Saw this morning that Melvyn Bragg was retiring from In Our Time. Really can't express how much joy and fascination Mr. Bragg and In Our Time has brought to my life. I hope he has a long fruitful retirement. Really the end of an era.
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Saw this morning that Melvyn Bragg was retiring from In Our Time. Really can't express how much joy and fascination Mr. Bragg and In Our Time has brought to my life. I hope he has a long fruitful retirement. Really the end of an era.
honestly just hearing that theme music puts me in the best mood
we all want to be jessica fletcher, flirting with that russian spy, training a washed up boxer, flying to Silicon Valley to bamboozle a video game pioneer
someone put an awkward "a" in front of "live"
is there any sort of reason to fear that population becoming smaller everywhere that isn't bare existential dread or base racism?
Pity they are the least charismatic people ever
Nailed shut after that jerk Andrew Jackson made everybody look bad throwing empty bottles on the lawn
I actually loved Sunday night, felt like the best of twitter hysteria, but him being an old man is not news
has anyone done some analysis on how great of a bad guy whoever that other dude is, look at his hands, great bad guy hand posture
I'm a Doctor...of literature...and I say he's been visited by three ghosts recently
me talking to the romanian crossing guard about what language nosferatu (2024) is talking
I was in a PhD for creative writing where in which one of my friends in the program (a poet) read them obsessively. She also read Star Trek books obsessively and rapidly. Her husband came from the Amish. She was who brought this corner of the genre to my attention.
Stripping it of the moral question, it doesn’t make much sense anymore narratively, Bond is an necessarily agent of a crumbling empire, now Britain is the dust of said empire and Bond doesn’t have the same entree into the world in order to muck it up
My love of Brosnan remains strong, so I'm always eager to watch him in things
oh, is MobLand good?
this is like the ultimate betrayal, getting off the internet and living in semi-rurality
having to choose between the second cousin who never left the amish faith and the one that third cousin that's two weeks late returning from rumspringa [yes, i've read an amish romance novel]
Me at 35 years old, waking with a backache AND a shoulder ache: NEVER FELT BETTER
Best James Bond movies are all Bronson's off-brand Bonds: The Fourth Protocol, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Matador, The Tailor of Panama, Black Bag Haven't seen Taffin, that might count though
Texas is piggy-backing on the meme into believing it's Israel's eminence grise
I mean, not a historian but love history, it seems like that's exactly right; although there was also a lot of people just leaving the realm when they got in trouble; and I suppose another part of having lot of "bodies" is having technology that can support professionalization?
Jake Jackity thought it would be one last smash and grab job, so he could retire with his wife and child to his summer house in Lake Tahoe. Little did he know that he was entering...THE WACKY HOUSE. With Willem Defoe as the ball pit
Poster's Madness, one of the characters from Requiem for a Dream had that
taken together this is a whole Nebraska B Side
In Pasadena it’s high in the street but not flooding yet. Is this a big storm?
Pritzker at a Chicago boxing gym. Pritzker in shirt sleaves building a Chicago skyscraper. Pritzker running through the snow in hob nails.
i definitely could be circumspect in writing; unusually, not so much in real life
100,000 acres ** I'm bad at math
love how they see cities like strongholds, like all cities to them are uruk, the walls fell on the sheepfold type shit, you can't topple LA, it's spread out over 100 acres, ya gonna knock down every Wendy's there?
Did the op-ed writers of the Times buy me a diecast model corvette?
One error of the whole left liberal divide conceit so strong on here and its forbearer is that if a person actually followed a few simple liberal principles they’d be different then 4/5 of the party
a recurrent hand injury can go on for months
remember when he tried to get that little bastard Charlie X to loosen up with some Greco-Roman wrestling?
lol you elicited my tiniest "ah"
People say they don't have a good scientific grasp on the whats and the whys of death, so how could we say we have proof positive of the whats of the President's current ambulatory posture
History buffs ignoring the unsubstantiated glee by arguing about the particulars of George "Snapping Turtle" Meade's pursuit of the enemy after Gettysburg of something
Witchboard (1986)
lol i was curious thanks for reposting
that's a hilarious answer to me, oh yeah I got to watch the shittiest example of something up close
yeah he took a pic of like something too close up and now everyone is sure
the sweetest take here
a huge booster of this picture, people say it's too angry, damn right it is
Cold cases
My 3 year old is the strongest most dancy person I know
My parents neighborhood in Pasadena has a jacked up dodge ram with a black flag with an AR-15 flying in its bed
People of Uruk the sheepfold are sheeple
I remember a girl in high school telling me that Taylor Swift was certainly still a virgin. I hadn't asked her. I didn't know who Taylor Swift was. My parents had me listening to Herman's Hermits. She proffered the info
kinda think if your in a maga marriage it's because you've been brought up (and or found yourself previously inmeshed) in maga culture, not like...became maga because you like breast feeding
you shouldn't be a paper
Teixeira is from Maryland, more elite professional (athletes) coming from abroad to make Texas more conservative than it actually is
Debate is when you’re nice to me
Come and take it but it’s just a giant flag that says bang
Ya know this is pretty much like when Paris Review got a submittable
We solved the problem. *Uploading your therapy to the FBI*
More crocodiles, love their diversity!
he invented the poor laws?
Feel like there is a sort of residue of middle class baccalaureate stupidity here; we only speak proper New England schoolmarmish English. We wouldn't dare codeswitch. To know more than one language--like also knowing RGV Spanish--is a sign of un-educatedness. A lot of them have intellect backwards
all those innocent people were wearing hamas branded merch, had to be murdered
this is when schwarzenegger says something like, "If it can suffer, we will make it!"
Donald Quixote
Difficult for me not to see what your describing as stealth republicans
Gotta be right
Which framer ya think could have conceptualized the telegram?
i think it's the "politicians lie about everything so when they seem more personable it actually means the opposite" neurosis. Which is dumb, Trump basically said "I'm a monster" from the beginning, politicos are genuine a shocking amount, when they're not (like Jeffries) they sound robotic.
lol
Oh yeah I would too
listen although this may not be true this is absolutely spot on for a Trumpian inciting event for martial law, in defense of a weak craven manchild badgering a girl
Had Disney+ for a second, never have used a service less, still if I were offered for free it I’d take it
You will never appeal to New Hampshire farmers if you don’t speak their language
Fake letterbox entries
In that Jeffries clip, the fact that the distraction isn’t from another thing the president is doing but instead simply from his general unpopularity is impossible to wrap my head around. Don’t focus on the unpopular things Trump does, Jeffries opines, but only his ambient a priori unpopularity!
My thought was like the fact that he probably doesn’t even have the physical strength to work in a kitchen isn’t gonna make this less successful
third way picking a nit that might be technically true in very circumscribed circumstances in order to get what they really want: to lose more elections
make sure the chicken strip restaurants are down too, they've lost the ability to skillet fry out there
also: for God sakes dems just need to bait the GOP to split Texas into five states, it would be good I swear
when you're born in Houston Methodist they give you tickets to a local airport in Boulder
lol, yeah
Got em!
My perennial argument with my friend that football orgs are slightly more evil on the whole than baseball orgs is really being carried these fascist apparatchiks
It’s a little bit like when Europeans were trying to decipher hieroglyphics and they thought because they were logographs they couldn’t also mean something so banal as just sounds
kinda think 4 and 5 are...better than 1 2 and 3
(1) Free press has its own infernal internal pressures (2) the lady with the name that reminds me of ritters port stunt flavors trying to make her name (3) they've can't seem to just say 'Israel's good' over and over again and it work out
Burt Lancaster in The Byford Dolphin Incident
In Renaissance portraiture the bee represented…something…..I forget but it was a real thing!
These bastards are such poseurs. Real heads drive across state to eat cube steak at Piccadilly’s
Get me a little diecast car on the way out
Tangential but I’m a pretty left leaning guy (with a bunch of degrees). I’ve had experiences where right-wing profs have poured tons of energy into helping me with stuff just so they can suggest I read The Road to Serfdom one time; and people might say I’m being cynical but….
Love Percival Everett, discovered him in a magazine article describing him and Stephen Dixon as the real avant-garde because no one reads them. Then Everett completely blew up.
It's odd, I'm working at series of community colleges as an adjunct and you see messages from higher-ups directly to students suggesting the usefulness of AI, but then the direct superiors will say "if you don't like it, tell the students you have a no AI policy and that's that."
my basic premise is my inchoate redneck folks from where I'm from (Pasadena, Texas) are more easily convinced of moral rightness than the "centrist" Harvard trained Massachusetts family I've married into who looks at you with pity if you suggest centrism is not a moral pinnacle.
Not sure I've ever seen an actual barbie up close, but now I have a daughter and so some family member has given her a barbie. My first response to her inhuman body proportions was that she'd be a terror in the lane. I've been dunking on other dolls all day. Grabbing rebounds. Et cetera.
When they go back to save that whale and Scott tries to talk to the compaq or whatever computer it was
the thing about a telos (not to the Greeks really but in the basic modern sense) is you don’t have to do much to bring it about and it can’t go backwards
when you kill someone with an ice pick it contaminates the house with a ghost
You see it in submission guidelines, “will not accept submissions with song lyrics!”
used to you had to master the pratfall
i love what you've done with this checkpoint
Just started reading the opinion, and President Wendler seems like a loon
Feel like there was a more honest debate about economic vs. other non economic things in the mid-10s circa Sanders unforced error to not back reparations
I’m happy it turned out that way but Mr. Terrific’s explanation of why it mustn’t be doctored feels like they were cutting 10 minute of b plot out of the movie. Where we figure out it is for real. All hail everyone’s favorite new character actor Edi Gathegi.