my grandma used to use "pollack" as an insult without knowing what it meant. she stopped and thought it was crazy to learn anti-Polish racism is a thing that exists we're literally reaching levels of racism even our grandparents were unfamiliar with
Author, "Dorothy & Jack," "The Gospel in Dickens," & "One by One." I'm at https://dearstrangethings.substack.com/ and http://dickensblog.typepad.com. Beethoven fan, skating fan, Army brat, Pope Leo-quoting Protestant. Opinions are my own. #TCMParty #MST3K
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my grandma used to use "pollack" as an insult without knowing what it meant. she stopped and thought it was crazy to learn anti-Polish racism is a thing that exists we're literally reaching levels of racism even our grandparents were unfamiliar with
Jaffa: "In the tradition of American constitutionalism, all men are equally endowed by their Creator with certain rights. The equality of man is understood in the light of man's inequality with God: because men are not and never can become God or gods..."
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
And according to That's Entertainment, the first to sing "Singin' in the Rain" onscreen. #TCMParty
And people say black and white movies are boring. #HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
#HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
I just realized whom Evangeline reminds me of. #TCMParty
Joe Pettibone is a hoot! This scene plays like a vaudeville routine. #TCMParty
The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.
Ain't love grand.
He looks like that fellow in the movies. You know... Ralph Bellamy. #HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
"B for brains." #TCMParty
Roz hit Glenda Farrell velocity on that phone call and then accelerated. #TCMParty
And then she just as seamlessly moves to siding with Molly against the newsmen. #TCMParty
#HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
Alicia said Grant and Hawks in the intro. #TCMParty
Hildy knows better than to put a bribe of a county official in a potato chip bag. #HisGirlFriday #tcmparty
Hildy switches back and forth between sweet and sentimental with Bruce and cynical and snarky about the very same subjects with the newsmen, and Roz plays it seamlessly. It's really impressive. #TCMParty
"No thanks, I've still got those." 😂 #TCMParty
That's odd -- just noticed that #ThePhiladelphiaStory is in this Grant & Hawks lineup, but that one was directed by Cukor. #TCMParty
They really brought out tbe best in each other.
Old Earl is a damp squib, but the rest of the movie is so good, I put up with him. #TCMParty
If nobody on your paper can write, shouldn't you do something about it? #TCMParty
I wish Roz and Cary had made a whole bunch of movies together. #HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
#TheMoreYouKnow #HisGirlFriday #TCMParty
#ComingUpOnTCM HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy Dir.: Howard Hawks 5:00 PM PT A conniving newspaper editor tricks his star reporter and ex-wife into covering one last story. 1h 32m | Comedy | TV-G #TCM #TCMParty
A real “hood off” moment.
Malcolm Foley makes a good case in "The Anti-Greed Gospel" that from the very beginning, racism was rooted in greed. Everything for us, nothing for anyone who's different from us. They should be exploited to get us what we want.
I got one on my arm the other day. No fun, are they? ☹️
This is real??
Stay strong!
On 2 September 1973 J.R.R. #Tolkien died aged 81. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the best-selling book of the 20th Century, and is joined by seminal works The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. He may have died 52 years ago but his influence and legacy lives on in us all. Namárië. #BookSky
Why has no one in this administration ever heard of the Streisand Effect?
Did they not see Old Yeller?
As soon as I wrote that, I thought, "I'll probably regret it." 😂
And for once none of it is ice dance drama!
figure skating life comes at you fast sometimes
"The greatest evil ... is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices. ... My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." C. S. Lewis
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
Whoops, I put Dowager Duchess in the alt text. Must have been thinking of Lord Peter Wimsey's mother's title.
Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
Good for Kim for hopping over to Venice to be honored. “It’s not easy getting old. I’m feeling it’s close to the end.” ❤️
- We are likely at or near peak summer Covid - Sore throats are up, too - No flu or RSV yet, at least. - Big recall of frozen shrimp caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/school-yea...
I've requested a review copy!
Nicely put.
Not only is this obscene, I can't begin to tell you how bad this is as a teaching technique. Like this is not a good teacher. This is a lazy teacher who 1. is not thinking about the developmental level of his students at all and 2. is making the freakin' Holocaust a sandbox exercise.
The strategies these judges have to apply just to get anywhere ... But I'm glad they're so good at it!
Local immigration attorneys and relatives of people detained by immigration agents in recent weeks are raising alarms over what they say are dire and inhumane conditions at ICE’s field office in Northern Virginia. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...
I like the gesture. I hope it's not lost on an administration that tends to need things spelled out for them in crayon.
Great analysis of a terrific book! #literaturesky #booksky
I taught logical reasoning for years, and in every class there were students who would never grasp the concept of sufficient vs. necessary. They would get that “All apples are fruits” does not mean “ONLY apples are fruits,” but not be able to apply that to *anything* else. They just couldn’t. (More)
Matterhorn from Zmutt Glacier, Zermatt, recto (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14382
Oh, they started coming after me in my early 40s!!
They touched on this in the movie version. She was worried that he'd scare the kid and be a bad influence on her, but that was about it.
Kudos to Kim Novak, who was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Film Festival — and used the platform to sound an alarm. "We have to open our eyes and see what’s going on and try to do whatever we can to save our democracies." youtu.be/JbXI1y2_CkY?... #FilmSky #KimNovak
Let's go for a stroll among the stock footage! #TCMParty
Saying Spencer Tracy had a troubled marriage is like saying Pompeii had a little problem with volcanoes. #TCMParty
This ending is great, but, let us confess, a little unrealistic about how mergers tend to work. #DeskSet. #TCMParty
That panting sound effect is creepy. Very HAL 9000. #DeskSet #TCMParty
I would never hang up on a Katharine Hepburn poetry recital! #DeskSet #TCMParty
I don't want to spoil the ending, but I hope AI execs are watching #DeskSet with #TCMPARTY. AI results are about as successful as GENERAC's.
"Who's afraid? ... Oh." Which of us hasn't had that experience too many times? 😬 #TCMParty
#tcm programming idea: holiday office parties! 🎉 🍾 👯♂️ #tcmparty #deskset
*shudder*
Welcome! 🥂
Kate's hair looked nice down. I wonder why she started wearing it up all the time. #DeskSet #TCMParty
Everyone has so much fun in #DeskSet, and it's so delightful to see. #TCMParty
Triple feature!
I get forgetting something -- I do it often -- but how drunk do you have to be to forget it three times in five minutes? #DeskSet #TCMParty
An interesting double feature would be #DeskSet and Network. Two very different perspectives on the world of TV. #TCMParty
Awful lot of yutzes around these parts today. #TCMParty
Oh crap. 😢
This is the first film that Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn made in color and the eighth of the nine films they starred in together. Their next (and last), ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ (1967), came ten years later. #TCMParty #DeskSet
Perfect! 👍
Mine was like "You have a birthday coming! Get some life insurance!" Good grief, I'm turning 50, not 90!
And even the mid-century hairdo isn't as bad as some. They didn't actually Wyman her. #TCMParty
No, I just have a terrible memory. 😊😂
How cool to write a paper on that one! 😃
Lucy is terrific in that movie!
Lots of good stuff in both!
#TCMParty Pat and Mike. The film where Kate Hepburn uses martial arts to beat up Charles Bronson.
Nine!
Glad they were there to pull you to safety! 😃
Same!
From performances to dialogue to music, #PatAndMike is basically a perfect movie. I'd have given Spencer an Oscar nomination, and possibly Kate too. #TCMParty
Thank God for her. May her tribe increase.
PAT AND MIKE (1952) — 2:00 pm ET — 1h 35m (TCM Daytime: Hepburn & Tracy) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray; directed by George Cukor Romance blooms between a female athlete and her manager. #TCM #TCMParty
Where the heck would you even get a gun made of licorice? #AdamsRib #TCMParty
That earworm I do not need. 😂
I love a good frolic! Barbecued beef plate, please! All those ice cream sodas look delicious -- I believe I'll try the cherry.
*turns on TV* *hears "Amanda"* *turns off TV* #AdamsRib #TCMParty
Happy birthday! 🎂
Richard Farnsworth in "The Straight Story" - BOTD
Good!
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
Such a good line.
My book is now on GoodReads, where you can add it to your “want to read” list! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
"Sunny September," 1913 Helen McNicoll (Canadian, 1879-1915) Art Canada Institute Pierre Lassonde Collection
