Mid-Morning Art Thread

Wheat
Thomas Hart Benton

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 wheat

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Grainy

Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:30 AM (Uq+qx)

3 Boring.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

4 Really like this one...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2025 09:30 AM (VE6XX)

5 What kind of wheat?

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

6 I'll give you 2 sheeps for a wheat.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (MGB5H)

7 Nice subject, but Benton's style annoys me. Would not hang.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

8 I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

10 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

Coeliac sufferer?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

11 Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” 3 So Ruth went out and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. She just so happened to be in the field of Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

12 Not my favorite Benton pain tings but he is in my top five American painters.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

13 5,000 piece Jigsaw puzzle.

Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

14 This seems awfully familiar.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (n4GiU)

15 Not even fit for a cereal box.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

16 No wheat beer...too cloudy.

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (Yj6Os)

17 I saw Clean Riddance open for...

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

18 Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

I used Millet's "The Gleaners" a long time ago!

I'll look for Manet's version.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

19 Interesting. The cut wheat almost looks like text. Maybe it is.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

20 This seems awfully familiar.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (n4GiU)

Were you on last night's ONT?

Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:34 AM (Uq+qx)

21 auto correct is just f'ing with me now.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:34 AM (VofaG)

22 SAAM

Title
Wheat
Artist
Thomas Hart Benton
Date
1967
Location
Smithsonian American Art Museum
/
1st Floor
/
North Wing
Dimensions
20 x 21 in. (50.8 x 53.3 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

23 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

Or Van Gogh's.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (VofaG)

24 Interesting. The cut wheat almost looks like text. Maybe it is.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Bar code.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (kWZrF)

25 Interesting. The cut wheat almost looks like text. Maybe it is.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

It's Morse code. It reads "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

26 AKA..."Amber Waves of Grain"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (7fElN)

27 I’m thinking of the scene in Love and Death where they just say “Wheat”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (h8QI+)

28 I had wheat toast for breakfast.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

29 I used Millet's "The Gleaners" a long time ago!

I'll look for Manet's version.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (L5An7)

We will come rejoicing
Gleaning in the fields

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

30 Were you on last night's ONT?
Posted by: Doof
====
Why yes, yes I was.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (n4GiU)

31 My Bibleing is not as good as it used to be but I believe that Ruth is David's Great Grandmother.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

32 Reminds me of the classic Ray Bradbury story "The Scythe."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (7fElN)

33 "Children of the Corn" and He Who Walks Behind the Rows! (The short story was a good one; the movie, I understand, sucked filthy pond water)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

34
Repeat from last night's ONT?

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (j4U/Z)

35 >19 Interesting. The cut wheat almost looks like text. Maybe it is.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

Morse code...B E S U R E T O D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (NgqoH)

36 You can't talk about wheat without mentioning Norman Borlaug, one of the greatest Norwegian-Americans of all time. It can be said he saved a billion people from starvation by his engineering and improvement of wheat.

Posted by: Bringing In The Sheaves at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (G5+As)

37 Or Van Gogh's.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (VofaG)

Was watching some arty show...they pronounced his name Van Gow.

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

38 Interesting. The cut wheat almost looks like text. Maybe it is.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

It's Morse code. It reads "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

Something far greater which was inspired by Morse Code
https://youtu.be/ftVTWDrtrlc

Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:38 AM (Uq+qx)

39 My Bibleing is not as good as it used to be but I believe that Ruth is David's Great Grandmother.
Posted by: rhennigantx

You are correct, Sir.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

40 It’s Dwarvish runes, they’re hiding amidst the stalks, eyes burning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 09:38 AM (h8QI+)

41 having just one hue and just a few different values is the opposite of other Benton paintings. I don't particularly like monochromatic paintings.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:38 AM (VofaG)

42 I like it. But then, I tend to like Benton most of the time.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 11, 2025 09:38 AM (pLaQB)

43 I'm just stalking.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (P3X50)

44 "Wheat", right to the point. He could have also gone with "This is not Wheat". Just sayin'.

Posted by: Zombie Rene Magritte at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (ATzd2)

45
Those are all phallic symbols.

Posted by: Your lonely single female highschool art teacher at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (dg+HA)

46 "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Where does this come from? Another Python skit?

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

47 Where does this come from? Another Python skit?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

A Christmas Story

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

48 I was gonna call it corny, but. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)

49 I'm just stalking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Keep your ears pricked.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

50 I find the use of color acceptable.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (Pnvww)

51 Was watching some arty show...they pronounced his name Van Gow.
_____

Was it when he cut his ear off?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (ATzd2)

52 It's ... wheat.

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (6hd1O)

53 41 having just one hue and just a few different values is the opposite of other Benton paintings. I don't particularly like monochromatic paintings.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith

Sounds suspiciously like saying "All Lives Matter".

Posted by: Semolina Sid at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

54 I was gonna call it corny, but. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)
-

The Brits would argue and claim it's amaizing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (P3X50)

55 A Christmas Story
Posted by: rhennigantx

Thanks. Never really got the love for that movie.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

56 Was it when he cut his ear off?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (ATzd2)

Then he was Van Damme.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (VoAdT)

57
Gene Hackman dead. Pope Frankie, Joey, Turtle, Hunter still alive.

Not making any money on the dead pool for a couple months now.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (j4U/Z)

58 I was gonna call it corny, but. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)

Add rice to complete the trifecta? Yup - that Chex out.

Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (Uq+qx)

59 I was able to complete paintings like this, using detailed repetitive forms, when I was tweaking.
This was in the Before Times

Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (Rz8qc)

60 >49 I'm just stalking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Keep your ears pricked.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

That's a scythe of relief...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 11, 2025 09:41 AM (NgqoH)

61 I like it. It’s soothing and quiet.

The waves in the front make the whole painting flow, max and eb together. Almost like the sea.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

62 Keep your ears pricked.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:42 AM (P3X50)

63 I'm just stalking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025

***
We'll all end up chaffing each other.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

64 “When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

65 Something far greater which was inspired by Morse Code
https://youtu.be/ftVTWDrtrlc
Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:38 AM (Uq+qx)

Not precisely Morse Code but you can think of it that way.

https://youtu.be/DqPj-E_8f3c

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (ExV1e)

66 I really loved the piece entitled, "Corn."

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (fY84s)

67 >>The Brits would argue and claim it's amaizing.

Wheat are ya gonna do?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (Cki93)

68 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (VofaG)

Was watching some arty show...they pronounced his name Van Gow.
Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

other pretentious art people pronounce it Fan Hawf since that's how its pronounced in Dutch.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (VofaG)

69
>thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger...

And speaketh to each othereth as if thy were acting in a Shakespearen play whilst doing so.

Posted by: Forsooth at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (dg+HA)

70 42 I like it. But then, I tend to like Benton most of the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Barbi Benton 1970 must have been a wonderful field to plow.

Posted by: Modern Farmer at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

71 Emmer wheat.

Em over there ain't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (VoAdT)

72 I'm just stalking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025

***
We'll all end up chaffing each other.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)
-

We'ze glutens for punishment!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:44 AM (P3X50)

73 I like the vibe from this piece: richly colorful, details of the plants and the idea of endless bounty. Benton has a way of focusing on the elements of a scene that carry more depth than the surface image. His scene from NYC , emphasizing landmark buildings, is an example. This is a far cry from the rich rural landscapes by Constable and some of the Dutch painters that I enjoy but it does make an impact and has a very American feel.

Posted by: JTB at March 11, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

74 I think this is a metaphor for something.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 11, 2025 09:44 AM (B9Prs)

75 That's a scythe of relief...
Posted by: Heavy Meta

Let's not make any snath judgments here.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

76 55 A Christmas Story
Posted by: rhennigantx

Thanks. Never really got the love for that movie.
Posted by: Bulg
--------
Absurd events that happen in the lives of a loving family and the successful quest of a boy seeking to become a man via that quest.

Strong underlying mythological setting.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (ctrM5)

77 SNIP....

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (mzM2O)

78 So "fields of gold" is a theme this week, I see.

No local wheat fields, but there's pampas grass on the front lawn.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (NFX2v)

79 other pretentious art people pronounce it Fan Hawf since that's how its pronounced in Dutch.
______

A very throaty H, with lots of phlegm.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (ATzd2)

80 71 Emmer wheat.

Em over there ain't.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

M R Too!

C M Wangs?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

81 Pompous grass is pompous

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (mzM2O)

82 And speaketh to each othereth as if thy were acting in a Shakespearen play whilst doing so.

Posted by: Forsooth at March 11, 2025 09:43 AM (dg+HA)
-

"Frecketh not to tho and forketh not to thee." Jackie Mason

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (P3X50)

83 74 I think this is a metaphor for something.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 11, 2025 09:44 AM (B9Prs)

=======

*nods sagaciously*

Rome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

84 I think this is a metaphor for something.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

What's a meta for?

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

85 70 42 I like it. But then, I tend to like Benton most of the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Barbi Benton 1970 must have been a wonderful field to plow.
------------------
I remember Barbi. Not that I am that old.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (pLaQB)

86 Nice artistic reflection of picture that was on the ONT last night. I hope you have a lovely time in Paris, CBD.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (rZVaQ)

87 60 >49 I'm just stalking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Keep your ears pricked.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

That's a scythe of relief.

There's a kernel of truth in there...

Posted by: Or maybe a colonel at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (dg+HA)

88 Where does this come from? Another Python skit?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

A Christmas Story
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025

***
One or more of the old-time radio dramas or serials like Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, or Captain Midnight used to send out "decoder rings" to faithful fans who wrote in. At the end of each episode, they'd give out the week's coded message, and the kids would scurry to their decoder rings only to find out the message spelled out the sponsor's name.

I think Little Orphan Annie did it too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

89 It's a meta for for the dust bowl experience.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (mzM2O)

90 84 I think this is a metaphor for something.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

What's a meta for?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

Nothin'. What's a meta for you?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (VoAdT)

91 Some crops just "make sense" to me, as far as the ratio of what can be harvested compared to what can't. Green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers - all the various roots like potatoes, carrots, and beets.

Wheat seems like a whole lot of stuff to grow just for the seed pod at the top. Corn is right at the borderline.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (Pnvww)

92 Also never got the love for Christmas Story. Not terrible but just meh for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (VofaG)

93 Don't go against the grain with these comments.

Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

94 I do like it!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (Cki93)

95 64 “When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Posted by: rhennigantx
-----
Was watching a YT video of the siege of Jericho. One of the markers was that the Bible declared the siege happened after the harvest time when the Jordan River reached flood stage. Excavations of the suspected Jericho site indicated burnt wheat grains in pottery at the site.

The YT video had a brief sequence of old timey biblical era harvesting of wheat with the scythe, gathering the sheaves, and of course the biblical tractor aka donkey being laden with the sheaves. Nice touch.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (ctrM5)

96 What's a meta for?

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
-

Same as in town!

/wake up morons

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:48 AM (P3X50)

97 Benton's Wiki page has a photo of the artist in his 40s or 50s. He looks like a Missouri farmer. His face would have been appropriate as an extra in "The Outlaw Josie Wales".

Posted by: JTB at March 11, 2025 09:48 AM (yTvNw)

98 Grain makes up 65% of all agriculture in the world.

Tune in for other useless bits of information!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:48 AM (mzM2O)

99 We have yet to cite the wheat and tares reference...

Posted by: For those of you keeping score at March 11, 2025 09:48 AM (dg+HA)

100 Some crops just "make sense" to me, as far as the ratio of what can be harvested compared to what can't. Green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers - all the various roots like potatoes, carrots, and beets.

Wheat seems like a whole lot of stuff to grow just for the seed pod at the top. Corn is right at the borderline.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (Pnvww)

Just because humans only eat the wheat seed doesn't make the rest of the plant worthless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (ExV1e)

101 (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (FZYNt)

102 Don't go against the grain with these comments.

Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
-

Whadaya gonna do? Bran me???

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (P3X50)

103 102 Don't go against the grain with these comments.

Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
-

Whadaya gonna do? Bran me???
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (P3X50)

No need to be Bulgur.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (VoAdT)

104 Also never got the love for Christmas Story. Not terrible but just meh for me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith

It would've been so much better if the kid had asked his dad about his days as a monster-hunter in Chicago.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

105 Not one shuck was given.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (fY84s)

106 98 Grain makes up 65% of all agriculture in the world...

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: The bogus food pyramid at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (dg+HA)

107 Grain makes up 65% of all agriculture in the world.

Biggest American producer of rice by state ? Arkansas.

*the more you know

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (Pnvww)

108 Just because humans only eat the wheat seed doesn't make the rest of the plant worthless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:49 AM (ExV1e)

Wheat seed was Mrs. George Jefferson, correct?

Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (Uq+qx)

109 107 Grain makes up 65% of all agriculture in the world.

Biggest American producer of rice by state ? Arkansas.

*the more you know
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (Pnvww)

I've flown over Arkansas. Tis true. Puddles everywhere.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (mzM2O)

110 >>Add rice to complete the trifecta? Yup - that Chex out.

LOL!

[insert GORP pun here -- I'm tapped out]

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (Cki93)

111 Farmer Joe came to the state fair with his World's Largest Wheat Berry, but nobody noticed it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (VoAdT)

112 Benton did a lot of murals.

I do like his Poker Night painting. Very edgy for him.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (VofaG)

113 Wheat seed was Mrs. George Jefferson, correct?
Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (Uq+qx)

That was a real stretch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (ExV1e)

114 Thanks. Never really got the love for that movie.
Posted by: Bulg
--------
Absurd events that happen in the lives of a loving family and the successful quest of a boy seeking to become a man via that quest.

Strong underlying mythological setting.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (ctrM5)

It reminds me of the country I was born into, not the one I live in now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (uWKK8)

115 M R Too!

C M Wangs?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

L I B

M R Ducks

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

116 You see wheat. I see unmade beer.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (svLOV)

117 Just because humans only eat the wheat seed doesn't make the rest of the plant worthless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They also milk the stalks to get the cream.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

118 Waiting for a golden retriever to pop his head out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (VwHCD)

119 Also never got the love for Christmas Story. Not terrible but just meh for me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith
*
It would've been so much better if the kid had asked his dad about his days as a monster-hunter in Chicago.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
And his private-eye days in New York, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

120 You can't eat wheat on the cob.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (pLaQB)

121 I've flown over Arkansas. Tis true. Puddles everywhere.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (mzM2O)

Good Duck hunting too

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 09:52 AM (gbOdA)

122 It's not really reapy-reap.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 11, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)

123 >>What's a meta for?

Data mining. Duh

Posted by: Zuckerberg at March 11, 2025 09:52 AM (Cki93)

124 CBD, London's Royal Academy is in difficulty. Significantly fewer visitors. 100 people to be let go.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at March 11, 2025 09:52 AM (yTvNw)

125 Bow before the king baby!

Posted by: Joseph the Dreamer at March 11, 2025 09:53 AM (4TAOz)

126 92 Also never got the love for Christmas Story. Not terrible but just meh for me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith
======
Christmas Story was a chapter in Jean Shepherd's book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. The less successful sequel used another story from the book (had Charles Grodin as the father who was miscast, don't remember the rest of it).

A lot depends on whether you care for Depression era memories of life for kids in the late 30's and early 40's. Same as to understand Life with Father or the original superior Cheaper by the Dozen, the Egg and I, or other classic movies, you have to get into the mindset of the generations that existed before us. Loving families with both comic and tragic interludes along with rites of passage (Meet Me in St. Louis was the older women courting for example--Quest for a Red Ryder BB gun was in Christmas Story for young boys, and so on).

Don't care for nostalgia, then you will not care for any of these movies. FWIW, Porky's is simply a raunchier take on it.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 09:53 AM (ctrM5)

127 Arkansas should then be a big crawfish producer too. probably too cold though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:53 AM (VofaG)

128 Just because humans only eat the wheat seed doesn't make the rest of the plant worthless.

You can make paper out of the stalks. Its supposed to be good rotation crop. And that's about all I've got.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:53 AM (Pnvww)

129 Wheat seems like a whole lot of stuff to grow just for the seed pod at the top. Corn is right at the borderline.
Posted by: How It Works

That's one of the wonders of modern agriculture. In old paintings and photos, wheat is like 4 feet tall. Now it is engineered to be like 18" tall. Less stalk means less wasted production, less fertilizer, less damage from wind. Same is true for other modern crops.

Posted by: Agriculture, USA at March 11, 2025 09:54 AM (G5+As)

130 I love this artist and have one of his paintings in our living room.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2025 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

131 Grain makes up 65% of all agriculture in the world...

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: The bogus food pyramid at March 11, 2025

***
And they belong to the family of grasses, Graminiae -- the essence of John Christopher's apocalypse-in-Britain-thanks-to-famine novel, No Blade of Grass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

132 This painting makes me cream.

Posted by: Old Quacker Dude at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (w9Wax)

133 Also never got the love for Christmas Story. Not terrible but just meh for me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith

I love that movie. Not sure if its because of the simpler times, or its because I actually got a red ryder BB for christmas and then started shooting the tree ornaments. Mom was pissed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (VwHCD)

134
A sower went out to sow...

Posted by: Luke chapter 8 at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

135 The story out on Hackman's death is even more bizarre and tragic than we could imagine. Apparently, the wife died first of Hantavirus, and then Gene wandered around the apartment with Alzheimer's, unable to comprehend the situation for as much as a week before he died. The dog looks like it was locked in a closet without food and water.

Can't believe no one checked in on them in that entire time. Apparently they had gotten reclusive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (uWKK8)

136 A horror picture for those with Celiac disease

Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

137 Woody Allen's Love and Death comes to mind
Thx CBD,. Would hang, nice and simple

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 09:56 AM (2Km7O)

138 Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 09:53 AM (ctrM5)

I'm a big fan of 30's, 40's and 50's movies. Art Deco is my favorite style. Im the grandson of Depression era Grandparents. I still consider Christmas Story meh.

I concede I'm in the minority.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)

139 Cheerios!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:56 AM (mzM2O)

140
Now do soybeans.

Posted by: Farmers everywhere at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM (dg+HA)

141 It would've been so much better if the kid had asked his dad about his days as a monster-hunter in Chicago.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
And his private-eye days in New York, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
=======
Not all fiction has to be fantasy nor noire.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM (ctrM5)

142 The story out on Hackman's death is even more bizarre and tragic than we could imagine. Apparently, the wife died first of Hantavirus, and then Gene wandered around the apartment with Alzheimer's, unable to comprehend the situation for as much as a week before he died. The dog looks like it was locked in a closet without food and water.

Can't believe no one checked in on them in that entire time. Apparently they had gotten reclusive.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (uWKK

The dog had recently had a procedure at the vet which is why it was closed off from the other dogs. She was taking care of him when she died he was forgotten about.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM (MGB5H)

143 That's one of the wonders of modern agriculture. In old paintings and photos, wheat is like 4 feet tall. Now it is engineered to be like 18" tall.

Yeah. The "no GMO" crowd wouldn't eat most agriculture from a few hundred years ago. Most of that stuff isn't recognizable compared to stuff today.

Frankly, I think those folks back in the day who cross-bred plants to come up with better varietals were absolute geniuses. True scientific pioneers.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM (Pnvww)

144 I'm intrigued by the symmetry of this painting. Not sure why, but it does draw me in.
The rows in the field at the top, the bottom of the wheat that has been harvested shown at the bottom, and the individual strands of wheat as they stand.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 11, 2025 09:58 AM (N39Ws)

145 Soybeans are the second largest gay crop in America behind glitter.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 11, 2025 09:58 AM (mzM2O)

146 Wheat seed was Mrs. George Jefferson, correct?
Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:50 AM (Uq+qx)

That was a real stretch.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 09:51 AM (ExV1e)

That's about as good as I can do. I never claimed to be Muldoon.

Posted by: Doof at March 11, 2025 09:58 AM (Uq+qx)

147 143 Frankly, I think those folks back in the day who cross-bred plants to come up with better varietals were absolute geniuses. True scientific pioneers.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM (Pnvww)

=======

Gregor Mendel, Augustinian friar.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)

148 Now do soybeans.

Posted by: Farmers everywhere at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM (dg+HA)

Sure..rye not?

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 09:59 AM (Yj6Os)

149 133 Also never got the love for Christmas Story. Not terrible but just meh for me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith

Heretic !

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2025 09:59 AM (VE6XX)

150 >>I concede I'm in the minority.

Same - just never got that movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 09:59 AM (Cki93)

151 A horror picture for those with Celiac disease
Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM

Fear me!

Posted by: Gluten at March 11, 2025 09:59 AM (Wnv9h)

152 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang! It's geezer Golf Tuesday. Time to go fleece a few bucks off the grey hairs! But first...
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

153 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2025 09:55 AM (VwHCD)

maybe it is because I never had to beg for a BB gun. Instead gifted with a 410 Wingmaster when I was his age. Damn I miss my Dad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 11, 2025 10:00 AM (VofaG)

154 "Wheat. Fields of wheat."

From Love and Death

Posted by: MichiCanuck at March 11, 2025 10:00 AM (8CouD)

155 Soybeans are the second largest gay crop in America behind glitter.

I'll have you know that soybeans can be used to make Crayons, which in turn can be used to feed Marines.

And with that, good day sir. I say, good day !!!

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:00 AM (Pnvww)

156 >>Now do soybeans.

Bean milking it a bit, aren't you?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 10:01 AM (Cki93)

157 Never got the love for the song Christmas Shoes, either.

Posted by: Make it stop! at March 11, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)

158 I'm a big fan of 30's, 40's and 50's movies. Art Deco is my favorite style. Im the grandson of Depression era Grandparents. I still consider Christmas Story meh.

I concede I'm in the minority.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith
=========
People either like it or they don't like it just like other forms of art. Some don't care for the absurdist flights of fantasy from the kid's point of view (in a test screening, they actually deleted one scene where Ralphie was daydreaming of being in a Flash Gordon hero). Audiences thought of it as too much.

The book proper (decent read) sets up the protagonist as a NY writer who goes home to Holman IN and visits the bar owned by a childhood chum. Then they end up reminiscing. Christmas Story was one of those vignettes.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:01 AM (ctrM5)

159 Quadrotriticale perhaps?

Posted by: MichiCanuck at March 11, 2025 10:01 AM (8CouD)

160 Now do soybeans.
Posted by: Farmers everywhere at March 11, 2025 09:57 AM

Ghey!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2025 10:02 AM (Wnv9h)

161 I concede I'm in the minority.

Same - just never got that movie.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2025 p.i]

***
WTBS used to run it every Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 24 hours of it, 12 showings; I guess automating it to give the employees the evening and the next day off (or to avoid paying a whole staff double-time for a holiday). Since I no longer have cable, I don't know where to find it come December. For some reason I've never watched the whole thing straight thorugh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

162 145 Soybeans are the second largest gay crop in America behind glitter.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

They are both important cash crops, along with confetti. Confetti futures have never rebounded after Rip Taylor's tragic death in 2019.

Posted by: Toupee Futures, Too. at March 11, 2025 10:02 AM (G5+As)

163 Gregor Mendel, Augustinian friar.

Also had the good fortune of picking a plant with a very simple genetic structure, consisting of a truly dominant and recessive gene. Nature rarely works that straight-forward. But we all need a bit of luck, and it doesn't take away from the man's genius in my view.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:02 AM (Pnvww)

164 Don't take Quadrotriticale if you're allergic to Quadrotriticale.

Posted by: The Legal Department at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (dg+HA)

165 Soybeans are the second largest gay crop in America behind glitter.

Don't forget the lezbeans!

/I'll show myself out

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (KVy6F)

166 maybe it is because I never had to beg for a BB gun. Instead gifted with a 410 Wingmaster when I was his age. Damn I miss my Dad.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith

=======
You might like the sequel as it is set around a story of Ralphie getting to go with his dad fishing.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (ctrM5)

167

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

168 Don't take Quadrotriticale if you're allergic to Quadrotriticale.
Posted by: The Legal Department at March 11, 2025

***
Trade name Tribblietta

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

169 167
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

======

Well said!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

170 Is Wussian inwention!

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 11, 2025 10:04 AM (6hd1O)

171 167

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

Can't be any more succinct than that.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:04 AM (Pnvww)

172 167
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

======

Well said!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:04 AM

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (Wnv9h)

173 161 I concede I'm in the minority.

Same - just never got that movie.
Posted by: Lizzy
-----
Not really a female oriented movie despite Melinda Dillon's excellent portrayal of a mother with young boys. Quest movies and coming of age stories typically fare worse with female audiences.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (ctrM5)

174 they actually deleted one scene where Ralphie was daydreaming of being in a Flash Gordon hero). Audiences thought of it as too much.

The first man ever to portray Flash Gordon was Gale Gordon on the radio in 1935.

Posted by: Gordon Squared at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (G5+As)

175 @167

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (Y1sOo)

176 173 Not really a female oriented movie despite Melinda Dillon's excellent portrayal of a mother with young boys. Quest movies and coming of age stories typically fare worse with female audiences.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (ctrM5)

======

What if we just put a girl in it and made it gay and lame?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

177 The first man ever to portray Flash Gordon was Gale Gordon on the radio in 1935.
Posted by: Gordon Squared at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (G5+As)“

I can’t help but hear Queen singing “Flash! Ohwaah-aah!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (uWKK8)

178 Not really a female oriented movie despite Melinda Dillon's excellent portrayal of a mother with young boys.

I always thought Melinda Dillon was pretty hot.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (Pnvww)

179 Not really a female oriented movie despite Melinda Dillon's excellent portrayal of a mother with young boys. Quest movies and coming of age stories typically fare worse with female audiences.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025

***
To be fair, A Christmas Story is not a "coming of age" tale in which a young boy, age 15 to 17, first has sex and/or falls in love with a girl. Ralphie is much younger than that. It's a different kind of "coming of age."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

180 I keep wanting to cross my eyes and see if I can find the hidden 3D image.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (dQfJF)

181 177 The first man ever to portray Flash Gordon was Gale Gordon on the radio in 1935.
Posted by: Gordon Squared at March 11, 2025 10:05 AM (G5+As)“

I can’t help but hear Queen singing “Flash! Ohwaah-aah!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (uWKK

=======

I have that 4K.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

182 Benton you should plant the wheat closer together,
Sincerely, Lysenko

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (2Km7O)

183 Since I no longer have cable, I don't know where to find it come December. For some reason I've never watched the whole thing straight thorugh.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
========
Try Jean Shepherd's book first as an author. Puckish sense of humor throughout. But, I think, Christmas Story has become one of those properties bought by this or that streaming channel for Christmas airing just like It's a Wonderful Life. Prime has it for streaming rental and of course dvd's abound.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:07 AM (ctrM5)

184 Children of the Wheat doesn't have the same ring to it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:08 AM (ewjUl)

185 I'll give you 2 sheeps for a wheat.
-------
Who has wood for my sheep??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:08 AM (/tzYP)

186 The first man ever to portray Flash Gordon was Gale Gordon on the radio in 1935.
Posted by: Gordon Squared

Mr. Mooney!

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

187 Children of the P0rn.
-- a Dem bestseller

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:08 AM (/tzYP)

188 Try Jean Shepherd's book first as an author. Puckish sense of humor throughout. But, I think, Christmas Story has become one of those properties bought by this or that streaming channel for Christmas airing just like It's a Wonderful Life. Prime has it for streaming rental and of course dvd's abound.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025

***
I'm pretty sure it can be found somewhere on Pluto or Tubi, yeah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

189 Everybody was to-fu fighting!

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 11, 2025 10:09 AM (fY84s)

190 Glean or Gleanda??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:10 AM (/tzYP)

191 Who has wood for my sheep??

*raises hand

Posted by: Muslims Everywhere at March 11, 2025 10:10 AM (Pnvww)

192 To be fair, A Christmas Story is not a "coming of age" tale in which a young boy, age 15 to 17, first has sex and/or falls in love with a girl. Ralphie is much younger than that. It's a different kind of "coming of age."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Disagree, that is a pretty narrow definition. The theme of the book is Ralphie is trying to become a man which rules out PG or R depictions. Porky's and Pee Wee character define that. It is more a rite of passage similar to bar mitzvah's as in today I become a man. First is the device of quest for the bb gun to protect the family (see flashback), second is fighting the bully (becoming a fighter rather than a victim), and the third is the fishing trip which is in the book as a chapter but was the story used for the Grodin sequel.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)

193 Christmas Story is the best Christmas movie, hands down. How the horde could not love it is beyond me. I mean the kid is trying to get his first gun FFS! I mean, yea, in the terms of caliber wars it's low, but gotta start somewhere.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:11 AM (ewjUl)

194 What if we just put a girl in it and made it gay and lame?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:06 AM

Brilliant!

Posted by: Hollywood at March 11, 2025 10:11 AM (kgE5c)

195 They also did sequel a few years ago where Ralphie is a dad. It's ... fine.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 10:12 AM (MGB5H)

196 Benton did a lot of murals.
===
I thought we were talking Barbie again.
Centerfolds are murals, aren't they?

Posted by: From about That Time at March 11, 2025 10:12 AM (n4GiU)

197 What if we just put a girl in it and made it gay and lame?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
If Kathleen Kennedy could get ahold of it, Ralphie would shoot his eye out, there would be a sister who was a natural gunslinger using the Force, and Mother would be a harridan with the Father being a cuck. That is modern entertainment at Disney.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:12 AM (ctrM5)

198 Mr. Mooney!
Posted by: Bulg

Wonderful voice. Radio Hall of Fame. Only person to appear in all of Lucille Ball's TV shows. He was first choice to be Fred Mertz, but had a regular gig as principal on Our Miss Brooks.
Rancher, artist, a very cool guy. Also was very agile for a somewhat portly guy.

Posted by: Mooney Fan Club at March 11, 2025 10:13 AM (G5+As)

199 Christmas Story is the best Christmas movie, hands down. Posted by: Minnfidel

I thought that was Die Hard?

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

200 Christmas Story is the best Christmas movie, hands down. How the horde could not love it is beyond me. I mean the kid is trying to get his first gun FFS! I mean, yea, in the terms of caliber wars it's low, but gotta start somewhere.

I like the irony that runs all through it. Its just a good "warts and all" kind of movie that revels in the imperfections of the typical family. I can really appreciate that. They're great because they aren't perfect.

Posted by: Muslims Everywhere at March 11, 2025 10:14 AM (Pnvww)

201 Off you damn sock !!!

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:14 AM (Pnvww)

202 He nailed the title.

So that's good.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2025 10:14 AM (0HaGk)

203 199 Christmas Story is the best Christmas movie, hands down. Posted by: Minnfidel

I thought that was Die Hard?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

=======

It's obviously The Shining.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

204 Mr. Mooney!
Posted by: Bulg

Wonderful voice. Radio Hall of Fame. Only person to appear in all of Lucille Ball's TV shows. He was first choice to be Fred Mertz, but had a regular gig as principal on Our Miss Brooks.
Rancher, artist, a very cool guy. Also was very agile for a somewhat portly guy.
Posted by: Mooney Fan Club at March 11, 2025

***
Gordon showed up in the original I Love Lucy? I knew about the others, but not that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:14 AM (J2vNu)

205 I always thought Melinda Dillon was pretty hot.
Posted by: How It Works
======
She was in a fair number of movies in the 70's to good effect.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:15 AM (ctrM5)

206 And the dad fighting to the death with that furnace still entertains me, with the narration. "Some artist work in oils, others in clays. Dad's medium was profanity. He was a master".

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (Pnvww)

207 205 I always thought Melinda Dillon was pretty hot.
Posted by: How It Works
======
She was in a fair number of movies in the 70's to good effect.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:15 AM (ctrM5)

=======

Re, Mi, Do, Do, So

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

208 Gregor Mendel, Augustinian friar.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)

I dont know beans about that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (gbOdA)

209 good ol' Thomas Hart Benton

I've bought a number of books over the years just for his illustrations

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (RP0h0)

210 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Go get those fuzzy, furry bellies! Rub rub rub!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (uf1Fx)

211 Insty has a link, but X is down.

Breaking: ABC "News" is preparing for mass layoffs.

I may have added the quotes.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (xCA6C)

212 Gordon showed up in the original I Love Lucy? I knew about the others, but not that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes, he played the owner of the Tropicana in a couple of the early episodes.

Posted by: Mooney Fan Club. at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)

213 211 Insty has a link, but X is down.

Breaking: ABC "News" is preparing for mass layoffs.

I may have added the quotes.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (xCA6C)

======

Those tariffs against Canada are having some really weird side-effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

214 And the dad fighting to the death with that furnace still entertains me, with the narration. "Some artist work in oils, others in clays. Dad's medium was profanity. He was a master".
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM

The parents in that movie remind me very much of my own. And growing up in the Midwest reminds me of my childhood. I had the same boots as Ralphie in the movie. My poor mom getting us read for school in the winter. A true saint.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (ewjUl)

215 206 And the dad fighting to the death with that furnace still entertains me, with the narration. "Some artist work in oils, others in clays. Dad's medium was profanity. He was a master".
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (Pnvww)

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)

216 19, yeah, I looked twice or 3 times to be sure

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (RP0h0)

217 Gordon showed up in the original I Love Lucy? I knew about the others, but not that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Did he ever show up on UNCLE?

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

218 You guys should go back and read my 2014 Twitter debate with David French about whether A Christmas Story is a Christmas movie.

Good times.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at March 11, 2025 10:18 AM (dQfJF)

219 Just tried signing up for X… what a cluster….

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 10:18 AM (PCK5/)

220 195 They also did sequel a few years ago where Ralphie is a dad. It's ... fine.
Posted by: BruceWayne
=========
Saw part of that promo but not the movie sequel, I think they dug up the various child actors for some of the roles and put them in it as adults.

I often dislike sequels if I liked the original as usually they either a) repeat the plot of the first which the original sequel did with different casting, or b) take off on a tangent now that you are hooked on the characters. That usually results in inferior entertainment for me as there is always the original which should stand alone as a piece of art.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:18 AM (ctrM5)

221 I honestly forgot ABC even existed.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2025 10:19 AM (0HaGk)

222 Gordon showed up in the original I Love Lucy? I knew about the others, but not that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Did he ever show up on UNCLE?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
Nope. There were some roles in the campy silliness of Season Three he'd have been perfect for, but I guess he was busy with Lucy's show at that time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

223 Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 10:17 AM

"Sonofabitch would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator!"

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:19 AM (ewjUl)

224 I often dislike sequels if I liked the original as usually they either a) repeat the plot of the first which the original sequel did with different casting, or b) take off on a tangent now that you are hooked on the characters. That usually results in inferior entertainment for me as there is always the original which should stand alone as a piece of art.
Posted by: whig

The Bride of Frankenstein is one sequel that is better than the original. Possibly the same with Godfather II.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

225
*Breaking: ABC "News" is preparing for mass layoffs.*

Oh, no.
Anyway...

Posted by: Lost me at Russian Collusion at March 11, 2025 10:20 AM (dg+HA)

226 Maybe the ABC and MSNBC rejects can start their own network. It could be called LOL.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM (ewjUl)

227 224
The Bride of Frankenstein is one sequel that is better than the original. Possibly the same with Godfather II.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

=======

Friday the 13th Part VI is the best of the whole series!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

228 But I didn't say fudge.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM (Pnvww)

229 36, not to mention Golden Rice ...
I was trying to find some, as food, or as seed; nuffin'
is it even a thing any more?
did tptb destroy it to keep poor people undernourished?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM (RP0h0)

230 But I didn't say fudge.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM

I can relate to soap in the mouth. I wonder if parents still do that. We did and our kids are successful adults.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:22 AM (ewjUl)

231 Go get those fuzzy, furry bellies! Rub rub rub!
-------
But I just got a wax!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:22 AM (/tzYP)

232 =======

Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
---

Code?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 10:22 AM (Ri+6K)

233 That usually results in inferior entertainment for me as there is always the original which should stand alone as a piece of art.
Posted by: whig

The Bride of Frankenstein is one sequel that is better than the original. Possibly the same with Godfather II.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

Addams Family Values, featuring Pubert. One of the funniest names ever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 11, 2025 10:22 AM (pJbQu)

234 Most different but successful original to sequel
Alien , a horror movie in space
Aliens , slam bang action movie in space

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 10:23 AM (2Km7O)

235 History of the World Part VII

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 11, 2025 10:24 AM (gbOdA)

236 Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
---

Code?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 10:22 AM (Ri+6K)

Close Encounters. Its the song the UFO plays.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:24 AM (Pnvww)

237
I often dislike sequels if I liked the original as usually they either a) repeat the plot of the first which the original sequel did with different casting, or b) take off on a tangent now that you are hooked on the characters. That usually results in inferior entertainment for me as there is always the original which should stand alone as a piece of art.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025

***
The main reason why sequels so often fail is that the original story is *the most important thing* ever to happen to the lead characters. In a series, every episode can't be a peak experience, or you'll wind up with melodrama, but in most novels and movies, it is. Gone With the Wind is Scarlett's peak moment; Sunset Boulevard is Joe Gillis's; Days of Wine and Roses, Joe Clay's.

The occasional sequel that does work finds a story equal to, or even sometimes surpassing, the original adventure/events. See Aliens, for instance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

238 One of the inspirations for this painting was Wil Wheaton.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 11, 2025 10:24 AM (a3Q+t)

239 xcancel is visible, unlike during yesterday's attacks...

Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV 1h
🚨BREAKING: ABC news is preparing for mass layoffs.
----------
No other further info on that in e.g. further tweets.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:25 AM (/tzYP)

240 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Go get those fuzzy, furry bellies! Rub rub rub!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2025 10:16 AM (uf1Fx)
---
Uh, oh.

I was in a hurry when I left the house this morning and forgot to rub fuzzy, furry bellies.

Now they will tear my house apart...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2025 10:25 AM (7fElN)

241 The Bride of Frankenstein is one sequel that is better than the original. Possibly the same with Godfather II.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
True enough. Sometimes they work but given Hollywood, usually not. Empire Strikes Back is a better movie in many ways than the original Star Wars (kudos to Leigh Brackett and better acting from the cast) and sometimes sequels work as good or even better than the original. But not often. Moviegigue or TJM would be able to list all those sequels and why they worked or did not work. Not my area though.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

242 shut up wesley

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2025 10:25 AM (0HaGk)

243 Pramila Jayapal is upset that pro Hamas alien terrorists are having their first amendment rights denied. Not so concerned that actual citizens are having their rights denied. Nothing is more important than killing the Jews.

https://is.gd/cUBRwa

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

244 per Pixy's link this morning VW is bringing knobs back from the touch screen and Hyundi decided not to remove them. - People use them with less difficulty than touch screens. It's a car not a phone -
Who'd a thought? or Will wonders never cease?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 10:26 AM (Ri+6K)

245 The Bride of Frankenstein is one sequel that is better than the original. Possibly the same with Godfather II.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
Not sure about the second, but your first example certainly is. Not only does it take the story in a new direction, but it features fascinating characters, a grim sense of humor, and some real imagination in Dr. Pretorius's homunculi in their jars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

246 The occasional sequel that does work finds a story equal to, or even sometimes surpassing, the original adventure/events. See Aliens, for instance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well put Wolfus. Explains why I cared less and less for Correia's followups than his original Monster Hunter book. People hooked on series focus in on character development but I get tired of authors trying to wring out a new high, villain, etc. over and over again in a series.

The story comes first as you put it for me rather than the characters.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:28 AM (ctrM5)

247 Go get those fuzzy, furry bellies! Rub rub rub!

Happy little bushes!!

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at March 11, 2025 10:28 AM (a3Q+t)

248 It's ..yellow!

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2025 10:29 AM (g47mK)

249 Washington Democrats are ready to vote on a bill that would release juvenile killers from jail early — so long as they didn’t kill more than two victims, the apparent threshold for Democratic sympathy — and then give them free rent to live in your neighborhood.

https://is.gd/86u6uL

-
I guess murders are like boobs; one's not enough, three's too many.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

250 The painting can make one claustrophobic.

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)

251 Maybe the ABC and MSNBC rejects can start their own network. It could be called LOL.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM (ewjUl)

George Stephanopoulos and Nichole Wallace could have a show together!...she always looks like she's about to cry.

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 10:30 AM (Yj6Os)

252 6 The occasional sequel that does work finds a story equal to, or even sometimes surpassing, the original adventure/events. See Aliens, for instance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Well put Wolfus. Explains why I cared less and less for Correia's followups than his original Monster Hunter book. People hooked on series focus in on character development but I get tired of authors trying to wring out a new high, villain, etc. over and over again in a series.

The story comes first as you put it for me rather than the characters.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025

***
Well, if you introduce the right new character to have your lead play off of, it can work. Again, see Dr. Pretorius; he *makes* that movie (along with Karloff's speaking monster, of course -- another new dimension the first film did not havfe).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

253 221 I honestly forgot ABC even existed.
Posted by: eleven
=======
ABC was a bastard child whose parentage came from anti trust lawsuits and created out of the spare rib of NBC. Now a property of Devil Mouse where creativity goes to die and deviance is celebrated.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:31 AM (ctrM5)

254 Wheat - Thomas Hart Benton

When I lived in the Pacific NW I would often travel to the Palouse wheat country for photography subjects. Benton's painting nails the emotional spirit of what it is like to be in middle of all that rhythm and randomness. The actuality of wheat of rather different, sometimes best understood form atop Steptoe Butte. There it becomes a carpet of color and tonality as the clouds shimmer shadows across the land. This is less a painting more of visual poem about the unrelenting beauty found across rural North America.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 11, 2025 10:31 AM (hjWnr)

255 Not sure about the second, but your first example certainly is. Not only does it take the story in a new direction, but it features fascinating characters, a grim sense of humor, and some real imagination in Dr. Pretorius's homunculi in their jars.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Plus, the blind hermit. His scene is very good, very touching, and led to what was probably Gene Hackman's funniest scene ever.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

256 *prances around the wheat field*

*sings*

Wheat! Glorious Wheat!
You can use it for car wheels
You can use it to melt steel
Wheat's the best that ever was
Cuz
Wheat! Glorious Wheat!
It's used mainly on ice cream
And Wheat Monsters make you scream
Cuz
Wheat! Glorious Wheat!
Wonderful Wheat!
W!
H!
E! A! T!
That's WHEAT!!!!
Yay!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

257 “And you can debate with me if it should be a right – I think it should. To expect that the innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for Doritos… but about whatever – and I know the work is happening – the scientific discoveries, for example to cure longstanding diseases I would love it if there was an investment in resources and solving the affordable housing issue in America.”

Posted by: Kamala "Kokonut" Harris at March 11, 2025 10:32 AM (a3Q+t)

258 Christmas Story is the best Christmas movie, hands down.

I'm gonna have to assume you've never seen Die Hard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 10:32 AM (ExV1e)

259 Well, if you introduce the right new character to have your lead play off of, it can work. Again, see Dr. Pretorius; he *makes* that movie (along with Karloff's speaking monster, of course -- another new dimension the first film did not havfe).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
=========
Not really a fan of horror but I can see where it would work. I wonder if the twenty years later Cary Grant movie purposefully picked Dr. Praetorius in People Will Talk as homage. Not a common name.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:33 AM (ctrM5)

260 not to mention Golden Rice ...
I was trying to find some, as food, or as seed; nuffin'
is it even a thing any more?
did tptb destroy it to keep poor people undernourished?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2025 10:21 AM (RP0h0)

Carolina Gold

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 10:33 AM (Yj6Os)

261 I guess murders are like boobs; one's not enough, three's too many.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:29 AM

Among mammals, the number of teats is usually 2x the average litter size.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 11, 2025 10:34 AM (a3Q+t)

262 > per Pixy's link this morning VW is bringing knobs back from the touch screen and Hyundi decided not to remove them.
--------
Some of the climate features on my wife's Explorer are only accessible via the touch screen. Bugs the shit out of me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2025 10:34 AM (Q4IgG)

263 Carolina Gold
Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 10:33 AM

Is that what Jack calls his pot strain?

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 11, 2025 10:34 AM (ewjUl)

264 George Stephanopoulos and Nichole Wallace could have a show together!...she always looks like she's about to cry.
Posted by: BignJames
-----------
Nicole has a stick up her ass is why and Steffie is the last of the Black Knights of the Clinton Table defending their legacy.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:34 AM (ctrM5)

265 Also, Dracula's Daughter was a surprisingly good sequel to Lugosi's Dracula.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

266 The parents in that movie remind me very much of my own. And growing up in the Midwest reminds me of my childhood. I had the same boots as Ralphie in the movie. My poor mom getting us read for school in the winter. A true saint.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Me too - our house resembled Ralphie's and we had the same furnace damper arrangement. One scene of note - Ralphie's Dad asks the deliveryman twice "What's in it?" referring to the 'Fragile' box. On the second ask, the delivery guy gives the Italian-American hand and shoulder sign for 'I already told you! How TF should I know.'

Classic.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 10:35 AM (cYBz/)

267 240 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Go get those fuzzy, furry bellies! Rub rub rub!
Posted by: nurse ratched
=========
Nope, not going to do it. Doggies have been eating poo again left by rabbits.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:36 AM (ctrM5)

268 ||US launches world’s first 240-ton unmanned ship for autonomous naval missions | Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering

The construction of the Defiant, measuring 180 feet and weighing 240 metric tons, was finalized in February 2025.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has achieved a major milestone in maritime innovation by completing the development of a prototype unmanned surface vessel (USV) called the USX-1 Defiant.

This vessel, part of the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, is designed to operate autonomously on extended sea missions without onboard human presence.

A DARPA official confirmed with IE on March 4 that the prototype vessel has been completed and launched and will undergo at-sea trials soon.|| Interesting Engineering
====
Unfortunately, it has a female AI operating it and has crashed into three other vessels so far.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:36 AM (/tzYP)

269 Not sure about the second, but your first example certainly is. Not only does it take the story in a new direction, but it features fascinating characters, a grim sense of humor, and some real imagination in Dr. Pretorius's homunculi in their jars.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Plus, the blind hermit. His scene is very good, very touching, and led to what was probably Gene Hackman's funniest scene ever.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
True!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:36 AM (J2vNu)

270 Gale Gordon also starred in the radio show-Granby's Green Acres- which a decade and a half later was the premise and model for the Green Acres TV show.

Posted by: The Chores! at March 11, 2025 10:36 AM (G5+As)

271 land. This is less a painting more of visual poem about the unrelenting beauty found across rural North America.

Insightful description

Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2025 10:36 AM (Rz8qc)

272 265 Also, Dracula's Daughter was a surprisingly good sequel to Lugosi's Dracula.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

=====

The Universal Horror Universe was interesting for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

273 I remember the end of A Christmas Story was pretty amusing. The Chinese guys singing carols to the family in the Chinese restaurant.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

274 Some of the climate features on my wife's Explorer are only accessible via the touch screen. Bugs the shit out of me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2025 10:34 AM (Q4IgG)

I drive a 2016 F-250. Just about the perfect level of controls in my opinion. Still all the critical knobs for the important stuff like climate control, 2WD / 4 WD - and steering wheel buttons for radio and cruise. Updated the stereo for Apple Car Play to get Nav and Hands Free Phone.

Having to do everything via the damn screen bugs me too. You are not alone, amigo.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:37 AM (Pnvww)

275 Washington Democrats are ready to vote on a bill that would release juvenile killers from jail early — so long as they didn’t kill more than two victims, the apparent threshold for Democratic sympathy — and then give them free rent to live in your neighborhood.

https://is.gd/86u6uL

-
I guess murders are like boobs; one's not enough, three's too many.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
***

Well, if they pass it, and any member of my family is killed, then Olympia may one day find two legislators missing.
It's possible ya know.
Could happen.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2025 10:37 AM (W/lyH)

276 Among mammals, the number of teats is usually 2x the average litter size.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

Shut up Wesley. If this is true, why does Sandy Cheeks only wear one bra? Answer me that Mr. Smart Guy!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (cYBz/)

277 It's a town in Italy.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (/tzYP)

278 You have to look up the db that shows arsenic in rice. They give the better and worse brands for it.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (dzMAk)

279 Bible Study Moment With the Federal Judiciary.

First LGBTQ Federal District Court Judge Ana Reyes in D.C. In simple terms, she attempted to Jesus-shame the government's attorneys by suggesting that the ban on transgenders in the military ran afoul of what "Jesus would do." Seriously.

From the courtroom transcript:

What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless, that we're not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, 'Sounds right to me?' Or do you think Jesus would say, 'WTF? Of course, let them in?'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

280 Also, Dracula's Daughter was a surprisingly good sequel to Lugosi's Dracula.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
It was too subtle for me as a kid. Svengoolie has run it, but I've never watched it all the way through as a grownup.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

281 A Christmas Story
Posted by: rhennigantx

Thanks. Never really got the love for that movie.
Posted by: Bulg

It's like "Catcher in the Rye" where people over 29-times-2 claim it's good in a "this is awful, try it" kind of way.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (2ocoG)

282 The Universal Horror Universe was interesting for a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yeah, even the later, all-monster-cast stuff still had some interesting moments.

From Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera to the last Creature movie, it was a pretty good run.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

283 Journalist: Sen. Cotton, why are you objecting to the release of the JFK Assassination files?

Cotton: Because we don't want to foster distrust of the FBI.

Journalist: But Americans already distrust the FBI.

Cotton: See what I mean?

Posted by: Bad Tom Cotton, a Tommy Two Face Production at March 11, 2025 10:40 AM (qUkBO)

284 Florida TV station hit by tornado during tornado-warning broadcast

https://is.gd/mcChpi

-
Well, at least they were on top of it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

285 It's like "Catcher in the Rye" where people over 29-times-2 claim it's good in a "this is awful, try it" kind of way.
Posted by: Ian S.
------
Not even remotely comparable. There is and should be an end to art that is not raising the despicable and degrading as anti heroes.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:41 AM (ctrM5)

286
Wuh Heat Thins

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 11, 2025 10:41 AM (xG4kz)

287 What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless, that we're not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, 'Sounds right to me?' Or do you think Jesus would say, 'WTF? Of course, let them in?'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

Putting words in Jesus' mouth might not be a good idea.

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 10:41 AM (Yj6Os)

288 280 Also, Dracula's Daughter was a surprisingly good sequel to Lugosi's Dracula.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
It was too subtle for me as a kid. Svengoolie has run it, but I've never watched it all the way through as a grownup.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

=======

Lesbian love story! Sort of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

289 Shut up Wesley. If this is true, why does Sandy Cheeks only wear one bra? Answer me that Mr. Smart Guy!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM

First you tell me to shut up, and then you want the benefit of my wisdom??? Fine.

Sandy Cheeks is a fictional character who has been anthropomorphized to only have two teats.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 11, 2025 10:41 AM (a3Q+t)

290 Leading Report @LeadingReport 18m
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson suggests that a “force” is exerting influence on the Trump administration to block the release of JFK and Epstein documents.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (/tzYP)

291 282 Yeah, even the later, all-monster-cast stuff still had some interesting moments.

From Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera to the last Creature movie, it was a pretty good run.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

======

I just kind of hate all of the Mummy movies from that period.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

292 A Christmas Story
Posted by: rhennigantx

Thanks. Never really got the love for that movie.
Posted by: Bulg

It's like "Catcher in the Rye" where people over 29-times-2 claim it's good in a "this is awful, try it" kind of way.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (2ocoG)

A Christmas Story isn't awful. It's just not great. I suspect it's one of those things where everyone who saw it when it was released, or shortly thereafter, has great memories of talking to their friends and re-enforcing just how much they love it. Now it's dogma.

Those people who didn't see it until years later never got that re-enforcement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

293 The Universal Horror Universe was interesting for a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025

***
There are good moments in the first half of the sequel to The Wolf Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man -- the grandmother-grandson vibe that seems to be developing between Larry Talbot and the old gypsy woman, Bela's mother. But that gets left behind pretty quick.

The Wolf Man still holds up well, thanks to the casting and the air of tragedy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

294 Katie Porter is entering the 2026 Cali governors race. Can't think of a more unpleasant person in recent politics. She makes Hillary almost tolerable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (2Km7O)

295 Leading Report @LeadingReport 18m
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson suggests that a “force” is exerting influence on the Trump administration to block the release of JFK and Epstein documents.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (/tzYP)

Cotton and Blackburn among them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (MGB5H)

296 Not even remotely comparable. There is and should be an end to art that is not raising the despicable and degrading as anti heroes.

Meh. And here we'll part ways. Respectable people that were really proud of their respectable status said the same about Death Wish back in the day. No room for that kind of story. Taught the "wrong lessons".

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:43 AM (Pnvww)

297 What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless, that we're not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, 'Sounds right to me?' Or do you think Jesus would say, 'WTF? Of course, let them in?'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
========
Nasty piece of work and if you notice all of her legal argument is Disqualify!!! the administration. Ad hominen substitutes for legal argumentation which is very typical of Critical Legal Study types.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

298 Leading Report @LeadingReport 28m
BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:43 AM (/tzYP)

299 When my husband died, a friend had a sheaf of wheat arrangement delivered to his visitation

The card read:

"The Sheaf of Wheat is a symbol of the Christian faith. The seeds of faith are sown in the human personality and grow into the mature faith of the Christian man or woman. The sown seed must lose its life in order that it may develop and grow and multiply. So, symbolically, a sheaf of wheat is used by Christians to mark the passing of a fellow Christian. We believe death is not the end but the beginning of life eternal. The mature grain in this sheaf is the direct symbol of the Resurrection, the life beyond the grave, the fulfillment of the Promises of Jesus Christ."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2025 10:43 AM (4tmpE)

300 Katie Porter is entering the 2026 Cali governors race. Can't think of a more unpleasant person in recent politics. She makes Hillary almost tolerable
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM

Perfect!

Posted by: California Democrats at March 11, 2025 10:43 AM (a3Q+t)

301 Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:37 AM (Pnvww)

The BF has a 2016 F-150. I love driving that truck, it’s such a smooth ride.

Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2025 10:43 AM (Rz8qc)

302 Beautiful Jane.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 10:45 AM (cYBz/)

303 A Christmas Story isn't awful. It's just not great. I suspect it's one of those things where everyone who saw it when it was released, or shortly thereafter, has great memories of talking to their friends and re-enforcing just how much they love it. Now it's dogma.

Nope. I didn't see it until my 20s, at least ten years after initial release. Liked it immediately, and like it more as I get older.

You can't argue taste. For my tastes, its a great blend of funny, messy, and just enough nostalgia mixed with just enough real.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:45 AM (Pnvww)

304 The Wolf Man still holds up well, thanks to the casting and the air of tragedy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

It's a great cast, but it always bothers me that Chaney Jr. didn't try to tone down his American accent. The contrast with his father Claude Rains' impeccable English accent is jarring.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

305 Yeah, even the later, all-monster-cast stuff still had some interesting moments.

From Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera to the last Creature movie, it was a pretty good run.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
I just want to laugh inappropriately at John Carradine's Dracula, though. He seems *too* stagey, worse in his way than Lugosi did on film. At least Lugosi's Dracula seemed otherworldly -- a reanimated corpse, an undead thing that walked and talked and remembered its human life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

306
Cotton and Blackburn among them.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (MGB5H)

Cotton has answered this on X and said that his opposition to the person in question had nothing at all to do with any JFK files, and that he offered to talk to Tucker about it but Tucker turned him down. Cotton says that he wants them released just like everyone else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:46 AM (uWKK8)

307 Meh. And here we'll part ways. Respectable people that were really proud of their respectable status said the same about Death Wish back in the day. No room for that kind of story. Taught the "wrong lessons".
Posted by: How It Works

Not really. Catcher is simply a story of a wretched yute that aims for nothing much and achieves nothing much. Why would anyone want to emulate Holden? He is about as appealing as sour milk but the juvenile fascination with Holden is rejecting everything as fake and phoney. Appeals to certain people that view themselves as enlightened ones in room full of the blind but that is conceit rather than real life.

Death Wish doesn't exactly have Charles Bronson as an anti hero but rather a very flawed man seeking vengeance for the wrongs and losses that society applied to him and his. More common story trajectory of a man wronged who seeks revenge outside of the system.

I've watched it once but have no desire to watch it again because that story is a very old one.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)

308 A Christmas Story isn't awful. It's just not great. I suspect it's one of those things where everyone who saw it when it was released, or shortly thereafter, has great memories of talking to their friends and re-enforcing just how much they love it. Now it's dogma.

Nope. I didn't see it until my 20s, at least ten years after initial release. Liked it immediately, and like it more as I get older.

You can't argue taste. For my tastes, its a great blend of funny, messy, and just enough nostalgia mixed with just enough real. Posted by: How It Work

Cousin Eddie is worth the price of a ticket alone.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (hjWnr)

309 Saw "Mickey 17".

The first third to half or so is pretty good, but then it falls apart due to multiple, unnecessary Plotting of the Woketardian Kind.

They had a pretty good straight through idea that could've been used to good effect but Bong Joon-ho is a big ole commie and is going to jam his message in wherever he can.

His Commietardian impulses is why he's only made two good movies "Memories of Murder" and "Parasite".

BONUS! Contains the worst "Donald Trump" imitation evah. It's just awful, amateurish and low quality in both writing and action. How does Ruffle get work? I could get a 12 year old to do a better job. It's not like you couldn't do a funny Trump parody. But, this is so far off course, it's almost like they wrote a Biden parody then played it as Trump.

Sad.

Check it out if you wish. But, you'll lose nothing seeing it on the small screen.

Meh. Very, very meh.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (iJfKG)

310 Nope. I didn't see it until my 20s, at least ten years after initial release. Liked it immediately, and like it more as I get older.

Blink twice if you're being held captive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

311 What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless, that we're not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, 'Sounds right to me?' Or do you think Jesus would say, 'WTF? Of course, let them in?'

Sounds like a debate topic for the local clergy, not a legal argument

Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (Rz8qc)

312 It's a great cast, but it always bothers me that Chaney Jr. didn't try to tone down his American accent. The contrast with his father Claude Rains' impeccable English accent is jarring.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

I thought Lon Chaney Sr. was his father.
(ducks and runs away)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (uWKK8)

313 The administration is starting to leak. They need to look at their recent hires.

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2025 10:48 AM (g47mK)

314 The BF has a 2016 F-150. I love driving that truck, it’s such a smooth ride.

My F-250 has the 6.7 diesel. It truly is a different experience. The torque response is "solid". The only word I can think of. It doesn't jump off the line at a light, but the torque simply doesn't run out. Its like the truck is getting pushed by a semi.

Here's hoping the body doesn't rust. Its been a great truck.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:48 AM (Pnvww)

315 Latest story on the judge that stayed the deportation of the Hamas riot leader:

The judge is a conservative Jew. At least, per the story.
I don't trust it.
It's more of a "he's associated with these groups we have labeled as conservative, therefore he is a conservative Jew."

Um. That's not how it works.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 10:48 AM (MD399)

316 304 It's a great cast, but it always bothers me that Chaney Jr. didn't try to tone down his American accent. The contrast with his father Claude Rains' impeccable English accent is jarring.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

=======

In-movie explanation for it, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

317 Saw "Mickey 17".

The first third to half or so is pretty good, but then it falls apart due to multiple, unnecessary Plotting of the Woketardian Kind.

Critical Drinker reamed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLze1JuaaqM

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (xCA6C)

318 Moon >> Mickey 17

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (6hd1O)

319 The mature grain in this sheaf is the direct symbol of the Resurrection, the life beyond the grave, the fulfillment of the Promises of Jesus Christ."
Posted by: Jane D'oh
========
Interesting take on a very old subject. May his memory continue to be blessed in your life.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (ctrM5)

320 A Christmas Story is that kind of older movie that has a few good scenes, and a good basic plot, and that's all that people remember. The rest of the movie is pretty slow and boring.

Kinda like Rocky Horror. A few good scenes, good performance by Tim Curry, but the rest of the movie makes you want to stick a fork in your eyes to stop the pain of watching it. Plus, the creepy homo shit.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (iFTx/)

321 The Wolf Man still holds up well, thanks to the casting and the air of tragedy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

It's a great cast, but it always bothers me that Chaney Jr. didn't try to tone down his American accent. The contrast with his father Claude Rains' impeccable English accent is jarring.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
I think they tried to explain it by saying Larry had been in America for many years. But he wouldn't have lost all of his British speech, not if he was raised in England or Wales in his earliest years.

Ah, you got Maria Ouspenskaya, Lugosi, and Rains; and Chaney really gets the pathos across as Larry, who didn't ask for what happened to him and in fact came into it through an act of heroism.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

322 318 Moon >> Mickey 17
Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (6hd1O)

=======

And then Duncan Jones went off to make Warcraft.

Well, after Source Code.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

323 Tony the Tiger could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (/x6eu)

324 How the fudge do rose-tinted glasses' lenses stop light hitting the vampire's eyes and killing him when the light gets all the way the fudge around them?!?!?!?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (/tzYP)

325 I just want to laugh inappropriately at John Carradine's Dracula, though. He seems *too* stagey, worse in his way than Lugosi did on film. At least Lugosi's Dracula seemed otherworldly -- a reanimated corpse, an undead thing that walked and talked and remembered its human life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Point taken. Lon Chenay, Jr. did a much better Dracula.

By the way, he was the only actor to play all four of the major Universal monsters -- Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Mummy.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

326 Cotton has answered this on X and said that his opposition to the person in question had nothing at all to do with any JFK files, and that he offered to talk to Tucker about it but Tucker turned him down. Cotton says that he wants them released just like everyone else.

Tucker up to his old tricks

Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (Rz8qc)

327 How the fudge do rose-tinted glasses' lenses stop light hitting the vampire's eyes and killing him when the light gets all the way the fudge around them?!?!?!?
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (/tzYP)

Same way face shields stop airborne viruses. Duh.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (MGB5H)

328 I just kind of hate all of the Mummy movies from that period.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

I always figured you had mummy issues.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (dzMAk)

329 313 The administration is starting to leak. They need to look at their recent hires.
Posted by: runner
=========
That happens eternally. Simply put, OpSec doesn't have to be perfect in politics but moving faster than your enemies gives them less time to take advantage of any leaks.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

330 What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless, that we're not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, 'Sounds right to me?' Or do you think Jesus would say, 'WTF? Of course, let them in?'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

Kash Patel should have been there and said "I have no idea, I can tell you what Kali would say."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (uWKK8)

331 I've watched it once but have no desire to watch it again because that story is a very old one.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)

Not my point at all. My point being, in response to ...

There is and should be an end to art that is not raising the despicable and degrading as anti heroes.

Very similar people in their time said very similar things about Death Wish. It was vulgar. It served no purpose.

They were wrong.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (Pnvww)

332 What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless, that we're not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, 'Sounds right to me?' Or do you think Jesus would say, 'WTF? Of course, let them in?'

What about people with cancer? Or heart conditions?
What about the very old? Or the very young?
What about citizens of countries inimical to ours?
What about terrorists?

Look, your honor, I'm not saying that your question is asinine - since you're a judge and all - but I'm implying it as hard as I can.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

333 328 I just kind of hate all of the Mummy movies from that period.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
I always figured you had mummy issues.
Posted by: ...
========
Well played.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

334 Same way face shields stop airborne viruses. Duh.
--------
Thread winner.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (/tzYP)

335 Nerdrotic on HBO's new Harry Potter show and a black Snape:
The Harry Potter Show is DOA - Snape Casting BACKLASH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-j4kvZook

They never learn.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (xCA6C)

336
I suppose my message on "Mickey 17" is-

It's not as good as Wheat.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

337 Signs of a psychopath.

High School Track Star Who Brutally Beat Opponent With a Baton Complains That She’s the One Who’s Hurt – Mentally

https://is.gd/5gTuMX

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

338 >>>Just that we lost another asset in the area.

https://tinyurl.com/yddjw5j3
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
---

Portuguese flagged Solong Rams Anchored U.S.-flagged chemical and oil products carrier MV Stena Immaculate.

Curious about the crew of the Solong. We ram ships at sea the Solong nailed an anchored ship.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (Ri+6K)

339 TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

I always figured you had mummy issues.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (dzMAk)

Give to Oedipus!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (/x6eu)

340 Kinda like Rocky Horror. A few good scenes, good performance by Tim Curry, but the rest of the movie makes you want to stick a fork in your eyes to stop the pain of watching it. Plus, the creepy homo shit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 10:49 AM (iFTx/)

Rocky Horror isn't a movie. It's an excuse to drink heavily and hang out with friends acting the fool in a theater.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)

341 335 Nerdrotic on HBO's new Harry Potter show and a black Snape:
The Harry Potter Show is DOA - Snape Casting BACKLASH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-j4kvZook

They never learn.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (xCA6C)

=======

People need to stop caring about the race swapping.

It's dumb. All of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

342 Point taken. Lon Chenay, Jr. did a much better Dracula.

By the way, he was the only actor to play all four of the major Universal monsters -- Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Mummy.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
I've forgotten my old Famous Monsters of Filmland lore. In which film did Chaney portray the Frankenstein monster?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

343 Not my point at all. My point being, in response to ...

There is and should be an end to art that is not raising the despicable and degrading as anti heroes.

Very similar people in their time said very similar things about Death Wish. It was vulgar. It served no purpose.

They were wrong.
Posted by: How It Works

Difference between tragic hero and anti hero. Bronson is a tragic hero desiring retribution aka justice for the dead.

Holden despises the very concept of a hero as fake and phony.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)

344 I think they tried to explain it by saying Larry had been in America for many years. But he wouldn't have lost all of his British speech, not if he was raised in England or Wales in his earliest years.

That's what I'm saying. It would have been ridiculous for him to put on a full-blown Brit accent, but his full-blown American one didn't make sense, either. That's why he should've toned it down a little bit.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

345 Nerdrotic on HBO's new Harry Potter show and a black Snape:
The Harry Potter Show is DOA - Snape Casting BACKLASH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-j4kvZook

They never learn.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (xCA6C)

Many many many fans are calling for it to be recast. It won't be. Show is doa.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (MGB5H)

346 The first third to half or so is pretty good, but then it falls apart due to multiple, unnecessary Plotting of the Woketardian Kind.

It was so bad Critical Drinker did a full-on Pitch Meeting about it. He forgot to say "super easy, barely an inconvenience" though.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (2ocoG)

347 @315 the judge's wife is the head of a"pluralistic" Jewish school. Don't think that's conservative

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (2Km7O)

348
High School Track Star Who Brutally Beat Opponent With a Baton Complains That She’s the One Who’s Hurt – Mentally

https://is.gd/5gTuMX
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

It reminded me of Ben Hur and Massala in their Chariots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (uWKK8)

349 344 That's what I'm saying. It would have been ridiculous for him to put on a full-blown Brit accent, but his full-blown American one didn't make sense, either. That's why he should've toned it down a little bit.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

======

Let's throw this out there:

Lon Chaney Jr. was not a good actor. He could be well-cast, but he was never going to do Shakespeare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

350 His Commietardian impulses is why he's only made two good movies "Memories of Murder" and "Parasite".

I thought "The Host" was pretty good.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (w+hdv)

351 Rocky Horror isn't a movie. It's an excuse to drink heavily and hang out with friends acting the fool in a theater.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

=======
That is how it turned out to be anyway. Dunno about the intention behind it and don't really care to investigate.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

352 Very similar people in their time said very similar things about Death Wish. It was vulgar. It served no purpose.

They were wrong.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (Pnvww)

I'd say it served more of a purpose as commentary than say Requim for a Dream.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (/x6eu)

353 I thought about going to see Mickey 17, but I didn't see Mickey 1-16 and I didn't want to be lost during the movie.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (PzXaK)

354 Well, after Source Code.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

I thought "Source Code" was a good movie.

Apparently, I'm in the minority.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 10:55 AM (iJfKG)

355 Patel should have been there and said "I have no idea, I can tell you what Kali would say."
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:51 AM (uWKK

Haha exactly!
It’s pointless to try and Jesus shame when there is diversity of religion and no religion at all.
The DEI party all of a sudden wants to wrap itself in Christianity.
To which I say: GFY you whitened sepulchres

Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2025 10:55 AM (Rz8qc)

356 Christopher Lee made a pretty scary Frankenstein in the Hammer version.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:55 AM (uWKK8)

357 Lon Chaney Jr. was not a good actor. He could be well-cast, but he was never going to do Shakespeare.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=========
Well, he got a personal audition with teh Queen doing the Werewolves of London. Gotta get some street cred from that.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)

358 Well played.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

Also possibly projection. But nosce te ipsum and all that.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 10:56 AM (dzMAk)

359 The controversy is what they wanted with the casting. Too bad that does not translate to ticket sales.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 10:56 AM (/x6eu)

360 thought about going to see Mickey 17, but I didn't see Mickey 1-16 and I didn't want to be lost during the movie.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (PzXaK)

Wasn't Mickey 1 called Steamboat Willie?

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 10:56 AM (MGB5H)

361 Let's throw this out there:

Lon Chaney Jr. was not a good actor. He could be well-cast, but he was never going to do Shakespeare.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025

***
He was limited, yes. But clips I've seen of his performance as "Lenny" in the 1940 Of Mice and Men indicate that he could do very well in the right role.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

362 I've forgotten my old Famous Monsters of Filmland lore. In which film did Chaney portray the Frankenstein monster?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I forget. One of the later ones.

Also, remember Glenn Strange, who played Sam the Bartender on Gunsmoke? He was the last actor to play the monster in the Universal films.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

363 Rocky Horror isn't a movie. It's an excuse to drink heavily and hang out with friends acting the fool in a theater.

A very young and hot Susan Sarandon - and that's about it. Watched it once. A Christmas Story is much, much better.

Lets be honest, folks. The 70s were screwed up seven ways from Sunday. I remember, as a kid in the 70s, looking around and thinking "that's not normal" constantly.

No sane people picks orange and green for kitchen appliance colors.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 10:56 AM (Pnvww)

364 Nerdrotic on HBO's new Harry Potter show and a black Snape

The "defense against the dark arts" jokes have been great about that.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

365 Rocky Horror isn't a movie. It's an excuse to drink heavily and hang out with friends acting the fool in a theater.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

=======
That is how it turned out to be anyway. Dunno about the intention behind it and don't really care to investigate.
Posted by: whig

I sort of thought it was about wearing underwear not assigned at birth.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 11, 2025 10:57 AM (hjWnr)

366 Really like the art. Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 10:57 AM (g8Ew8)

367 Powerful documentary on the radical left's lynching of Derek Chauvin: "The Fall of Minneapolis," on Rumble.

Watch the whole thing.

https://rumble.com/v3vyvzv-the-fall-of-minneapolis.html

Liz Collin sacrificed her gig as a TV news reporter (an actual journalist) because she was so horrified at this: the riots, the human sacrifice they made of Chauvin, exculpatory evidence withheld, lies on the witness stand by the Chief of Police on down, over 800 buildings in the city burned/destroyed, and the most loathsome cast of characters you can imagine: twink Mayor Frey, Gov. Tim Walz, the despicable Keith Ellison, and more.

Posted by: Beverly at March 11, 2025 10:57 AM (Epeb0)

368 Curious about the crew of the Solong. We ram ships at sea the Solong nailed an anchored ship.

Their track did not deviate for hours. My guess is autopilot and no one - awake at least - in the wheelhouse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

369 356 Christopher Lee made a pretty scary Frankenstein in the Hammer version.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=======
Christopher Lee spent time after WWII chasing Not See criminals. I'd imagine that would have an effect on a guy.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

370 People need to stop caring about the race swapping.

It's not race swapping. It's White-Out.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (w+hdv)

371 Avocado.

Goldenrod.

Sunburst? Cannot remember the orange. Burnt umber?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (/x6eu)

372 No sane people picks orange and green for kitchen appliance colors./i]

They're better than today, where you can get any color you want as long as it's gray.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (2ocoG)

373 Well, he got a personal audition with teh Queen doing the Werewolves of London. Gotta get some street cred from that.
Posted by: whig

Werewolf of London was Henry Hull. Chaney was the Wolf Man.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

374 Curious about the crew of the Solong. We ram ships at sea the Solong nailed an anchored ship.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM

People have totally forgotten about the Solong, Farewell, and Auf Wiedersehen incident.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (a3Q+t)

375
=======
That is how it turned out to be anyway. Dunno about the intention behind it and don't really care to investigate.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

What made it fun is that it had a pretty good pop-rock/retro 50's bebop musical score. And it *never* took itself seriously, everything is a big in-joke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM (uWKK8)

376 I forget. One of the later ones.

Also, remember Glenn Strange, who played Sam the Bartender on Gunsmoke? He was the last actor to play the monster in the Universal films.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
In Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, yes. I think he also took the role of the Monster, or an actor playing the Monster, in a 1962 (?) episode of Route 66 that featured Chaney as himself playing Larry Talbot, and also had Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff in it as themselves.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

377 People have totally forgotten about the Solong, Farewell, and Auf Wiedersehen incident.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 10:58 AM

She's had hundreds of men..

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 11, 2025 10:59 AM (6hd1O)

378 My time in the decade gave me the opinion that the 70s were a really bad hangover from the monster drug binge that was the 60s.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 10:59 AM (PzXaK)

379
Did John Carradine ever have a good role that he acted well in a movie?

Man, that guy was awful. Even as a very small kid, whenever he'd come on screen. it was like "Sheesh, not this hambone again,"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (iJfKG)

380 What's more, there has been a roughly 15 year push by pedowood to instill/foment hatred for white people in the populace. It's disturbing.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (dzMAk)

381 The last good sci-fi movie was Fifth Element.

And they almost tried ruining it with too much of the "humans are awful" part at the end but brought it back with "and still worth saving."

I'd consider Interstellar but I felt it too ... clumsy? IDK, it just didn't quite land in the "will watch again" category for me. Maybe I should watch again.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (MD399)

382 I sort of thought it was about wearing underwear not assigned at birth.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
========
Gay transvestitism in a big gay musical. I think part of the in joke was the taboo nature of fluid sexuality coupled with some aliens as deux ex machina. The party message of celebrating weirdness though is what the normies took home.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (ctrM5)

383 Nood. Punky Monkey.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (a3Q+t)

384 .
NOOD

Morning Rant time

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

385 Werewolf of London was Henry Hull. Chaney was the Wolf Man.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025

***
WoL holds up in its own way pretty well. A lot of it is like a stage play, a drawing-room drama with comic bits interspersed -- as befits a 1935 movie, where a lot of the actors, like Hull, came from the stage. But the werewolf makeup is very effective.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

386 Lest anyone think Dims are turning away from their commie insanity, Judiciary Committee Democrats have tweeted "Free Mahmoud Khalil."

https://tinyurl.com/mw4fcurx

We are so blessed to have such opponents.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 11, 2025 11:01 AM (paSBy)

387 David Carradine played Dracula in some piece of shit movie. Also had Ash from evil dead...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:01 AM (/x6eu)

388 Did John Carradine ever have a good role that he acted well in a movie?

Man, that guy was awful. Even as a very small kid, whenever he'd come on screen. it was like "Sheesh, not this hambone again,"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025

***
Stagecoach in 1939, with John Wayne and claire Trevor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (J2vNu)

389 Signs of a psychopath.

High School Track Star Who Brutally Beat Opponent With a Baton Complains That She’s the One Who’s Hurt – Mentally

https://is.gd/5gTuMX
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

She's learned well...deny responsibility...make yourself the victim.

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Yj6Os)

390 Werewolf of London was Henry Hull. Chaney was the Wolf Man.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
Warren Zevon. Song. Mic drop.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrM5)

391 My parents had a house built in the early 70s when I was around 12 years old. Mom absolutely had to have a turquoise range and matching fridge. They were awful-looking.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Y1sOo)

392 The race swapping is part of it. Even without a shred of *actual* outrage, commensurate with the swap will always be studio press releases announcing that white people are outraged.

So as the Brits say, hung for a sheep as a lamb. In other words, get fucking outraged about it because they mean to beat you about the head and neck and eventually enslave you regardless of how you react to their bullying.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:03 AM (dzMAk)

393 Only good thing I got out of the 70s was Garanimals.

Now that was a brilliant idea, especially for my fashion backward ass. Does this shirt match these pants ? Well, if I match the blue elephant tag to the blue giraffe tag ? Then yes, yes they do.

They should do this for adults. And yes, I still ask the nice ladies at the store to sign off on my choice of button down shirt and pants. Because I'm smart enough to ask.

Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (Pnvww)

394 Did John Carradine ever have a good role that he acted well in a movie?

Man, that guy was awful. Even as a very small kid, whenever he'd come on screen. it was like "Sheesh, not this hambone again,"

Posted by: naturalfake
=====
He was in over two hundred movies so I guess directors and studios must have liked something in the guy. Probably he simply showed up, not soused, and followed direction. Lot of folks out there that do something as a job, not as their actual life.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

395 The bitch deserved it defense for the win!

Kansas City Chiefs Star Xavier Worthy Arrested for Assault, but Charges Were Dropped – Here’s Why

https://is.gd/JWi3Hn

Xavier Worthy’s attorneys claimed the allegation was “baseless” and stemmed from a dispute with a woman who refused to leave his residence after she was caught cheating.

The details of those claims are wild. They involve alleged infidelity on the part of the woman, of which there reportedly is video evidence, and a refusal on her part to leave his home. Not to mention her allegedly violent behavior.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)

396 Putting words in Jesus' mouth might not be a good idea.
Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2025 10:41 AM (Yj6Os)

And Jesus said, "Party on, dudes"!

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)

397 Location
Smithsonian American Art Museum
/
1st Floor
/
North Wing
Dimensions
20 x 21 in. (50.8 x 53.3 cm)

I had no idea the Smithsonian 1st Floor North Wing was so tiny.

ba-dump

Posted by: look whats not at March 11, 2025 11:51 AM (nakGR)

398 I really like the little cheez sticks running across the bottom ...

Posted by: Dr_No at March 11, 2025 12:57 PM (ayRl+)

399 26 AKA..."Amber Waves of Grain"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2025 09:35 AM (7fElN)

But no spacious skies in view.

Posted by: m at March 11, 2025 01:03 PM (CQE5S)

400 400!

Posted by: m at March 11, 2025 01:03 PM (CQE5S)

401 398 I really like the little cheez sticks running across the bottom ...
Posted by: Dr_No at March 11, 2025 12:57 PM (ayRl+)

Or noodles?

Posted by: m at March 11, 2025 01:05 PM (CQE5S)

402 This where all our Bread Cakes Donuts muffins Etc. Come from

Posted by: Tamma the Drongo Bird at March 11, 2025 05:02 PM (wGqjj)

Processing 0.08, elapsed 0.079 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0201 seconds, 411 records returned.
Page size 200 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.