edgar wallace presents

I wrote this piece just five days ago - predicting Trump would walk away and leave everyone else to clear up his mess ….and here we are - concluding extract below:

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As if!!!

Seconded.

9:10pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

👌Worth a Watch👌

The 1956 #Psychological #Drama film🎥 “AUTUMN LEAVES” directed by Robert Aldrich & written by Jean Rouverol, Hugo Butler, Lewis Meltzer + Robert Blees

🌟 Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene

Of course this snivelling, sycophantic little Quisling was on the first flight to Florida, only to get shown his arse

YouTube video by The Blue Mitchell Quintet - Topic March On Selma (Remastered 2005)

youtu.be/kHuxWjVIUTU

You’ve reminded me. I have this film on the hard drive and haven’t watched it yet.

Theremin alert!!!

Great Neal Hefti score too.

Always lies.

The love bug that dare not speak its name.

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

Dolores del Rio and Orson Welles, 1941.

Explanation here

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One of my favourite fashion photographers

Had to look this boot up on Discogs as not seen it before.

The designer dressed all in white, with white-rimmed glasses, standing on a street with one of his models.

Remembering André Courrèges on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ian Cook, 1990

Andy Warhol said his “clothes are so beautiful, everyone should look the same, dressed in silver”.

'Six Days', the first episode of Department S, was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1969.

Good to see the pram has a spare wheel. He might need it soon…

The Trial, Orson Welles (1962)

First film I ever saw at the Cinema. And it wasn’t a noir.

This.

YouTube video by 60otaku4 Ornette Coleman Quintet - Jayne

youtu.be/uysKuF_4n-o

I'd be much more willing to entertain the possibility that Claude is somehow conscious if the same people haven't been making the same argument for every single expert system since Eliza. I mean the last third of Godel Escher and Bach is claiming that a 1970s program was self aware.

The great photographer plays pinball

Willy Ronis
Brassaï plays “flipper”, aka “tilts”
Paris, 1954

"Always very dandy, umbrella hanging from the edge of the machine, cigarette firmly fixed in a long cigarette holder in his left hand, he calculates his chances, with the amused seriousness he takes in everything."
- WR

Timeshift was top notch TV.

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

KC Airport evacuated potential threat. FBI on scene.

You will not convince me that this is not a plan to terrorize Americans.

The regime wants terrorism on US soil to cancel the election.