Lee David Dalton
@leedaviddalton.bsky.social
Still not Russell Crowe. Oh well.
We used to be a real country
Aaron Copland & Oscar Levant laugh it up at a Leonard Bernstein party, photographed by Stanley Kubrick in 1949 for Look magazine
I adore this shot!
I adore this shot!
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We used to be a real country
Just the average day for Lee Raybon!
"OK, Marlow, you're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you were as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough...like putting your pants on."
#botd Dick Powell in Murder My Sweet (1944).
#botd Dick Powell in Murder My Sweet (1944).
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Just the average day for Lee Raybon!
Make Genesis Jewish Again
This is one of the weirder bits of fundamentalist rhetoric. There's an school of thought in several churches including some old Catholic ones that women are supposed to suffer because of Eve. I am not telling you it makes sense. I am telling you he's parroting a line that is a giant warning sign
JD Vance is working for Big Menstrual Cramps and maybe that's not even a joke
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Make Genesis Jewish Again
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It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
I haven’t laughed this hard in quite some time
Doug Brazil is the cameraman who captured the glorious footage, which eventually, of course, found its way to YouTube and became very popular indeed
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
YouTube video by KATU News
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I haven’t laughed this hard in quite some time
„What are you trying to do, make me look like a fool?!“
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
„What are you trying to do, make me look like a fool?!“
I‘ve eaten at this Walker Bros., and now I wonder if the Pope has, too
He's a Chicago boy. Ordinary People was partly filmed in the northern suburbs (I drove past Walker Bros Pancake House the night they were filming!) And it was a safer choice than The Blues Brothers 😜
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I‘ve eaten at this Walker Bros., and now I wonder if the Pope has, too
Paging @sheilakathleen.bsky.social
There *were* other Mary Tyler Moore movie options
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Paging @sheilakathleen.bsky.social
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thou misshapen Dick
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
thou misshapen Dick
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I know some folks like to show respect for veteran politicians, but I’m done with that.
Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat.
If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.
Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat.
If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I know some folks like to show respect for veteran politicians, but I’m done with that.
Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat.
If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.
Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat.
If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.
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Absolute queen shit
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Absolute queen shit
Misanthropic humanists are my favorite!
sometimes i get all sentimental about the human race but then i talk to some of them and it’s like oh yeah right
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Misanthropic humanists are my favorite!
But this cat can also make wall outlets and phone lines appear and disappear at will
Cats don’t need “training” to do this.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
But this cat can also make wall outlets and phone lines appear and disappear at will
Of all the outrages this administration has committed, this is one of the more infuriating
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Of all the outrages this administration has committed, this is one of the more infuriating
I would have loved to pull something like this off at that age!
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I would have loved to pull something like this off at that age!
Fun fact:
Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.
Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Beautiful
An old Coca Cola sign has been revealed on a commercial building on Central Avenue NE in Minneapolis, just south of 18-1/2 Avenue NE.
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Beautiful
OH MY GOD
This is what Paul Schrader saw when Nastassja Kinski told him it’s just not gonna work out after they wrapped on Cat People
Just in case you're wondering how realistic Musk's "I will always love you" video might be...
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
OH MY GOD
💯
Barbara Bel Geddes as Midge in Vertigo. She's supposed to be smart, sweet but plain young woman compared to Kim Novak, but she's actually the one that would cure a lot of men of their agoraphobia and inspire them to buy nice clothes and attend every single event where she might show up.
What’s your all time favorite Hollywood Homely fail? When a woman is meant to be unattractive but she’s gorgeous. Thinking of how Safety Not Guaranteed has a key moment where a man’s ex is in the script old and no longer attractive and she’s a knockout who the movie still plays as old.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
💯
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From beyond the grave, a spectacular evisceration
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
From beyond the grave, a spectacular evisceration
Class warfare is never a $1 trillion compensation package or starving 42 million people who could easily be fed
This is references “class warfare” and “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani” and only gets more bananas from there. The new editorial page is… really something. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask
The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Class warfare is never a $1 trillion compensation package or starving 42 million people who could easily be fed
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Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this.
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
In this recording from our live conversation, I spoke with Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, who was "grabbed by the neck" and then detained while peacefully protesting against ICE.
substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this.
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
I‘ve always loved the design of SHANE, but couldn’t quite put my finger on why aesthetically it seemed „realer“ than other Westerns of its era, and thanks to this Derek-Guy-level thread now I know!
A thread on the visual authenticity of Shane (1953) & cowboy/artist Joe De Yong, the film's technical advisor:
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I‘ve always loved the design of SHANE, but couldn’t quite put my finger on why aesthetically it seemed „realer“ than other Westerns of its era, and thanks to this Derek-Guy-level thread now I know!
