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"I belong to the uncomfortable category of men that read the Gospel daily, and have no private property." Murilo Mendes
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Murilo Mendes – Letter to Pharisees (1937)
Ismael Nery’s portrait of Mendes Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) was a Catholic Brazilian modernist poet and surrealist author. He was friends with the painter and poet Ismael Nery, and his friends…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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got banned for life from the TaleSpin forums for suggesting that Baloo in TaleSpin is NOT the same bear as Baloo in The Jungle Book. People were screaming at me to shut the fuck up even though I provided EVIDENCE
November 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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by what means andrew mountbatten windsor forfeited the style and title of prince andrew
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor [formerly known as Prince] after this formal process concludes
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
July 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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There's a cool special feature on the Nosferatu blu-ray where they detail Robert Eggers' famously meticulous research methods and there's even a thing where you can explore his actual Google search history
July 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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me rolling up to the guitar center to play power chords on all their biggest amps and leave without buying anything
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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NEW: A ten-point plan for how Democrats should take power.
www.carlbeijer.com/p/how-democr...
May 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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City Councilman Unearths Magical Zoning Amulet
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May 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy Isis Day to all who celebrate
May 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Jeopardy airing in the mid-afternoon instead of prime time seems to be a particularly midwestern perversion

See map below that I found on the Jeopardy Reddit, with the snake of green representing 3:00-4:30 airings, and a few dots of red/pink for as early as 11AM (?!)
May 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Cool
April 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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It’s official: Stunt performers are getting their own Oscar, starting with 2028 show. Very hard faught win for stunt community and will add more blockbusters to the telecast…
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Preparing for my Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire history class at Tree School Saturday in Felton. We start with how colonialism dispossessed the fire regime, describe changes caused by settler-extractivism, and connect county historic wildfires to the movement to protect old growth redwood.
Coast redwood, skyscraper of the big trees.
April 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Herb Greene, whose evocative portraits of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and others helped define the rock scene that emerged in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, died on March 3. He was 82.
Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Just learned from one of his friends that George Lowe, voice of the titular character from Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, has died.

R.I.P., George
March 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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wes anderson truly needs to have his twee little nerd ideas tempered and grounded by the owen wilson's jock everclear margarita breath
February 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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*robert eggers running out of old timey folk monsters* ërnëst skarred stu-pid
February 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM