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Victor Morton
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Raised on Blackpool postcards and Benny Hill, religious nut, Film Nerddom's Jake LaMotta, Japan WW2 apologist, loyal adherent to the disco movement, Deplorable.
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If you've lost contact with me ... this is my Top 10 for the 2025 YTD:
My “favorite” such marker is from Hollywood. In 1950, two of the greatest lead female performances in history came out, both women playing actresses dealing with being over the hill. Bette Davis was 42; Gloria Swanson was 50.
… which to be clear, is obviously some kind of sin (as is not getting it covered up or removed). But neither is Nazi-making.
He’s acknowledged learning years later what the skull design specifically was and sometimes making ironic jokes about it.
Also, I remember reading once that Springsteen made a cassette tape with nothing but Smokey Robinson’s CRUISIN, just repeated for the entire length of the cassette.
I don’t know what that precise term was common, but all you needed to do on a record player to repeat-play a single (or a whole album) was leave the top arm open
FTR … and the public receipts are on Twitter … I think the guy is almost certainly telling the truth about the tattoo, unless other evidence of secret Nazi sympathies comes out (which I’d take any odds against).
But did you get any Nazi tattoos?
I do have photos and I mistemembered one minor detail … it was a Quebec flag, not a banner
OAM won and as we waited for in-cage formalities to end, I turned around and told them “you’re holding that (horizontal) banner the wrong way.” “It’s OAM; that’s what we call him.” “Yeah but it now reads ‘MAO.’ You trying to attract Chinese communists?” They laughed, thanked me and got it right. 3/3
Cuz it was the last fight, I and a lot of other people gravitated toward the front section and there were some Canadian fans who had a big banner reading “OAM” (his nickname) a row behind me. They were clearly hoping to catch his eye, talk, get a photo etc. as he walked back after the fight (2/x)
This is a personal anecdote, not an international incident, but in this genre. I was at the PFL World Finals in DC a couple years ago (probably the biggest MMA event outside the UFC), and one of the fighters in the main event was Olivier Aubin-Mercier, from Montreal. (1/x)
[StraightFace] one detail I do remember seeing on the news at the time was that a flag shop in Toronto had to put up a window sign saying (something like) “no, we will not sell an American flag upside down on a pole.”
or if the Canadians had bombed the Baldwins and the US executed war criminals Terence and Phillip
Decided to look up … it was 1992 in Atlanta, the Blue Jays’ first appearance, but jt was Game 2, not Game 1 (which obviously meant that the next game was in Canada). I remember there was no retaliation, after HW Bush and the Marine Corps sent an apology.
The first time (I think) thag the Blue Jays made the World Series, the first two games were in the US (Atlanta or Philadelphia, depending). But in the Game 1 anthems ceremony, the honor guard inadvertently hung the Canadian flag upside down on the pole. International incident.
Not especially rooting for anyone in this series, though I will be rooting for the Dodgers to lose either way.

But rooting for the Mariners is not even implied by what I said
I mean that’s some fuckin born-yesterday shit
so … I doubt you’d like as much as I did, but you might not hate.
The 2025-US specific-stuff I probably liked more than you would, though it offers entry points for non-fascists also. The conflict in the basement is basically between Beavis and Butthead on the one hand and a girlboss CEO who’s a bitchier version of Elizabeth Holmes
Going in innocent of Jang, I admit the story hit me like a lightning bolt … and then the way the plot twists and then the obvious conclusions kept piling on and one-upping themselves. (Dunno how that latter compares to PLANET obv)
To answer your question seriously …
You're the second person (the other being on Twitter) to ask me that in the last couple hours regarding my enthusiasm for the new Lanthimos.

I have not.