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Eli Edwards
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Still a bibliothecary, lawyer, info policy geek, chocolate lover. Enthusiastically ambivalent about legal technology.
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From #NoKings Santa Monica, with @chipuni.bsky.social living out his nickname
Man in inflatable unicorn costume with woman in inflatable emperor penguin costume, with the penguin holding a sign that reads, “Emperor penguin says NO KINGS” Man in inflatable unicorn costume and woman in inflatable shark costume with her head on the shark’s tongue Man in inflatable unicorn costume with woman in inflatable dinosaur costume
October 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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#Ciclavia in Boyle Heights.
At Boyle & 1st in Boyle Heights, looking west towards downtown Crowd enjoying Ciclavia at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights
October 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Do I love the 1938 film of Pygmalion? YES
Do I love Leslie Howard AND Wendy Hiller as Higgins and Eliza? YES
Do I love that they appear to be romantically involved at the end? Well, actually ...
From "The Middleaged Bully and the Girl of Eighteen": The Ending They Didn't Film" by Bernard F. Dukore, The Shaw Review, v. 14, no. 3 (Sept. 1971, p. 103: "From the start, the movie version moved in the direction of Beerbohm Tree's interpretation of the end. As Donald P. Costello indicates, "Shaw was suspicious of [Leslie] Howard's screen image as a romantic idol. 'The public will like him and probably want him to marry Eliza,' said Shaw, 'which is just what I don't want.' Shaw wanted, instead, a determined antiromantic in the role. . . ." The playwright's particular choice was Charles Laughton. But Shaw lost. Howard played Higgins and, with Anthony Asquith, codirected the film. Octogenarian Shaw visited Pinewood Studios to celebrate the start of the filming, but part from that visit he was not present at the making of Pygmalion. As Beerbohm Tree did when Shaw left town, the film's directorial duo, Asquith and Howard, with either the assistance or abetting silence of the producer (Gabriel Pascal, to whom Shaw entrusted his work), seized the opportunity to sentimentalize the ending. Theoretically, Shaw had the right to approve the final shooting scrip, but Costello's assertion to the contrary notwithstanding, I have seen no evidence that he actually did." [Footnotes omitted]
September 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Movie poster of the 1927 German silent film, Metropolis, with credits in German: "EIN FILM VON FRITZ LANG," the rest in smaller font
September 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This is a recurring theme for Beauty and the Beast adaptations:
From the website Moviediva about the 1946 black & white French film La Belle et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast): "Or, as Cocteau wrote, 'My goal was to make the Beast so human, so likeable, so superior to man that his transformation into Prince Charming would be for Belle, a terrible disappointment, and would oblige her to accept a marriage of reason.' Greta Garbo attended a screening of the film and reportedly cried out, “Give me back my beast!” after the transformation (Paris)." https://moviediva.com/reviewpages/mdbeautybeast/
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I loved this show.
Actors Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall in a teaser image for the one season show Cupid
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Any thoughts on I Walked With A Zombie?
Film poster of 1943 horror film “I Walked With A Zombie” with a pale woman standing like a statue, a large hand reaching out, one large eye with a yellow pupil, and someone screaming
July 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Can you tell what I’m cross-stitching?
A small red embroidery hoop with some black and yellow cross stitches.
July 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Tram done. And I’ve gone to Blue Star Donuts, the Portland Art Museum & the Central Library.
View of the Willamette River, a bridge and part of East Portland from the upper station of the Portland Aerial Tram Portland Aerial Tram car pulling into the upper station at OHSU
July 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I love my fellow law librarians but between being COVID-cautious, slightly neurospicy and a bad case of auditory processing disorder - I’d rather be be at an outdoor cafe.
A very loud bar in East Portland that is chockful of people who have to yell to be heard, and I really hope the back patio is open
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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On the one hand, I am in air conditioning and able to geek out with friends and colleagues about professional passions and bugbears, but on the other hand, I am stuck inside during Portland’s Pride & I have fabulous earrings.
A rare selfie of me, cropped to show off my emo mixtape cassette earring.
July 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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At some point, I will need to attempt something as complex as my Lego typewriter
A green Lego typewriter, with moving keys and carriage return. Yeah, I made it!
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I love mechanical puzzles. Here’s one I completed recently of a model of a zeppelin.
3D mechanical puzzle that is a cutaway model of a zeppelin
July 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Finding my way towards making stuff to find my joy between all the rage bait inundating us all. I rarely make things from scratch and I love me some beginners kits. That said, voila! I sewed a Frida Kahlo doll.
Frida Kahlo sewn doll from a pre-printed kit, the front. Frida Kahlo sewn doll from a pre-printed kit, the back, with a bunch of text about her life and artistic motifs.
July 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Hand-lettered poster with US flag attached; blue and red lettering reads “WHAT YOU DO TO THE WEAK YOU DO TO ME - JESUS” with “Matthew 25:40” in small black letters on the bottom left.
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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There are around several hundred of my neighbors protesting in Culver City and God bless ‘em. #GoodTrouble
Unseen protestor holds a sign at a street corner of Culver Blvd and Duquesne Ave. The sign has a photorealistic closeup of the State of Liberty, but with her hand covering her face in apparent dismay.
July 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Can I blame the feds? Let’s blame the feds. #ciclavia #la
June 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The heck, bird? Leave me be!
Email header from Duolingo with the title "Nobody ignores me...for long."
May 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Much smaller gathering than the labor march … OTOH all legal pros making a stand for due process, rule of law & democracy. #LAMayDay
May 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Starting off the LA labor march with music and free signs.
Rolling band truck at Downtown LA labor march, with a bunch of banners and posters for immigrant rights and « Free Kilmar Now » Shepard Fairey-style poster with picture of a woman in red, gold, brown & blue, with the words « Solo El Pueblo Salva Al Pueblo! » on top and « Defend Our People » at the bottom
May 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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That cancelled show that you'll never stop thinking about
Picture for the show Farscape, with the characters Rygel (space muppet) and Scorpius (hybrid of 2 alien races dressed in a leather kink suit) at the top, astronaut John Crichton in the center (Earth human, holding weapons with lights at the barrels in both hands, well-meaning but kinda dumb sometimes), Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan to Crichton's right (hooded, blue, loves photogasms), bottom row: Chiana, Aeryn Sun (aiming a black revolver-like weapon) and Ka D'Argo (holding a very large sword/gun rather lovingly).
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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That cancelled show you will never stop thinking about
Promo picture for the show Cupid, picture of Jeremy Piven looking smarmy and wearing a black tee just over the shoulder of Paula Marshall, wearing a red blazer, with their names and the show title hovering above them and "The God of Love Has Met His Match" at the bottom.
March 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
Promo picture for the CBS show Joan of Arcadia, with Joe Mantenga, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Ritter (sitting in a wheelchair), Amber Tamblyn, and Michael Welch, all staring upward
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Wasn’t expecting Pres.Bartlett at the March for the Constitution in Westwood. Also, man can preach.
Martin Sheen addressing the crowd at the March for the Constitution in Westwood, L.A.
March 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A semi-obscure one; Miracle on Main Street starring Margo
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Movie poster for the Christmas pre-noir film Miracle on Main Street (1939), starring Margo, a Mexican actress A photo of the Mexican actress Margo, star of Miracle on Main Street. Her career was interrupted when she was blacklisted during the '50s Red Scare; she was also happily married to actor Eddie Albert
March 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM