billburgnyc

Very good thread.

You are a wonderfully insightful and perceptive writer. I don’t say it often enough: thank you.

Thank you. I’m so frustrated with NYT—this is a great solution.

I visit this painting as often as I can, probably not less than once a month.

Fantastic thread.

Really enjoyed this month’s selections. Best bargain on Patreon, folks!

He actually cut together sequences using footage of ww2 plane combat to show the ILM people how it should look!

Learned this a few years ago and properly blew my mind!

His show wasn’t television—it was the antithesis of television.

Some time in the 90s it occurred to me that many ostensibly transgressive counter-culture figures (say, Marilyn Manson) were just exaggerations of the culture at large, while the most authentically subversive and radical performer was Mr. Fred Rogers.

Wisest thing I’ve seen today.

24?!?

MY HERO.

I want that quote on a poster with a photo of footprints in the sand or something.

Hahaha!

Thank you!

If I wanted to better understand what you mean, in what direction would you point me?

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

I had never heard of this guy before this ad and I instantly sent him fifty bucks.

Wow that really worked.

I’ve been meaning to order it since I got this fancy catalog over a year ago!

Thanks very much!

Congrats on royalties! Finally ordered!

I know it’s tedious to qualify these statements like this, but I do want to underline that I make a discipline of not engaging in expressive hyperbole. In my judgment, the below is simply cold blooded description of the present facts. It’s a scandal.

Man, I’ve been trying to remember who performed that Something Happens song for a couple of decades now! Thanks!

I love stories that end with things working the way they’re supposed to!

I once got my then two-year-old out of the crib in the morning, and he calmly and politely explained, “Daddy, I don’t love you, and I don’t love [sitter] Naynay and I don’t love [sister] Addie. I only just love Mommy.”

I was not offended!

Hahahaha amazing!

I told my daughter this, and she almost refused to believe me even after seeing the covers from the 70s when the book was briefly retitled, “Daredevil and the Black Widow.”