Dreamboat Annie

Bud Cort obituary American actor who starred in the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude that later became a cult classic

a good bio of him here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

🙏🏼 I love how complicated the tactics get.

I usually watch the curling—all of it. every Olympics. this year I just haven't been able to get my mind into it—at all. for probably obvious reasons. sickening, really. I've followed the headlines & news—& still care about it. & always root for Canada. I haven't paid any attention to the US teams.

congrats!

YouTube video by CNB NOW 1 MINUTE AGO: Diplomatic Collapse – Carney Leaves White House, Markets Panic.

this video is being pushed by YT's algorithms right now. CNB NOW. Andrew Weisman. a video from 5 days ago. I was instantly riveted by it. it's amazing in itself, but it also explains ~99% of the extra-special levels of insanity this week. The toddler is going to war b/c Mark Carney disrespected him.

I was offline for an hour. Are the tariffs on everybody at 600% yet?

I think you're exactly right. he will give instructions for the timing to be exactly that. the kind of bizarre shit that his demented brain thinks will be really cool.

It won't surprise me one bit if Trump, who loves drama and theatrics, announces during his state of the union speech on Tuesday that the US has begun to strike Iran.

and also what that says about his core of support.

an incredible amount of stuff like this can go on in the background while we all go haring off after disgraced ex-princes & the latest small fish that the DOJ casually permits to be unmasked in the Epstein Files.

gosh he was really something back in the day.

whew.

One reason I’ve shrugged off all the GaViN nEwSoMe Is tHe FrOnTrUnNeR takes is that Pritzker just so obviously outclasses him.

I’m not saying it’ll definitely be Pritzker, but I think I’ll say that there’s no chance GAVIN manages to outmaneuver him.

don't ask me I don't give a damn my next stop is Vietnam. Country Joe & the Fish? so long ago and it's still fresh as the paint on Trump's hands.

yes this stuff. i used to read all those old books. they were always painting horses like this.

I am at a loss to understand how--once the Supreme Fricking Court has already told him to fuck off--how does he plan to "fight it in the courts"?

exchanges like these are why I stay here.

I see! so it was a really big deal to find that out back then. interesting!!

so it wasn't stills from a film?

yes I think I remember that people long ago painted horses running & were getting it completely wrong. & then some guy got stills of a film. I didn't know who it was or how it all came about. but I remember people were gobsmacked about it.

like galloping is basically a series of leaps. with each bound they are really "taking off". I think horses may be the same.(?) I will probably get interested in that next. I'm glad to understand this. We should probably all know a lot more about how critters work. Angus runs really well regardless.

yes i looked at it several times. he's a free spirit.

according to that last series of stills, in frame 12 the dog is setting up the next stride to be exactly the same pattern as the previous. & the rear print & the front print will always be same side. but the front 2 prints are always the rear feet. I never knew that! but o/c it makes perfect sense.

here's a better view. sorry to be so nerdy but I got interested.

I'm not positive about the overstepping but it looks like they get so much momentum pushing off from the front legs that the rear legs touch down in front. like this: so the patten should look like ⤵️ & should maybe be the same? or alternating with each stride? IDK. at any rate, he's a free spirit.

if this is really how they gallop, I suppose that means that they should be consistent about their feet pattern? it should always be the same pattern in order to be efficient? & Angus frequently changes his mind about this important decision? He looks like a racing greyhound when he's going all out.

your remark about his cockeyed gait made me go stare at still photos of a galloping dog. & I came to the conclusion that a galloping dog so far oversteps his feet, that his back legs touch down ahead of where his front legs were? in such a way that the 1st print & the last print should be same side.

it's definitely the cathartic moment we all deserve.

do you think they would announce it right away? there was a MASH episode where a general's aide spent hours trying to find a battle front. & took his dead body to the front to try to make it look like the general had died in action. rather than naked in Hot Lips Hoolihan's bed.