Fun fact: in Spain a lot of people heard "rascal, you" as a name, "Rascayú". So that's how the Spanish version goes. Cue the music: youtu.be/3vZ3HNge_eI?...
Winning Pascal's Wager; wearing many hats (literally/figuratively); Paddington & Caligari stan. Cue the music...
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Fun fact: in Spain a lot of people heard "rascal, you" as a name, "Rascayú". So that's how the Spanish version goes. Cue the music: youtu.be/3vZ3HNge_eI?...
Yay you! Astoria has so many wonderful things; here are two of my faves: 1) Museum of the Moving Image 2) On a block-by-bloc basis, best Halloween decorations in NYC (especially the houses around Astoria Park)!
And listening to the very entertaining new podcast "Extremely Accurate Bird Songs", whose hosts are on a quest to write a song about every avian species.
Audrey Totter looking as if she just smelled something nasty (Spanish lobby card for the 1946 film "Lady in the Lake", photo by me at a flea market)
D. Because no one should marry Gail Patrick. (I mean "Gail Patrick" as in her onscreen persona; in real life, four men actually did marry her sequentially, as in no bigamy was involved.)
All-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: ALIEN All-time favorite movie I’ve never seen in theaters [excluding films from before I was born] : ZODIAC Bonus "Film made before I was born that I've probably seen most in actual movie theaters:" CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI
You mean this guy born in Nevis who wrote 51 of the 85 Federalist papers?
Thanks for the rec! With that title & logline, I'm in -- just checked out a copy from the library.
I love that this thread starts out with silent movie history & winds up with a shout-out to SINNERS ✨️
"Proponents of the Invisible Hand (...) constantly argue that Hollywood wouldn't leave money on the table if there had been a REAL demand. Well, they did in the silent era and the success of SINNERS indicates they're doing it now."
Aye eye, y'all. So obvious, lol
Here it is: youtu.be/cxA3Q96a8XE?...
No such thing as "too many books", but mine was a swear word I had never heard anyone say, at the time. But I knew it was a swear so I didn't dare to ask my parents & I was too embarrassed to ask a peer. In the end I learned from listening to Grace Slick, so there's that. youtu.be/cxA3Q96a8XE?...
No such thing as "too many books", but mine was a swear word I had never heard anyone say, at the time. But I knew it was a swear so I didn't dare to ask my parents & I was too embarrassed to ask a peer. In the end I learned from listening to Grace Slick, so there's that.
Theda Bara has entered the chat.
Note the 7 on the car as a possible thumb-nose to rival 7-Up. Also, this slogan made a good jingle.
Spanish has a cool word for a person with whom you share a name: - tocayo (masc.) - tocaya (fem.) If you hear "¡Hola, tocaya!", it means the women have the same name.
The cartoonist Herblock won his first Pulitzer for this piece on the death of Stalin
Putting "dive" in the name of your bar is a sign that it probably isn't one.
@greenleejw.bsky.social , nice to see some eel love in the mainstream press
[Snark font on] Did you ask those customers who they voted for last year, or whether they even voted at all? I mean, that could've been "doing something about it" preemptively, because with a different administration this just would not have happened.
Here in Spain there so many COVID memorial plaques, whether on the front of historic government buildings in the capital or this little churchyard in the Pyrenees.
As much as I empathize w/ you & understand that you're very shook right now, "we" don't all "live in a world" where our kids are "at risk of something like this happening." It's not "a world" -- it's a country. It's the USA. I raised my 3 kids in Europe where "this [school shootings]" doesn't happen
It should be common. My band has a single coming out for which I wrote the melody & lyrics but I insisted on registering 50% of songwriting credit to the lead guitarist, cuz his hooky riff & monster outro solo are literally half the piece. Whether we make any money isn't the issue; it's only fair.
Listen to Tommy James & try doing it yourself -- fun times!
I was an intrerpreter at an international forensics conference & a speaker gave me a courtesy copy of his presentation on identifying corpses w/ insects. He politely warned us not to look at his photo slides from the booth, bc the images might be too "distracting" (I assume he spoke from experience)
Absolutely agree about Andy Serkis LOTR audiobooks! On a less epic scale, Hugh Fraser's versions of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels are same "listening to the filmed version" experience, because Captain Hastings is reading to you & Fraser does a near-perfect mimic of David Suchet as Poirot.
I didn't know that vocal tracks can be electronically manipulated, so when I heard "Crimson & Clover" on the radio, I thought Tommy James was actually singing "Crimmimononsinon anan clowowowowver owowowoverer...". Spent days teaching myself to sing it like that; still can! youtu.be/XS0niyiKlcw?...
Something I realized years later that I'd totally misunderstood as a child: That vocal tracks can be electronically manipulated. So I thought Tommy James was actually singing "Crimmimononsinon anan clowowowowver". Spent days teaching myself to sing it like that; still can! youtu.be/XS0niyiKlcw?...
What language are you translating from?
Amen, sister.
That's Miss Marple's ninja superpower: her "invisibility" as an old spinster. People pay her no attention... but boy howdy is she paying attention to them.
"I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!"
I've posted the same image elsewhere but reposting just in case anyone here for this thread would enjoy seeing Octavia Butler as the Three of Pentacles (in Sarah Shipman's "Our Tarot" feminist deck).
I am so glad that when designing her "Our Tarot" feminist deck, Sarah Shipman chose Octavia Butler as the Three of Pentacles.
Stay silly, Fritzi ✨️
This is the content I'm here for, y'all ✨️
Much as I love Joan Hickson, none of the tv/film versions I've seen of Marple fully do justice to the source material (i.e. what Christie actually wrote). Also, why invent LGB subplots for tv when they're in the books: A Murder Is Announced has a moving portrayal of what is clearly a lesbian couple.
What really gets me about the novel is that the (hetero) murder couple kill an innocent Girl Guide & then disguise her corpse as a showgirl & *mutilate her face* to cover up their crime. People who call Christie "cozy" apparently haven't read the books....
I love that Marple is always right simply bc she's so clear-eyed about people. Others may dismiss her as an "old cat", but she knows what's up (even openly referring to topics like abortion w/o judgment). The plots can be shockingly vicious, e.g. Body in the Library, but MM is a quiet avenging angel
It just can't be enough. Cue the music: youtu.be/_6FBfAQ-NDE?...
Copyeditors are language ninjas: when we're on top of our game, we're invisible. (Most people only notice our existence when we drop the ball.)
Handprints in stone, from a thousand years of Camino de Santiago pilgrims touching the columns as they enter Jaca Cathedral ✨
Hermione Gingold fandom is the content I'm here for. #HermioneNoNotThatOneTheOneWhoSings
Oh, yes -- I remember it well.
Cue the music: youtu.be/dWUa7aAIfLE?...
I love this photo because a) I love Jean Harlow & b) I spent a lot of time this summer in the exact same position, waist-deep in a remote Pyrenean river, practicing how to properly belt a high B, which was a lot of fun.
I live within walking distance of the Prado Museum, so I've seen the Goya original in person many times, & this might be even more disturbing (which is saying something). Good work, Susan!
I listened to this pod back in the day! It was really good & worth seeking out, for those who haven't heard it & are so inclined.
When my kids were little they liked: - Chaplin shorts - Chaplin's "The Kid" - Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last" - Keaton generally - Lotte Reineger's "Prince Achmed" - Ladeslas Starevich stop-motion shorts
Amen. It takes a huge coordinated effort by a whole lot of policy wonks to make major change happen in any complex modern government, because there are so many moving parts to be considered in order to do it right. Most people have no idea of the amount of work involved.
¡Hola! from Spain, where the vast majority of people use the free filing system. The tax authority even has a website, in English as well as Spanish, explaining how this can be done from one's phone.
Thanks, @radio3.es for reminding me what a banger this is -- singing along to "Buana Buana King Kong" at the top of my lungs while driving down the highway is a delight ✨️
So many of these just gathering dust in Dutch antique shops & flea markets, if anyone's interested
How's this for a logo?
One of my sons has a red cap with a little Swiss flag embroidered on the side (we used to live there) & I reminded him to bring a different (i.e., not red) cap on a recent trip to Paris.
"Quakers"
"¡TORO!"
My adult kids still have theirs, from 3 countries.
"...and I am Marie of Romania" (h/t to Dorothy Parker)
This 12th-century illuminator's "talk to the hand" self-portrait is the content I'm here for today.
Hey, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social...
Good night & have a lovely breakfast tomorrow ✨️
Thanks, I laughed out loud when I saw this & it improved my day.
You don't sound insane at all. In fact, I truly believe that a big part of the current regime’s approach to *any* policy is largely driven by gender anxiety. And racism, of course.
It's hard for those who have never worked with classified/sensitive info to understand how easy it would be to railroad someone on this. Technically, the staffers who inadvertantly left the POTUS summit schedule on a hotel photocopier last week could also be prosecuted for mishandling sensitive info
La mía la celebré con mi abuela (ella estaba en su luna de miel con mi abuelastro), mi hermana, y cuatro amigas. Cenamos en mi piso y luego salimos a bailar y nos lo pasamos pipa.
The one in the Vielle Ville is so authentically old-timey: short menu of good, simple food with friendly service. A long-time family favorite! People rag on Geneva for being expensive but there are still bargains to be had if you know where to look.
La Bagatelle has a 22 CHF menu of the day. They also have gigantic salads that like a meal all in themselves. www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_R...
Chez ma Cousine: www.chezmacousine.ch/restaurants/...
Near the train station you can't go wrong with my favorite old-timey brasserie, La Bagatelle. In the Vielle Ville, check out Chez ma Cousine on y Mange du Poulet (they have a couple of other locations).
Remembering the gasps in Madrid's Teatro Real opera house when, on the last night of the run of Götterdämmerung in February 2022, Siegfried's body was brought out wrapped in the Ukranian flag. (Video here: youtu.be/Pigwvjoo9_Y?...)
Happy Birthday! My favorite time travel in fiction, because it's the one that first got me thinking about the subject's possibilities: Meg & co. from Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME. (Of course at age 11, I saw myself as Meg.)
When so many revolutionary technologies were invented in just a few decades, it's not surprising that these questions were asked. As late as 1922 the Scientific American offered a $5000 prize for proof of paranormal activity to a panel of Harvard & MIT scientists, plus celebrity debunker Houdini.
My opinion on "Santa Fe" is that it's a decent second-tier Van Morrison song that I enjoy sometimes. Cue the music: youtu.be/bwi39zU4kPQ?...
That and learning to play the uke -- guaranteed chick magnet!
And stencilling! So much stencilling! Also blue-and-yellow, blue-and-yellow decor everywhere.
Also, Springfield, Ohio is a nice town & I had the best pie of my life at a diner there.
Reminds me of the beautiful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (Text of the poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/...)