That same year No Way To Treat A Lady came out. Rod Steiger, George Segal and Lee Remmick. Its a movie about a serial killer and Steiger’s over the top campy performance is just fun to watch. He is  like the bizarro boston strangler.

From the first episode Phyllis appeared in, shaming her own daughter for revealing gossip she had been smugging about (“Bess, that was Mother’s news...”), she was an absolute wonder to watch. Cloris was expert at playing a character who was insufferable but somehow still making you enjoy her, and at times even…

For me, it will be the opening moments of Kiss Me Deadly.

Honestly if the worst we get is old man tries to me hip and cool with bland likable music, then I'm fine with it.  I say this as a big Steely Dan fan.

The new series will follow Parker’s Carrie, Kristin Davis’ Charlotte, and Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda “as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s,” reads a press release sent to The A.V. Club.

They could always cast Kim Darby instead.  They say she’s a woman of True Grit!

No Samantha? That’s so Samantha.

Given that no one remembered the 1918 flu epidemic until there were sudden parallels to be drawn, I suspect the Covid pandemic will be forgotten by future generations until suddenly it affects them somehow.

That’s why cocaine and speed together is called a speedball, and cocaine and alcohol together is called a “2020".

I don’t sleep all night and feel terrible the next day all the time, and I don’t even do coke.

Vin Mariani adherents included Ulysses S. Grant (who was drunk for most of his life, but was also coke-drunk when he wrote his presidential memoirs)

All the people this week insisting that he could call off the extreme right if he wanted to are arguing against fact. It’s not just that he doesn’t want to and enjoys the attention. These morons are boiling with rage toward Mike Pence and Mitch Mcconnell and Lindsay Graham. If Trump made a sincere effort to unring the…

We’ve all known that Trump is total narcissist and sociopath. It HAS to all be about him. ALL eyes must be on him. Given even half a chance, he will consume all the oxygen in the room and would stab his own children if they got between him and a TV camera.

Idk, maybe if I saw her competing in an obstacle course during her childhood I would have a little more background information that adds nothing to the fucking story I’m about to see. 

The high points of this movie—the Order 66 scene, the Darth Plagueis scene, the climactic lightsaber fight—are as good as anything in the original trilogy.

Here’s my nerd.  Back in the 70s (I was in my 20s) I bought a ViewMaster camera and cutter. It takes 35mm slide film. When you get it processed you have to tell the processor to leave the film uncut. Then you load the developed strip into the cutter and roll through cutting out the pictures one pair at a time. One…

I have a few View-Master sets (this isn’t everything I have), including a tabletop View-Master and several other handheld models (even one from the 90s put out by Red Hat Linux with a custom reel).

Do tell.

I’ve got a “Model C” Viewmaster from the 1940s, inherited from a relative, along with some old reels. It’s my understanding that the viewers themselves aren’t worth so much as collectibles, but the more ephemeral picture reels are where the true value for this particular collecting hobby exists.

See also H.H. Bennett - the true master and pioneer of stereo photograpy. Dude carried a glass plate camera in a canoe and then photographed natural scenes in stereo and sold viewers and hand printed and mounted stereo pairs to tourists. Part Ansel Adams and part viewmaster, only in 1875.