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Brent Shepherd (he/him)
@shepcatzero.bsky.social
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Down these mean skeets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
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Made it to page 84 before Jane Leavy’s copy editor failed her. It’s “Nuke” LaLoosh — two capital L’s and a nickname based on vocational predilection.

This is why IMDb exists, especially if you’ve never seen arguably the best baseball movie ever made (as Jane certainly has).
#ShepcatEditsEverything
Paragraph from MAKE ME COMMISSIONER: As Crash Davis told Nick Laloosh in BULL DURHAM: “Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls — it’s more democratic.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Just for fun, every so often, type this into your search engine of choice, rack up metrics and page views, post a screenshot.

Who knows. Maybe this administration is more responsive to spikes and fluctuations in data than we imagine.
A Google search field into which the words "how to build a guillotine" have been typed.
November 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A #Caturday tableau. Pictured: #Marlowe, foreground; Marlowe (The High Window, 1942), background.
Close-up of a black-white-and-tan calico cat in profile, her pale green eye looking upward. Behind her, the photographer holds his morning reading, a hardbound collection of early Raymond Chandler novels.
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Damsel, undistressed, on a ledge, #Caturday, 8:07 a.m. #Marlowe
Illuminated by gauzy morning sunlight against a hazy view of shrubbery, tall grasses and other landscaping, a black, white and tan calico cat stretches out on a white-painted window ledge, her pale green eyes looking directly to camera.
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Next up for Kushner: bombing the everloving fuck out of Cambodia.
NEWSMAX • Follow One of the original architects of the Trump administration's landmark Abraham Accords, President Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is proving to be a modern-day Henry Kissinger, bringing business acumen to peace deal-making. [article link] newsmax.com Kushner 'Modern-Day Kissinger' for Mideast Peace
October 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Pulling numbers out of his ass like Sen. John Iselin.
Donald J. Trump on Truth Social: THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Fixed it for you. Representing Hampton University, Bowie State University, Coppin State University and Morehouse College.
An updated sampling of HBCU logos, featuring the gray-on-blue H of Hampton University; a black B outlined in gold from Bowie State University; a yellow-outlined block C from Coppin State University; and a crimson U from Morehouse College.
October 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Shout-out to that time Vanity Fair styled the shit out of the sexiest, sharpest, most alluring actresses in Hollywood for its annual Annie Liebovitz cover shoot, and Diane Keaton showed up dressed as herself. I mean, who else would she be?

Singular. Remarkable. Unforgettable. Irreplaceable.
The cover of Vanity Fair's 2016 Hollywood issue, featuring, in a wide array of all-black dresses and gowns, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling, Brie Larson, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Dame Helen Mirren and Saoirse Ronan. Meanwhile, Diane Keaton stands at far right in a full expression of her signature style, including a wide-brimmed hat, a scarf wrapping her neck, a long-tailed coat with its lapels turned out, black leggings under a short black skirt, and black work boots.
October 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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In its recognition this month of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, our DEI billboard at work includes this art pieced together from the logos of Michigan, Alabama, UConn and Miami — none of which are HBCUs, comprising 107 schools from which to choose.

Good team effort, everybody.
Against a black background, uppercase letters spelling out HBCU are applied ransom note–style but appearing to have been cut or torn from school flags — the maize H on a blue field from Michigan; the white B on crimson from Alabama; the red-outlined white C on blue from UConn; and the white-outlined orange-and-green U of the University of Miami on a green field.
October 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Just the hilarious randomness of this popping up in my feed. Like, you guys, Mamet could really use a friend right now.
From Facebook, a “People You May Know” entry with an “Add friend” button and a photo of playwright-screenwriter-director David Mamet.
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I almost hate even to speak this casting suggestion out into the universe, because goofy as he is, the dude has done nothing but strive to put chillness and fun into the world, but if Pauly Shore shaved his head ...
A photo of sour-looking, prematurely bald 40-year-old White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, pondering which marginalized community he's going to terrorize today to overcopmensate for the yawning black void where a soul would be in a normal carbon-based life form.
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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POV, 9:41 a.m. #Caturday.
#Marlowe
Extreme close-up of a green-eyed calico cat, her pupils enlarged and looking directly into the camera, as she perches on the poster’s chest, his legs stretched out behind her atop the bedcovers.
October 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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You know what “no talent” Jimmy Kimmel has that Donald Trump doesn’t have? Six Emmys — four in primetime.
I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Now playing: ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Pakula, 1976)

For a number of reasons, this seems like a good evening to consult the sacred text.
Bob Woodward, Harry Rosenfeld and Carl Bernstein look on as Ben Bradlee, his feet up on a newsroom desk, casts his discerning eye on the latest Watergate article reported by Woodstein.
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Now playing: THE HIT (Frears, 1984)
In a daytime exterior, over-the-shoulder reverse shot in medium close-up, white-shirted Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) fixes his icy blue eyes on straw-haired Myron (Tim Roth), the younger and more impetuous of his two abductors.
September 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Now playing: BILLY BUDD (Ustinov, 1962)

“… and introducing Terence Stamp”
As sailors fall in to line the deck of the merchant vessel Rights of Man, the foretopman Billy Budd turns at the sound of his name. Occupying the right-hand third of the frame in a medium close-up is 23-year-old Terence Stamp in his first leading role.
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Because the Spanish and French words share a common root, I have begun referring to my freezer as “the congealer.”

E.g., “Did you buy ice cream?”
“Yeah, it’s in the congealer.”
One multilingual panel of a cardboard refrigerator box reading: SIDE LADO CÔTÉ FREEZER CONGELADOR CONGÉLATEUR
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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As Gavin Newsom and John Bolton are both racking up news cycles right now, this seems like an opportune moment for me to tap the sign.
A screencap of my own skeet from September 27, 2023: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is just a polite way of saying “I’ll deal with you motherfuckers later.”
August 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Repost with a group you’d love to hang out with.
Filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Joel Coen, Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch pose together at the May 2015 Janus Films premiere of the restoration of Satyajit Ray’s PATHER PANCHALI.
August 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Now playing: THE UNTOUCHABLES (De Palma, 1987)
Veteran beat cop Jim Malone (Sean Connery) takes Treasury official Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) to church to instruct him in “the Chicago way.” A deal is struck. A partnership is formed.
August 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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And we should absolutely be thinking about how best Newsom's particular talents and gifts can serve the campaign and presumptive administration of a more principled and compassionate candidate and leader dedicated to the service of all Americans, not just the ones who cater to his or her ambitions.
Occupy Democrats image depicting a close-up of California Gov. Gavin Newsom against the background of a billowing American flag, under which reads the following quote: "Like him or not, Gavin Newsom is truly stepping up and showing a command of leadership and attention like no one else in the party. He is absolutely ruthless and giving Republicans every ounce of their own medicine. All of us and our democracy owe him a big — THANK YOU!" — @victorshi2020
August 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I am here with popcorn to witness the spectacle of Cuomo picking a fight not just with Zohran but also with the city of Chicago.

Fuck him up, Big Shoulders. There'll be nothing left of him for Zohran to run against in November.
Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess From long before we built the Erie Canal to compete with Chicago, New York has always been about making things happen I believe in government that works. I have done it time and time again for the people of New York. Let’s do it again.
August 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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“And they charged the public 12 bucks and change just to see ‘em”

(I mean, as long as you went to the trouble, it was the least I could do.)
$12.56 Adjusted for inflation, $1.50 in 1970 is equal to $12.56 in 2025.
August 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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While I am all too familiar with their game, it seems I still managed to underestimate Fox News’ message discipline.

I wore this T-shirt to my parents’ house for the first time, and upon reading it my 82-year-old mother responded, “I don’t understand what that means.”
The front of a navy blue T-shirt with white all-caps lettering reading, “I’m going to stop drinking just as soon as I’m named Secretary of Defense.”
August 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I know it's not specifically the point of the article or the post, but WHAT IN PLUPERFECT FUCK IS THE PRESENTATION OF THOSE FRENCH FRIES ABOUT? It's like some chef said, "I shall now make ketchup even more of a culinary abomination than it already is, as offensive to the eyes as to the palate."
The New York Times @nytimes.com Some restaurants are trying to lure diners on weight-loss drugs with miniature meals and tiny tasting menus. Headline: "Ozempic is Shrinking Appetites. Restaurants Are Shrinking the Food" over a photo focused on a small plate on which a slider-size sandwich of some kind is positioned next to a fucking shot glass of ketchup into which about 13 french fries have been plunged.
August 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM