Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Night Wanderer
Edvard Munch

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 That's me today.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2024 09:30 AM (W/lyH)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)

3 A bit skinny.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (QNSds)

4 Dammit, not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)

5 Woohoo! First!!!

Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang! It's Geezer Golf Tuesday! Don't forget to find your favorite golfing geezer and rub his(or her) belly. Oh. Wait. That's not right. That's Nurse's thing for those furry bellies.
Never mind then. Fore!!!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (W/lyH)

6 That's why I couldn't sleep for shit last night!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (HXGNm)

7 Wandering to the bathroom.

Posted by: BignJames at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

8 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

9 I see that The Night Stalker got himself a publicist!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (d04cU)

10 still more lucid than Biden

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (sJHOI)

11 Nancy Pelosi's brother wandering around taking selfies on January 6th?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

12 This one simply does not scream to me "Art!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (C5fZw)

13 Nice hair.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (SfhV1)

14 KOLCHAK!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (Q0kLU)

15 Water colors......meh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

16 He could be a piano teacher. The piano is partly visible to the right. But why is he wandering around the school before dawn?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

17 Looks like Merrick Garland.

Posted by: dantesed at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

18 The Biden comparison is just too easy… must find another snark..

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (PCK5/)

19 Oh, that's just Joe
sometimes he gets out of bed and just kind of shuffles around the House, talking to the pictures

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (/7KEl)

20 This one simply does not scream to me "Art!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (C5fZw)
++++
Some of the artist's other works do:
http://tiny.cc/2dkjyz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (d04cU)

21 Not in my house, creeper!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (t1nZi)

22 There's an incredible lack of soul in this painting....and the subject painted......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

23 That's why I couldn't sleep for shit last night!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (HXGNm)

Who sleeps for shit? I sleep for rest and relaxation.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (Q0kLU)

24 Insomnia is a stone cold bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (+u0P5)

25 Not in my house, creeper!
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (t1nZi)

What did creeper ever do to you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

26 Yeh that's not creepy as fuck. Not. At. All.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (4XwPj)

27 but would not hang

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (/7KEl)

28 He could be a piano teacher. The piano is partly visible to the right. But why is he wandering around the school before dawn?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)
++++
It's a boarding school. He's stalking the hallways to ensure none of the little shits wander around after curfew.,

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (d04cU)

29 Ahhhh..... the driver of the "free candy van" has arrived home.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

30 Insomnia is a stone cold bitch.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 09:33 AM (+u0P5)

Fact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

31 The color palette and sunken, darkened eyes help convey the subject. Well done, Edvard. Vardie. Eddie the V. Whatever.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (0DS/B)

32 Are you threatening me?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (v6JzV)

33 Just missing a flying orb with a drill and a few dwarves...

Posted by: Jebediah Morningside at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

34 Wolfus

He likes the proper mood to plink the ivories for "Nox Eterna"?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (C5fZw)

35 Oh, Anna, I heard about your father. My deepest sympathies and prayers.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (Q0kLU)

36 That's not the face you want looming over you at 2 a.m....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

37 You rang?

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (LnnUG)

38 His face reminds me of a shark.
He's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

39
Needs a dog to tear this guy's throat out. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (MoZTd)

40 Has a sort of "Every Breath You Take" vibe to it.

Wouldn't hang, but it's interesting.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (T+Iwg)

41 That's not the face you want looming over you at 2 a.m....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)
++++
Or 2 PM. Any time, really.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (d04cU)

42 ZOMBIE ATTACK!!!

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (89Sog)

43 Heh… hang it, in your bedroom, over your bed… sets a mood, especially when dating..

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (PCK5/)

44 Kolchak's duller, less-adventurous brother.

Posted by: spindrift at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (OguvZ)

45 What did creeper ever do to you?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

*blink* *blink*

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (t1nZi)

46 Oh, Anna, I heard about your father. My deepest sympathies and prayers.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:34 AM (Q0kLU)

What happened?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

47 I sleep for dreams

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

48 The way this painting is arranged, it makes it look as if the subject has been wandering around the city and has just popped into a hotel lobby or a cafe to find someone to vent his woes to.

Wouldn't hang, though. Has a very Night Gallery vibe to it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (Q0kLU)

49 Insomnia is a stone cold bitch.
Posted by: rickb223

Fact.
Posted by: Sponge

I have never watched more Highway Patrol, Mr. Ed and The Big Joe Polka Show than I did after my divorce.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM (+u0P5)

50 Dang! It's Geezer Golf Tuesday! Don't forget to find your favorite golfing geezer and rub his(or her) belly. Oh. Wait. That's not right. That's Nurse's thing for those furry bellies.
Never mind then. Fore!!!
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2024 09:31 AM (W/lyH)
---
I dunno...they might be more inclined to pay your beer tab after a round of golf if you give them a nice tummy rub beforehand...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM (7fElN)

51
I have never watched more Highway Patrol, Mr. Ed and The Big Joe Polka Show than I did after my divorce.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM (+u0P5)

Wife currently has me in a bit of this situation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

52 He kinda looks like Christopher Lloyd.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM (4XwPj)

53 They call me the wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around

Posted by: dion at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM (ZdexC)

54 Insomnia is a stone cold bitch.
Posted by: rickb223
==================
Just makes you want to scream, doesn't it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM (0DS/B)

55 Thank you MPPPP

Sunday was not fun at all. Right now things are still iffy emotionally. Come the funeral I will probably fall apart all over again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM (C5fZw)

56
*blink* *blink*
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:35 AM (t1nZi)

I mean we DO have a regular here named 'creeper' do we not?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

57 54 Insomnia is a stone cold bitch.
Posted by: rickb223
==================
Just makes you want to scream, doesn't it?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM (0DS/B)

Subtle, very good..

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM (PCK5/)

58
Sunday was not fun at all. Right now things are still iffy emotionally. Come the funeral I will probably fall apart all over again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM (C5fZw)

Oh my....condolences. I missed this news.

May The Lord provide comfort and healing to you and your family in this time of need.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

59 His, "The Scream" is the most famous, but I like "Puberty" best, not for the skin, but for the eyes.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (ZtgZZ)

60 I bet the piano is a clue to his insomnia. He's a composer, and is up at night walking around seeking inspiration for his latest piece.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (v6JzV)

61 Ugh! Nope nope nope.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

62 Deepest condolences, Anna Puma.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (d04cU)

63 I saw Highway Patrol, Mr Ed and the Big Joe Polka Show open for Bell Biv De Voe at Sands Arena in '95.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (Q0kLU)

64 I went out walking through streets paved with gold
Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones
Of a city without a soul
I went out walking under an atomic sky
Where the ground won't turn and the rain it burns
Like the tears when I said goodbye.

Yeah, I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you.
I went wandering.

-- U2 - "The Wanderer" (sung by Johnny Cash)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (7fElN)

65 You hang this if you hate everyone in your household and want them to leave.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

66 Too modern.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (1bNHn)

67 Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:37 AM

So sorry for your loss, AP. You and your family are in our prayers. May his memory be eternal.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (rfe2Z)

68 Maybe needs chamomile and lavender tea plus nice classical music.

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (p4NUW)

69 I bet the piano is a clue to his insomnia. He's a composer, and is up at night walking around seeking inspiration for his latest piece.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And trying to ignore the neighbors throwing **** at him.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (WXNFJ)

70 Sunday was not fun at all. Right now things are still iffy emotionally. Come the funeral I will probably fall apart all over again.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Oh no. So sorry about your loss. Prayers sent.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (/0X3E)

71 You hang this if you hate everyone in your household and want them to leave.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Nah. You put in the guest room so your overnight guests don't outstay their welcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (d04cU)

72 I saw Highway Patrol, Mr Ed and the Big Joe Polka Show open for Bell Biv De Voe at Sands Arena in '95.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:38 AM (Q0kLU)

I bet the full complement doing "Poison" was the BOMB!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

73 That's not the face you want looming over you at 2 a.m....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024
++++
Or 2 PM. Any time, really.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024

***
This is what was inside the room with the open door in yesteday's painting by Tanning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

74 Oh, Anna, I'm so sorry to see this. My condolences to you and your family. Will pray for strength and peace for all.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (4XwPj)

75 Wife currently has me in a bit of this situation.
Posted by: Sponge

Hang in there bud. You, your wife & family are in my prayers. Daily.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (+u0P5)

76 I mean we DO have a regular here named 'creeper' do we not?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

True enough. *ehem* I'll amend...

Not in my house, creepy night stalker!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (t1nZi)

77 Huh huh huh huh his name is last name is Munch Huh huh huh first name...Butt

Posted by: Beavis at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (ibTVg)

78 I bet the piano is a clue to his insomnia. He's a composer, and is up at night walking around seeking inspiration for his latest piece.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

***
He just needs to light a pipe and chill out.

Posted by: S. Holmes, C.S. Lewis, et al. at June 11, 2024 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

79

Hang in there bud. You, your wife & family are in my prayers. Daily.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (+u0P5)

I really can't express my gratitude. I'm hoping the meeting with the surgeon next week will calm me down a bit.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

80 I am so sorry, Anna Puma. Losing a parent is tremendously difficult, and my prayers are with you.

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2024 09:41 AM (p4NUW)

81
Not in my house, creepy night stalker!
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:40 AM (t1nZi)

Conflict avoided.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

82 Prayers with you Anna Puma

Posted by: 18-1 at June 11, 2024 09:42 AM (ibTVg)

83 He kinda looks like Christopher Lloyd.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

Damn. *checks watch* Damn, damn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

84 This the first Munch I've seen that I like.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 09:42 AM (oaGWv)

85 This the first Munch I've seen that I like.
Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 09:42 AM (oaGWv)
++++
:: sobs ::

Posted by: Butt at June 11, 2024 09:42 AM (d04cU)

86 well that's just creepy, and not the good kind of creepy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (CIS44)

87 Is that a carpet??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (ZdexC)

88 Is that a carpet??
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (ZdexC)

Does it match the curtains?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

89 The creature on the floor here is what woke him up (click on the painting to enlarge it):

https://tinyurl.com/2me7xc75

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

90 well that's just creepy
---------
[snap, snap]

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (ZdexC)

91 well that's just creepy, and not the good kind of creepy.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (CIS44)
++++
What is the "good kind of creepy?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (d04cU)

92 This the first Munch I've seen that I like.

**pats bed**

You need to spend some time with me, sweetie!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (Q0kLU)

93 I really can't express my gratitude. I'm hoping the meeting with the surgeon next week will calm me down a bit.....
Posted by: Sponge

Haven't been able to read most comments for the last week or so. Did I miss it that your lady is unwell?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (4XwPj)

94 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (HXGNm)

95 @18 sorry I like easy.
Alternate name : Joe Biden at 10pm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (FTjSO)

96 Thanks everyone

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (C5fZw)

97 So sorry for your loss, AP.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (t1nZi)

98 100 and still no internet

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (4ILRU)

99 Haven't been able to read most comments for the last week or so. Did I miss it that your lady is unwell?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (4XwPj)

Diagnosed with breast cancer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

100 He kinda looks like Christopher Lloyd.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

***
Christopher Walken, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (J2vNu)

101 He kinda looks like Christopher Lloyd.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:36 AM

*looks more closely at the art*

Great Scott!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (rfe2Z)

102 Condolences Anna. Until you meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.....

Posted by: Grateful at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (IQ6Gq)

103 I meant 100.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (4ILRU)

104 Looks like the dad from Coraline. I like it and hate it at the same time. He's got very angry eyes.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (B0mGw)

105 Never been a fan of Edvard Munch. Most of his work looks like a cartoon but without humor or charm. I can see it fitting in very well with post-WW I Europe. If I want clusters of color I'll look at Van Gogh or Monet.

Don't know what bothers me more: that he produced the paintings or that they were considered so great by the art critics.

Posted by: JTB at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

106 Merrick Garland, a known danger to democracy, says attacks on DOJ (Department Of Jackassery) 'dangerous for our democracy' as House prepares to hold him in contempt

.. we don't have a democracy, we have a constitutional republic

Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (RHGPo)

107 I expected the title to be something like ironic 'Winner' because it looked like a laurel wreath on his head and he looked like death warmed over.

Meh.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (MIKMs)

108 What is the "good kind of creepy?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

IYKYK

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (t1nZi)

109 sorry to hear those newses AP and Sponge.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (CIS44)

110 RMBS, hope you had a great time at the MoMe.

Got your e-mail; I'm probably working on Saturday the 29th, but I can push that to first thing in the morning and have plenty of time for the range. Just shoot me a note so we can iron things out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (Q0kLU)

111 Oh, Anna. There will be a reunion one day.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (4ILRU)

112 Never been a fan of Edvard Munch. Most of his work looks like a cartoon but without humor or charm. I can see it fitting in very well with post-WW I Europe. If I want clusters of color I'll look at Van Gogh or Monet.

Don't know what bothers me more: that he produced the paintings or that they were considered so great by the art critics.
Posted by: JTB at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

To me, it seems like his paintings are the way he deals with his inner demons that he can't escape.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

113 What is the "good kind of creepy?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

IYKYK
Posted by: She Hobbit (

exactly!

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (CIS44)

114 Condolences to you and your family Anna Puma

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (FTjSO)

115 >.. we don't have a democracy, we have a constitutional republic

you sure?

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (/7KEl)

116 Looks like the dad from Coraline. I like it and hate it at the same time. He's got very angry eyes.
Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (B0mGw)
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"Other Father" and "Other Mother" were genuinely creepy, with their button eyes...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (7fElN)

117 A scene from a psychiatric hospital. Do not like.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (LolQL)

118 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 18h
Kids Avoid Felony By Defacing Pride Mural With 'Free Gaza' Skid Marks
buff.ly/3x1EUuT

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (ZdexC)

119 The creature on the floor here is what woke him up (click on the painting to enlarge it):

https://tinyurl.com/2me7xc75
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM

If your sleep paralysis demon were a Furby...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (rfe2Z)

120 It's no Scream.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (BHrzb)

121 plenty of time for the range. Just shoot me a note so we can iron things out.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (Q0kLU)

ISWYDT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

122 "Other Father" and "Other Mother" were genuinely creepy, with their button eyes...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel a

This is an example of the "good kind of creepy"

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (CIS44)

123 Night Wanderer?

Perhaps that was to be the third in the trilogy about Carl Kolchak

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

124 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 09:45 AM (HXGNm)
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I'm not sure I want to rub that creepy dude's fuzzy furry belly...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (7fElN)

125 115
you sure?
Posted by: Don Black at June

On paper

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (CM7zZ)

126 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Not after my lovely wife's reaction last week. I mean - it was her best friend and everything. You think something is okay but nope. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (GZsmd)

127 I'm not sure I want to rub that creepy dude's fuzzy furry belly...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (7fElN)
++++
He'd appreciate it, though. He's probably starved for human contact. A belly rub might really brighten his day. Maybe even make his year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (d04cU)

128 RMBS, hope you had a great time at the MoMe.

Got your e-mail; I'm probably working on Saturday the 29th, but I can push that to first thing in the morning and have plenty of time for the range. Just shoot me a note so we can iron things out.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM

A great time was had by all. Afternoon works for me. We'll work out times.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (rfe2Z)

129 sorry to hear those newses AP and Sponge.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (CIS44)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

130 That looks like a guy from Carnival of Souls.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (63Dwl)

131 The creature on the floor here is what woke him up (click on the painting to enlarge it):

https://tinyurl.com/2me7xc75
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM
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There's a creature in that picture? I must have been distracted by teh bewbs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (7fElN)

132 Diagnosed with breast cancer.
Posted by: Sponge
======
Damn. Did not know. May the Lord guide the medical professionals to root out the cancer and restore your wife to health.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (/0X3E)

133 He kinda looks like Christopher Lloyd.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

***
Christopher Walken, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

What, its not John Lithgow?

Posted by: Rex B at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (acik9)

134 plenty of time for the range. Just shoot me a note so we can iron things out.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 09:47 AM (Q0kLU)

ISWYDT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM

This is, after all, a Smart Military Blog(TM).

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (rfe2Z)

135 I'm not sure I want to rub that creepy dude's fuzzy furry belly...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024
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He'd appreciate it, though. He's probably starved for human contact. A belly rub might really brighten his day. Maybe even make his year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024

***
Not even the girls at the Asian massage parlor down the street will take him as a client!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

136 Damn. Did not know. May the Lord guide the medical professionals to root out the cancer and restore your wife to health.
Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (/0X3E)

Thank you very much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

137 I'm not sure I want to rub that creepy dude's fuzzy furry belly...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:48 AM (7fElN)
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He'd appreciate it, though. He's probably starved for human contact. A belly rub might really brighten his day. Maybe even make his year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:49 AM (d04cU)
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Night-stalking psychopaths need love too!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (7fElN)

138 That looks like a guy from Carnival of Souls.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

A great film.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)

139 Dude, it’s Christopher Walken

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (8sMut)

140
To me, it seems like his paintings are the way he deals with his inner demons that he can't escape.
Posted by: Sponge

Which is okay by me. Heck, that is most likely a very healthy response. But like JTB, I don't get why many think these are wonderful pieces.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (GZsmd)

141 we don't have a democracy, we have a constitutional republic
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you sure?
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If not, why does Mitch McConnell still get a pay check?

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (IHRQq)

142 We all know who this is.

Posted by: mpfs, ubi porci mali at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (54th9)

143 Diagnosed with breast cancer.
Posted by: Sponge

Damn. Hate that. It's scary. Any type of cancer is scary as hell. There have been huge improvements in the treatments available for breast cancer and several other types but, dammit, it's still scary. Hopefully when you see the surgeon it will help peel back the layers of fear and replace them with knowledge. Prayers for you and your lady.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (4XwPj)

144 The creature on the floor here is what woke him up (click on the painting to enlarge it):

https://tinyurl.com/2me7xc75
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024
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There's a creature in that picture? I must have been distracted by teh bewbs...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024

***
Someone yesterday said it was a cat. Uh, not in any universe I'm familiar with, it ain't.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

145 Night-stalking psychopaths need love too!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (7fElN)
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Why do you think they became night-stalking psychopaths? The occasional belly rub 10-15 years ago probably would have prevented it!

Tummy Rub Tuesday saves lives!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (d04cU)

146 Not even the girls at the Asian massage parlor down the street will take him as a client!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

What about if Bob Kraft pays?

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:52 AM (CIS44)

147 Not after my lovely wife's reaction last week. I mean - it was her best friend and everything. You think something is okay but nope. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete

======

"I'm a life long learner, honey."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 11, 2024 09:52 AM (qWpwv)

148 I get it.

Independent, July 12, 2012, The Night Wanderer, 1923-4, 90cm x 68cm by Edvard Munch
Munch Museum, Oslo

In part, "And so it is here, in this portrait of Munch on his large and isolated estate outside Oslo, 20 years before his death. It is a perfect example of Munch's particular kind of self-haunting. The mood is almost Hitchcockian – we can feel in our bones the disturbingly obsessive, Psycho-like musical accompaniment. He has erupted on to the scene. He peers round at us with his ridiculously garish, yellow hair, hollow-eyed, caught unawares. Colour always meant so much to Munch – as did vowels to Rimbaud. They are indicators of pain."

About the artist: Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
"The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was the creator of The Scream (1893) one of the most widely disseminated images of the angst of modern man. This image is by no mean atypical. Munch's work exists on some wild, self-tortured outer edge of human existence. Needless to say, he was an alcoholic. Did alcohol nurture the man's psychosis – or did the psychosis cause him to drown his misery in drink?"

Wouldn't hang but thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 11, 2024 09:52 AM (NFX2v)

149 Crying shame that the ONT and Tech Thread had not been invented in Munch's day. This guy wouldn't have to wander, just shit-post like all the early risers and insomniacs do here.

Posted by: Up All Night at June 11, 2024 09:52 AM (V5BDR)

150 Would not hang.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 11, 2024 09:52 AM (Aoykm)

151 I am so sorry, Anna. May God comfort you during this sad time.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 11, 2024 09:52 AM (NpAcC)

152 Prayers for you and your lady.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (4XwPj)

Initial reports are it's stage 1, and though it's an aggressive type, it's the most common, so the initial prognosis is good.

But yes, the 'c' word is scary as f*ck, especially when versions have taken various people that are close to you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

153 You have my deepest condolences, Anna.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (iRX3h)

154 The Night Wanderer, 1923-4

It took him a whole year to paint this?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (v6JzV)

155 91 well that's just creepy, and not the good kind of creepy.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 09:44 AM (CIS44)
++++
What is the "good kind of creepy?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

When you're sitting in the couch with a lover and the cat gets wide eyed and scoots out of the room and you hear something downstairs, but know there's no one there and then you get cold and the hairs on the back of your neck prickle. He feels it too. And you snuggle up together and pull the blanket up and revel in each other's warmth.

That's a good kind of creepy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (eV35g)

156 106: no. We ARE a democracy.

In the style of the German Democratic Republic. No walls to keep people in yet.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (8sMut)

157 The Night Wanderer, 1923-4

It took him a whole year to paint this?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (v6JzV)
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They're just not sure. Time-keeping wasn't as precise back in the day...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 09:53 AM (d04cU)

158 Someone yesterday said it was a cat. Uh, not in any universe I'm familiar with, it ain't.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (J2vNu)
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The face looks more like a lemur to me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024 09:54 AM (7fElN)

159 Crying shame that the ONT and Tech Thread had not been invented in Munch's day. This guy wouldn't have to wander, just shit-post like all the early risers and insomniacs do here.
Posted by: Up All Night at June 11, 2024

***
I resemble that remark!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

160 Big prayers up for the lovely Mrs. Sponge. That has to be scary as hell.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:55 AM (GZsmd)

161 Big prayers up for the lovely Mrs. Sponge. That has to be scary as hell.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:55 AM (GZsmd)

Thank you.

I'm not a fan, no.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

162 In the style of the German Democratic Republic. No walls to keep people in yet.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Though some states are trying by penalizing you when you pull up stakes and leave.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:56 AM (GZsmd)

163 Someone yesterday said it was a cat. Uh, not in any universe I'm familiar with, it ain't.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 09:51 AM (J2vNu)
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The face looks more like a lemur to me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2024

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It does -- like an aye-aye with wings.

My grammar school encyclopedia, in the entry for the aye-aye, recounted a Madagascar legend: that someone who kills an aye-aye will die exactly a year and a day after the killing. Now there's creepy for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

164
Off to scrub down the kennel. Yay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2024 09:56 AM (MoZTd)

165 Dang guys.
Hitting my knees this morning and not to lower my handicap. Praying for you Anva P and Mrs Sponge.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2024 09:57 AM (W/lyH)

166 Off to scrub down the kennel. Yay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

No one can say we Morons don't know how to have a good time.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 09:57 AM (GZsmd)

167 Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 11, 2024 09:57 AM (XRpj3)

168 Praying for you Anva P and Mrs Sponge.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2024 09:57 AM (W/lyH)

Thank you.

May your generosity shave 2 strokes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

169 ...we have a constitutional republic
Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2024 09:46 AM (RHGPo)

Oh, my sweet summer child.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 09:57 AM (IUd0M)

170 Sponge continuing prayers for Mrs Sponge and you. Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (FTjSO)

171 The Night Wanderer, 1923-4
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It took him a whole year to paint this?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024

***
If he was drinking, it might!

He probably started it in late '23 and finished it in the spring of '24.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

172 My grammar school encyclopedia, in the entry for the aye-aye, recounted a Madagascar legend: that someone who kills an aye-aye will die exactly a year and a day after the killing. Now there's creepy for you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

Do you get an extra day if it's a leap year?

Posted by: that guy who really wants to murder an aye-aye at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (OguvZ)

173 Sponge continuing prayers for Mrs Sponge and you. Good luck and God bless
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (FTjSO)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

174 Diagnosed with breast cancer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Very sorry to hear that. Look breast cancer treatment has come a long way. My mom had two instances of it. Two different types. One in each breast. Both were treated successfully. One with removal of the malignancy then chemo and radiation therapy. The other with just a lumpectomy. Neither reoccurred. So there is hope out there. I'm sure your wife will get the best of care. Praying for her and you.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (oaGWv)

175 Looks like John Lithgow has been hitting the Ozempic a little too much.

Posted by: PabloD at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (wcpmT)

176 NATIONAL GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY

Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2024 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

177 Praying for her and you.
Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (oaGWv)

Thank you.

You all are the elites in society. Truly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

178 My grammar school encyclopedia, in the entry for the aye-aye, recounted a Madagascar legend: that someone who kills an aye-aye will die exactly a year and a day after the killing. Now there's creepy for you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024
*
Do you get an extra day if it's a leap year?
Posted by: that guy who really wants to murder an aye-aye at June 11, 2024

***
"That's the surprise ending!"
( -- Scriptwriter, pitching unproduced Alfred Hitchcock Hour script, 1964)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

179 He means the left used to claim they'd "hide Jews in the attic" to protect them from Alt-Right Nazis. Now they say they'll "hide Jews in the attic" on behalf of Hamas, to keep the IDF from finding them.

Let's remember who is to blame for any deaths caused in freeing hostages: the hostage-takers. Or is this too complex a notion for the leftwing radicals to understand?
-- Ace
======
Kyle Shideler @ShidelerK · Jun 10
We’ve gone from the left insisting “I’d hide Jews in my attic” to the left insisting “I’d hide Jews in my attic” in the space of a decade.

https://tinyurl.com/36rbjkfs
visual explanation

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:00 AM (ZdexC)

180 They call me the wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around
Posted by: dion

Dion? I thought that was Joe Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:00 AM (L/fGl)

181 Anna, sorry for your loss. Prayers for comfort and strength.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 11, 2024 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

182 I'm praying for your wife and you, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

183 171 The Night Wanderer, 1923-4
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It took him a whole year to paint this?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024

***
If he was drinking, it might!

He probably started it in late '23 and finished it in the spring of '24.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu
A year? I would have been scared to be in the same room with it.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2024 10:01 AM (4ILRU)

184 I marvel at Lithgow's range - from Dr. Dick Solomon (Third Rock from the Sun) to Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. I don't think the guy ever did not have work.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (GZsmd)

185 It took him a whole year to paint this?
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If he was drinking, it might!
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He probably started it in late '23 and finished it in the spring of '24.
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A year? I would have been scared to be in the same room with it.
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I took about four hours on the shading on the upper lip.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (IHRQq)

186 A year? I would have been scared to be in the same room with it.
Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2024

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It waqs a self-portrait? Munch had nowhere to hide!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

187 Initial reports are it's stage 1, and though it's an aggressive type, it's the most common, so the initial prognosis is good.

But yes, the 'c' word is scary as f*ck, especially when versions have taken various people that are close to you.
Posted by: Sponge

Stage 1 is best for good results, most common also good because it's the most treated and cured. But there is no "good" cancer. I've lost several people to that shit. Hang strong, friend.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (4XwPj)

188 Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
JUST IN: Booking photo released of Rudy Giuliani in Arizona ‘fake electors’ case

https://tinyurl.com/ycx7cu3u
different than PDT's but effective

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (ZdexC)

189 Alternate title: "Hey, you kids, knock it off with all that fornicatin'. I'm trying to sleep here!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

190 Dude should lift the arm off the turntable at the right. It's been sitting in the end groove making a scratching noise all night. No wonder he can't sleep.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 11, 2024 10:03 AM (DsA2n)

191 He probably started it in late '23 and finished it in the spring of '24.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

It is said that no work of art is ever finished, only abandoned.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 11, 2024 10:03 AM (8sMut)

192 Holy rolling sumbitch!

Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can’t Be Compromised.' A Rolling Stone exclusive.
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

193 I hate to inform the Left but it's was Christians who hid Jews from the Nazis. This may be why they are so confused.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (fiqmg)

194 NATIONAL GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY
Posted by: SMOD

Erika:

https://youtu.be/rcVb6l4TpHw?si=nnmCYsnWSqAwIvYJ&t=8

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (GZsmd)

195 I marvel at Lithgow's range - from Dr. Dick Solomon (Third Rock from the Sun) to Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. I don't think the guy ever did not have work.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024

***
And a transgender or transvestite in The World According to Garp, and the local minister opposed to dancing in Footloose. Plus he played the possibly-insane passenger who can see the goblin on the wing in the movie version of The Twilight Zone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

196 I'm praying for your wife and you, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

197 Lithgow playing John Worfin in Buckaroo Bonzai is first class scene chewing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2024 10:05 AM (FTjSO)

198 And a transgender or transvestite in The World According to Garp, and the local minister opposed to dancing in Footloose. Plus he played the possibly-insane passenger who can see the goblin on the wing in the movie version of The Twilight Zone.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up

and the crazy bad guy in the early Denzel movie, Ricochet

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:05 AM (CIS44)

199 @RollingStone
Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can’t Be Compromised.' A Rolling Stone exclusive.
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

And you find this a BAD thing, Rolling Stone?

phukoff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

200 I marvel at Lithgow's range - from Dr. Dick Solomon (Third Rock from the Sun) to Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. I don't think the guy ever did not have work.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM

I think his best acting job was in Buckaroo Banzai...he was cast as two completely different people in that movie and played each one brilliantly.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2024 10:05 AM (QNSds)

201 Alternate title: "Hey, you kids, knock it off with all that fornicatin'. I'm trying to sleep here!"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

"You're them boys that's been whackin' in my trailer!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
JUST IN: Donald Trump hints prosecution is coming for the 51 IC members who interfered in the 2020 election.
"They should be prosecuted for what they did... Let's see what happens."

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Well, maybe 51 in the first round.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

203 He's coming to get you Barbara

Posted by: Ben at June 11, 2024 10:07 AM (wqXzU)

204 Lithgow did a good job as Churchill in The Crown, even though he didn't look much like him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

205 Lithgow even made a decent Churchill.

But that isn't Lithgow. That's Christopher Lloyd.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 10:08 AM (4XwPj)

206 Sunday was not fun at all. Right now things are still iffy emotionally. Come the funeral I will probably fall apart all over again.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I'm so sorry. Accept my condolences. It's ok to fall apart. We're here if you need someone to talk to.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:08 AM (oaGWv)

207
Bony fingers strike deep
Into your room, he will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You comment out of line
CBD come and take you away

Posted by: Springfield in the Buff at June 11, 2024 10:08 AM (RvpCC)

208 Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can’t Be Compromised.' A Rolling Stone exclusive.
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness.
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And? How do they think this is going to turn out? The justices are currently deciding all the BS actions the left is doing to get Trump and they want to piss them off with threats and intimidation. Remember when they went after Thomas? Get some.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:08 AM (IHRQq)

209 Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can’t Be Compromised.' A Rolling Stone exclusive.
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, my...Wouldn't that be just awful?

Posted by: BignJames at June 11, 2024 10:08 AM (AwYPR)

210 @kylenabecker
JUST IN: Donald Trump hints prosecution is coming for the 51 IC members who interfered in the 2020 election.
"They should be prosecuted for what they did... Let's see what happens."

-
Well, maybe 51 in the first round.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

He's already said he didn't go after anyone the first time around because he wants to 'unify the country, not divide it.'

I have little hope there will be viable prosecutions the 2nd time around.

I'm still voting for him, but don't believe there will be any significant punishment for the treasonous in our society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

211 JUST IN: Donald Trump hints prosecution is coming for the 51 IC members who interfered in the 2020 election.
"They should be prosecuted for what they did... Let's see what happens."

-
Well, maybe 51 in the first round.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

When I am elected your King, I will need a bit of advice on how many levels deep on the org chart I should 'reassign'.

I'm toying with the idea of 5 or 6 currently.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:09 AM (GZsmd)

212 I marvel at Lithgow's range - from Dr. Dick Solomon (Third Rock from the Sun) to Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. I don't think the guy ever did not have work.
Posted by: Tonypete

To Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose.
IMDb has him listed with 133 credits and four upcoming films.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:09 AM (+u0P5)

213 I have little hope there will be viable prosecutions the 2nd time around.

I'm still voting for him, but don't believe there will be any significant punishment for the treasonous in our society.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

They also would most likely be held in DC, so no convictions anyway.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:10 AM (CIS44)

214 JUST IN: Donald Trump hints prosecution is coming for the 51 IC members who interfered in the 2020 election.
"They should be prosecuted for what they did... Let's see what happens."
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Wow, that takes some balls.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:10 AM (IHRQq)

215 I marvel at Lithgow's range - from Dr. Dick Solomon (Third Rock from the Sun) to Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. I don't think the guy ever did not have work.
Posted by: Tonypete

Yes. It is to laugh that someone once said that Jason Alexander was the most diverse actor ever......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

216 I marvel at Lithgow's range - from Dr. Dick Solomon (Third Rock from the Sun) to Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. I don't think the guy ever did not have work.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:02 AM

The first time I saw was on TV in a play with Meryl Streep. Both were so very young. I thought he played the villain marvelously in that Stallone movie that took place in the Italian Alps. Damn. Can't remember the name of that film.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (oaGWv)

217 Dumb sumbitches don't know how good they have it!

Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

218 The first time I saw was on TV in a play with Meryl Streep. Both were so very young. I thought he played the villain marvelously in that Stallone movie that took place in the Italian Alps. Damn. Can't remember the name of that film.
Posted by: Tuna a

Cliffhanger

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (CIS44)

219 They also would most likely be held in DC, so no convictions anyway.
Posted by: BruceWayne

The process is the punishment.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (+u0P5)

220
They also would most likely be held in DC, so no convictions anyway.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:10 AM (CIS44)

There would be solace in the fact that the world would see the discovery process.

A lot of eyes have been opened with the lawfare committed against Trump. Similar things could happen when the evidence is released on what the treasonous have done to this country, and the world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

221 I'm toying with the idea of 5 or 6 currently.
Posted by: Tonypete

As your chief of staff executioner, I recommend all the levels and let's put a serrated blade on the guillotine, shall we?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 10:13 AM (4XwPj)

222 When I am elected your King, I will need a bit of advice on how many levels deep on the org chart I should 'reassign'.

I'm toying with the idea of 5 or 6 currently.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:09 AM

Nuke 'em all.

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2024 10:13 AM (RvpCC)

223 JUST IN: Donald Trump hints prosecution is coming for the 51 IC members who interfered in the 2020 election.

"They should be prosecuted for what they did... Let's see what happens."
-----

At a minimum...they won't be "members" anymore...and revoke their security clearances.

Posted by: BignJames at June 11, 2024 10:13 AM (AwYPR)

224 Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wreck

An upswing of what? Prices?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:13 AM (+u0P5)

225 There would be solace in the fact that the world would see the discovery process.

A lot of eyes have been opened with the lawfare committed against Trump. Similar things could happen when the evidence is released on what the treasonous have done to this country, and the world.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I dont disagree at all, but may get that whole "well we would never get a conviction anyway so we arent gonna waste the time" attitude. A lot will depend on who the AG is (of course provided Trump can out pace the cheat)

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:14 AM (CIS44)

226 JUST IN: Donald Trump hints prosecution is coming for the 51 IC members who interfered in the 2020 election.
"They should be prosecuted for what they did... Let's see what happens."

CONVICTED FELON Donald Trump DEMANDS EVEN MORE INSURRECTION by threatening 51 great American PATRIOTS!!!

Posted by: MSM talking points text-blast at June 11, 2024 10:14 AM (DsA2n)

227 @brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

An upswing in crime. An upswing in illegal immigration (also a crime). An upswing in the cost of everyday goods. An upswing in taxes. An upswing in poverty. An upswing in homelessness. An upswing in unemployment.

You're an asshole, potato. GFY, EABOD and DIAF.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

228 Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."

The only "upswing"s right now are prices and layoffs. It's hilarious how hard they're trying to make lies happen.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2024 10:15 AM (2ocoG)

229 An upswing of what?
Posted by: rickb223

Mannix girls have been known to cause...upswings.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:15 AM (v6JzV)

230 Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM

To be fair, he IS a sex machine, and we (with the exception of The Paolo) are not.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2024 10:15 AM (RvpCC)

231 An upswing in crime. An upswing in illegal immigration (also a crime). An upswing in the cost of everyday goods. An upswing in taxes. An upswing in poverty. An upswing in homelessness. An upswing in unemployment.

You're an asshole, potato. GFY, EABOD and DIAF.
-----
TLDR; FJB

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:15 AM (IHRQq)

232 Cliffhanger
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (CIS44)

"Do you know what the ultimate show of love is? SACRIFICE!"

*BLAM*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

233 I'm toying with the idea of 5 or 6 currently.
Posted by: Tonypete

Dante has 9 levels of hell. That's a good start.
Personally? I wouldn't stop until I got to the janitorial department.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:16 AM (+u0P5)

234 "Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."

Put us in, coach!

Also, we need another 25 million dollars. Uh, make it 40.

Posted by: Won't PAC Down at June 11, 2024 10:16 AM (OguvZ)

235 Yes. It is to laugh that someone once said that Jason Alexander was the most diverse actor ever......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024

***
His George was probably the most *consistent* character ever on TV. (Yes, in the pilot he seemed to know more about women than Jerry, which was unlike him later.) George will live in the annals of TV history. But the only other thing I recall him in was the episode of Friends where Phoebe goes from trying to phone-sell him office supplies to talking him out of suicide.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

236 Well, maybe 51 in the first round.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

He's already said he didn't go after anyone the first time around because he wants to 'unify the country, not divide it.'

I have little hope there will be viable prosecutions the 2nd time around.

I'm still voting for him, but don't believe there will be any significant punishment for the treasonous in our society.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)
-------------------

Agreed.

Also, my recollection of the signed letter was not a definitive statement that it "was Russian" but that it "showed signs" of Russian disinformation.

No one in the MSM, except for the NYPost, challenged their assertion.

Posted by: WisRich at June 11, 2024 10:19 AM (G0vdT)

237 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu

He was a scumbag in Pretty Woman. Believable.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 10:19 AM (4XwPj)

238 To Brian Stelter, sex machine:

I shant believe it. I simply shant.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:19 AM (6gW4D)

239 Dante has 9 levels of hell. That's a good start.
Personally? I wouldn't stop until I got to the janitorial department.
Posted by: rickb223

I like it. A multiple of three.

Three Stooges
The Three Musketeers
The Holy Trinity
The Three States of H2O
The Three Tenors
Three sides to a Triangle

Plenty of cultural symbolism.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM (GZsmd)

240 But the only other thing I recall him in was the episode of Friends where Phoebe goes from trying to phone-sell him office supplies to talking him out of suicide.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

He starred in the original McDLT ad!

https://youtu.be/Eh1kmVwS4Hw

Posted by: spindrift at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM (OguvZ)

241 His George was probably the most *consistent* character ever on TV. (Yes, in the pilot he seemed to know more about women than Jerry, which was unlike him later.) George will live in the annals of TV history. But the only other thing I recall him in was the episode of Friends where Phoebe goes from trying to phone-sell him office supplies to talking him out of suicide.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

Didn't watch Seinfeld, but knew is character, tho it annoyed me to no end, I agree with your assessment. The only other thing I remember seeing him in was in that Gerbilman and Julia Roberts hooker movie where he played an asshole, nothing too difficult, and an episode of Criminal Minds where he, poorly, played a 'brilliant' psychopath.

He's not in any list of greats in my world, but I'm not big into movies or hollywood. I would need to defer to TJM for anything in that realm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

242 The first time I saw was on TV in a play with Meryl Streep. Both were so very young. I thought he played the villain marvelously in that Stallone movie that took place in the Italian Alps. Damn. Can't remember the name of that film.
Posted by: Tuna a

Cliffhanger
Posted by: BruceWayne
----
So, what? You're not going to tell us until next week??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM (ZdexC)

243 Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

He should do a new show where he just smokes pot and says stupid shit. He could call it Baked Potato.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM (IUd0M)

244 The Three Amigos.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 11, 2024 10:22 AM (qZEuM)

245
The President delivers remarks at Everytown’s Gun Sense University, Washington Hilton

CNBC: POLITICS
Live updates: Hunter Biden jury resumes deliberations in gun trial

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 11, 2024 10:22 AM (NFX2v)

246 To Brian Stelter, sex machine:

I shant believe it. I simply shant.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:19 AM

Thanks to Ace for turning us on to the journalistic truth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2024 10:22 AM (RvpCC)

247 I read once that the way you know when a painting is done is you are sick of looking at it. I think that's a pretty good barometer.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:22 AM (fiqmg)

248 243 Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)
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So yes, the Dem's are starting to panic.

Posted by: WisRich at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (G0vdT)

249 Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

It's always the electorate's fault.

Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (Sf2cq)

250 He starred in the original McDLT ad!

https://youtu.be/Eh1kmVwS4Hw
Posted by: spindrift at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM (OguvZ)

Styrofoam container. He should be strung up by his balls and launched into space to save earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

251 "deliberations"

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (fiqmg)

252 Jason Alexander was in a hilarious ad for Rold Gold Pretzels in the '90s.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

253 @brianstelter
"Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."

You're too stupid to understand that you having less freedom, money or opportunity is good for you, plebian......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

254 When I was a young adult and started hearing all the politicians obsessing about managing "perceptions," "messaging," "optics," and so forth, it was one of my first oh-shit moments.

This is the language of megalomaniac solipsists who have willfully decoupled from reality. Dangerous people.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2024 10:24 AM (0FoWg)

255 Lithgow is so overpowering that it takes one heck of an actor to play scenes with him. Jane Curtin is underappreciated. I always think of Tim Curry, another powerhouse, who can easily overwhelm another actor.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 11, 2024 10:24 AM (MIKMs)

256 Americans Increasingly Concerned About Biden's Undeniable Mental Decline

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"Undeniable"? You keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

257 but I'm not big into movies or hollywood. I would need to defer to TJM for anything in that realm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:21 AM

So, you're a big Prometheus, Covenant, Ghost Ship, and Russ Meyer fan too?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2024 10:25 AM (RvpCC)

258 A good artist knows when to stop.

Posted by: Pippi Longstocking at June 11, 2024 10:25 AM (dg+HA)

259 Alexander is one of the many communist dick-slurpers in Hollyweird.

He got his, so fuck you, poors.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 11, 2024 10:25 AM (qZEuM)

260 Jason Alexander was in a hilarious ad for Rold Gold Pretzels in the '90s.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024

***
Is that brand still around?

Someone told me he was the guy in the Pepsi or Coke ad where the dispenser keeps refusing to accept his dollar bill, and he goes nuclear on the machine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

261 Lithgow was in "Memphis Belle", too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (T+Iwg)

262 Lithgow also released an album for kids, Singin' in the Bathtub.

https://tinyurl.com/2r7zpxfb

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (Q0kLU)

263 He was a scumbag in Pretty Woman. Believable.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench

Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.

Same with The Bridges of Madison County. It's a movie about a woman cheating on her husband and tossing away her family.

Society is seriously messed up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (gVbFl)

264
So, you're a big Prometheus, Covenant, Ghost Ship, and Russ Meyer fan too?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2024 10:25 AM (RvpCC)

This is one of those times where I'd just have to cut bait and run, quickly, away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

265 The first time I saw was on TV in a play with Meryl Streep. Both were so very young. I thought he played the villain marvelously in that Stallone movie that took place in the Italian Alps. Damn. Can't remember the name of that film.
Posted by: Tuna

27 Wagons Full of Cotton or A Memory of Two Mondays or Secret Service.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (+u0P5)

266 I always think of Tim Curry, another powerhouse, who can easily overwhelm another actor.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Even in a minor role, he crushes it. See - the hotel concierge in 'Home Alone'.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (GZsmd)

267 > "Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
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Taking a bit of factual liberty there dickhead, aren't ya?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (Q4IgG)

268 Ghost Ship!

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (pZ64F)

269 Silly electorate. Don't you realize how good you have it?

Posted by: Supposed elites at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (dg+HA)

270 He was a scumbag in Pretty Woman. Believable.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench

Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.

Same with The Bridges of Madison County. It's a movie about a woman cheating on her husband and tossing away her family.

Society is seriously messed up.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Agree on all points.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (GZsmd)

271 Did posters know that The Scream was painted on cardboard, basically? A kind of poster board? In some places the "canvas" shows through the painting. Munch didn't give any thought to preserving his art for posterity.

I read an interesting book about the theft, & eventual recovery, of The Scream. My Honda CRV has a better theft protection system than the museum in Norway, where The Scream was on display, had.

The most famous art theft since WW II occurred at the Gardner Museum in Boston a few years back. Never solved. Nothing ever recovered. The Gardner still keeps the blank places where the pictures used to hang on display-- as a reminder of their tragic loss.

I don't have the impression that museums like to spend money on security, because nobody goes to a museum to see state of the art anti-theft devices.

Donors want to see the fruits of their philanthropy right there on the walls, too-- not too much interest in upgrading the professionalism of the security guards.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (NLIak)

272 Lithgow is so overpowering that it takes one heck of an actor to play scenes with him. Jane Curtin is underappreciated. I always think of Tim Curry, another powerhouse, who can easily overwhelm another actor.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 11, 2024

***
Yes to both, or all three. And Nathan Lane is probably damned hard to upstage. He's a comic actor, you'd never cast him as Macbeth, but an audience (film or stage) is going to be looking at him all the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

273 Please tell me Stelter is getting dragged on the Xcrement.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

274 I think we a sort of soft dictatorship

when Presidents can issue executive orders and unelected bureaucrats can make rules for industry and none of this is put to a vote

when the law is what this judge or that DA says it is, depending on the defendant's political views

when the media is totally in the pocket of one political party

soft dictatorship

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (/7KEl)

275 Already reported but...

Kyle Becker @kylenabecker 18h
JUST IN: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and his wife, Gisele, were both in a car crash.

The automobile accident occurred when a Chevrolet Traverse slammed into the 54-year-old senator's Chevrolet Impala while heading west on I-70.

According to Maryland State Police, the incident occurred at 8 a.m. on Sunday. NBC10 reported the accident on Monday afternoon.

A spokesperson for Fetterman said that the senator suffered minor injuries in the crash.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (ZdexC)

276 Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.

Same with The Bridges of Madison County. It's a movie about a woman cheating on her husband and tossing away her family.

Society is seriously messed up.
Posted by: nurse ratched

But young Laura SanGiacomo...

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

277 Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM

No love for me?

Posted by: Heart of Gold at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (RvpCC)

278 If I'm picking a "diverse" actor I'm going with Kelsey Grammer. That dude can play ANY part and kill it.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (oqH4h)

279 Do you know who else had a stubborn electorate?

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (fiqmg)

280 They also would most likely be held in DC, so no convictions anyway.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:10 AM (CIS44)

It was election interference and that happened everywhere. Start the case in a red location and, at least, force the courts to rule that the left cannot be tried outside of their home turf.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (IUd0M)

281 A smeary painting of some grumpy old man? Would not hang.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (pohLc)

282 Yes, yes you potato shaped imbecile. I refuse to see the economic improvement. It's right there. No, that's not it... Wait! There it is! Nope. Not there either. Damn! I suppose I should just accept that whatever the junta says is the gospel truth.

But my bank account and my wallet are screaming that you are lying. So I will continue refusing to see your mythical upswing until a real improvement happens.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (4XwPj)

283 Same with The Bridges of Madison County.
Posted by: Tonypete

Now, the Bridges of Madison Cornbread, on the other hand...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

284 CNBC: POLITICS
Live updates: Hunter Biden jury resumes deliberations in gun trial
Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too

I read that the DNC will pay for part of Dr. Jill's back and forth trips to Hunter's trial. We the taxpayers get stuck with the rest.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (oaGWv)

285 263 Same with The Bridges of Madison County. It's a movie about a woman cheating on her husband and tossing away her family.

Society is seriously messed up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (gVbFl)

=======

She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

286
But young Laura SanGiacomo...
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

Lifelong butterface.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

287 Jacob? Jacob Marley? Is that you?

Posted by: Ebenezer at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (dg+HA)

288 According to Maryland State Police, the incident occurred at 8 a.m. on Sunday. NBC10 reported the accident on Monday afternoon.

A spokesperson for Fetterman said that the senator suffered minor injuries in the crash.
Posted by: andycanuck

BUT HOW IS HIS LUMP????

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (+u0P5)

289 I read that the DNC will pay for part of Dr. Jill's back and forth trips to Hunter's trial. We the taxpayers get stuck with the rest.
Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (oaGWv)

345K$

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (CIS44)

290 Jason Alexander was in a hilarious ad for Rold Gold Pretzels in the '90s.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

No man cave is complete without his George portrait.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (6gW4D)

291 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

Spoilers bro, geez.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (fiqmg)

292 254 When I was a young adult and started hearing all the politicians obsessing about managing "perceptions," "messaging," "optics," and so forth, it was one of my first oh-shit moments.

This is the language of megalomaniac solipsists who have willfully decoupled from reality. Dangerous people.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Lizard people. The very people that are attracted to government are the same that you don't want ever to have power over other human beings.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (/0X3E)

293 But young Laura SanGiacomo...
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

Lifelong butterface.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Wasnt lookin at her face...

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (CIS44)

294 But young Laura SanGiacomo...
Posted by: BruceWayne

Oh hell yes. She should've played the title character rather than that horse Roberts.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (v6JzV)

295 I guess I'm the only one who finds Lithgow incredibly irritating, like he's wearing a giant "I'm acting you guys!" sign in every role he plays.

Just like Meryl Streep.

I try to avoid anything he's in.

Posted by: spindrift at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (OguvZ)

296 Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.

Same with The Bridges of Madison County. It's a movie about a woman cheating on her husband and tossing away her family.

Society is seriously messed up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (gVbFl)
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See Also: "Eat, Pray, Love"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (d04cU)

297 But young Laura SanGiacomo...
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

Lifelong butterface.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Yuge tracts of lands balances that out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (6gW4D)

298
The automobile accident occurred when a Chevrolet Traverse slammed into the 54-year-old senator's Chevrolet Impala while heading west on I-70.

According to Maryland State Police, the incident occurred at 8 a.m. on Sunday. NBC10 reported the accident on Monday afternoon.

They can always give you the greatest of details of a situation, except for the race of the murderer, rapist or felon in any situation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

299 On this day in American, 249 years ago:
June 11-12, 1775– The Battle of Machias (also known as the Battle of the Margaretta) was the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War. It took place in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine and resulted in the capture by Patriot militia of a British schooner. Following the outbreak of the war and the start of the Siege of Boston, British authorities enlisted the assistance of Loyalist merchant Ichabod Jones to assist in the acquisition of needed supplies. Two of Jones’ merchant ships arrived in Machias on June 2, accompanied by the British armed sloop Margaretta, commanded by midshipman James Moore. The townspeople, unhappy with Jones’ business practices, decided to arrest him, and in the attempt, decided to go after Moore and his ship. Moore was able to escape out of the harbor, but the townspeople seized one of Jones’ ships, armed it and a second local ship, and sailed out to meet him. In a short confrontation, they captured Moore’s vessel and crew, fatally wounding him in the process.
There is a very well done oil painting of the battle painted by Robert L. Lambdin, Unity vs The HMS Margaretta, 12 Ju

Posted by: Cheri at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (oiNtH)

300 But young Laura SanGiacomo...
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024
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Lifelong butterface.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024

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LSG has an adorable face, and she was wonderfully convincing in Quigley Down Under.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

301 Just like Meryl Streep.

I try to avoid anything he's in.
Posted by: spindrift at June 11, 2024 10:31 AM (OguvZ)

She should've been in prison right next to Weinstein....and Oprah should've joined along in the fun.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

302 When I was a young adult and started hearing all the politicians obsessing about managing "perceptions," "messaging," "optics," and so forth, it was one of my first oh-shit moments.

This is the language of megalomaniac solipsists who have willfully decoupled from reality. Dangerous people.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Lizard people. The very people that are attracted to government are the same that you don't want ever to have power over other human beings.
Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (/0X3E)

*licks lips*

Posted by: Anita Dunn at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (6gW4D)

303 291 Spoilers bro, geez.
Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:30 AM (fiqmg)

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The chick is actually a dude in The Crying Game!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

304 I don't think I've seen Brandon do the Creepy Whisper in awhile.

Jill must have beaten him with a rolled up newspaper for that.

"No, Brandon! No! Bad Brandon! That scares the sheep! No movie villain whisper! Bad Brandon!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (0FoWg)

305 LSG has an adorable face, and she was wonderfully convincing in Quigley Down Under.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

That's an underrated flick

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (CIS44)

306 My only problem with Lithgow is that he has TDS big time. He was very vocal about it too.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (oaGWv)

307 Just like Meryl Streep.

I try to avoid anything he's in.
Posted by: spindrift

To me, she always plays the same accent and part - regardless of what the film is.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (GZsmd)

308 Streep is an impressionist who infuses zero soul into her characters. It's like she understands what a human should look and act like but has no idea what's happening inside.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (fiqmg)

309 *No man cave is complete without his George portrait.*

I think it moved.

Posted by: George Costanza at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (dg+HA)

310 I guess I'm the only one who finds Lithgow incredibly irritating, like he's wearing a giant "I'm acting you guys!" sign in every role he plays.
Posted by: spindrift

He actually did a funny skit on SNL that played off of that. Every so often, he would stop what he was doing and dramatically exclaim, "I'm an ACTOR!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (v6JzV)

311 Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (gVbFl)

Modern Feminist Fairy Tale. Be a whore, marry a billionaire.

All it requires is that you be extremely attractive and have a team of writers controlling reality on your side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (IUd0M)

312 Lithgow's a great actor but no way should he have played Churchill in 'The Crown'.

Churchill was under 6' tall, not way over 6' tall.

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (/7KEl)

313 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Now, imagine a guy goes to Vegas for a conference and has an affair then returns to the wife. Even though his passion is for the ho with a heart of gold in Vegas--he grudgingly returns to home and family to work until death do us part.

Bridges is simply candy coated garbage indicating the infidelity is fun and marriage/family is unpleasurable duty.

Hollyweird just loves inversion.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (/0X3E)

314 Munch is one of my favorite artists, his work is immediately recognizable.

Captures so much of the human condition, with such simple subjects.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (URoVT)

315 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

And she's the character we are supposed to have empathy for. She's the victim. She is the one who gave up on TWOO WUV.

Bullshit. She's a cheater. And should never be trusted again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (8gXYW)

316 Denzel Washington is another actor commands the screen. Hard to take your eyes off him.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (oaGWv)

317 Jason Alexander was in a hilarious ad for Rold Gold Pretzels in the '90s.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

Just googled him...Jason Scott Greenspan...from Newark.

did not know that

Posted by: BignJames at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (AwYPR)

318 The chick is actually a dude in The Crying Game!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

"Nobody's perfect."

-- Zombie Joe E. Brown

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (GZsmd)

319 Democrats Turn to Gen Z TV Writers in Effort to Boost Youth Vote for 81-Year-Old Biden

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Lines form on my face and hands
Lines form from the ups and downs
I'm in the middle without any plans
I'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm 81, and I don't know what I want
81, I just don't know what I want
81, I gotta get away
I'll gotta get out of this place
I'll go runnin' in outer space, yeah

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

320 5 LSG has an adorable face, and she was wonderfully convincing in Quigley Down Under.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
*
That's an underrated flick
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024

***
One of my "Have to watch it if it's on" films, like Ghostbusters, Open Range, Die Hard, or True Grit (the '69 version). And Wrath of Khan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

321 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

After cheating on her husband.

Also known as, "having your cake and eating it too."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (Q0kLU)

322 ---
Jill must have beaten him with a rolled up newspaper for that.
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And a spray bottle filled with ammonia.

Posted by: It works for cats at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (dg+HA)

323 All it requires is that you be extremely attractive and have a team of writers controlling reality on your side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM (IUd0M)
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Julia Roberts wasn't even all *that* attractive. Pretty enough, but not a face that would launch a thousand ships.

That's part of the point. She was an ordinary whore who got the billionaire. It ratchets it up another degree.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (d04cU)

324 Joan Rivers had a funny bit where she was envisioning her funeral. One of her lines was "I want Meryl Streep there crying in three different accents."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (v6JzV)

325 But young Laura SanGiacomo...
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024
*
Lifelong butterface.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024

LSG has an adorable face, and she was wonderfully convincing in Quigley Down Under.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, up early again at June 11, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

Yeah, I'm not sure what the subject is here, other than she's one of the prettier actresses of my lifetime.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (URoVT)

326 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

And forevermore her husband gets doled out grim duty sex in precisely measured amounts, rather than any passion and wild abandon, grinning fun.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (6gW4D)

327 311 Yeah. I never understood why people thought that movie was so great. She's a fucking whore.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:26 AM (gVbFl)

Modern Feminist Fairy Tale. Be a whore, marry a billionaire.

All it requires is that you be extremely attractive and have a team of writers controlling reality on your side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Princess story derived from Cinderella and other such tropes--Julia Roberts doesn't have to change who she is but is awarded a modern day prince anyway.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:36 AM (/0X3E)

328
Yeah, I'm not sure what the subject is here, other than she's one of the prettier actresses of my lifetime.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (URoVT)

I like her body. Don't like her face. I'm getting disagreed with.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

329 315 And she's the character we are supposed to have empathy for. She's the victim. She is the one who gave up on TWOO WUV.

Bullshit. She's a cheater. And should never be trusted again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (8gXYW)

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She's not presented as a victim.

Sure, she's a cheater and probably shouldn't be trusted, but she evidently was faithful for the rest of her life.

I mean, feels like a complex portrait of an individual to me. The kind of thing art is for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

330 He actually did a funny skit on SNL that played off of that. Every so often, he would stop what he was doing and dramatically exclaim, "I'm an ACTOR!"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Now I'm chuckling remembering Jon Lovitz's Master Thespian.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (oaGWv)

331 Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot PIE
-Donny

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (CIS44)

332 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

So her husband's a cuck, did he know? Never seen the movie. She chose to stay with her family because a lifetime of torturing the poor slob married to her was more desired than the sweet cock she was getting from whomever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (IUd0M)

333 Streep is an impressionist who infuses zero soul into her characters. It's like she understands what a human should look and act like but has no idea what's happening inside.

I feel the same way about Linda Ronstadt's voice.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (Q0kLU)

334 332 So her husband's a cuck, did he know? Never seen the movie. She chose to stay with her family because a lifetime of torturing the poor slob married to her was more desired than the sweet cock she was getting from whomever.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (IUd0M)

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He never knew. She stayed with him because he's a good man, and she couldn't hurt him by leaving. She was evidently loving to both her husband and her children.

She was bad for cheating, sure. But she wasn't a monster.

She's not Jenny from Forrest Gump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

335 > when Presidents can issue executive orders and unelected bureaucrats can make rules for industry and none of this is put to a vote...

...soft dictatorship
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I recall one or more of Trump's EO's was basically ignored. As was the majority of his policy decisions.

EO's are all well and fine if there's a compliant legislative branch to implement them. Otherwise...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2024 10:38 AM (Q4IgG)

336 I feel the same way about Linda Ronstadt's voice.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Watch it, Dude.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:38 AM (v6JzV)

337 I've never seen Pretty Woman, and as a non-Julia Roberts fan, I doubt I will.

But I admire Meryl Streep. She seems very natural in all the things she's done. Even her Julia Child in Julie and Julia was effective, and funny at the same time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

338 20 This one simply does not scream to me "Art!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2024 09:32 AM (C5fZw)
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M O O N

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (bQ/08)

339 Now I'm chuckling remembering Jon Lovitz's Master Thespian.
Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:37 AM (oaGWv)

An old GF and I used to break into that routine:

"Acting!"
"Genius!"
"Thank you!"
"No, thank YOU!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (T+Iwg)

340 316 Denzel Washington is another actor commands the screen. Hard to take your eyes off him.
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That's why he is a star.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (pZ64F)

341
Streep is an impressionist who infuses zero soul into her characters. It's like she understands what a human should look and act like but has no idea what's happening inside.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM

I've hated Streep since Kramer vs. Kramer

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (bEb2S)

342 =======

He never knew. She stayed with him because he's a good man, and she couldn't hurt him by leaving. She was evidently loving to both her husband and her children.

So, a side hustle is fine as long as your significant other doesn't find out and you don't leave your family because of it.

Got it.

Thanks hollywood!!!

*starts surfing Craigslist*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

343 So her husband's a cuck, did he know? Never seen the movie. She chose to stay with her family because a lifetime of torturing the poor slob married to her was more desired than the sweet cock she was getting from whomever.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Shame on Clint Eastwood for doing that movie. It was just awful as was the book it was based on.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (oaGWv)

344 I mean, feels like a complex portrait of an individual to me. The kind of thing art is for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ask what is art and you will get a million different answers. But, should art guide people to living lives that don't screw them and others up or should it try to portray sordid realities like some people cheat, get their fun, and get away with it. For them, ordinary life within constraints is punishment.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (/0X3E)

345
M O O N
Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024

***
"Dammit, Moon Moon --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

346 LSG has an adorable face, and she was wonderfully convincing in Quigley Down Under.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

That's an underrated flick
Posted by: BruceWayne

And since it's got Tom Selleck there's something for the 'ettes, too!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 10:40 AM (t1nZi)

347 I feel the same way about Linda Ronstadt's voice.
Posted by: Mary Poppins
Killer set of pipes but cold. No soul whatsoever.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2024 10:40 AM (4XwPj)

348 342 So, a side hustle is fine as long as your significant other doesn't find out and you don't leave your family because of it.

Got it.

Thanks hollywood!!!

*starts surfing Craigslist*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

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Eh. Since she ghosted the guy afterwards, it's an admission that it was a mistake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

349 I've hated Streep since Kramer vs. Kramer
Posted by: AltonJackson

She's not my favorite but I thought she was good in Sophie's Choice.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:40 AM (oaGWv)

350 M O O N
Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024

"SHOOT the MOON!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

351 That's part of the point. She was an ordinary whore who got the billionaire. It ratchets it up another degree.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (d04cU)

I've seen enough Tartlet on the Street interviews to know that Modern Feminist Theory revolves around the idea that all women are a 10. 800 pounds and body odor that would gag a maggot? 10.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM (IUd0M)

352 ========

Eh. Since she ghosted the guy afterwards, it's an admission that it was a mistake.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

*still surfing Craigslist*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

353 And forevermore her husband gets doled out grim duty sex in precisely measured amounts, rather than any passion and wild abandon, grinning fun.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:35 AM (6gW4D)

As if. Her husband get the joy of celibacy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:42 AM (IUd0M)

354 800 pounds and body odor that would gag a maggot? 10.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM (IUd0M)

"Mentioning the body odor makes you racist."

- - - - - The NAACP

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

355 Same with The Bridges of Madison County. It's a movie about a woman cheating on her husband and tossing away her family.
Society is seriously messed up.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Agree on all points.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:27 AM (GZsmd)

I think people like seeing themselves in movies like that. Lots of whores, cheating spouses, prostitutes, Johns, family tossers and whores out there in MeatSpace.

I could swing a dead muzzie in Wally World and probably hit 2 or 3 dozen on any given Tuesday.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 11, 2024 10:42 AM (XRpj3)

356 344 Ask what is art and you will get a million different answers. But, should art guide people to living lives that don't screw them and others up or should it try to portray sordid realities like some people cheat, get their fun, and get away with it. For them, ordinary life within constraints is punishment.
Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (/0X3E)

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I don't think that's a good reading of her character in that film.

But even if it is, she chose punishment rather than her own fun. If her husband didn't make her happy, she chose to stay with him because it was her duty. Marriage is hard and requires sacrifice, often of things we want to do. She chose to punish herself because she had tasted what she wanted.

So, even in the worst reading, she's essentially trying to make up for it by punishing herself.

But that doesn't match the rest of the film where she (and her adult children in the flashforwards) talk about how much she loved them and her husband.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

357 Shame on Clint Eastwood for doing that movie. It was just awful as was the book it was based on.

But Robert James Waller made a ton of money from it.

At this point in my life, I'd let Hollywood take one of my books and twist it around. Just give me the cash.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 10:42 AM (Q0kLU)

358 I was busy watching the momma cat, kitten, and little girl video from yesterday

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (RIvkX)

359 LSG has an adorable face, and she was wonderfully convincing in Quigley Down Under.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
*
That's an underrated flick
Posted by: BruceWayne
*
And since it's got Tom Selleck there's something for the 'ettes, too!
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024

***
AND Alan Rickman!

If I ever get around to painting and assembling the 1959 Pyro cowboy model kit I've had in the closet since 2005, I'd like to make it resemble Selleck's Quigley. Unfortunately the figure has the wrong kind of hat, a sidearm, and no rifle at all. But I could use the color scheme of his clothes in the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

360 Denzel Washington is another actor commands the screen. Hard to take your eyes off him.
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That's why he is a star.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I read that he's in the new Gladiator 2. I'll bet he steals the movie from the younger star.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (oaGWv)

361 Streep is an impressionist who infuses zero soul into her characters. It's like she understands what a human should look and act like but has no idea what's happening inside.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM

I've hated Streep since Kramer vs. Kramer
Posted by: AltonJackson
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Streep was a Harvey Weinstein apologist and from some of the stories, may have actively not warned young actresses about his proclivities before telling them he was a star maker.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (/0X3E)

362 I've seen enough Tartlet on the Street interviews to know that Modern Feminist Theory revolves around the idea that all women are a 10. 800 pounds and body odor that would gag a maggot? 10.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM (IUd0M)
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Sort of. They *say* that. They know it to be untrue, but they will say it. The in-group says "all women are 10s" and therefore all will say that "all women are 10s."

Just like man-vs-bear. It's absurd and they know it and they know they would never pick the bear. But the in-group says "bear" and so do they.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (d04cU)

363 the 'hooker with a heart of gold' is a well-worn Hollywood trope

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (/7KEl)

364 I read that he's in the new Gladiator 2. I'll bet he steals the movie from the younger star.
Posted by: Tuna at

He's also playing Hannibal...

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (CIS44)

365 I've hated Streep since Kramer vs. Kramer
Posted by: AltonJackson

I got there before you: The Deer Hunter.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (GZsmd)

366 "SHOOT the MOON!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

Ah, another Cheech and Chong movie fan outs themselves. 👍

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (6gW4D)

367 Streep was a Harvey Weinstein apologist and from some of the stories, may have actively not warned young actresses about his proclivities before telling them he was a star maker.

Posted by: whig a

She also gave Roman Polanski a standing ovation.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (CIS44)

368 "Inside Biden’s orbit, the fear is that there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."
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They cite to the unemployment rate, slowing inflation and the stock market as proof.
You know what pays my mortgage?
Money.
Not the unemployment rate. Not slowing inflation rates. Not new highs in the stock market.
Cold, hard cash.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (g9W3m)

369 MSNBC Pundit Defends Hunter Biden by Citing Her Own Drug Issues

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Let those who have not awakened in a blood soaked bed next to a dead hooker cast the first stone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

370 363 the 'hooker with a heart of gold' is a well-worn Hollywood trope

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (/7KEl)

It's Always Sunny handled it the right way.

The whore is a dirty, dirty whore. Does so much drugs her heart explodes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 11, 2024 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

371
Ah, another Cheech and Chong movie fan outs themselves. 👍
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (6gW4D)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

372 368 They cite to the unemployment rate, slowing inflation and the stock market as proof.
You know what pays my mortgage?
Money.
Not the unemployment rate. Not slowing inflation rates. Not new highs in the stock market.
Cold, hard cash.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 11, 2024 10:44 AM (g9W3m)

=========

"The government numbers are great. Screw your actual experience. Your actual experience is misinformation."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

373 the 'hooker with a heart of gold' is a well-worn Hollywood trope
Posted by: Don Black

It's been around a lot longer than that. Dostoyevsky used it in Crime and Punishment.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:45 AM (v6JzV)

374 Hey Madison, I just finished a Tarantinofest and I'm wondering who you think has the best performance in a Tarantino directed movie. I've come out of the fest surprised at my answer.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (fiqmg)

375 -------
Streep was a Harvey Weinstein apologist and from some of the stories, may have actively not warned young actresses about his proclivities before telling them he was a star maker.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (/0X3E)

She, along with Winfrey, was a provider to the pervert asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

376 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 11h
BIDEN JUST NOW: “She no long! She new sllunasuhhijuhnide our freedom can never be secured.”

I give this guy a month. It’s over.

https://tinyurl.com/mvt2pje8
6 seconds

Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre 10h
Imagine the drug cocktail required to get this shambling corpse through a debate

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (ZdexC)

377 > there’s little new the administration can do to change the perceptions of a stubborn electorate that’s living through an upswing — yet simply refusing to believe it."

yes, it's always the fault of 'the people' with Democrats

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (/7KEl)

378 He's also playing Hannibal...
Posted by: BruceWayne

That is just wrong, wrong, wrong.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (oaGWv)

379 374 Hey Madison, I just finished a Tarantinofest and I'm wondering who you think has the best performance in a Tarantino directed movie. I've come out of the fest surprised at my answer.
Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (fiqmg)

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Actors are cattle.

But, if I had to pick...I do love Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight. Also Walton Goggins in...The Hateful Eight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

380 Actors are cattle.

But, if I had to pick...I do love Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight. Also Walton Goggins in...The Hateful Eight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obs

Was just gonna type JJL hahah

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (CIS44)

381 Let those who have not awakened in a blood soaked bed next to a dead hooker cast the first stone.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*puts rock down. softly whistles and walks away.*

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (GZsmd)

382 Hey Madison, I just finished a Tarantinofest and I'm wondering who you think has the best performance in a Tarantino directed movie. I've come out of the fest surprised at my answer.
Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024

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Tarantino himself? He was seriously creepy as an actor in From Dusk Til Dawn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (J2vNu)

383 377 yes, it's always the fault of 'the people' with Democrats
Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:46 AM (/7KEl)

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False.

Sometimes it's a messaging problem...which implicates the people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

384 the 'hooker with a heart of gold' is a well-worn Hollywood trope
Posted by: Don Black

Miss Kitty and Marshal Dillon agree.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2024 10:48 AM (6gW4D)

385 Tarantino himself? He was seriously creepy as an actor in From Dusk Til Dawn.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I liked Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (oaGWv)

386 They cite to the unemployment rate, slowing inflation and the stock market as proof.

You know what pays my mortgage?
Money.
Not the unemployment rate. Not slowing inflation rates. Not new highs in the stock market.
Cold, hard cash.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (+u0P5)

387 BTW, I saw a stat the other day:

The only other time in history when such a small number of companies made this much of the stock market was before the Great Depression.

We have a really bad economy, hidden by fake government numbers and propped up by massive growth in a handful of companies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (g9W3m)

388 "If her husband didn't make her happy, she chose to stay with him because it was her duty."

You can't make somebody who chooses to be unhappy, happy.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (vFG9F)

389 316 Denzel Washington is another actor commands the screen. Hard to take your eyes off him.
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That's why he is a star.
Posted by: Pudinhead

My favorite. One of his movies I thought was underrated "Flight" was excellent and wish that had been received better. From what I've read about him over the years is that he is a decent human being, loves his country, and doesn't play the Hollywood social scene or games. Married to his wife 41 years.

Posted by: Cheri at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (oiNtH)

390 the 'hooker with a heart of gold' is a well-worn Hollywood trope
Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:43 AM (/7KEl)

Doesn't hooker with a heart of gold rescue the john, not the other way round?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (IUd0M)

391 356 344 Ask what is art and you will get a million different answers. But, should art guide people to living lives that don't screw them and others up or should it try to portray sordid realities like some people cheat, get their fun, and get away with it. For them, ordinary life within constraints is punishment.
Posted by: whig
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That's why, since the beginning of time, they were set apart from the rest of society. What we've allowed them is a mistake.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024 10:49 AM (bQ/08)

392 373 the 'hooker with a heart of gold' is a well-worn Hollywood trope
Posted by: Don Black

It's been around a lot longer than that. Dostoyevsky used it in Crime and Punishment.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:45 AM (v6JzV)

Ahem.

Posted by: Rahab in the Book of Joshua at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (PiwSw)

393 Tarantino himself? He was seriously creepy as an actor in From Dusk Til Dawn.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (J2vNu)
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Just finished that yesterday. Tarantino was awesome. George Clooney played George Clooney like a master.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (RIvkX)

394 Ugh. Slow day at work, and in a mood (I know, what else is new?).

Sometimes I feel like dousing the whole house in gasoline and burning it to the ground.

Huey Lewis needed a new drug. I need a new life.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (Q0kLU)

395 Townhall.com @townhallcom 21h
MAYORKAS: "We have built safe mobility offices in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica to reach people where they are so they don't have to take the perilous journey."

Ned Ryun @nedryun 12h
This traitor is top of the list when we regain power. He can go hang out in Colombia for the rest of his life.

Chip Roy @chiproytx 11h
This is a war on America by our own government.

Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre 11h
Treason
It’s called treason

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (ZdexC)

396 >>> 199 @RollingStone
Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America 'Can’t Be Compromised.' A Rolling Stone exclusive.
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

And you find this a BAD thing, Rolling Stone?

phukoff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Speaking of masks being dropped...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (llON8)

397 Painting is creepy. Would not hang.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (icmmM)

398 Congress Looks to Allow Ukraine to Hit More Targets in Russia With U.S. Weapons

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What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

399 And forevermore her husband gets doled out grim duty sex in precisely measured amounts, rather than any passion and wild abandon, grinning fun.
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Whew. I think I need a cold shower.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (IHRQq)

400 They cite to the unemployment rate, slowing inflation and the stock market as proof.

So, lies, lies, and inflated values which still don't keep pace with inflation?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (IUd0M)

401 >Doesn't hooker with a heart of gold rescue the john, not the other way round?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

revisit her last line of dialogue in the movie

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl)

402 He's also playing Hannibal...
Posted by: BruceWayne
*
That is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024

***
Denzel is playing Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian, the near-defeater of Rome? Yes, Carthage was in Africa; but *north* Africa, well north of the Sahara, which was very much a European area.

I take it this is not in the Gladiator II movie. The first one took place some 400 years after Hannibal's time. If you're gonna play fast and loose with history, do it like Xena, with hot warrior women!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (J2vNu)

403 I hate that I know this

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (/7KEl)

404 You can't make somebody who chooses to be unhappy, happy.

You have spoken a truism, sir.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (Q0kLU)

405 Posted by: Won't PAC Down at June 11, 2024 10:16 AM (OguvZ)

They're gonna reach today's youth with a cringe-generator PAC named for a 40 year old Tom Petty song.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (2ocoG)

406 Posted by: Rahab in the Book of Joshua

Yes, forgot about her.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (v6JzV)

407 I've got a big heart. Golden, even.

Posted by: Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (6gW4D)

408 I take it this is not in the Gladiator II movie. The first one took place some 400 years after Hannibal's time. If you're gonna play fast and loose with history, do it like Xena, with hot warrior women!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dream

No Netflix series on Hannibal

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (CIS44)

409 revisit her last line of dialogue in the movie
Posted by: Don Black

Ugh! You're going to make me look it up?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (GZsmd)

410 I'm not getting vibes of existential dread from Munch's self-portrait above so much as cranky and pissed-off "I'm over 29 and I should not have to be dealing with this at three in the morning.

Posted by: John Drake Now Thinks It Might Be A Heat Mirage at June 11, 2024 10:52 AM (u/Zei)

411 >Congress Looks to Allow Ukraine to Hit More Targets in Russia With U.S. Weapons

at some point this is really going to piss off the Russians

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:52 AM (/7KEl)

412 Posted by: Won't PAC Down at June 11, 2024 10:16 AM (OguvZ)

They're gonna reach today's youth with a cringe-generator PAC named for a 40 year old Tom Petty song.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2024 10:51 AM (2ocoG)

"It's ok. We're mostly pigf*ck ignorant, so...."

- - - - - Today's Youth

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

413 But that doesn't match the rest of the film where she (and her adult children in the flashforwards) talk about how much she loved them and her husband.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Doesn't answer my rhetorical question and punishment for her is denial of passion not discovery and external punishment. But, unlike historical fiction like Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, etc. she pays no real price so the book/movie is simply a shallow take that indicates 'shit happens' and it is best to lie and deceive.

Eastwood is a talented director but that is the sugar coating of the 'shit' message.

Simply put, Bridges trivializes sexual infidelity and their corrosive effect on marriages and family. It also indicates a fantasy where a woman with poor impulse control gets the affair to yearn over and then her family too.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:53 AM (/0X3E)

414 Hookers and johns? Leaving Las Vegas showed it a bit more realistically than stupid ass Pretty Woman did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2024 10:53 AM (0FoWg)

415 But, if I had to pick...I do love Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight. Also Walton Goggins in...The Hateful Eight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

Yes to JJL. She is a fantastic choice - a true masterclass - but finished a hair behind Ordell Robbie. But honestly it's a coin flip.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:53 AM (fiqmg)

416 >Ugh! You're going to make me look it up?

Posted by: Tonypete

that's what makes it fun

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:53 AM (/7KEl)

417 Just finished that yesterday. Tarantino was awesome. George Clooney played George Clooney like a master.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2024

***
In '98 or so, Tarantino played Harry Roat Jr., the ultra-villain done so well by Alan Arkin in '67, in Wait Until Dark on B'way. Marisa Tomei was Susy the blind woman. That I would have *loved* to see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

418 "You can't make somebody who chooses to be unhappy, happy.

You have spoken a truism, sir.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing"

We can try however. Love will do that. Not the fake "Love is Love" BS though.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (vFG9F)

419 The painting makes me think of a future Chris Wray in the last throws of AIDS while he rots in Leavenworth.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (aFNOf)

420 >>> 254 When I was a young adult and started hearing all the politicians obsessing about managing "perceptions," "messaging," "optics," and so forth, it was one of my first oh-shit moments.

This is the language of megalomaniac solipsists who have willfully decoupled from reality. Dangerous people.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2024 10:24 AM (0FoWg)

"If we throw out the smoke detector then the house can't *possibly* catch on fire!" -- leftists

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (llON8)

421 So where are we? Boobs? Fish puns? Longbow/crossbow? Chile?

I

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (66qcP)

422 410 I'm not getting vibes of existential dread from Munch's self-portrait above so much as cranky and pissed-off "I'm over 29 and I should not have to be dealing with this at three in the morning.
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Reminds me of Aqualung who I greeted this morning in the parking deck. He's an early riser.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (pZ64F)

423 Congress Looks to Allow Ukraine to Hit More Targets in Russia With U.S. Weapons

at some point this is really going to piss off the Russians
Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:52 AM (/7KEl)

US backs the killing of Russians.

US backs the killing of "palestinans."

US backs the killing of Somalians.

The world will grow tired of the US backing the killing of so many around the world, regardless.

All while allowing China to buttf*ck the remainder.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

424 I take it this is not in the Gladiator II movie. The first one took place some 400 years after Hannibal's time. If you're gonna play fast and loose with history, do it like Xena, with hot warrior women!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

He plays a former slave who now deals in arms in G2.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (oaGWv)

425 New Olympics Media Guidelines Say That Referring To Trans Athletes As ‘Biological Males' Is “Harmful”

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So just watch it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

426 > Congress Looks to Allow Ukraine to Hit More Targets in Russia With U.S. Weapons
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Guess congress is the one actually at war with Russia, not little Z and Ukraine. He's just the middleman.

Seems legit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)

427 One of his movies I thought was underrated "Flight" was excellent and wish that had been received better.
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I loved Flight. Watched it several times. Even with the Alcoholics Anonymous advertising, I thought the story was incredible. Thought he did an excellent job.

I thought his acting in Fences was mindblowing. He was really grating, but I thought he was dead on true to life.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:54 AM (IHRQq)

428 Won't Pac Down suggests they are victims.

If the voters they supposedly want considered themselves victims they'd already be voting for creepy Joe.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 10:55 AM (fiqmg)

429 New Olympics Media Guidelines Say That Referring To Trans Athletes As ‘Biological Males' Is “Harmful”

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So just watch it!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fr

They also said they wont have AC to help Mother Gaia, so the rich countries are bringing their own. clown show

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024 10:55 AM (CIS44)

430 M O O N
Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024

"SHOOT the MOON!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:41 AM

Nuke the Moon.

- Frank J.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (Wnv9h)

431 I guess I'm the only one who finds Lithgow incredibly irritating, like he's wearing a giant "I'm acting you guys!" sign in every role he plays.
Posted by: spindrift

He actually did a funny skit on SNL that played off of that. Every so often, he would stop what he was doing and dramatically exclaim, "I'm an ACTOR!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:33 AM

I thought that was john lovitz.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (QNSds)

432 413 Simply put, Bridges trivializes sexual infidelity and their corrosive effect on marriages and family. It also indicates a fantasy where a woman with poor impulse control gets the affair to yearn over and then her family too.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:53 AM (/0X3E)

========

I don't think it trivializes it. I think there's a strong argument that it rationalizes it which is a separate thing that's also not good.

And I wouldn't argue against it being a fantasy. I mean, male fantasies aren't invalid because they're male fantasies even if they're filled with immoral behavior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

433 Huey Lewis needed a new drug. I need a new life.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

The Dream of the 90's is alive in Portland

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (t1nZi)

434 I take it this is not in the Gladiator II movie. The first one took place some 400 years after Hannibal's time. If you're gonna play fast and loose with history, do it like Xena, with hot warrior women!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dream
*
No Netflix series on Hannibal
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 11, 2024

***
Not to mention that Hannibal B. was born and raised in Spain, a Carthaginian colony, and had hardly seen Carthage itself until he was an adult (I think). So again there is no logical reason to have an "African-American" play him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

435 395 Townhall.com @townhallcom 21h
MAYORKAS: "We have built safe mobility offices in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica to reach people where they are so they don't have to take the perilous journey."

Ned Ryun @nedryun 12h
This traitor is top of the list when we regain power. He can go hang out in Colombia for the rest of his life.

Chip Roy @chiproytx 11h
This is a war on America by our own government.

Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre 11h
Treason
It’s called treason
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC)
===========================

Biden said, we don't have enough planes to fly them out.
That's because he uses them to fly them in.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (bQ/08)

436 "Hookers and johns? Leaving Las Vegas showed it a bit more realistically than stupid ass Pretty Woman did."

As did Monster.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (IHRQq)

437 Denzel is playing Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian, the near-defeater of Rome? Yes, Carthage was in Africa; but *north* Africa, well north of the Sahara, which was very much a European area.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

The Carthaginians were Phoenician in origin.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

438 Begun, the Madison County Wars have.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 11, 2024 10:57 AM (T+Iwg)

439 I wish I could have taken a picture of the sign I saw earlier today. On the side of a weedy and overgrown lot, beside a falling down house, hanging on a decrepit rusty fence, it said "Vote Democrat". I may have to go by there again and send the pic to MisHum.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2024 10:57 AM (vFG9F)

440 We are at the Hot Mess stage of the thread, are we not???

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2024 10:57 AM (PCK5/)

441 alright time to do RWS*

* real world stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2024 10:58 AM (/7KEl)

442 >>> 315 She stays with her family and ghosts the guy she had a passionate affair with. She chooses her duty to her family over her passion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 11, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

And she's the character we are supposed to have empathy for. She's the victim. She is the one who gave up on TWOO WUV.

Bullshit. She's a cheater. And should never be trusted again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 11, 2024 10:34 AM (8gXYW)

Fck Siskel & Ebert, I want a TJM and Nurse R movie show.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2024 10:58 AM (llON8)

443 I take it this is not in the Gladiator II movie. The first one took place some 400 years after Hannibal's time. If you're gonna play fast and loose with history, do it like Xena, with hot warrior women!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
He plays a former slave who now deals in arms in G2.
Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024

***
Okay; that makes a kind of sense.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:58 AM (J2vNu)

444 Oh no!

CNN Layoffs Loom

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 11, 2024 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

445 440 We are at the Hot Mess stage of the thread, are we not???
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Two minutes until H-hour.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 11, 2024 10:58 AM (ZdexC)

446 "We are at the Hot Mess stage of the thread, are we not???"

T-2 Minutes

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (B0mGw)

447 That's why, since the beginning of time, they were set apart from the rest of society. What we've allowed them is a mistake.
Posted by: Braenyard
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There is a real question there that Bridges ignores in favor of trite mommy pron.

Essentially, some great art was and is produced by unsavory people. Munch is an example--he brilliantly portrays above that mixes up the human values of misery, solitude, and substance abuse. That being said, how does that affirm the good things in life because even Munch in his self imposed misery must have had happy times on occasion.

Does Munch's painting serve as a warning? As in, "Don't do what I did because it will bring you hell on Earth?" Does creativity require misery? Etc.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (/0X3E)

448 "New Olympics Media Guidelines Say That Referring To Trans Athletes As ‘Biological Males' Is “Harmful”"

Have the Olympics gone all in on "the best woman for the job is a man" thing?

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (vFG9F)

449 Denzel is playing Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian, the near-defeater of Rome? Yes, Carthage was in Africa; but *north* Africa, well north of the Sahara, which was very much a European area.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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The Carthaginians were Phoenician in origin.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024

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Right; a Semitic people. Hardly sub-Saharan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

450 We are at the Hot Mess stage of the thread, are we not???

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2024 10:57 AM (PCK5/)

It seems to be going along as planned then.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (66qcP)

451 The world will grow tired of the US backing the killing of so many around the world, regardless.

All while allowing China to buttf*ck the remainder.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

You can add that the US is allowing the killing of Americans by allowing the 3rd world to invade our land. All for votes to remain in power forever.

Posted by: Cheri at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (oiNtH)

452 The Carthaginians were Phoenician in origin.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Canaanites

Posted by: Braenyard at June 11, 2024 11:00 AM (bQ/08)

453 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

454 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 11, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

455 X-Pac > 2Pac > Won't PAC Down

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 11, 2024 11:00 AM (g9W3m)

456 We are at the Hot Mess stage of the thread, are we not???

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2024 10:57 AM (PCK5/)

It seems to be going along as planned then.
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm

LOL. Surprised we haven't started talking about food yet.

Posted by: Tuna at June 11, 2024 11:00 AM (oaGWv)

457 "Does creativity require misery? Etc."

Stuff is pretty boring without some strife.

Posted by: fd at June 11, 2024 11:01 AM (vFG9F)

458
You can add that the US is allowing the killing of Americans by allowing the 3rd world to invade our land. All for votes to remain in power forever.
Posted by: Cheri at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (oiNtH)

Fact.

But the rest of the world doesn't care about that.

We should, and should do something about it, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

459 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 11, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

460 >>> 342
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So, a side hustle is fine as long as your significant other doesn't find out and you don't leave your family because of it.

Got it.

Thanks hollywood!!!

*starts surfing Craigslist*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 11, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Um...

... remember the FIRST! Lady is a pretty good shot.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 11, 2024 11:01 AM (llON8)

461 And I wouldn't argue against it being a fantasy. I mean, male fantasies aren't invalid because they're male fantasies even if they're filled with immoral behavior.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Well, you can consider something like Tom Jones as a male fantasy but I find him fundamentally unlikable and doubt if the book/movie continued, that Tom Jones would not be rogering the maid in his 50's.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 11:01 AM (/0X3E)

462 Simply put, Bridges trivializes sexual infidelity and their corrosive effect on marriages and family. It also indicates a fantasy where a woman with poor impulse control gets the affair to yearn over and then her family too.
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The legendary 'zipless f**k'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 11, 2024 11:02 AM (MIKMs)

463 And work is finally coming in. See you all tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 11, 2024 11:06 AM (Q0kLU)

464 Posted by: whig at June 11, 2024 10:59 AM (/0X3E)

I definitely want to paint more when I'm depressed. But I'm thankfully rarely depressed so my painting suffers.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2024 11:07 AM (fiqmg)

465 Verdict is in on Hunter.

Posted by: morigu at June 11, 2024 11:09 AM (u7Nsa)

466 Insomnia seems a common issue with AoS commenters. Wonder why? I also wondered why Munch never did one called “Whiney Peep.”

Posted by: epador at June 11, 2024 11:58 AM (ohSsM)

467 Not all who wander are lost.

Posted by: logprof at June 11, 2024 12:51 PM (v3YCP)

468 When a City Slicker/Flatlander visits a small town

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 11, 2024 04:36 PM (wGqjj)

469 Creepy dude.
If he "wanders" around here at night, he might never wander again.

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