per IMDb it is also on Plex and Tubi
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per IMDb it is also on Plex and Tubi
it’s on Kanopy! Jim Henson’s The World of Puppetry (i think it also has the alternate title of Jim Henson Presents the World of International Puppeteering)
so far both the frenchman and the dutchman have had a marionette that unhooks its own strings in order to kill itself, leading me, the viewer, to the inevitable conclusion that things were quite bleak in the pre-European Union puppeting community.
i WANT to like stuff like this. some of it is charming and i understand the skill that goes into it but!!! that’s it! i’m sorry i need a prescription for something to understand this!
i’m watching a documentary hosted by jim henson about european puppeteers made in 1985 and folks, i have just not done enough of the drugs, or the right drugs, to truly understand the appeal of weird european puppetry
i wish bluesky had a way to save a draft
i’ve gotten to guest on some pretty lovely podcasts recently and please, if you have a show, PLEASE ASK ME TO GUEST i love doing it *so much*
Oooooo I love me some haunted carnivals
there is ONE great moment in DANCES WITH WOLVES, which is when the guy who played Elton on MURPHY BROWN finds a dead guy and says, “someone back east is going, ‘now why don’t he write?’” and it’s amazing how often my husband and i can slip that into conversation in a week
An incredibly young age and an incredibly devastating loss.
if (and i cannot put enough spice on that IF) giuliani was really helping a victim of domestic violence, it’s honestly astounding that giuliani gets recognition for helping while ***every single thing trump has done in the past decade*** has made people more at risk for intimate partner violence
WOOOOOoooooooooeeeeeee
is it possibly because a lot of unions are super duper racist
i can still name like half a dozen 90s knicks and i wasn’t even a fan
I specifically wrote about how important it is to develop our own affirmative language about racial diversity by using a term that is extremely hard to demonize and has very positive connotations: Integration.
Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.
i keep looking around and wondering if these people are aware cracker barrel started in 1969.
i was in the fifth grade and i was just like… ma’am, are you aware you can just lie to children???
my 7th grade spanish teacher wanted to be an opera singer so she taught us vocabulary to the tune of various Mozart, Bizet, and Verdi operas so i can now talk about office supplies to the tune of “tarantelle”
there was a passing reference to having had a male lover during the torture scene innCASINO ROYALE, i think
my weirdest teachers were a grab bag of pervs and women with major eating disorders, and that was after i *left* catholic school there was also a teacher at my shittiest elementary school named Miss Porn. she was lovely but, like, my god. go by Smith or something.
you’re right! oh well. point stands that he was an officer & still could have been mixed
so i leave you with this, because i can
Anyway, a quick goog reminds us that James Bond in the books is tan skinned with lightly curling, jet-black hair and light eyes. He was canonically an admiral in the navy- a position held by mixed race men as far back as the 1770s- and there’s literally no textual reason to make him pale faced.
terrifying, even upon first seeing it at 39 years old
i disagree!
i was talking about the book for my podcast and my friend told me to look up the 70s animation image of woundwort. i’d never seen it before and managed to catch myself on camera experiencing the horror in real time!
Oh he would have been a great Bond
I like the Brosnan and Craig Bonds better *as movies* because they’re more aware of who is doing what and why but as far as historical depictions of white male British colonizer mindsets, well, goddamn you don’t get much better than early Bonds
I actually love James Bond movies because they are so bald faced in their sexism and white chauvinism because there is absolutely no introspection about either at any point. The earlier movies walk in bare-assed with pure White Man confidence.
I think it was Trevor Noah who had a joke that Bond could never be Black because he couldn’t blend in in Scotland enough to be a spy which is, of course, a great joke but like every fourth Bond takes place in the Bahamas because of colonialism and Bond would be a BETTER spy if he wasn’t white
the other day i learned that of all the books and letters collected by the Huntington Library, the most requested from the archives to be read and studied is Octavia Butler’s and I figured you guys would like to know that
on the one hand, domino’s weird purity-powered second sight is pretty fucking gross. on the other hand: yaphet kotto *and* geoffrey holder!!!
best bond song by a country mile, worst reconciliation by a brit on their own national participation in the transatlantic slave trade
when you go to my hometown’s page on @atlasobscura.com, you get “the station where they filmed STRANGERS ON A TRAIN” and also “the demon murders courthouse.” danbury, ct contains multitudes, including the ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK womens prison.
surely someone wants to pay me and some other people to make this
We are live! The FIGHTING WORDS anthology is out! My story “A Fighting Life” is included, and look at that table of contents! E-book now, audio book soon!
i wish i could get a backer for the podcast i want to host having a post-colonial scholar, feminist scholar, and/or cold war scholar discuss every james bond movie
all i ever want to do is talk about food and art
every fourth guy on these shows looks like my dad or my dad’s cousin
i’m watching a documentary about Greek pirates and the segue to talk about pirates of Ikaria was, “after the assassination of the first tax collector to arrive on the island…” and god, i love mediterranean stereotypes in action
There are two choices to make Bond make sense: either a Bond to reconcile with colonialism (Dev Patel, ideally) or an historical Bond set back in the 50s during the Cold War. Which could also star a non-white Bond but that might make people’s heads implode.
Every five minutes some rich guy somewhere is like I have a brand new idea: colonization!
At the Jack London museum. Writing used to be so cool. You got to carry around a little box with every drug in it and once you were fucked enough up on toothache heroin you started saying shit like "I am a brain merchant." You write like 100 books and then die of raw duck and mercury poisoning
lol, thank you for noticing my subject/adjective agreement
Everything is sweaty and dirty and run down and poor and hard to get to because Robert Moses was making it that way on purpose and people were kinda broke and crammed into a city and couldn’t get out!
If you’d like to see a murder mystery series where everything in Real Life is fairly grubby and old may I suggest someone adapts VIVIANA VALENTINE GETS HER MAN into a tv show! It’s set in NYC in 1950 and guess what! It sucks!!
Can you even imagine how angry he is at not being invited to the 2025 Despot End of Summer Jamboree
the literal only thing trump wants us for powerful men to like him and Xi, Modi, and Putin are basically throwing a party called “Everyone But Donald” right now. it’s honestly both terrifying and hilarious.
me: jesus mary, what was he hit with in the war? husband: marlboros.
boyyyyy howdy it’s a real TWILIGHT ZONE moment to do the math on TWILIGHT ZONE actors and realizing the guy who looks like a hard 56 is only 32. god bless sunscreen, no cigarettes, and no leaded gas.
“a dull, argumentative big mouth who sets back the art of conversation a thousand years,” is how rod serling just described the main character of this episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE in 1963 and also most of the Republican party sixty-two years later
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Faustian Bargain, coming this fall to the Hallmark Channel
This was such a delight! Please listen!
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
FHP also arrested a man at a crosswalk near Pulse in Orlando last night. The bizarre story of the arrest is related below by Fox35 Orlando. This is so pitifully embarrassing for the state. via www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arr...
i don’t know. i was 17 my entire first semester of college and according to these people i should have been locked away in my parents’ basement instead of, i guess, making out with my literal peers who ranged from 17 to 24. i was not a victim of anything except being born in late december.
i’m honestly fucking tired of always having to equivocate vegans (stop hurting animals and the planet) with meat bros (it’s my right to kill anything i want). it’s not the same ethos.
they’re not children!!! college athletes are 18-24 by the very grace of being in college!!!!
oh no! i’m so sorry!
i do this stupid game to relax
this is like watching bighorn sheep run at each other at the edge of a cliff. knock each other senseless and then everyone falls into a gorge.
lots of people HAVE sold their catalogues recently for tons of liquid cash but taylor is not one of them again, i could take or leave her and she is monumentally liquid wealthy but her catalogue valuation is not a scrooge mcduck vault of money
a songwriter’s catalogue being valued at a billion dollars does not mean they have a billion dollars. it means that if someone bought the publishing rights they’d likely pay a billion dollars to then keep every cent from whatever cat food ad it placed in from now to 90 years from now
don’t like that one bit!!!
the cocaine is KEY
STILL INCREDIBLY HOT
this is honestly a great joke slash programming idea
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Faustian Bargain, coming this fall to the Hallmark Channel
it was also an era similar to now in that nouveau french cuisine was starting to take over in london/nyc (bc wwii rationing was finally, fully over) and the “lay people” revolted against stuff they saw as hoity toity and went in the full and opposite direction with their own food
I’ve known Jon for 20 years and no one in the world has more empathy for the way you cans tell human stories through comics than him. I love reading anything he ever has to say about Superman and all the ways other people find humanity through Clark Kent
honestly, nothing is more fascinating than talking to viticulture people who have been working up there for 50+ years. i got to talk to Koerner Rombauer and Bo Barrett a couple of times and they way they could describe micro climates was POETRY
thank you!
i’m in the market for highball glasses which apparently *no one* realizes is different from a collins glass or a lowball glass smdh
life’s too short to not have a manhattan when you want one
my friend katie, who i worked with at my college job, opened Bywater in Rhode Island & got accolades for, i think, best new restaurant, and my friend Tyler, who introduced me to wine writing, just got nominated for her book, REBEL SCHOOL OF WINE, which you should buy
you know what’s wild? i just realized i have two friends who have been nominated for james beard awards and they’re BOTH people i met years and years before i worked in f&b editorial
i was chatting with my trader joe’s bagger and asked her how the customers usually were. she responded, “i used to work at costco, i’m prepared for the apocalypse” so this tracks.
OH DAD POOR DAD MAMA’S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND IM FEELING SO SAD (Kopit, 1961)
I rarely cross-promote social media stuff here but it'd be super neat if you also wanted to follow me on Instagram, a place I rarely post anything more than weird dog photos or pictures of things I'm drinking. www.instagram.com/msemilyedwar...
I, uh, accidentally drafted both Mr. Steinfeld and Mr. Swift for my fantasy team
Football is a business and they are not here to win, they are here to sell jerseys and get airtime.
Did I draft Travis Kelce for my fantasy team? Yes. Do I think that KC has the *explicit* instructions to target Taylor Swift's husband as many times as possible during a game? YES, I DO.
don't like that one bit!!!
TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS OF A COVER OF FLEETWOOD MAC'S "DREAMS," MATT. TWO. STRAIGHT. WEEKS.
as someone married to a person who makes movie trailer music... please, for the love of god, don't make him use music with lyrics anymore, my psyche cannot handle it.
"first wave" as if $7.99 eggs and $2.25 bell peppers were normal
Nothing says “the president is alive and well” like blurry photos at a distance of an elderly man in poor health
his heart is technically beating i think
i think my favorite thing about FRANKENSTEIN is how purposefully Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley made Victor such a plain-clothed asshole. lustful, covetous, irresponsible, gross, selfish, heartless. you want him to die in the tundra. he isn’t to envy or pity.
i just don’t see many of these idiots bending the knee to either stephen miller OR putin as readily as trump has. vance will suddenly believe he’s actually a leader, rubio and others might actually attempt to do work, the whole thing deflates like year-old lip filler
i still don’t have a lot of clothing that’s not, like, target sweatpants or, like, lipstick or whatever or anything that makes a house feel comfortable (throw pillows? for HARLOTS, those are) but we get one notch more functional tomorrow
we managed to accidentally save a bed, a dresser, and a mattress from the fire (all in a pod because the room it was going into wasn’t painted yet) so we have three pieces of our oldest, crappiest furniture from before the fire but tomorrow! NIGHTSTANDS!
the house we rented after the fire was “furnished” in the way that a college student has a “furnished” apartment and then when we moved to our new house in december i didn’t have a nightstand and now tomorrow!! i will!!
guys, i know this is an objectively weird thing to be excited about but tomorrow i’m getting a nightstand for the first time in 20 months
basically it was “if you move your body men will notice you HAVE A BODY and then THEY WILL NOT RESPECT YOU! because they will only want SEX!” i played field hockey for two years and she was mortified that the uniform was a skort because even that was too sexual, what with the legs and the movement.
i think this was probably around 7th grade, so i was about 5’8 and 90lbs. there was no weight to LOSE even if my teacher was a psychotic old russian lady. she’d’ve had to take organs outta me. but uh my mom is the kind of feminist who believes that doing something feminine coded means failure so
i’m so impressed by all these small coordinated people