And.And

What does it mean when you have sore eyebrow? And no, that’s not a typo for “elbow”

Favorite film in haiku: Oh! Poor little dog Raymond Burr in there, smoking Maybe he did it

Rewatching *The Substance* reminded me of a radio commercial for BC Powder that began with a dude’s gnarly voice: “Bein’ a shrimper’s hard work….” The way he said it, it sounded like “Bein’ a shrimp is hard work”

An art director on autopilot

Trudgin’ across the tundra Mile after mile….

One reason I love Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” is that you can replace the lyrics with the text of almost anything by Dr. Seuss: “Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave/ Had 23 sons, and she named them all Dave?/“

Ah, for the good old days when one could dance in public….

It’s so nice to step outside and not be assaulted with triple digit temperatures

Smooth Operetta

Oy am the floy

“Too bad for the country that has a child as ruler” (Eccl. 10:16 lol)

If I buy one, I had BETTER get one

Roger: I couldn’t find a box, but this will do

I’m gonna sit right down and text myself a message And make believe it came from you; I’ll just ignore the stuff I said And I’ll leave myself on “read”…

Where did you buy that swine?

We ought to change that old bromide to “Even a stopped clock *seems* right twice a day”

*Reilly, Ace of Spies* 🫡

Is it pronounced DOOM-o-crats or du-MOCK-rats? I think those may be the two options

Soylent Green are people, too

Break fast and move things

I hadn’t thought of this, but now that you prompt it—I’m not sure I wouldn’t want 6 hours straight of Seinfeld music. I think it might be fun. What’s wrong with it?

I wonder how many people rn are writing poems or songs about “the little man with the 4 dollar gas”

There once was a nice Mormon Mr. Who fancied a lady, then Kr. He married her soon, Had a brief honeymoon, Then he did the same thing with her Sr.

“Feud” should rhyme with “Freud”

Just finished my biweekly (jk) watch of the Marx Bros.’ *Duck Soup*, struck this time by Louis Calhern’s absolute commitment to his role (viz. his utterance of the thankless line “Twelve dollars??” less than 10 minutes in

A stopped clock only *appears to be* correct twice a day

…Warp factor three

Because (to quote composer Roger Nixon when asked a similar question by his prospective teacher, George Antheil) I’ll die if I don’t

My brain does this thing with movies when I dream: it adds superfluous apparent elaboration to titles. The third Star Trek movie’s title became “Star Trek III: The Search For Spock; Where is Spock?” More recently, it gave me “One Battle After Another Battle”

I vermectin, you vermectin, we all vermectin for ivermectin

“Epic Fury” 🙄 How about “Aspic Furry”?

Markwayne Mullin -> Mulkwayne Marlin

On the day of the latest SOTU address, Turner Classics showed the 1938 *Marie Antoinette* followed by *Julius Caesar*. During the speech they showed *Gaslight*

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Whenever I hear (or read, even) the word “forbears,” in my head it’s respelled “four bears”

Both twitter accounts at work here are paid for by taxpayers

Right now I just want to hug Bad Bunny and say “thank you for including me”

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They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected www.ecoportal.net/en/turbines-...

Senator Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment. More of this, please.