Alton Smith

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!!

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

Why couldn’t Ted Turner have been the billionaire that took over everything?!!

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

The Old Man and the Keys: The Improvised Legacy of Garth Hudson Writer, musician, and Hold Steady member Franz Nicolay remembers the Band’s famed keyboardist and sage eccentric, who died Tuesday at age 87

RIP Garth Hudson, last of The Band, probably THE touchstone group of my musical life for the past 20+ years. Too many ends of an era of late… www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/m...