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Brain full of spiders, garlic in her soul. Barbie Nine-Jobs.
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Basically the daddy from Titane
Vincent Lindon in Titane going in for another syringe full of HGH/steroids
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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From Homer Simpson to his then-girlfriend Marge: Maybe its the beer talking Marge by you got a butt that won't Quit. they got those big chewy pretzels here...[unintelligible drunken scrawling] five dollars??!!!? get outta here...
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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One thing that's stuck with me: the lighting of the show. "Turn the lights down so low it scares you." Like, wow, I never realized how dark and shadowy the sets were! What an amazing, if simple effect.
Finnerman had screened the pilot and felt it looked "a little lush." He later said, "In those days, NBC and, I presume, all of the networks felt better if everything was bright and bubbly. But this wasn't that kind of show." (63-1) "Bright and bubbly," the result of flat over lighting where everything in the picture is bathed in equally balanced light, translated to a sharper, cleaner broadcast image. Of the three networks, NBC was especially fond of this approach, with its series from this period beaming across America looking sharp but lacking visual texture and mood, so much so that filmed prime time series often looked more like videotaped daytime soap operas. Finnerman, who had great admiration for Harry Stradling, Sr., wanted to recreate the look his former boss had achieved with The Picture of Dorian Gray. He said, "I loved it and wondered how he accomplished those beautiful half-tones. And he told me, 'Jerry, when you take the lights down so far that they scare you, that's when it'll look beautiful, that's when you get the half-tones'... So we went into those definitions, the types of things like people turning into shadow, the goods and the bads, the darks and the lights, the message being in the story and the photography." (63-1) Finnerman who, following his mentor's advice, had quit Stradling's crew and thereby lost a chance to serve as camera operator on Funny Girl, excitedly threw himself into the pre-production stage for the only Star Trek episode he was guaranteed. If his cinematic vision for Star Trek worked, he would get more episodes -- perhaps the entire season. And then excitement turned to anxiety. Finnerman recalled, "They gave me the first show and I prepped this show, and two nights before the show was going to start, I went to Herb Solow - - who was a wonderful man; very soft spoken -- and I said, 'You'd better get somebody else.' And he said, 'My God, what's wrong; are
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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We got our holiday coffee menu and our Mazzy Star on a cold November New England Afternoon
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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"Aw, that's lovely, dear. It really suits your face, and it reminds me of when I was following The Cure around on tour. That's where I met your father, you know."
Sign outside a hair salon promising students at Smith a haircut to "shock your parents at Thanksgiving"
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Yes, even the Metropolitan Opera needs editors
program notes for the opera Andrea Chenier which state: Giordano's first opera for Sonzogno was Mala Vita, a grimly veristic opera about a Neapolitan prostitute that received mediocre reviews, and his second, Regina Diaz, was withdrawn after its second performance.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Beyonce in a cowboy hat? Best I can do is Sheryl Crow in a bowler.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Today, starting at 6 am, I walked 28 miles for a fundraiser for my local food bank, double the miles I've ever walked in a single day and with little to no training. I had a great time but literally had to crawl to the bathroom for a bath before my muscles totally seize up.
Kids in the hall sketch about wanting a bath hot-hot, not lukewarm
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Trudy from Reno 911 with a baby she has no idea how to care for. It's laying in the grass surrounded by a badminton fence and she stands by, flinging handfuls of cereal into the pen for the baby to eat.
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Gonna stick this one on a sampler:
Scene from Slackers with the caption "Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy."
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I don't understand many parts of Montreal, but I support it nonetheless
Street poster in Montreal saying Brexit don't kill my grime: UK garage grime party
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Ah, yes, the Mad Nap, unfortunately for them, one of the cutest naps
My cat, napping with a look of intense concentration (or is it contentment?)
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Sailor Moon saying the catchphrase we all know and love, "In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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We tried the new hand-puppet trend with Mu, and, well...
Mu, looking extremely pissed off and menaced by the obnoxious hand-puppet
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Great operas can (and maybe should?) be described in under two small pages
A detailed synopsis of La fille du regiment, taking about 1.25 pages in a small booklet
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Morpheus and Neo are HotTopper fighting!
October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"Seriously, like, I am personally scared of Bobby Fischer. That man is like if the devil played chess."
As a German Chess expert told Life magazine, "No other master has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like rabbits, when they smell a panther. Even his weaknesses are dangerous. As white, his opening is predictable—you can make plans against it—but so strong that your plans almost never work. In middle game his precision and invention are fabulous, and in the end game you simply cannot beat him."
October 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I love how this book starts like, "Hi! I'm Bobby Fischer, and welcome to the world of chess! Whether you're a student, pro, or total beginner, I'm excited to help you improve your game!"

And then the author's forward is, "grandmasters have called Bobby Fischer 'the scariest gd chess player alive."
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Dreaming of unspeakable carnage, no doubt
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Folks, he's at it again
My brown tabby cat sleeping on a lap like a perfect angel who is also a cat
October 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Everyone's got a different one. My neighbor loved to sing "Hot Cat (Child) in the City" to her cat. Me, I lean towards "Isn't He (She) Lovely?"
Isn't he though? Isn't he lovely? Isn't he wonderful?
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I can't believe I get to live here
A winding road in the autumnal New England woods
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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lol still makes more sense than the eternal Dracula grapes
Herzog's Nosferatu pouring wine in a tall glass with grapes in the foreground The Bride of Dracula (1960) also with grapes The vampire Lestat playing with a small bunch of grapes
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The classic Simpsons gag of 3 vats of "Duff," "Duff Lite," and "Duff Dry" all being filled by the same giant pipe only this time the vats are labeled "Cinnamon Rolls," "Cinna-Sticks," and "¡Churros Deliciosos!"
October 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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That's more like it
Mu looking smug as he gets shoulder rubbins
October 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM