)
You think unkindly of a Union officer?
I’m so surprised. 😀
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2024 11:01 AM (mupln)
Just my $.02 worth.
He went in to the village to kill the squaws and children.
Surprise, surprise...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 21, 2024 11:02 AM (MeG8a)
Apparently, there are many Tepes in Turkey, some far older and bigger. It's a fascinating channel.
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2024 10:49 AM (CSa9C)
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Second the UnchartedX channel, especially if you are interested in alternative history
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 21, 2024 11:02 AM (tXFoB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2024 10:57 AM (J2vNu)
Hoffman's a truly great actor. Not much he's done that isn't terrific work, nothing I can think of off hand.
Lots of other shitty movie stars out there, during his run, but he was just great at what he did.
Only person from that era I'd put up there with him is Hack Man. Maybe Duvall, but there aren't many more.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 11:02 AM (GtZ7X)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 21, 2024
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Yeah. You're right, those were both very good. Why the fuck did they think they could remake Papillon? I watched 5 minutes of that and turned it off. WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2024 11:02 AM (DyHJQ)
Posted by: m at February 21, 2024 11:04 AM (Ncap6)
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139 I think he should have stayed out of it but Prince William also asked for the release of the prisoners; and called October 7th a terrorist attack.
http://tinyurl.com/bdfr84c6
Whole statement but as an IMAGE
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 21, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)
DHS gov: There are currently 11 principal asylum offices: Arlington, Virginia; Bethpage (Long Island), New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; San Francisco, California; Tampa, Florida; and Tustin (Los Angeles), California.
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 21, 2024 11:06 AM (GshMh)
She IS Nora Charles! Except in everything else she's ever done. Then she's not.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2024 10:13 AM (GtZ7X)
Him shooting the ornaments on the Christmas tree with the BB gun always cracks me up. What a great pairing of two classic stars.
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