Mid-Morning Art Thread

Automat
Edward Hopper

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 kool

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

2 Lonely

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2025 09:31 AM (jNEqJ)

3 I like it

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2025 09:32 AM (jNEqJ)

4 Don't call me. I'll call you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

5 Hopper loved lonely.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2025 09:32 AM (hUDIz)

6 Title Automat
Artist Edward Hopper
Date 1927
Medium oil,canvas
Dimensions 91.4 x 71.4 cm
Art Movement New Realism
Current Location Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, US

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

7 Automatter wit you?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Lady in a cloche hat drinking bad coffee.

Posted by: huerfano at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (DKIGo)

9 I don’t dislike it but not my favorite Hopper who I like.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (D6PGr)

10 I like the old radiator.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (bNf8H)

11 Horn & Hard Art?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (qcmjh)

12 She should wait over at Nighthawks diner, across the street.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

13 Those old radiators were loud but comforting.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (bNf8H)

14 It's a Hopper, no doubt.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

15 Dr. Strangelove's daughter?

Would not hang. Too depressing.

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (aBgBM)

16 Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (L/fGl)

17 Automas the fast food joints of yesteryear.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (D6PGr)

18 The first automat in the United States was opened by food services company Horn & Hardart on June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inspired by Max Sielaff's automat restaurants in Berlin, they were among the first 47 restaurants (and the first outside of Europe) to receive patented vending machines from Sielaff's Berlin factory.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

19 Fill it to the rim-with Brim!

Posted by: Koffee Klatch at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (G5+As)

20 How much was a cup of coffee then?...a nickel?

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Yj6Os)

21 They offer fruit at the Automat?
RFK Jr. would approve.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

22 12 She should wait over at Nighthawks diner, across the street.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

The was a place near UT at the corner of MLK and The Drag called Nighthawk.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

23 Alternate title...Now with Singing!:

"Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got Nobody"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

24 Whatever was on the second saucer didn't satisfy her.

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (i0F8b)

25 So she's waiting while her car is detailed??

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (iMpf5)

26 On the one hand, she looks lonely. On the other hand, if I walked in her direction... not even speaking to her... she'd immediately say that she has a boyfriend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (ExV1e)

27 Hopper?? I just bought her a coffee!

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (iMpf5)

28 Alternate title...Now with Singing!:

"Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got Nobody"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)
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Alternate: One is the Loneliest Number

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025 09:36 AM (qcmjh)

29
Love Hopper. I remember the Horn and Hardart automat mostly for the alter-cockers who took out their teeth before they ate their tuna salad sandwich and beef barley soup.

Also at Dubrow's

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (x0n13)

30 Nighthawk TV dinners are pretty good. But like everything these days they are overpriced.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (D6PGr)

31 In which she contemplates her bad life choices . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Aqu9a)

32 I've never been in an Automat. Never even seen one. Do they exist today or are they a just a thing from the past?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (klJTj)

33 Dating apps got her down.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (uqOoB)

34 Hopper! Knew it when I saw it, partly because I know this painting. But not many other artists I'm familiar with capture that sense of alienation and "aloneness by night" like he does.

The overhead lights seem to march off into the darkness. They're the reflection of the automat's overhead lights, but it's still unsettling. There's also the dim reflection of some kind of box in the glass, a green light shining at one corner -- I guess that's part of the automat dispensing machinery? Or is that something actually outside the window? Seems kind of low to the ground for a green traffic light, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

35 Golden radiators deliver 38% more heat.

Posted by: Stanley Steamer at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (G5+As)

36 She should wait over at Nighthawks diner, across the street.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

The was a place near UT at the corner of MLK and The Drag called Nighthawk.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

IIRC their specialty was overpriced hamburger "steaks" with nighthawk gravy.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

37 Fill it to the rim-with Brim!
Posted by: Koffee Klatch at January 13, 2025

***
Kava Kava!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

38 Are we gonna discuss Cloche Bucket Hats again?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025 09:38 AM (qcmjh)

39 She's disappointed that the automat only has Pepsi.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 09:39 AM (+QlJh)

40 the whatever-it-is in the bowl on the window sill looks like an angry mudskipper if you don't look too closely at it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 13, 2025 09:39 AM (VoAdT)

41 Alternate title...Now with Singing!:

"Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got Nobody"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025
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Alternate: One is the Loneliest Number
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025

***
"Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

42 Nice!

I love Hopper's painting of Gloucester.

https://tinyurl.com/26envkfx

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (u1uWe)

43 Don't call me. I'll call you.
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It's not you. It's me.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (iMpf5)

44 31 In which she contemplates her bad life choices . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Aqu9a)

"forgot my stinking flask at home.... grumble grumble...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (VoAdT)

45 Current Location Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, US
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

Hey! I work pretty close to there! Well, when we’re in the office.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (FGFJD)

46 Always Coca Cola.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (YeGMU)

47 I'd hit it!

Posted by: Mind In the Gutter at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

48 I prefer avtomat kalashnikova, but this isn't bad.

Posted by: PabloD at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (DcAnM)

49 She needs a book.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

50 We stole away for the weekend (Key Largo) with the intent to go to an art museum, but skipped the museum yesterday and went kayaking instead. Now we've got half day to kill before our flight and the museum is closed on Mondays, so no art for us. Maybe a nice Cuban sandwich will make up for that.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (HpRu3)

51 In Soviet America, diner automates you.

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (i0F8b)

52 What's that pair of bent golden rails over to the right of the painting? And the dark patch below it, I don't know what that could be either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

53 I like Hopper’s sunlight paintings more than his night paintings.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (D6PGr)

54 I went to the last one in my town when I was a kid. Very novel at the time.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (DJPFk)

55 I like this one. She's having a coffee before going to a detective's office and kicking off a good film noir.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (2ocoG)

56 Art Movement: New Realism
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Very good. I've never heard that of that style before.

Yes, I've liked that style for awhile now then.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (iMpf5)

57 52 What's that pair of bent golden rails over to the right of the painting? And the dark patch below it, I don't know what that could be either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

Stairwell maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (VoAdT)

58 We stole away for the weekend (Key Largo) with the intent to go to an art museum, but skipped the museum yesterday and went kayaking instead. Now we've got half day to kill before our flight and the museum is closed on Mondays, so no art for us. Maybe a nice Cuban sandwich will make up for that.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 13, 2025

***
"Just like Bogie and Bacall . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

59 Yay, a Hopper!

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

60 She should wait over at Nighthawks diner, across the street.
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Too many morons hit on her there.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM (iMpf5)

61 The golden rails might be where the line starts to go through to pick your food.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM (D6PGr)

62 >>I like this one. She's having a coffee before going to a detective's office and kicking off a good film noir.

Heh. Perfect.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM (u1uWe)

63 Is that a cloche the lady is wearing?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

64 57 52 What's that pair of bent golden rails over to the right of the painting? And the dark patch below it, I don't know what that could be either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

Stairwell maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (VoAdT)

The dark patch looks like the back of a chair.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM (zddDv)

65 What's with her hands? One glove? Bad burn?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 09:44 AM (Q4IgG)

66 Just like Bogie and Bacall . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

A 70’s one hit wonder.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:44 AM (D6PGr)

67 I'm not a big Hopper fan because of his usual big city related material which has little appeal for me. But his ability to capture the feeling he wants is wonderful. The subdued colors and small figure(s), often at night, surrounded by the huge cityscape gives the viewer a sense of the isolation, perhaps ennui, of the people. But his interesting use of reflected light and spots of color (the white table top, the bowl of fruit and the yellow steam radiator) keeps the scene from becoming too depressing.

And like Fraser Crane in comment 10, I like that radiator.

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

68 Does she take her coffee black?

Posted by: Airplane! at January 13, 2025 09:44 AM (i0F8b)

69 Can't say I am impressed with her flapping around like that

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (D7oie)

70 The dark patch is the back of a chair.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (D6PGr)

71 Is that a cloche the lady is wearing?
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:43 AM

I hate those hats. They always put me in mind of a flower pot. Not flattering at all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (+QlJh)

72 I think I was in a hospital about 60 years ago with an automat.

I do remember seeing people behind the automat actually cutting up pie and cake and placing in the window.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (gbOdA)

73 Denzel is sitting just out of view while Alina drinks her coffee.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (LkLld)

74 42 Nice!

I love Hopper's painting of Gloucester.

https://tinyurl.com/26envkfx
Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (u1uWe)
*******
Love the Mansard roof and the Hodkin's House.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

75 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. She found her coffee. Where's mine?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 13, 2025 09:46 AM (W/lyH)

76 I like this one. She's having a coffee before going to a detective's office and kicking off a good film noir.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2025

***
Did they have Automats in L.A. in Philip Marlowe's time?

If not, maybe she's mulling over going to W. 87th St. to ask Ellery Queen to look into the death of her rich uncle. He was found beheaded and tied to a cross; just the kind of outre mystery Ellery specialized in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

77 What's with her hands? One glove? Bad burn?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 09:44 AM (Q4IgG)

Michael Jackson fan.

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2025 09:46 AM (Yj6Os)

78 I love Hopper's painting of Gloucester.

https://tinyurl.com/26envkfx
Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (u1uWe)
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A good one, indeed

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 13, 2025 09:46 AM (I7sQX)

79 She’s having coffee before her shift starts at one of Capone’s whorehouses.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:46 AM (D6PGr)

80 I want to be all, "It's a MAN, baby!", but it's probably not.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2025 09:46 AM (UnA8+)

81 President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes (R-Illinois)
Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

82 The dark patch is the back of a chair.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025

***
You're right; the dark stick below it is the support for the back piece.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

83 February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

84 I love Hopper's painting of Gloucester.
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Very good although I thought Gloucester, England at first before re-reading the headline more attentively.

[Italian Quarter and Portuguese Church tipped me off to look again.]

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 09:48 AM (iMpf5)

85 73 Denzel is sitting just out of view while Alina drinks her coffee.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (LkLld)

I got that!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:48 AM (gbOdA)

86 What's with her hands? One glove? Bad burn?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025

***
The heat is not yet on in the place, and she's chilly. She doesn't want to get coffee stains on her good gloves; she has removed the right one while she's drinking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

87 >>I'm not a big Hopper fan because of his usual big city related material which has little appeal for me.

His Gloucester paintings are beautiful (sorry to repeat my comment) - https://tinyurl.com/26envkfx

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:49 AM (u1uWe)

88 Love Hopper. Also love that this painting can inspire a myriad of narratives.

Posted by: LairdofBootHill at January 13, 2025 09:49 AM (VBD0r)

89 The rails are to guide the customer along the wall of selections.

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2025 09:49 AM (i0F8b)

90 Pretty soon Carl Denham's gonna bust in with his job offer for her.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

91 This is heartbreaking. She's so very alone.

Damn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2025 09:50 AM (mT+6a)

92 Pretty soon Carl Denham's gonna bust in with his job offer for her.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025

***
Before it's all over, she'll wish she'd been someplace else when he arrived!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

93 'Dang, I forgot my other glove.'

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (LHPAg)

94 I like this one. She's having a coffee before going to a detective's office and kicking off a good film noir.
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Commies, Mr Marlowe.

Stinking, filthy Reds. I need them out of my building before All State will let me insure with them.

Posted by: the automat babe at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (iMpf5)

95 Alternate title:

"Reading Her Tea Leaves, Mildred Discovers That She'll Never Meet a Man As Long as She Keeps Wearing Those Stupid Floppy Hats"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (iJfKG)

96 >>Love the Mansard roof and the Hodkin's House.

Right?
Love that one, and the house is still there in all its beauty.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (u1uWe)

97 >>I got that!

Look at the opening scene of The Equalizer and tell me it wasn't influenced by Nighthawks.

https://tinyurl.com/37m46vka

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (LkLld)

98 Denzel is sitting just out of view while Alina drinks her coffee.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM (LkLld)

I got that!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:48 AM (gbOdA)

‘Alina’ is a full blown lesbian in real life to my surprise.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 09:52 AM (D6PGr)

99 Thx CBD, always been a Hopper fan. This is definitely in the same realm as Nighthawks. Would hang.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2025 09:52 AM (fcO1r)

100 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:52 AM (gbOdA)

101 91 This is heartbreaking. She's so very alone.

Damn.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Loneliness is legion among the people. Most people need other people around them to be happy. A few are loners by nature but often even they have furry companions to share their life with.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 09:53 AM (ctrM5)

102 This is heartbreaking. She's so very alone.

Damn.
Posted by: nurse ratched

She's just sitting by herself in a diner. Doesn't mean she's totally alone.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

103 no one has said "I'd hit it" yet?

Posted by: brak at January 13, 2025 09:54 AM (jGJov)

104 https://tinyurl.com/37m46vka
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 09:51 AM (LkLld)

Also see payment by clicking on arrows.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:54 AM (gbOdA)

105 I like this one. She's having a coffee before going to a detective's office and kicking off a good film noir.
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Commies, Mr Marlowe.

Stinking, filthy Reds. I need them out of my building before All State will let me insure with them.
Posted by: the automat babe at January 13, 2025

***
I'd suggest she was on her way to see Nero Wolfe on W. 35th St., but Wolfe's clients were usually (not always, but mostly) from the upper-class. Had to be, to pay his fees. A potential Wolfe client would probably be at a tea room or at "21," not at an Automat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

106 Like Steve Sax of LA Dodgers lore, she wears a glove on one hand for no particular reason.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2025 09:54 AM (Y1sOo)

107 100 100
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:52 AM (gbOdA)

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Nice!

Ten points to hufflepuff.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 13, 2025 09:54 AM (cIOlQ)

108 A few are loners by nature but often even they have furry companions to share their life with.
Posted by: whig

And OnlyFans.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

109 She's just sitting by herself in a diner. Doesn't mean she's totally alone.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
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Another musical score comes to mind:

https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (qcmjh)

110
I love Hopper's painting of Gloucester.

I didn't know that Hopper painted cheese!

Did he do one of Roquefort?

I love Roquefort cheese!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

111 >>Look at the opening scene of The Equalizer and tell me it wasn't influenced by Nighthawks.

Yeah, I'm sure it was. I liked that movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (u1uWe)

112 I love Hopper's painting of Gloucester.

https://tinyurl.com/26envkfx
Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:40 AM (u1uWe)
*******
Love the Mansard roof and the Hodkin's House.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2025 09:45 AM

The Portuguese church is still there. Our Lady of Good Voyage. The view looks to be from Mt. Vernon Street.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (+QlJh)

113 A few are loners by nature but often even they have furry companions to share their life with.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025

***
True.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

114 >>Did he do one of Roquefort?

I camembert if he did, will have to google it!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:56 AM (u1uWe)

115 She's just sitting by herself in a diner. Doesn't mean she's totally alone.
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I'll say, Elwood.

Say? Is that President Biden across the road?

Let's go say 'Hello'!

Posted by: Harvey at January 13, 2025 09:56 AM (iMpf5)

116 She has kind of a young Janet Gaynor look about her. See the first version of A Star Is Born.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

117 Salino planning her hit on Hooker.

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2025 09:56 AM (i0F8b)

118 >>Alina’ is a full blown lesbian in real life to my surprise.

Yea, me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 09:56 AM (LkLld)

119 Our Lady of Bon Voyage?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (YeGMU)

120 She thought the sign said "Laundromat" and now, well, the clothes basket out of view is just sitting there while she contemplates what to do next.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (Q4IgG)

121 good morning everyone!

one week!

getting excited!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (Pv3Rg)

122 She picked the bear.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (xO53V)

123 A few are loners by nature but often even they have furry companions to share their life with.
Posted by: whig

And OnlyFans.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

Considering the amount of free porn available on the internet, why pay some woman to look at nude photos/videos of her while engaging in conversation with one of her - no doubt male - employees?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

124 Janet Gaynor was a 1.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

125 Automat.

She must be waiting for her Buick to go through the spin cycle.

Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (0Id0S)

126 The nice thing about the Automat was you didn't have to see the pierced and tatted parolee making the food behind the scenes or deal with them trying to make change or get the order right. Best coffee too!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (jiYtH)

127 102 This is heartbreaking. She's so very alone.

Damn.
Posted by: nurse ratched

She's just sitting by herself in a diner. Doesn't mean she's totally alone.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
She's not alone, her girlfriends are in the back with her birthday cupcake.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (LHPAg)

128 no one has said "I'd hit it" yet?
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Ctrl-f again, grasshopper.

Posted by: Master Po at January 13, 2025 09:57 AM (iMpf5)

129 I am sitting in the morning
At the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter
For the man to pour the coffee
And he fills it only halfway
And before I even argue
He is looking out the window
At somebody coming in

Da da, da, da da, da ~

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2025 09:58 AM (IG4Id)

130 Not that anybody cares, but Chuck Todd is leaving the loser NBC. Most likely to continue at another loser outlet.

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2025 09:58 AM (g47mK)

131 oh and on topic, our Automat (well at least the most well-known one, that turned into a drug store) is being restored to a working Automat!

those things were so big in philly I'm not that old and I remember eating with my mom at one when I was really little. so fun!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 09:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

132 >>Alina’ is a full blown lesbian in real life to my surprise.

Child actress.
It's a given her sexuality would be deviant.
Likely had some help with it IYKWIM.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:58 AM (u1uWe)

133 Alternate title:

"Mildred Suddenly Realizes She Likes This One Glove Look. Maybe if She Walked Backwards While Singing, She'd Get Her Big Break!"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 09:59 AM (iJfKG)

134 >>Not that anybody cares, but Chuck Todd is leaving the loser NBC. Most likely to continue at another loser outlet.

Jen Rubin news, now this.
Excellent.
Be gone, tired, biased idiots!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 09:59 AM (u1uWe)

135 Automat is a type of restaurant where food is served from vending machines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (YeGMU)

136 I like this one, thanks CBD.

I note that she's wearing a glove on only one hand. She must have lost the other and is contemplating going out into the cold with her one hand in her pocket.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (Fvzmw)

137 And OnlyFans.
Posted by: Bulg
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Eh, sad commentary where some people are desperate for any connection. Even a paid one. A modern nekkid twist on dance halls from the days of yore.

"10 Cents a Dance" from the Fabulous Baker Boys movie. https://tinyurl.com/y5bcwt2z

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (ctrM5)

138 Her happy hat looks sad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (eEdHS)

139 Hopper always strikes me as more of an illustrator than an artist. Kinda like Nagel. Eye catching, but not deep. At least, nothing I've seen to convince me otherwise.

Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (0Id0S)

140 "Mildred Suddenly Realizes She Likes This One Glove Look. Maybe if She Walked Backwards While Singing, She'd Get Her Big Break!"
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Hmm. Where can I buy some sequins at this hour??

Posted by: the automat babe at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (iMpf5)

141 Automats are kind of great for eating alone. the one in philly only had these long tables that people (generally alone, taking a work lunch) would eat with others, they lined the sides of the walls leading up to the window wall (where you got your food and paid).

surprisingly well-realized in the film Dark City (which we just watched with the kids and all loved. really holds up! they def were "inspired" by it for The Matrix)

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (Pv3Rg)

142 A few are loners by nature but often even they have furry companions to share their life with.
Posted by: whig

She pretends the radiator is her dog. Steamy.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

143 Whig

Then there are the zooaphiles. *shudder* *gack*

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:02 AM (eEdHS)

144 Submitted for your approval . . .

The attendant is really a Martian.

. . . in the Twilight Zone.

Posted by: Rod Serling at January 13, 2025 10:02 AM (Aqu9a)

145 139 Hopper always strikes me as more of an illustrator than an artist. Kinda like Nagel. Eye catching, but not deep. At least, nothing I've seen to convince me otherwise.

that's fair a lot of academics in fine art would agree with you. they'd say the same about Wyeth.

I disagree, and aver that NC (an illustrator) was an equal fine artist to anyone

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:02 AM (Pv3Rg)

146 ...with her one hand in her pocket.
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That's why I stay away from those morons at the Nighthawk!

Posted by: the automat babe at January 13, 2025 10:02 AM (iMpf5)

147 She pretends the radiator is her dog. Steamy.

Posted by: naturalfake
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Don't ever change. But even working 'blue' in comedy does have limits of taste and decorum.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:02 AM (ctrM5)

148 What is the difference between an illustrator and an artist?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

149 Oddly, the automat is not on fire.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (aD39U)

150 I note that she's wearing a glove on only one hand. She must have lost the other and is contemplating going out into the cold with her one hand in her pocket.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (Fvzmw)

Fun fact (for certain values of "fact"): this painting is where Michael Jackson got the inspiration for his iconic look.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (ExV1e)

151 135 Automat is a type of restaurant where food is served from vending machines.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:00 AM (YeGMU)

I ate at one in NY back in the mid-60s. I chose a ham'n cheese and coffee. very grown-up.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (LHPAg)

152 So Cal Edison power lines were at fault for a previous, massive wildfire— well, that and severe drought and Santa Ana winds.

What SoCalEd does now: They turn off the power in our neighborhood when the wind kicks up. The longest was 36 hours, which was a pain in the butt — but no fire, and especially no fire that could be traced to them.

When that "manage the forests better" comes from GOP Pols in Ohio, where they get rain & have rivers, I wanna throttle the idiots.

Homeowners must do a better job clearing their spaces. I don't think controlled burns are a possibility in those tight residential canyons — unless we can throw lots of money and personnel at the problem.

The plants are built to burn. They evolved with regular wildfires. It's part of the life cycle of many indigenous plant species. There's not much you can do when it comes to the natural environment.

Going forward, California is going to have to learn to live with increased wildfire, thanks to fossil fuel companies and petro-states. The real culprits in all this. It can be done without destroying the natural environment. It's a matter of codes, landscaping and building materials.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (JCZqz)

153 She pretends the radiator is her dog. Steamy.
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That's why I stopped 'tummy-rub Tuesdays'!

Posted by: the automat babe at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (iMpf5)

154 >>What is the difference between an illustrator and an artist?

Money.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (LkLld)

155 Oddly, the automat is not on fire.
Posted by: Grump928

Probably not in SoCal.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (Fvzmw)

156 143 Whig

Then there are the zooaphiles. *shudder* *gack*
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Farmyard brothels used to be a thing in some places of Euroland.

There is a reason that natural law included crimes against nature for variants for deviant sex.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (ctrM5)

157
Happy to report that one of my older paintings. a Hopper-esque cityscape has just sold!

Now to get back to the studio and do more schmearing!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (x0n13)

158 Automats were still a thing in NYC as late as the Sixties. Ira Levin has Guy Woodhouse maintain in Rosemary's Baby (1967) that Horn & Hardart's pumpkin pie is the best.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

159 I remember automats, just don't remember from which decade. Remember one on lower Washington Street in bBoston, the combat zone. Also Denver one in NYC. Fifties, early sixties I'd guess.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (4780s)

160 The model isn't alone, I'm sure all of her personalities are active

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (fcO1r)

161 Sleep ... now..

Posted by: Mr. Hand at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (aD39U)

162 Jen Rubin's appeal is just becoming more selective.

Posted by: Ian Faith at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (PiwSw)

163 Like it. But didn't we have this or some other suromat themed art. Not complaining either way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:05 AM (Y1zHJ)

164 154 >>What is the difference between an illustrator and an artist?

Money.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (LkLld)

This!

And Hopper started out as a magazine illustrator.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2025 10:05 AM (x0n13)

165 California is going to have to learn to live with increased wildfire, thanks to fossil fuel companies and petro-states

And arsonists

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

166 Jennifer Rubin had appeal? When did this happen?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:05 AM (Y1zHJ)

167 What is the difference between an illustrator and an artist?
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

Whether you like their work or not. It's related to the question "what is sexual harassment"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

168 If the automat was in California...

The egg salad sandwich would cost $20 because it has to be free range non-GMO. And there would be so many warning labels on it, you'll die of starvation before you finish reading them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (eEdHS)

169 158 Automats were still a thing in NYC as late as the Sixties. Ira Levin has Guy Woodhouse maintain in Rosemary's Baby (1967) that Horn & Hardart's pumpkin pie is the best.
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Pumpkin Pie is never the best. This is known.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (jFCkp)

170 Fun fact (for certain values of "fact"): this painting is where Michael Jackson got the inspiration for his iconic look.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025

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Does it explain MJ's black fedora and the re-sculpted nose?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

171 154 >>What is the difference between an illustrator and an artist?

Money.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (LkLld)

This!

And Hopper started out as a magazine illustrator.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2025 10:05 AM (x0n13)

It's a living.

Posted by: Norman Rockwell at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (Aqu9a)

172 148 What is the difference between an illustrator and an artist?

some would say it's that illustrators are following a set instruction - "image of Captain Bligh" - while fine artists are just working from "their imaginations." those people would however not argue that Michelangelo is an illustrator so!

mostly it's people being sort of snobby. "this looks illustrative not like something Higher-Minded"

then you're saying that the fine art level is just a better product with deeper meaning. again, looking at NC's paintings are the Brandywine Museum here a lot, he's more a fine artist than his grandson Jamie who claims to be one lol

(and NC always said he was an illustrator)

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (Pv3Rg)

173 Moderna stock is down 20% today.
Such a Shame.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (OxBkG)

174 139 Hopper always strikes me as more of an illustrator than an artist. Kinda like Nagel. Eye catching, but not deep. At least, nothing I've seen to convince me otherwise.
Posted by: red speck
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Some people dislike depictions of real life and real people. Others don't. Both are art.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:07 AM (ctrM5)

175 Lemon Icebox pie remains my favorite.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:07 AM (aD39U)

176 Automat. Wtf, autocucumber. What is suromat?

Now I have to look it up. (Note: autocucmber just tried to change suromat to automat.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:07 AM (Y1zHJ)

177 The community college I once attended had an automat instead of an actual cafeteria. Good selection of bad food.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 10:07 AM (Q4IgG)

178 Glad your art sold Sefton.

Was the Statue of Liberty flashing a bare ankle?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (eEdHS)

179 Jen Rubin going bye-bye, Chuck Todd leaving soon. All we need is a huge verdict against CNN and Tapper for old Jake to be bounced.
What a great trifecta prior to 1/20

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (fcO1r)

180 She pretends the radiator is her dog. Steamy.

Posted by: naturalfake
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Don't ever change. But even working 'blue' in comedy does have limits of taste and decorum.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:02 AM (ctrM5)

I don't get it.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

181 175 Lemon Icebox pie remains my favorite.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:07 AM (aD39U)

Key Lime. I hate meringue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (Y1zHJ)

182 then you're saying that the fine art level is just a better product with deeper meaning. again, looking at NC's paintings are the Brandywine Museum here a lot, he's more a fine artist than his grandson Jamie who claims to be one lol
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He earned his living trading as an Illustrator. He was a very good artist, though. Love his stuff. Been in his winter home in Southern Pines, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (jFCkp)

183 145 139 >>>that's fair a lot of academics in fine art would agree with you. they'd say the same about Wyeth.

I disagree, and aver that NC (an illustrator) was an equal fine artist to anyone

There's a weird, undefinable line between graphic art and fine art. Norman Rockwell -- very artistic... but are his SEPost pieces art? Wyeth is a bit too provocative and disciplined to be relegated to illustrator status. There will always be that mushy-middle where people will stand fervently on one side or the other. And the older I get, the less the opinions of academics hold sway. : )

Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (0Id0S)

184 157
Happy to report that one of my older paintings. a Hopper-esque cityscape has just sold!

Now to get back to the studio and do more schmearing!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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You must not sleep much.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (ctrM5)

185 Happy to report that one of my older paintings. a Hopper-esque cityscape has just sold!

congrats that is fantastic!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (Pv3Rg)

186 ...but no fire, and especially no fire that could be traced to them.
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Yeah! They should be forced to provide full service all the time, start fire/s, then be forced to pay huge compensation to the State instead of to individuals, all the while not being allowed to clear vegetation beneath the powerlines to ameliorate fire risk! Capitalist pigs!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (iMpf5)

187

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (5hfjS)

188 J.J. paints? When is CBD gonna feature one of his works?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

189

When that "manage the forests better" comes from GOP Pols in Ohio, where they get rain & have rivers, I wanna throttle the idiots.

—-

It’s early but I nominate this as Idiotic comment of the year at DU.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:09 AM (OxBkG)

190 >>Happy to report that one of my older paintings. a Hopper-esque cityscape has just sold!

Congratulations!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (u1uWe)

191 168 If the automat was in California...

The egg salad sandwich would cost $20 because it has to be free range non-GMO. And there would be so many warning labels on it, you'll die of starvation before you finish reading them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (eEdHS)

"This sandwich contains a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (PiwSw)

192 oh and on topic, our Automat (well at least the most well-known one, that turned into a drug store) is being restored to a working Automat!

those things were so big in philly I'm not that old and I remember eating with my mom at one when I was really little. so fun!

Posted by: Black Orchid

The best were the Kresge's & Woolworth's lunch counters. I miss Flo.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (xO53V)

193 "10 Cents a Dance" from the Fabulous Baker Boys movie. https://tinyurl.com/y5bcwt2z
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025

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Cornell Woolrich/William Irish had a 1940s short story called "The Dancing Detctive." The lead (and narrator, I think) is a girl working at one of those dime-a-dance places, and she spots a patron as a wanted killer. The problem: The patron knows she's recognized him. More of a suspense story than a classical detective tale, but tense and exciting like a lot of Woolrich/Irish.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

194 Does it explain MJ's black fedora and the re-sculpted nose?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

Absolutely. The fedora was a temporary move. Once he had finished surgery to make himself look like this woman, he was planning on changing his name to Gladys and wearing a cloche hat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (ExV1e)

195 There's a weird, undefinable line between graphic art and fine art. Norman Rockwell -- very artistic... but are his SEPost pieces art? Wyeth is a bit too provocative and disciplined to be relegated to illustrator status. There will always be that mushy-middle where people will stand fervently on one side or the other. And the older I get, the less the opinions of academics hold sway. : )

yes fair!

and the money thing is not a good marker b/c Sargent was paid for his portraits are they not art?

I just go with 'these have an inner light, something indeterminate which feels more human and true, I like these" rather than putting any piece of art into some category or another

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (Pv3Rg)

196 There is that big fucking ocean in LA

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (YeGMU)

197 Key Lime. I hate meringue.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (Y1zHJ)

That Dominican Republic dance is hard to perform.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 13, 2025 10:11 AM (Aqu9a)

198 Don't forget what a big commie Rockwell was, painting Thanksgiving dinner and all.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

199 "This sandwich contains a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

If only they knew how to prevent and fight fires.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:11 AM (xO53V)

200 There's a weird, undefinable line between graphic art and fine art. Norman Rockwell -- very artistic... but are his SEPost pieces art? Wyeth is a bit too provocative and disciplined to be relegated to illustrator status. There will always be that mushy-middle where people will stand fervently on one side or the other. And the older I get, the less the opinions of academics hold sway. : )
Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025

***
I'd buy a Rockwell print, or one of magazine, paperback, and movie poster illustrator Robert McGinnis, any time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

201 198 Don't forget what a big commie Rockwell was, painting Thanksgiving dinner and all.

I do try not to think about these things when appreciating art, especially since my favorite artist is Gerhard Richter

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:12 AM (Pv3Rg)

202 So weird small world; I used the Mr. Hand nic a minute ago and that prompted me go look up the actor: Richard O'Brien. It turns out that I saw him perform in London in 1972 in two bit parts in JCSuperstar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:12 AM (aD39U)

203 Always thought those flapper hats were sloppy looking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 10:12 AM (QhCcO)

204 Now to get back to the studio and do more schmearing!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 13, 2025 10:04 AM (x0n13)
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Philly on a bagel?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (qcmjh)

205 Unhappy Meal

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (ORdxN)

206 Cornell Woolrich/William Irish had a 1940s short story called "The Dancing Detctive." The lead (and narrator, I think) is a girl working at one of those dime-a-dance places, and she spots a patron as a wanted killer. The problem: The patron knows she's recognized him. More of a suspense story than a classical detective tale, but tense and exciting like a lot of Woolrich/Irish.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Sounds vaguely familiar, for a time, I read collections of detective and noir short stories and short novellas and still have a few of them around for sleepless nights.

Been reading Leslie Chateris and his "Saint" stories for awhile off and on as cheap entertainment.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (ctrM5)

207 eagles won I just wanted to mention

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (Pv3Rg)

208 So was Andy Warhol an illustrator or artist?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (jFCkp)

209 Lady in a cloche hat drinking bad coffee.

ACTUALLY, the coffee served in the Automats of the Twenties and Thirties was better than the coffee served in most places in America after World War II. G.I.s developed a taste for instant coffee by then.

-The guy who says "ACTUALLY" and gets all his information from Twitter.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (BHrzb)

210
Money is the marker between Professional and Hobbyist.

Wasn't one or two of JJ's paintings featured on the art thread a couple of years ago?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG)

211 202 So weird small world; I used the Mr. Hand nic a minute ago and that prompted me go look up the actor: Richard O'Brien. It turns out that I saw him perform in London in 1972 in two bit parts in JCSuperstar.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:12 AM (aD39U)

Wan't he in Rocky Horror Picture Show ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (VE6XX)

212 Cornell Woolrich/William Irish had a 1940s short story called "The Dancing Detctive." The lead (and narrator, I think) is a girl working at one of those dime-a-dance places, and she spots a patron as a wanted killer. The problem: The patron knows she's recognized him. More of a suspense story than a classical detective tale, but tense and exciting like a lot of Woolrich/Irish.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yesterday's film noir, Daylight at Dawn, was based on a Woolrich story. Interesting flick. And Susan Hayward...mmmmmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

213 207 eagles won I just wanted to mention
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They always win ugly, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (jFCkp)

214 Well, according to the internet 'suramata' is proto Finnish for 'killing, slaughter.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (Y1zHJ)

215 They always win ugly, though.

well it's philly so

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (Pv3Rg)

216 Happy to report that one of my older paintings. a Hopper-esque cityscape has just sold!

Now to get back to the studio and do more schmearing!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Congratulations! did we see that one ?

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)

217 The first automat in the United States was opened by food services company Horn & Hardart on June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inspired by Max Sielaff's automat restaurants in Berlin, they were among the first 47 restaurants (and the first outside of Europe) to receive patented vending machines from Sielaff's Berlin factory.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

I loved the one on Broadway in NYC. I was attending school at the old Screen Building on Broadway in 1966 and would stop at the automat every morning for a coffee and a piece of pie.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (iODuv)

218 Norman Rockwell was an illustrator.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (D6PGr)

219 Lemon Icebox pie remains my favorite.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:07 AM (aD39U)

Key Lime. I hate meringue.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:08 AM (Y1zHJ)

My wife will make lemon pies without meringue. Key lime is great but not enough better to justify dealing with the smaller fruit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (ExV1e)

220 Just Stop Oil activists vandalize Charles Darwin’s grave

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

221 Mr Hand was My Favorite Martian?

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (Pv3Rg)

222 Wan't he in Rocky Horror Picture Show ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2025 10:13 AM (VE6XX)

Indeed. The Webz suggest that he came up with the name as well.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (aD39U)

223 There is that big fucking ocean in LA

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:10 AM (YeGMU)

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Like the soon-to-be PanaMAGA Canal, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are owned and managed by the ChiComms.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (eWVx8)

224 and the money thing is not a good marker b/c Sargent was paid for his portraits are they not art?

I just go with 'these have an inner light, something indeterminate which feels more human and true, I like these" rather than putting any piece of art into some category or another
Posted by: Black Orchid
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Most classical artists were paid or had patrons that funded their work. Crap artists starved or became productive in other pursuits instead of getting gubmint grants to continue to put out crap work.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ctrM5)

225 220 Just Stop Oil activists vandalize Charles Darwin’s grave
Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

Did he drive an SUV?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (OxBkG)

226 Wat's a suramata you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (eEdHS)

227 This seems more an illustration than art

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (YeGMU)

228 So was Andy Warhol an illustrator or artist?

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Was Toulouse-Lautrec an illustrator or an artist ??

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (g47mK)

229 217 The first automat in the United States was opened by food services company Horn & Hardart on June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inspired by Max Sielaff's automat restaurants in Berlin, they were among the first 47 restaurants (and the first outside of Europe) to receive patented vending machines from Sielaff's Berlin factory.

this is the one they are renovating and reopening!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (Pv3Rg)

230 Just Stop Oil activists vandalize Charles Darwin’s grave
Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

I think we've found it. The Singularity.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (ORdxN)

231 Mr Hands??

Posted by: Mr Bill at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (i0F8b)

232 Susan Hayward had the cutest nose in film.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

233 It’s early but I nominate this as Idiotic comment of the year at DU.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Really? I was more shocked (or saddened) by the post seemingly praising the "solution" of shutting off the power during times with high winds. That seems an appropriate stop gap measure until a better, more permanent, solution is found...but California is a 3rd world state for all but the extremely wealthy.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

234 Wait no, I misread that, he WROTE Rocky Horror.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (aD39U)

235 I've never tasted Rhubarb Pie. The concept of celery pie just doesn't compute with me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (jFCkp)

236 >>If only they knew how to prevent and fight fires.

Only you can prevent forest fires.

Apparently, you screwed up.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (LkLld)

237 Now to get back to the studio and do more schmearing!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Also said by every MSM commentator regarding PDT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (gbOdA)

238 Grump, Kiefer Sutherland said Dark City was one of his favorite roles.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (PiwSw)

239 My Rockwell comment a bit late.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (D6PGr)

240 Charles Darwin graduated from a bible college.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (YeGMU)

241 Moderna stock is down 20% today.
Such a Shame.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025

***
The iHeart radio spot where they run the comment by a Moderna marketing director, "We have a saying that we pivot fearlessly," never fails to make me say: "Yeah, it's easy to be fearless when your buddies in government protect you from lawsuits."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (J2vNu)

242 Just Stop Oil activists vandalize Charles Darwin’s grave
Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)
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You say you want an evolution?
Well, you know, we all want to change the world.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (qcmjh)

243 Sad Anne Hathaway looks sad.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (Y6IkP)

244 Ha, ha.

Ontario's provincial Liberal Party leader is yacking at a presser right now. She's got regular-sized boobs and is wearing a white sweater-top.

Unfortunately for decorum, shadows from the small, indoor microphones on either side of the lectern are casting round shadows on her sweater where her nips would be if visible.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (iMpf5)

245 An illustrator presents somebody else's vision.
An artist throws his own ideas up there and makes everyone guess.
And money.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (4780s)

246 Going forward, California is going to have to learn to live with increased wildfire, thanks to fossil fuel companies and petro-states. The real culprits in all this. It can be done without destroying the natural environment. It's a matter of codes, landscaping and building materials.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2025 10:03 AM (JCZqz)

Yeah...more regulation...that'll work.

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (Yj6Os)

247 The DoD just labeled Tencent, the big Chinese company who is looking to buy Ubislop, as a military company.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (eEdHS)

248 Was Toulouse-Lautrec an illustrator or an artist ??
Posted by: runner at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (g47mK)

Artist as he was always short at the end of the month.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)

249 Really? I was more shocked (or saddened) by the post seemingly praising the "solution" of shutting off the power during times with high winds. That seems an appropriate stop gap measure until a better, more permanent, solution is found...but California is a 3rd world state for all but the extremely wealthy.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

Sure but that’s kinda logical at least. The comment I’m referring to implies the laws of physics in California are different than the laws of physics in Ohio. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (OxBkG)

250 It’s early but I nominate this as Idiotic comment of the year at DU.
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What do you mean 'Ohio has summers'??

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (iMpf5)

251 Just Stop Oil activists vandalize Charles Darwin’s grave

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

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Devolution.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (eWVx8)

252 I've never tasted Rhubarb Pie. The concept of celery pie just doesn't compute with me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (jFCkp)

If you have some place near you that sells it you should try a slice. It's pretty good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (ExV1e)

253 The Moderna lethal injection is four times as bad as Pfizers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (YeGMU)

254 248 Was Toulouse-Lautrec an illustrator or an artist ??
Posted by: runner at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (g47mK)

Artist as he was always short at the end of the month.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)

Robert Reich always looked up to him.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (PiwSw)

255 221 Mr Hand was My Favorite Martian?
Posted by: Black Orchid
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Read a story about Ray Walston by his daughter. She said something like Mr. Hand was actually how her dad behaved in real life. Funny story somewhere on the interwebs.

Ray Walston reminds me of another actor, Clifton Webb, for his no nonsense characters. Mr. Belvedere series of movies was actually pretty good B movie entertainment.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:18 AM (ctrM5)

256 Ontario's provincial Liberal Party leader is yacking at a presser right now. She's got regular-sized boobs and is wearing a white sweater-top.

Unfortunately for decorum, shadows from the small, indoor microphones on either side of the lectern are casting round shadows on her sweater where her nips would be if visible.
Posted by: andycanuck

Dude, pics? Or at least a name.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

257 A Kentucky woman was arrested on suspicion of arson amid the wildfires in Los Angeles that have destroyed 35,000 homes and businesses. Gloria Lynn Mandich, 60, was charged with felony arson related to a January 8 brush fire in Los Angeles County. She allegedly started a new blaze near Leo Carrillo State Park outside of the city's multiple wildfires, announced California State Parks.

Posted by: SMOD at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (RHGPo)

258 Was Toulouse-Lautrec an illustrator or an artist ??
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Both. Check out his red-head portraits and you will see the artist (looks a lot like Andy Wyeth, BTW).

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (jFCkp)

259 Thanks for the Hopper CBD.
Love it.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (Eo96p)

260 Twncent has their fingers in a LOT of gaming pies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (Y1zHJ)

261 What is a Rhubarb anyway?

Posted by: steevy at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (KQk9m)

262 Thousand Millimeter Reich looks up to a step stool.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (eEdHS)

263 247 The DoD just labeled Tencent, the big Chinese company who is looking to buy Ubislop, as a military company.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (eEdHS)

They just figured that out now?
Here some free advice to the military: every fucking company in China is a military company.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (OxBkG)

264 Ah, sweater weather.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:20 AM (Y1zHJ)

265 Fotomat > Automat

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2025 10:20 AM (gEQYA)

266 if any trump people read this (lol)

all I ask for is:

- ban Pharma ads
- roll back the o-care restrictions on buying contact lenses. the hoops we jump thru to get them now are insane. we pay out the butt and they take forever to come and we have zero choice of even where we get them or what type we get now?!! it SUCKS and im tired of the nonsense (whole fam wears them and I have to keep track of everything and it just keeps getting worse)

sorry for rant! trying to get lenses to these kid before they go back to school rrrrrr

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 13, 2025 10:20 AM (Pv3Rg)

267 Was Toulouse-Lautrec an illustrator or an artist ??

Posted by: runner at January 13, 2025 10:15 AM (g47mK)

FUN FACT:

His brother, Tootight-Lautrec, invented Skinny Jeans.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

268 Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:20 AM (LkLld)

269 >>> The DoD just labeled Tencent, the big Chinese company who is looking to buy Ubislop, as a military company.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:17 AM (eEdHS)

I'm sure Blizzard starcraft is a good war strategy trainer.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (Y6IkP)

270 The timing of the DoD announcement is interesting. The waning days of the Bidet administration. Leaving yet another mess for Trump.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (eEdHS)

271 Ah, sweater weather.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Didn't Ace come up with the term "sweater full of mischief?"

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

272 The DoD just labeled Tencent, the big Chinese company who is looking to buy Ubislop, as a military company.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Every company over like 50 employees has a political officer, either announced or covert. They are all PRC entities. All of them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (IG4Id)

273 What is a Rhubarb anyway?
Posted by: steevy at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (KQk9m)

Obligatory - Twenty bucks, same as in town

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (gEQYA)

274 From a quick study of Automats, what kills them is requiring foot traffic. IOW, tightly packed, dense cities. If you have to drive to it, might as well stay in the car and go to a drive thru fast food joint.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (xO53V)

275 Grump, Kiefer Sutherland said Dark City was one of his favorite roles.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 13, 2025 10:16 AM (PiwSw)

I love it. Shame that it failed at the box office.

I think it was the first time I saw Rufus Sewell, an underrated actor.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (aD39U)

276 Just stay away from the kompromats.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

277 Never rub another man's rhubarb.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:20 AM (LkLld)

Nice reference. From the only Batman movie that matters!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (gEQYA)

278 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

279 Dude, pics? Or at least a name.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

Bonnie Crombie, apparently. She's nothing special.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (ExV1e)

280 Going forward, California is going to have to learn to live with increased wildfire, thanks to fossil fuel companies and petro-states. The real culprits in all this.

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The only solution is for Califzuela to ban the sale and use of ALL carbon fuels.

/What could go wrong?

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (eWVx8)

281 Just stay away from the kompromats.

der kommisar is in town

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (eEdHS)

282 265 Fotomat > Automat
Posted by: Doof
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The food sucks at Fotomat and my film is always ruined at Automat. Category error.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (ctrM5)

283 Every company over like 50 employees has a political officer, either announced or covert. They are all PRC entities. All of them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM (IG4Id)

Just invite them over for tea.

Posted by: Marko Ramius, ooh, do be careful at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (PiwSw)

284 Eucalyptus is not native to California. It's like having gasoline trees. They need to be removed. And what sort of idiot thinks California doesn't have forests and rain? Drop them off in the sequoia forest up north.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (NQtI0)

285 More an observation by ace, not a creation. The ladies bring the mischief to the sweater, after all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (Y1zHJ)

286 Dark City... Jennifer Connelly...

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (i0F8b)

287 What is a Rhubarb anyway?
Posted by: steevy

Cold weather vegetable plant stalks cokked and used in pies.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (xO53V)

288 Some of the sets from Dark City were used in The Matrix

Posted by: steevy at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (KQk9m)

289 She's sitting across from an empty chair, and appears dressed to go out.

Definitely a certain amount of melancholy portrayed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM (tT6L1)

290 Food!
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

Glub!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (gEQYA)

291 Bonnie Crombie, apparently. She's nothing special.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Just looked her up. You're right.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

292 Crazy idea I have. How about don’t build homes in hills where wild fires are prevalent?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (OxBkG)

293 Cold weather vegetable plant stalks cokked and used in pies.
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Yeah. The whole idea is nutz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (jFCkp)

294 208 So was Andy Warhol an illustrator or artist?

Warhol was a fraud. Neither artist nor illustrator. If he were alive today, he'd be pumping out AI images and getting NYC devotees to swoon, while laughing his ass off at how stupid they all were.

Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (0Id0S)

295 274 From a quick study of Automats, what kills them is requiring foot traffic. IOW, tightly packed, dense cities. If you have to drive to it, might as well stay in the car and go to a drive thru fast food joint.
Posted by: rickb223
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Eh, you make them a tourist/local attraction and aim at the kiddies. More fun version of a cafeteria/diner which until recently did pretty well outside big cities.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

296 The painting inspires the same feeling of boredom as is exhibited on the woman's face.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (pohLc)

297 292 Crazy idea I have. How about don’t build homes in hills where wild fires are prevalent?
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Then you'd have to live with people that can't afford to live on the hills.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (jFCkp)

298 Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe could only be a best selling portfolio among the over educated art rubes in New York City.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (eEdHS)

299 Eh, you make them a tourist/local attraction and aim at the kiddies. More fun version of a cafeteria/diner which until recently did pretty well outside big cities.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

Put them in malls ... wait ..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (aD39U)

300 Obligatory - Twenty bucks, same as in town
Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2025 10:21 AM

*shakes fist*

You beat me to it, Doof. Well played, sir.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 10:26 AM (+QlJh)

301 How about the cavemen who did those cave paintings? Illustrators or artists?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

302
Then you'd have to live with people that can't afford to live on the hills.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (jFCkp)

Pasadena it is!!
😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:26 AM (OxBkG)

303 Warhol was a fraud. Neither artist nor illustrator. If he were alive today, he'd be pumping out AI images and getting NYC devotees to swoon, while laughing his ass off at how stupid they all were.
Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (0Id0S)
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On it.

Posted by: Banksy at January 13, 2025 10:27 AM (tT6L1)

304 Crazy idea I have. How about don’t build homes in hills where wild fires are prevalent?

Yeah, build 'em in floodplains instead!

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

305 Eh, you make them a tourist/local attraction and aim at the kiddies. More fun version of a cafeteria/diner which until recently did pretty well outside big cities.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

Put them in malls ... wait ..
Posted by: Grump928(C)

Profit!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:27 AM (xO53V)

306 292 Crazy idea I have. How about don’t build homes in hills where wild fires are prevalent?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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In saner times with brush clearance and occasional controlled burns, wildfires were not as much of a problem.

There is a naturalistic fallacy that humans only detract from nature and add nothing positive to it themselves. Nature makes arsenic and other poisons just as it does beneficial fruits and beauty.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:27 AM (ctrM5)

307 301 How about the cavemen who did those cave paintings? Illustrators or artists?
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No bewbs means no art. Those are the rules. This is not a spa.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:27 AM (jFCkp)

308 *shakes fist*

You beat me to it, Doof. Well played, sir.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 10:26 AM (+QlJh)

Mad ninja skills -- I got 'em!

Posted by: Doof at January 13, 2025 10:27 AM (gEQYA)

309 Is Disney Star Wars on fire yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:28 AM (YeGMU)

310 What is a Rhubarb anyway?
Posted by: steevy

Cold weather vegetable plant stalks cokked and used in pies.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:23 AM

I make a ketchup out of it. It goes very well with fatty grilled meats.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 10:28 AM (+QlJh)

311 "Hey buddy, ya left your wallet in here."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 13, 2025 10:29 AM (905sj)

312 Eucalyptus leaves are also poisonous. Koalas are about the only critters that can eat them.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

313 Bonnie Crombie, apparently. She's nothing special.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Didn't she marry Aber?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:29 AM (xO53V)

314 "Hey buddy, ya left your wallet in here."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 13, 2025 10:29 AM (905sj)

When? When did I leave it?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:29 AM (aD39U)

315 Nah, she cucked Aber and married Fitch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:30 AM (eEdHS)

316 How about the cavemen who did those cave paintings? Illustrators or artists?
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No bewbs means no art. Those are the rules. This is not a spa.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Oh, so the Venus of Willendorf is art. Yippee!

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

317 312 Eucalyptus leaves are also poisonous. Koalas are about the only critters that can eat them.
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Import koalas. Problem solved.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:30 AM (jFCkp)

318 I make a ketchup out of it. It goes very well with fatty grilled meats.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Grandma used to grow them and made rhubarb pie.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:30 AM (xO53V)

319 Warhol was a fraud. Neither artist nor illustrator. If he were alive today, he'd be pumping out AI images and getting NYC devotees to swoon, while laughing his ass off at how stupid they all were.
Posted by: red speck at January 13, 2025 10:24 AM (0Id0S)

Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think the NYC devotees will be there and they will be there. They are beautiful NYC devotees, and they are gonna be there. Ok?

Posted by: Oddball at January 13, 2025 10:31 AM (jiYtH)

320 Nah, she cucked Aber and married Fitch.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:30 AM (eEdHS)

Maybe they were a throuple.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

321 Koala bear > Gavin Newsom

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:32 AM (eEdHS)

322 299 Eh, you make them a tourist/local attraction and aim at the kiddies. More fun version of a cafeteria/diner which until recently did pretty well outside big cities.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

Put them in malls ... wait ..
Posted by: Grump928(C)

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Have several old style diners around where I live and still a cafeteria or two that aren't in the dying malls.

They still get quite a few customers and one diner is a local landmark.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:32 AM (ctrM5)

323 87 ... "His "Gloucester paintings are beautiful (sorry to repeat my comment) - https://tinyurl.com/26envkfx"

Lizzy,
Thanks for that link. You are right, Hopper's Gloucester paintings are wonderful. They take all the elements I like about his style and uses them in a more (for my taste) pleasant setting.

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2025 10:32 AM (yTvNw)

324 Koala bear > Gavin Newsom
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:32 AM (eEdHS)

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feces > Gavin Newsom

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:32 AM (tT6L1)

325 If the lights people in NJ saw were airplanes and not drones, what happened to all the airplanes?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 13, 2025 10:33 AM (LkLld)

326 One of my earliest memories is of the Automat. I was five, we lived in Bethlehem PA, and visited my grandma in the Bronx. Dad knew NYC top to bottom and enjoyed showing me the sights.

Sandwiches, fruit cups, pieces of pie, each plated portion in its own little cell i

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 13, 2025 10:33 AM (ryE/X)

327 319 Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think the NYC devotees will be there and they will be there. They are beautiful NYC devotees, and they are gonna be there. Ok?
Posted by: Oddball at January 13, 2025 10:31 AM (jiYtH)

I officially do not get this schtick.

Posted by: XTC at January 13, 2025 10:33 AM (UnA8+)

328 What eats Delta Smelt and that made up species?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:34 AM (YeGMU)

329 Sandwiches, fruit cups, pieces of pie, each plated portion in its own little cell i
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So an IMAX Prison, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:34 AM (jFCkp)

330 Grandma used to grow them and made rhubarb pie.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:30 AM

The RMBS Mom makes a really god rhubarb crumble. She has a monster rhubarb plant in her garden.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 13, 2025 10:34 AM (+QlJh)

331 Eucalyptus is not native to California. It's like having gasoline trees. They need to be removed.

But water is native to California. That's all you need is to be able to water your property. Unfortunately, communism is also native to California.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2025 10:34 AM (GCKiK)

332 I officially do not get this schtick.
Posted by: XTC
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Kelly's Heroes movie and the character Oddball (Donald Sutherland) as a hippy tank commander.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:35 AM (ctrM5)

333 The only water in California is in the north and east. Not in LA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:35 AM (eEdHS)

334 He was before his time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:36 AM (YeGMU)

335 If you had to eat seasonally out of your garden, you'd feel differently about rhubarb. It's cold hardy and the first fresh thing you can make apie with inthe spring. Sometimes combined with strawberries for pie.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2025 10:36 AM (NQtI0)

336 I have a lot of faith in Californians. People think the fires a wake up call. Californians are comatose, not asleep. I am certain they will keep voting in the same incompetent imbeciles they always have. You can't cure stupid, even with fire.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 13, 2025 10:36 AM (pohLc)

337 Kelly's Heroes movie and the character Oddball (Donald Sutherland) as a hippy tank commander.
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Sutherland's career success is based on playing Oddball in Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen. Surprising how Movie Stars are made.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:36 AM (jFCkp)

338 The only water in California is in the north and east. Not in LA.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:35 AM (eEdHS)
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The LA river was flowing at record levels a couple of years ago, I believe. The amount of water captured from the massive storms was less than zero, I believe, due to some storage being off-line.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (tT6L1)

339 Don't forget Captain Stuebens played Moriarty

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (eEdHS)

340 Sutherland's career success is based on playing Oddball in Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen. Surprising how Movie Stars are made.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Wasn't he star in the movie version of MASH as well?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

341 Sutherland's career success is based on playing Oddball in Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen. Surprising how Movie Stars are made.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:36 AM (jFCkp)
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Mash.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (tT6L1)

342 There is that little body of water to the west, the Pacific Ocean

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (YeGMU)

343 168 If the automat was in California...

The egg salad sandwich would cost $20 because it has to be free range non-GMO. And there would be so many warning labels on it, you'll die of starvation before you finish reading them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:06 AM (eEdHS)

People actually read the warning labels ...

Posted by: browndog pawing at the window at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (TTAGa)

344 The LA river is now a concrete channel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:37 AM (eEdHS)

345 Always liked this Hopper.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (snN/i)

346 Hopper does bleakness well.

The Twinkie that she didn't buy is still in the vending machine and it's still fresh.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (GCKiK)

347 Wasn't he star in the movie version of MASH as well?
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Yes. But he played Hawkeye in that one. Not Oddball.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (jFCkp)

348 I understand that. But the DU commenter doesn't seem to understand the northern part is in California. And that there was a large project to collect and store some of the water from there to use in LA.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (NQtI0)

349 The only water in California is in the north and east. Not in LA.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:35 AM (eEdHS)

Ahem.
- L.A. River

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (OxBkG)

350 Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 13, 2025 10:36 AM (pohLc)

My opinion: California(ns) tend to blame externalities for most everything when the reality is much closer to home.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (qj83B)

351 Ray Walston reminds me of another actor, Clifton Webb, for his no nonsense characters. Mr. Belvedere series of movies was actually pretty good B movie entertainment.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 1

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There's one, the last in the series, when Mr. Belvedere goes to college as a freshman. Generation gap comedy at its best -- though the 1949 students were slim, clean-cut, and well-dressed, a different world from today's students.

Webb had a particular kind of role that he did better than anybody else. When I read The Razor's Edge, I did not picture him as quintessential snob Elliott Templeton. Once I knew he had played the role, I could not picture anyone else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

352 344 The LA river is now a concrete channel.
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That's to prevent you from panning for gold.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:39 AM (jFCkp)

353 What eats Delta Smelt and that made up species?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:34 AM (YeGMU)

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Big Penguin.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:39 AM (eWVx8)

354 Unfortunately, communism is also native to California.
Posted by: t-bird
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Proto-Communism is in every loving family. From each according to their abilities and to each according to their needs. But, does not scale well because one cannot 'love' people that have no connection to you and thus coercion is used by the dictatorship of the proletariat (mom and dad) to ensure that the spice will flow from the producers to the consumers.

Even before you had Karl, history demonstrates multiple examples of utopianism based on similar principles (Anabaptists in urban areas during the Reformation, Levellers in Cromwell's England, etc.)

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:39 AM (ctrM5)

355 Webb had a particular kind of role that he did better than anybody else. When I read The Razor's Edge, I did not picture him as quintessential snob Elliott Templeton. Once I knew he had played the role, I could not picture anyone else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Waldo Lydecker in Laura was his signature role.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

356 The LA River has had a starring role in a few movies, including Them!.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:40 AM (eEdHS)

357 Califzuelans can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina.

Oh wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:40 AM (eWVx8)

358 The LA River has had a starring role in a few movies, including Them!.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:40 AM (eEdHS)
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Didn't some movie have the shuttle land in the LA river channel?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:41 AM (tT6L1)

359
It's tough to find a straight -up Rhubarb Pie.

Mostly they make Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie.

Cuz Rhubarb is the Campari of Pies.

Rather bitter. And some folks lose their minds when they encounter bitterness in food or drink...

Like CBD.

So, what you get is a Strawberry Pie with a leeetle beeeet of rhubarb in it.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 13, 2025 10:41 AM (iJfKG)

360 If you want to see something scary, check out a recent picture of Elliot Gould.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 10:41 AM (jFCkp)

361 The most retarded part of the comment is thinking only someone from California knows about forest management. Because nowhere else on the planet are there ever forest fires. And also thinking that California is somehow special and fire burns differently than elsewhere. You know the California laws of physics kick in once you cross into the state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 13, 2025 10:41 AM (OxBkG)

362 There is water in the Pacific Ocean iirc.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (YeGMU)

363 Don't forget Captain Stuebens played Moriarty
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025

***
Like Leslie Nielsen, the latter part of Gavin MacLeod's career was in comedy, playing Murray the newswriter and Capt. Steubing. But he made his mark playing villains on TV and movies, often nasty ones.

Nielsen had been quite the busy dramatic actor, especially in television. Airplane! changed everything for him, just as The MTM Show did for MacLeod.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

364 The LA River has had a starring role in a few movies, including Them!.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:40 AM (eEdHS)

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Terminator 2.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (eWVx8)

365 There's one, the last in the series, when Mr. Belvedere goes to college as a freshman. Generation gap comedy at its best -- though the 1949 students were slim, clean-cut, and well-dressed, a different world from today's students.

Webb had a particular kind of role that he did better than anybody else. When I read The Razor's Edge, I did not picture him as quintessential snob Elliott Templeton. Once I knew he had played the role, I could not picture anyone else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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The original Cheaper by the Dozen had him as a very believable family patriarch (based on a real story). Webb had chops. His role in "Mister Scoutmaster" is another similar character to his Mr. Belvedere movies.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (ctrM5)

366 Why ruin strawberry pie by adulterating it with rhubarb?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (eEdHS)

367 Did they make radiators that small? Looks like it would only be maybe a foot and half tall and three wide, if that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (Dm8we)

368 The LA River has had a starring role in a few movies, including Them!.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Them! is a great movie. The actress who played that shell-shocked little girl was amazing.

And Joan Weldon...mmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

369 My favorite of the DUmmies was the idiot talking about how much it would cost to mitigate fires....while completely ignoring how much the current disaster will cost.

Though, I suspect some of the stuff on DU about the fires comes from the office of Newsom.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:43 AM (tT6L1)

370 Like Leslie Nielsen, the latter part of Gavin MacLeod's career was in comedy, playing Murray the newswriter and Capt. Steubing. But he made his mark playing villains on TV and movies, often nasty ones.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I think Gavin was in several Hogan's Heroes episodes as a Nasty Not See.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

371 Like Leslie Nielsen, the latter part of Gavin MacLeod's career was in comedy, playing Murray the newswriter and Capt. Steubing. But he made his mark playing villains on TV and movies, often nasty ones.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Any Man from Uncle appearances?

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

372 The LA River has had a starring role in a few movies, including Them!.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Grease. The race scene.

Funny how a "NY" based movie had the LA Drainage Ditch in it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:44 AM (xO53V)

373 I think Gavin was in several Hogan's Heroes episodes as a Nasty Not See.

Posted by: whig

Also played a villain in a Peter Gunn episode.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

374 Ambiguous. A good word for this Monday.

Do like the painting & would certainly view in the gallery but wouldn't hang it.

Wikipedia, in part, "Automat is a 1927 oil painting by the American realist painter Edward Hopper. The painting was first displayed on Valentine's Day 1927 at the opening of Hopper's second solo show, at the Rehn Galleries in New York City. By April it had been sold for $1,200 ($21,048 in 2023 dollars [1]).[2] The painting is today owned by the Des Moines Art Center, in Iowa.

The painting portrays a lone woman staring into a cup of coffee in an automat at night. The reflection of identical rows of light fixtures stretches out through the night-blackened window.

Hopper's wife, Jo, served as the model for the woman.[3] However, Hopper altered her face to make her younger (Jo was 44 in 1927). He also altered her figure; Jo was a curvy, full-figured woman, while one critic has described the woman in the painting as "'boyish' (that is, flat-chested)".[4]

As is often the case in Hopper's paintings, both the woman's circumstances and her mood are ambiguous...."

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

375 Webb had a particular kind of role that he did better than anybody else. When I read The Razor's Edge, I did not picture him as quintessential snob Elliott Templeton. Once I knew he had played the role, I could not picture anyone else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Waldo Lydecker in Laura was his signature role.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025

***
Waldo and Elliott are much alike, except as far as I know, Elliott had never even contemplated murder. Vera Caspary's novel Laura came out a year before Maugham's, and the movie versions appeared in the same order two years apart. So maybe Caspary's character, if he read her book at all, influenced Maugham's portrait of elegant snob Elliott.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (J2vNu)

376 I like to adulterate strawberry's with whipped cream.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (QhCcO)

377 JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974 1h
🚨🚨 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc
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On 60 Minutes yesterday.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (iMpf5)

378 366 Why ruin strawberry pie by adulterating it with rhubarb?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Same reason that people add carrot to a spice cake to make carrot cake. Rhubarb has astringency which somehow melds with strawberries (and a bunch of sugar) to make something different in taste. Carrots do the same to a spice cake recipe.

Potato flour is also not unknown in being used for cakes, etc.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

379 The LA River had no speaking parts so no SAG card.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:46 AM (YeGMU)

380 > Didn't some movie have the shuttle land in the LA river channel?
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"The Core"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 10:46 AM (Q4IgG)

381 I think Elliott Gould is like 106 years old.

Posted by: Clarence The Barber at January 13, 2025 10:46 AM (jiYtH)

382 I saw that two of the three mansions bought by Patrice Cullors with BLM's money burned down. A new grift is probably incoming to replace them.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2025 10:46 AM (2ocoG)

383 Hm. Maybe I can write a story using this painting.*

*And it not sell, either....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 13, 2025 10:46 AM (0eaVi)

384 Did they make radiators that small? Looks like it would only be maybe a foot and half tall and three wide, if that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2025 10:42 AM (Dm8we)

Yeah, I've seen some 6"x6"x12"...hot water radiators.

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2025 10:47 AM (Yj6Os)

385 Meghan Markle and Prince Harry comfort the bereaved in Los Angeles.

https://is.gd/oQY9pN

https://is.gd/CVt8o5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 13, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

386 Wan't he in Rocky Horror Picture Show ?

Yes, and he (Richard O’Brien) also wrote the lyrics. According to the commentary track on Dark City, he amused the Scary Kids by singing songs as if Dark City were a musical. I’d love to hear those.

He also did the only good songs in that Aussie superhero musical, The Return of Captain Invincible.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 13, 2025 10:47 AM (EXyHK)

387 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc

He means the FBI has agents strategically positioned etc etc to cause mass chaos after the inauguration.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2025 10:47 AM (2ocoG)

388 377 JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974 1h
🚨🚨 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc
===

This is my shocked face _ oh, wait, NOT.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 10:48 AM (QhCcO)

389 I think Gavin was in several Hogan's Heroes episodes as a Nasty Not See.

Posted by: whig
*
Also played a villain in a Peter Gunn episode.
Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025

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Also in a first-year U.N.C.L.E., not as a Thrush agent, but part of an unaffiliated group of baddies. For some reason his sidearm in the show is a Colt Single Action Army .45.

His signature nasty role to me was as "Big Chicken," an unrepentant drug dealer, in two early episodes of Hawaii Five-O.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:48 AM (J2vNu)

390 Also played a villain in a Peter Gunn episode.
Posted by: Bulg
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I have been intending to watch that series for awhile now. Watched some of the original dragnet series during the 50's and you got to see quite a few Hollywood fixtures just starting out as bit players.

Original Dragnet series had a harder edge than the later 60's show and often verbatim replays of the older Dragnet radio show scripts.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:48 AM (ctrM5)

391 "The Core"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 10:46 AM (Q4IgG)
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Ah, I remembered a scene from an eminently forgettable movie.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 13, 2025 10:48 AM (tT6L1)

392 I keep getting tweets like this in my timeline

not sure what is going on

mild nsfw

https://x.com/Angelakeni_/status/
1873877452369650134

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2025 10:49 AM (AOsQT)

393 Radiators tended to be small and wide or tall and narrow. Pretty sure some engineer types figured out best surface area thing.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2025 10:49 AM (4780s)

394 Like Leslie Nielsen, the latter part of Gavin MacLeod's career was in comedy, playing Murray the newswriter and Capt. Steubing. But he made his mark playing villains on TV and movies, often nasty ones.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Cook Off.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:49 AM (xO53V)

395 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc

and you mention this now?!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 10:50 AM (aD39U)

396 The only water in California is in the north and east. Not in LA.

LA has been a large city for a long time. That means they've somehow had water for a long time. What changed this year? Choices were made, intentionally.

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2025 10:50 AM (OqC0L)

397 Yeah, I've seen some 6"x6"x12"...hot water radiators.
Posted by: BignJames
_________

Damn. Where would that be useful?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2025 10:50 AM (Dm8we)

398 I keep getting tweets like this in my timeline

not sure what is going on

mild nsfw

https://x.com/Angelakeni_/status/
1873877452369650134
Posted by: Don Black

I got a "this page does not exist."

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

399 398 Same here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:51 AM (YeGMU)

400 Damn. Where would that be useful?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2025 10:50 AM (Dm8we)

bathroom....small bathroom

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2025 10:51 AM (Yj6Os)

401 > FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc
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Tens of thousands of Chinese men have illegally entered the country since *biden took over.

They have to get a visa in China to leave, so the government there knows who they are and where they're going. And the junta has done nothing, but now.... now? acknowledges they're here? Horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2025 10:51 AM (Q4IgG)

402 Meghan Markle and Prince Harry comfort the bereaved in Los Angeles.

https://is.gd/oQY9pN

https://is.gd/CVt8o5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Beyonce donated $2.5 million.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:52 AM (xO53V)

403 mild nsfw

https://x.com/Angelakeni_/status/
1873877452369650134
Posted by: Don Black
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mild tinyurl. the link doesn't work

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 10:52 AM (QhCcO)

404 >>FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc.

Is this kind of talk no longer racist?

Posted by: davidt at January 13, 2025 10:52 AM (i0F8b)

405 May 12, 1990, Greater Philadelphia's last Automat, located in Bala Cynwyd, shut its doors.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 13, 2025 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

406 Damn. Where would that be useful?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Bathrooms.

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

407 The Bidet administration is trying to rewrite things to where they are the heroes sounding the alarm while making things even more difficult for the incoming Trump administration.

DoD and Tencent. Wray and Chinese sleeper cells.

I hope this whole vile administration finds agonizing ways to die.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (eEdHS)

408 Could your hot water heater heat your house?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (YeGMU)

409 May 12, 1990, Greater Philadelphia's last Automat, located in Bala Cynwyd, shut its doors.
Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 13, 2025

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I know I'm setting myself up for this, but: How is that town name pronounced?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

410 Beyonce donated $2.5 million.
Posted by: rickb223
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How much was she paid to appear at Harris fund raiser?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (QhCcO)

411 >mild tinyurl. the link doesn't work

Posted by: Braenyard
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ahhh
anyway..

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (AOsQT)

412 Gotta go, shoulder is giving me a time out.

Have fun storming the castle!!

Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)

413 May 12, 1990, Greater Philadelphia's last Automat, located in Bala Cynwyd, shut its doors.
Posted by: L

Vowel shortages negatively affect local economies.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

414 Could your hot water heater heat your house?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025

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If the water is already hot, why does it need to be heated?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

415 Morning.

Anna! Anna! Anna!

Macross...it's on Hulu! It's on freakin' Hulu, dude!

Posted by: Robert at January 13, 2025 10:54 AM (1Yy3c)

416 Nyah?

Not Robotech?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 13, 2025 10:54 AM (eEdHS)

417 LA has been a large city for a long time. That means they've somehow had water for a long time. What changed this year? Choices were made, intentionally.

They haven't filled the reservoir in Palisades since 2009 according to Google Maps.

Also I saw on X that the burning areas line up neatly with where the high speed rail is supposed to go.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2025 10:55 AM (2ocoG)

418 There is that little body of water to the west, the Pacific Ocean
Posted by: Boss Moss

There's still water in the Pacific? I guess the Democrats aren't in charge of that yet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 13, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

419 How much was she paid to appear at Harris fund raiser?
Posted by: Braenyar

10 large

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:55 AM (xO53V)

420 Could your hot water heater heat your house?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:53 AM (YeGMU)

Possibly....not all boilers are steam boilers....water boilers were used for heat as well.

Posted by: BignJames at January 13, 2025 10:55 AM (Yj6Os)

421 Damn. Where would that be useFul

The bathroom

Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2025 10:56 AM (4780s)

422 I was thinking you could pupe it from the hot water heater to tge raduators.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:56 AM (YeGMU)

423 IMDB, reverse chronology:

Klute 7.1
John Klute
1971

Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, and Don Rickles in Kelly's Heroes (1970) Kelly's Heroes 7.6
Sergeant Oddball
1970

Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder in Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) Start the Revolution Without Me 6.4
Charles
Pierre
1970

Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, and Jo Ann Pflug in M*A*S*H (1970) M*A*S*H 7.3
Hawkeye Pierce
1970

The Dirty Dozen (1967) The Dirty Dozen 7.7
Vernon L. Pinkley
1967

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 10:56 AM (iMpf5)

424 Also I saw on X that the burning areas line up neatly with where the high speed rail is supposed to go.
Posted by: Ian S.

Except someone f'ed up and burned the rich, pretty people's homes.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:56 AM (xO53V)

425 I have been intending to watch that series for awhile now. Watched some of the original dragnet series during the 50's and you got to see quite a few Hollywood fixtures just starting out as bit players.

Original Dragnet series had a harder edge than the later 60's show and often verbatim replays of the older Dragnet radio show scripts.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025

***
Peter Gunn was fun -- more about the quirky and memorable characters Gunn knows and meets during the course of an episode than it is about him, but still with nice B & W photography, smartly directed and written.

The original Dragnet was tough stuff, long before Miranda warnings and protections for arrestees. No, I don't think Friday and his partner ever used rubber hoses on anybody, but they certainly used psychological pressures to get suspects to talk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (J2vNu)

426 A man has been arrested after firefighters caught him 'actively lighting fires' in Los Angeles county, it has emerged.

Ruben Montes, 29, was arrested for arson on Sunday in Irwindale, California, roughly 16 miles away from Altadena, where the deadly Eaton Fire continues to rage.

Firefighters were responding to a small brush fire in Irwindale when they witnessed Montes starting blazes in the area, police have confirmed.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (Y1sOo)

427 378 366 Why ruin strawberry pie by adulterating it with rhubarb?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Same reason that people add carrot to a spice cake to make carrot cake. Rhubarb has astringency which somehow melds with strawberries (and a bunch of sugar) to make something different in taste. Carrots do the same to a spice cake recipe.

Potato flour is also not unknown in being used for cakes, etc.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

Hate to be an outlier here, but strawberry rhubarb pie is one of my all time favorites. And yes, I like pineapple on pepperoni pizza, but draw the line at carrots in chili.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (N39Ws)

428 I keep getting tweets like this in my timeline not sure what is going on

It seems to be cyclical (well, so does the image so…); I’ll get a bunch of follow requests on MeWe like that over a few days, then they’ll stop. My guess is that some new algorithm for getting past the spam blocks comes out, a bunch of spammers use it, and then it gets added and the new trick stops working.

(For those unable to see the link, first, it isn’t worth it, and second, you have to remove the spaces from URLs broken up into multiple lines, caveman.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (EXyHK)

429 395 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc

and you mention this now?!
Posted by: Grump928(C)

It's disgraceful.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

430 Cam Newton is out of the NFL, but he could be a Hollywood stuntman

https://tinyurl.com/a9tebes6

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (AOsQT)

431 I figured th 40s era hippie movie was made in the 60s. Anachronism?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025 10:58 AM (YeGMU)

432 A man has been arrested after firefighters caught him 'actively lighting fires' in Los Angeles county, it has emerged.

Ruben Montes, 29, was arrested for arson on Sunday in Irwindale, California, roughly 16 miles away from Altadena, where the deadly Eaton Fire continues to rage.

Firefighters were responding to a small brush fire in Irwindale when they witnessed Montes starting blazes in the area, police have confirmed.
Posted by: one hour sober

Is that the guy who had five cell phones on him an a pre-paid debit card from the UN?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:58 AM (xO53V)

433 Rhubarb = crappy celery.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (3j71j)

434 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc

and you mention this now?!
Posted by: Grump928(C)

It's disgraceful.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 13, 2025 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

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None dare call it treason.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (eWVx8)

435 Hate to be an outlier here, but strawberry rhubarb pie is one of my all time favorites. And yes, I like pineapple on pepperoni pizza, but draw the line at carrots in chili.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Fist. Bump.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (xO53V)

436 I figured th 40s era hippie movie was made in the 60s. Anachronism?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2025

***
Kelly's Heroes? Yes, '69 I think. I'd guess somebody like Sutherland's Oddball would not have risen to any kind of important rank in the real 1940s army.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

437 It's all bots following me on X

and most of them have naughty pictures of ladies in various degrees of deshabille

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (AOsQT)

438 Tens of thousands of Chinese men have illegally entered the country since *biden took over.
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And there's a photo/video of a bunch waiting to be picked up by [ICE??] buses who are all, oddly enough, standing in the PLA's "at ease" drill position.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (iMpf5)

439 It's like a chapter in The Bible. See how the media cleanse itself or hell will be It's Sunday school teacher.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (XJO0x)

440 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States — Strategically Positioned around Critical Infrastructure, lying in wait to Wreak Havoc

A solid way to get the media to give your sleeper cells the ready signal...

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2025 11:00 AM (iDNwP)

441 M Squad - Lee Marvin

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 11:00 AM (QhCcO)

442 437 It's all bots following me on X

and most of them have naughty pictures of ladies in various degrees of deshabille

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Wait. They aren't real?!

Shit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 13, 2025 11:01 AM (3j71j)

443 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 13, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

444 >>Is that the guy who had five cell phones on him an a pre-paid debit card from the UN?

I dunno. Is the guy with five cell phones the illegal with the blowtorch?

This is a different guy.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2025 11:02 AM (Y1sOo)

445 1 M Squad - Lee Marvin
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025

***
I only dimly remember it being on TV in reruns. Mercury autos of the time had a big "M" on their grilles, and my kid's mind decided that the M Squad cops must drive Mercurys.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 11:02 AM (J2vNu)

446 441 M Squad - Lee Marvin
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 11:00 AM (QhCcO)

Lee Marvin in Dirty Dozen. +1

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 13, 2025 11:02 AM (N39Ws)

447 A lot of action on old twitter that's not on X.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 11:02 AM (QhCcO)

448 >FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States
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that's weird- this is precisely the sort of thing the FBI is supposed to prevent

huh

Posted by: Don Black at January 13, 2025 11:03 AM (AOsQT)

449 M Squad - Lee Marvin
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025
*
Lee Marvin in Dirty Dozen. +1
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 13, 2025

***
And as the true embodiment of Richard Stark's tough robber Parker in Point Blank.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 11:03 AM (J2vNu)

450 Cam jumping helicoptes just for fun.?

Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2025 11:03 AM (4780s)

451 None dare call it treason.
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025 10:59 AM (eWVx

What's the reason?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 11:03 AM (aD39U)

452 It ain't Nighthawks, but it'll do.

Nighthawks is the wallpaper on my computer screen -- don't know why, but that pic has appealed to me for eons.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 13, 2025 11:03 AM (q3u5l)

453 Mercury's were so good looking and hot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 13, 2025 11:04 AM (QhCcO)

454 Cam jumping helicoptes just for fun.?
Posted by: From about That Time at January 13, 2025 11:03 AM (4780s)

Stephen Baldwin too, apparently.

Is this some former celebrity Fear Factor show?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025 11:04 AM (aD39U)

455 None dare call it treason.
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 13, 2025
*
What's the reason?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 13, 2025

***
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 13, 2025 11:06 AM (J2vNu)

456 FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has Sleeper Cells all over the United States
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that's weird- this is precisely the sort of thing the FBI is supposed to prevent

and therefore uniquely qualified to direct!

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2025 11:10 AM (B46kE)

457 Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine in Emperor of the North. Five Star Rating!

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2025 11:18 AM (jFCkp)

458 I love Edward Hopper's work. I'm from Chicago, and I grew up looking at Hopper's "Nighthawks" in the Art Institute. (It's hanging not far from Grant Wood's "American Gothic".) Hopper paid the bills by doing magazine illustrations, and it's often said that his paintings are illustrations of stories that have never been written. Hopper also did a series of paintings of lighthouses, of all things, which are quite lovely.

Posted by: Nemo at January 13, 2025 11:27 AM (S6ArX)

459 What is she thinking? Perhaps ... "Geez, this is my fourth cup of coffee, and he still hasn't shown up!"

Posted by: Nemo at January 13, 2025 11:43 AM (S6ArX)

460 The DoD just labeled Tencent, the big Chinese company who is looking to buy Ubislop, as a military company.

Tencent owns or part owns a LOT of the game industry.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2025 11:52 AM (3cXfB)

461 Have several old style diners around where I live and still a cafeteria or two that aren't in the dying malls.

They still get quite a few customers and one diner is a local landmark.
Posted by: whig at January 13, 2025 10:32 AM (ctrM5)

We have a ton of diners....diner capital of the world. 24/7, anything that's on the menu. Most are still Greek owned.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 13, 2025 11:58 AM (iODuv)

462 Horn&Hardart makeover today. I'm old enough to have been in the old one as a kid.

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Posted by: BubbleheadJD at January 13, 2025 12:01 PM (lQVWv)

463 Cloche Bucket Hats make the best toilet paper comforters.

Posted by: look whats not at January 13, 2025 02:46 PM (nakGR)

464 The Automats are coming back in many areas

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465 I savor, result in I discovered just what I was having a look for.

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