Oh, definitely. I’m going to let it dry overnight and look again tomorrow.
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Oh, definitely. I’m going to let it dry overnight and look again tomorrow.
I can live with a Frank Finlay comparison. 🙏
Ha! I haven’t shaved for a few days and now I have “Alexandre Dumas villain” going on.
No wrong way to do it.
I failed my first saving throw so I had to put another half hour into the canvas.
Spending a couple of hours painting is a very civilized way to spend an evening and I would say it's excellent for maintaining one's sanity these days as well.
It needed more. Would one of you please drag me away from the easel before I mess it up? (Acrylic on canvas)
One sec. I decided it needed more.
I deem this good enough to share. (Acrylic on canvas. Painted this evening in one sitting.)
Few things are as much of a simple, sensuous joy as the feeling of cool, clean bed linens.
Speaking as an erstwhile illustrator, I'm quite pleased to be in the right-hand column.
Wait...but surely that's Berlioz. (I know *you two* will get that gag.)
Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future. (I suspect I'm 75% of the way there.)
Me: Why do I feel so good? This seems unnatural. Also Me: Well, because of the federal holiday, you were able to take a lovely nap mid-afternoon. Me: Ah, that seems feasible. Also Me: Also, there are decent odds that the President is at death's door. Me: AHA! Now we're talking.
RIP Graham Greene (1952-2025) a towering figure in Canadian cinema. Honoured to have had a part in bringing this masterpiece back to home video, theatres and streaming for a whole new audience.
Ha! Well played!
To mix a metaphor, "Mellow Yellow" sounds the way that being stoned feels. (Not that I would...ah...know...)
Robert W. Chambers wrote "The King in Yellow". This is not to be confused with "The King in Mellow Yellow" which was Donovan's venture into combining Folk Music with Cosmic Horror.
Oh no! RIP. Absolutely seconding the recommendation for CLEARCUT, a potent and deeply angry horror film.
Sir David Attenborough, Mel Brooks, and Dick Van Dyke are all 99. If they all outlive the current President, that will be exceptionally pleasing.
This is going in the fridge for a slow-cooker soup that I shall be assembling tomorrow first thing in the morning. (I'm a planner, I am.)
Making mirepoix for a dish.
I think she's good. She's currently moved on to deep irritation with the prospect of fighting with the insurance company. (Like you do.)
I would LOVE to watch this with a German who passed their driver's test. The reactions would be utterly priceless. (I've done German driver's education when I lived there.)
Hey may be alive, but at the moment my money is on — to quote THE PRINCESS BRIDE — mostly dead.
I'm curious to see THE SMASHING MACHINE. We all know that Dwayne Johnson is a movie star (and sometimes an effective one) but I'm looking forward to see him *really* acting.
"Our organisation believes that there is a middle ground to be found between Little Miss Muffet and the Spider." -Spokesperson for The Third Whey.
Bethany-type?
Did Hyundai call it the Sonata because the gear-box has three speeds: Allegro, Adagio, and Presto?
WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS.
Thanks
Cuts and burns from the airbag and a seatbelt bruise, but otherwise fine.
I should clarify, this was my mother's car that was hit. She's fine but being treated for cuts and burns caused by — wait for it — the airbag.
It was my mom's car that was hit. I'm over a hundred miles away.
I am not posting a photo but I now know that a Hyundai Sonata is an excellent car to be in if someone blasts through a red light and smashes into it.
Search me. Mine are always like this and always have been.
Parents are strange. My 79-year old mother was in a nasty car accident yesterday and didn't tell me because she "didn't want me to make a fuss". A near octogenarian being in a wreck that totaled her car is possibly worthy of making a fuss.
This may have already happened but it's going to be amazingly funny when a major corporation uses ChatGPT to write up their quarterly investor report and they get caught.
Ah, you see, I have no fence (by choice). Critters can and do run through my yard, and the hares actually eat lots of weeds, but not all.
*monotone voice* "I am Björn of Borg. Number 7 of 6. You shall be assimilated. Resistance is futile. ...Anyone for some tennis on the Holodeck first?"
Well, first, my cats are NEVER outdoor cats. It's too dangerous for both them and the native fauna around here. Second, absolutely not. I had one cat sneak out and the neighbors had just treated their garden. That cat got pancreatitis and was dead within a week.
I am absolutely not one to give anyone a hard time for a mispronunciation, but I must confess, I literally winced when I heard an acquaintance say aloud "This is un-presidented!"
Oh, good lord. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but that is one dodgy photo.
Top tip: if you, like me, enjoy a bit of puttering around in the garden, keep at least one crap, old pair of shoes. This is particularly true if you happen to be applying a chemical fertilizer.
Okay. I don't think I'm likely to see something make me laugh this hard for the rest of the week.
I've had Spotted Dick... Fortunately that's treatable these days.
She lives on in all those wonderful Lubitsch films which is a very fine thing for all of us.
This will make @moviessilently.bsky.social very pleased this fine morning.
It's fine...provided you never move your mouth. 😖
CW: body horror What can you know of suffering, you who has never had a painful pimple between your nostril and upper lip?
Keir today... Gone tomorrow. (Hey, a boy can dream, can't he?)
Sure enough!
I think you may be on to something.
Oh how marvelous. I wonder apart from her and Goldie Hawn how many "Laugh-In" original regulars are still with us?
D'you realize, if you were to give Andrew Scott a good false mustache, you could make a prestige mini-series called "The Hot Proust". (I'd watch!)
I'm increasingly convinced it was a significant neurological event that has rendered him unable to communicate. This is probably the longest time he has not made a television appearance since the Bush administration.
THINGS TO COME is a fascinating curio. Script by H.G. Wells and directed by William Cameron Menzies, on one level, it's sort of a response by Wells to all the stupid stuff in METROPOLIS. The production design is amazing.
Sometimes you feel like a nut... The rest of the time you probably feel like a legume or a seed.
Rhys is terrific. You should definitely check him out. (Full disclosure: two of his books contain art by...me!)
Cover reveal. My novel TRUMPET FACE is an absurdist adventure published by Incunabula Press and features an Introduction by Michael Moorcock. It is the first volume in the "Knick Knack Trilogy" (though the books can be read in any order). I will provide more details soon 😊🎶🎵 #booksky
That's absolutely a component of the "something for nothing" fallacy.
You probably know this but whenever a tech bro says something like "AI will eliminate 50% of all jobs" neither you nor I are the audience. That message is designed to penetrate directly into the brains of the investor class who fantasize about getting "something for nothing".
A beautiful song from a very good album. I wonder what David Sylvian has been up to lately?
Encountered the word "bombazine" in my morning reading. It's a heavy fabric and black bombazine used to be worn by people in mourning. I was rather hoping that it was a monthly publication for B-17 admirers.
Whoa!
It's kind of funny to think this but at the moment we have "Schrödinger's President". Until a (reputable) third party observes him, he is neither dead nor alive.
Whoa. Wordle 1,535 2/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
To my despair, Steak & Shake is now doing it here (I’ve seen billboards.)
CW: Sportsball I'm watching the Skycast stream of the Notre Dame game (yeah, yeah) and I have to admit...I'm totally digging not having the useless play-by-play announcers pontificating on what I happen to actually be watching.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS... *THUD*
This is a reason I'm so grateful that Daniel Craig escaped from Bond and is now visibly having infinitely more fun as the esteemed Benoit Blanc. (God bless Rian Johnson for this creation!)
I resemble this meme.
Make sure you reread "Bomber". I think that may possibly be his masterpiece.
A couple of years ago, I went on a Deighton binge and I was delighted to see how well his novels hold up.
I did not! I must look that one up.
Sod Bond. We need a revival of Len Deighton's "Harry Palmer". See if Tom Hiddleston will do it wearing unfashionable, big spectacles.
Wait. But that would imply that some of the SciFi people utterly despise the Fantasy people whereas the Fantasy people are basically "live and let live" with the SciFi people... Oh.
The solution to society's wealthy sociopath problem is going to involve a serious combination of rigorous regulations and possibly more importantly, significant "Anti-Scrooge" stigma. It drives a lot of rich people barmy that they cannot purchase likability or love. We need to weaponize this.
*Stares in Fritz Rasp* (I know YOU know who he is!)
Oh, man. I was excited before. I'm champing at the bit to see this now.
If so, they're certainly handling it in a ham-fisted manner, IMHO.
Before the municipal petition was filed, it was "Suffragette Township."
How utterly glorious.
Hoo-boy. If so (and I completely buy that) we're going to be in for a bizarre period because they CAN'T put him in front of a camera after that.
Having finally completed cleaning the house from top to bottom, I'm unwinding while the soup does its thing in the slow cooker until I can indulge my silly vice of *sort of* watching the football game this evening. (I'll be painting while I occasionally glance at the game.)
Oh, believe you me, I have no shortage of physical books!
Cor! If you had those as cufflinks, I'd buy a pair like a shot.
Because you're a physician, you've probably played through the possibilities. I'm betting a major cardiovascular/neurological event and the Trump people are desperately trying to keep it quiet before they need to let Vance assume responsibility.
A lot of people do feel this way.
This is a good reminder that if you genuinely enjoy cookery, you need a physical copy of "The Joy of Cooking" (I favor the 2006 edition, myself.)
*Staring from just slightly north in Hamilton County* That does about sum it up, I fear.
In the Old West, one needed the ability to locate Arizona on an unmarked map. A good sense of Yuma, one might say...
There's something weirdly Ballardian about the fact that this guy's company DrogBruk is "A leading paving company in Poland."
I hate how mad this sounds but I think we're at a point at the moment where we cannot conclusively say that Trump is actually alive. I don't necessarily think that he's dead but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he was utterly incapacitated and the Keystone Kops in D.C. are all flailing now.
a soupçon and a surfeit walk into a bar. They immediately begin bickering. With a sigh, the bartender says "Look fellas, this happens every time. Can't you two find a happy medium?"
I do not much enjoy thoroughly cleaning the bathrooms but I'm enamored with having successfully cleaned the bathrooms.
The character Bottom’s first name is “Nick” which sounds like a man who inadvertently sat on a razor in the bath.
Conan the Economist.
“But I don’t want to make the world a better place! I want to be smug and morally superior. Honestly, I’m surprised that you’re surprised.” Signed, THAT person on the Internet.
You and I both know at least one person who is adamant that it’s better than Friedkin’s film.