g.j.hilton

I'm a long haul monster fan!

a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

I'm only posting this reply gif because they didn't have a 'take both my kidneys and if necessary, the shirt of my back, house keys and first born' gif.

Very VERY bookmarked.

GASP

A new Many-Headed Monster post is always a 'drop whatever else you were doing' break-out-the-popcorn event but this is uh… a monster. A MONSTER.

(And this is why this blog has changed my life a couple of times over.)

Serious talk: those rhymes on Ageism. When did you ever hear another lyric like that, Grammy judges? Nobody else can do this.

Rendering of Frankenstein's laboratory. A high roofed attic room filled with papers and the monster on a bed in the centre.

Spread from book featuring production photo of GdT dwarfed by an enormous set featuring a huge tiled well

This concept art for @realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein - and now, my home office - has been hiding in plain sight as part of a Hollywood Reporter preview of the 'Art of…' book. No artist credit unfortunately but Tamara Deverell production designer.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

@madelinepotter.bsky.social you might enjoy 👆

Model maker stands on the huge model of Castle Dracula

Castle Dracula as it appears on screen

View of ser

Another view of set, looking like a Breughel landscape

Seasonally appropriate BTS from Berton Pierce on the models (and sets) of Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.

"… a skeleton ribcage skull head sitting on a throne. And yet it was to look like a castle. Like you've ever seen a castle like that."

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You have almost certainly passed your last truly happy day on earth: Increasingly your days will be burdened with escalating duty, helplessness and grief. You may think you understand misery but the next thirty years will undoubtedly prove how blissfully innocent you in fact are.

If you're going to put together a programme like this, it's just polite to make it possible to block register for everything!

All killer, no filler. Back to back bangers from beginning to end.

WOW Kate Hawley stone cold knocked this out of the park, didn't she?

Is it too soon to start using phrases like 'for your consideration'?

Hugely moving & inspiring to read favorite names on this roll of honour.

On the other hand, bitterly disappointing to note some conspicuous absences. One hopes they will bethink themselves and remember how poorly cowardice ages: history has not remembered those who kissed the HUAC ring kindly.

The key driver of voters deserting mainstream parties is that those parties give every appearance of being weathercocks, mere spreadsheets without principle, agenda or values beyond wanting to be in government. Voters want conviction politicians in whom they can believe. See: AOC, Mamdani etc.

Unable to decide if it is an astonishing coincidence that your music recommendations are, 100% reliably, absolute bangers or if it is absolutely obvious that of course they would be.

本当にありがとう

From the linked article: "Hidden on the backs of famous paintings, in the beams of our attics, in the timbers of ancient homes, are galactic events, black stars, things more interesting than this world, burning, and I suppose depression is what happens when you no longer think it's possible to id such details. When they become inaccessible to you, or when you believe the world's supply of revelation has been permanently depleted."

Perhaps I mistook it for abandoned, perhaps I came to despise how effortlessly the author pushes at an idea and keeps pushing and pushing: in any case, somehow I forgot BLDGBLOG. In an overnighter tonight I remembered it and fell head & heels hook & line back in love. bldgblog.com/2022/01/molt...

Well and truly seconded.

Pixels are only pixels: a million man-hours of pixel fondling can't create what a craftsperson can make in an hour with just canvas and 3x1 - space.

Point taken and agreed... moreover I'm with you on all points except: Yorkshire pudding is in fact the food of the gods, and licit INDEED PRESCRIBED under even the most austere and flagellating of penitences. Even in its impoverished vegan version, life is unredeemed suffering without it.

jesus christ superstar live . process — jason ardizzone-west | stage designer

Jason Ardizzone-West's work may tbh not be my cup of tea but his process documentation is truly outstanding and fascinating.

www.jawstudiony.com/design-proce...

If the ship could possibly be French, my working guess would be the Île de Ré?

This is one of my very favorite images, as it features characters performed by Jim Henson throughout his life holding photos (or, in the case of Ernie, drawings) of him at about the period he was performing the character. Among the Muppets shown: Cantus, Dr. Teeth, the Swedish Chef, Sam, Link Hogthrob, Ernie, Kermit (two iterations), and Guy Smiley.

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness.

Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you.

Right this way. /1

The former owner was a clown who had earlier toured the UK with Buffalo Bill's Wîld West Circus. My great grandfather was a sharpshooting turn in the same circus. It's practically a family heirloom, right? Right? 🤔

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Photo of pantomime horse

Exhausted by the continual effort to resist buying this well-provenanced (thoroughbred?) 1920s-vintage pantomime horse. Might be prudent to yield to it.

Boxed set of books

How can it be possible that this never-read three volume boxed set of The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon in the Norton translation (abridged but this is recreational reading) can be sold and delivered to me for less than the price of a chip barm and small portion of mushy peas?

Internet archive ebook screenshot. "The text on this page is estimated to be only 4.26% accurate...." followed by what could easily be a transcription generated my a chimp thrashing a banana against the keyboard

As much as that, Internet Archive?

Women, war and intelligence in Ypres and the Flemish West Quarter (1488–1489) This article sheds light on the often-overlooked roles women played in the intelligence networks of Flanders during the war against Maximilian of Austria in 1488–1489, by focussing on the intellige...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... is (1) recent (2) relevant-looking (3) ace

YouTube video by Dāv Kaufman Eats the World I Ate The Weirdest Foods at the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2025!

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YouTube video by Dāv Kaufman Eats the World I Tried Every Million Dollar Food Vendor at the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2025!

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YouTube video by Fun Across America Rating All 40+ New Foods At The 2025 MN State Fair

WORKS CITED

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ABSTRACT

In this skeet I argue that the avant garde in contemporary food creativity is not to be found in the Guide Michelin but on MN State Fair's 'New Foods' page.

Keywords: Cockaigne, Gargantua, Wonka

DEMONSTRATION

www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/