will fain

is it only a matter of time until some deranged fan who's lost their shirt on an ill-advised parlay goes after an athlete or manager?
(maybe a remake of 'The Fan' (1996) is in order)

Harold Lloyd accidentally kicks of a Bolshevik revolution and overthrows the monarchy in HIS ROYAL SLYNESS

saw and enjoyed the former last year, just finished and loved the latter tonight. some people say Soderbergh hasn't developed a style; I say, ya, he's too busy making great movies

'In A Violent Nature' boyfriend, 'Presence' girlfriend

B&W photo of a building facace

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Being in your 120s means adjusting to your body falling apart

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

Andy Warhol's Eight Elvis [crop]

Drag, pull, contract; Exert, attract;
Select, protract; Portray, provoke, extend, extract;
Move, travel; Remove, prolong; Induce, depict;
Run, obtain, approach; Stretch, suck, swig;
Take up, call forth, receive;
Produce, deduce;
Contrive, tie:
Draw

everyone knows "Raccoon" Rocky returned to his bed to convalesce, having been seriously wounded in a gunfight at a Dakota saloon in the Black Hills.
what this post presupposes is, maybe he didn't?

kingdom come? paradise lost.
#NoKings #NoTyrants #NoRulers

concerning placental mammals: if you ignore the odd grouping of sloths, anteaters, elephants, et al., the rest belong to two major divisions.
I love that we've dubbed our superorder "Euarchontoglires", meaning true rulers and dormice, as it comprises primates, rabbits, and rodents. of mice and men.

YouTube video by ZinnEdProject John Brown’s Last Speech Performed by David Strathairn

For those who haven't seen it, David Strathern's reading of John Brown's last speech is absolutely riveting:
youtu.be/dmyswQs6_Bw?...

This tragic but excellent article needs to be read by everyone throughout the country. The Republicans want to kill public ed. They are using state takeovers and charter school owning charlatans like Mike Miles (and his abusive NES) to do it. See at what they are stealing from our (soon your) kids!🧵

too many chess victories are Pyrrhic.
yes, I have won—but at what cost? how can I return to my realm: o, a lonely king with a mere two of his retinue left for protection and companionship?
zounds, I lost my wife on the cursèd field! I could always marry a loyal pawn, but it would never be the same…

thanks for the rec, I'll give it a listen. there was plenty of great video game music from that era; for example, it's hard to go wrong with any of David Wise's work for Rare (DKC2 is an all-time great, I think). I've found the vaporwave stuff hit or miss, but that's to be expected

cover for compilation album 'Pure Moods'

cover for compilation album 'Jock Jams volume 1'

I agree. two 90s compilation series that I was wild about as a kid, and might still enjoy if only as guilty pleasures, are Pure Moods and Jock Jams

cover for Deep Forest's first self-titled album

I wouldn't be surprised if "world music" or "ethno electronic" doesn't stand up under critical scrutiny, but a childhood favorite of mine was Deep Forest's first album

there must be something in the air, as I'm thinking of getting back into chess as well

Far Side comic. caption: Hopeful parents. A young boy playing video games, watched by his doting parents who are imagining future "help wanted" job ads (from 2005), advertising professional video game player positions.

imagine the pleasantly surprised parents of the first professional streamers and Let's Players

YouTube video by post 10 Animals Swarm My Forest Water Bowl During Extreme Drought

one my fav youtubers, Post 10, getting in on the trail cam vid game. nice. check out the 3:12 mark, you'll see a nice example of homology and a living piece of evidence of deep time/evolution: a wild turkey scratches itself with its hind limb, just as mammals do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmUC...

Bobcat Goldthwait

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
― Simone Weil

who called it a flesh light and not a jack o lantern

on the other hand, a fist

like no rose, only a thorn

Ya, I can't say I've looked into the specifics of this fantasy. As long as its buses run on Sundays, though, it's better than my backwater burg.

maybe the "AI" bubble's pop will capsize the tech biz into twenty years of darkness, and the Bay Area will be the next Detroit, and after my mother passes I can afford to rent a crummy basement studio apartment in East Oakland and enjoy decent public transportation and t-shirt weather for ever after

"We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties."

I can't see Keanu and Alex on Broadway, but I can read Beckett on the bus. So it goes (heh)

recommitting to horror films for the second half of October (having only watched two in the first half—unacceptable!), and considering two themes for the last two months of the year: feel bad films November and historical films December.
will I stick with it? probably not. "Nothing to be done."

My weekend cannabis use increases my stroke risk and my sedentary occupation is also bad for cardiovascular health (that, to my understanding, is not compensated for by near daily physical activity). I ride my bicycle in unprotected bike lanes.
As Jay Reatard (RIP) sang: death is forming.