Tim Lees

Frankly, I hate writing a lot of the time. But pushing thru the bad parts -- making a story work, where before it was just a few half-baked ideas -- is a strange, often long drawn out process. You are not the same at the end as at the beginning. & that's a plus.

Genius. Thelonious Monk, the American equivalent of Erik Satie. www.google.com/search?q=the...

Love these!

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

Very much enjoyed "Nuremberg", thought-provoking, entertaining and unsettling, all at once -- tho Richard E Grant stole the show with a very short scene near the end. You know the one I mean.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Home sweet home.

"Villain" (1971) is an enjoyable British gangster movie with a great cast, and (like the early Carry Ons) offers a glimpse into a long-gone world. (Those ruffled nylon shirts...)

It never gets old.
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Not a meaning I've ever come across.

You can even hear his accent.
"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."
Werner Herzog

If the Clintons' testimony isn't live, in public, it'll end up so redacted it'll look like last week's crossword.

The Other Country All Ray wanted was a nice, safe office job... Instead, he’s working on the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital, out of his depth and very, very nervous. But he’s struck by the camaraderie of the st...

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Frankenstein's Prescription First appearance in paperback.   "A philosophically insightful and literary tale of terror" — Publishers Weekly Banished to an isolat...

Anyone need frightening?
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I think that's technically called a "shake down".

I’d love Americans to be asked if they had to have their taxes finance one thing over the other, would they prefer it to be a healthcare system that doesn’t bankrupt them, or ICE.

I’m guessing the numbers might surprise the news media…

Thanks for pointing this out. I've recently read a lengthy article on eruditorumpress which ascribes his whole career (and subsequent abuses) to an attempt to escape an abusive youth and childhood at the hands of scientology.

I don't know if he's guilty or not (I suspect he is). But the website that brought him down is part run by Boris Johnson's sister, an extreme right-winger & anti-trans campaigner. Looks like they had a chance to get at a prominent liberal.

Seems accurate.

Finally got round to watching Die Another Day. Like Skyfall, it's an art film masquerading as an action movie, and Craig is excellent, well able to imbue Bond with emotions not necessarily in the script. Plus a superb impersonation of a man who's just been blown up with a bomb.

Anyone wanna buy some snake oil?

This is the kind of stuff I wish someone had told me, during many, many low times in my life. So that's what I'm telling all of you.

Good luck, you got this.👍

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You haven't seen "Candyman", have you?

Can't beat Chicago!

It's a start. Maybe they're actually waking up.

Hackman was fascinating & perceptive about acting when he was prepared to open up about it.
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Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The future is a place to avoid.

He looks like a deer in the headlights.

"Communist". He thinks it's still the 1950s.