Hugh Murchison

Annie Leibovitz's words here are worth a 1000 of her pictures. And that's saying a LOT!!!

But, to paraphrase H.L Mencken, no one ever will ever go broke underestimating the depths to which MAGA Republicans can descend.

MEET ME IN ST LOUIS for the 8K run, which means an allowance of 770 calories (approx) for Thanksgiving Day's dinner!

Not only does he have the city behind him, but he also has some suburbs -- like the ones here in North Carolina -- behind him, too. That is, in spirit!

Can't believe Cambridge prof John Maynard Keynes never won a Nobel Prize!

According to British economist, philosopher, and gastronomist J Keynes's "paradox of gluttony," pizza is one of those rare foodstuffs that is impossible to eat too much of!

Come on, Ellie! Don't jinx the man! 🙂

That was another good thing about being in Japan recently -- I didn't think once about "47" or American politics!

I thought one of my friends was winding me up. But when I thought about it, nobody I know -- and calls a "friend" -- has a sense of humor that's as depraved as the "Trump"'s text represents. I was having a good day, until he texted. Nauseating.

Aarrgh! On my phone!! <retch>

From Poppy, my tortie and wife Pegi's, to cat lovers the world over!

The making up of shit is fun, period -- be it on paper, online, on film, wherever!*

*IMO.

I LOVE that animated sequence! Thanks for posting it.

I understand, Alexander! THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is more than "just a movie" to me, too!

If you've not seen HOLIDAY, another Hepburn-Grant vehicle based on Philip Barry's stage play, you check it out.

Take care, my friend!

I'm a big fan of @markhamillofficial.bsky.social's, both ON and OFF the screen.

Incredible! I don't know many people who'd respond with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant from THE PHILADELPHIA STORY!

There's you and then there's me. That's all the people I know. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, based on a play by Philip Barry, is my all-time favorite!

Congratulations, President Connolly!

Do you have a sister?...Asking for a friend -- I mean, for a country (🇺🇸).

From a small collection of artwork created on a recent trip to Kanazawa, Japan.

Jesse Pellington's best work, as hair-and-makeup artist, was in front of the camera.

Her IMPOSSIBLE work was behind it -- shown here, working on THE BRIDE & GOON writer-director @hughmurchison.bsky.social.

(Photo courtesy of Julia Desena).

Cellphone in a rocker at a nearby table where Pegi and I ate lunch in Tokyo.

Such rockers, I found out, enable passive step counting, so users can pull fast ones on a company’s health-insurance incentives.

Don’t have a cat or dog to strap your phone to to reach your daily step goals?! No problem!

The new and fitting Presidential seal!

Yes, but I can explain…

See, I wrote and directed this film, THE BRIDE & GOON, and these are the actors, Linnae Budusky, Alex Seidner, and Juan Cardenas, who played the main characters.

You gotta believe me!!

LOST IN TRANSLATION??

That CAN’T be what the Japanese text means! Drinkable face and hand soap?

A better title for the Times Magazine cover story is “THE EMPEROR’S NEW HAIR.”

The decorative manhole covers of Kobe, Japan!

Less than 5 min after i snapped this photo in Kobe Kitanocho (Japan), some guy returned my passport, which I didn’t know was missing!

It’s like some part of me is trying to make it hard to leave Japan!

Pointing at the Kobe Port Tower.

As can be seen, I’m kinda big in Kobe, Japan.

Stopped at a French patisserie, in Kobe, Japan, called “Bigot.” Pronounced “be-GO?”

Had a yummy treat that favors the Mexican concha.

Keeping my mind open, if not my mouth closed, about Bigots is recommended. Some of them make delicious baked goods!

I read Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima’s “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” a lifetime ago.

Today I finally got a chance to see The Golden Pavilion — seen here between Pegi and me like some figment of our imaginations!

Somewhere in the Toyama Prefecture of Japan, I made paper today — 1920 years after Chinese official Ts’ai Lun invented what is now known as paper!

“Better late than never” is what I say!

In the 4th picture in this post, see the three small sheets (in a row) that I created.