RiCK SAUNDERS : Known Dissident

“And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it's this... I was here. I existed. I was young. I was happy... and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.” -Sy the Photo Guy I'm posting my vintage photo collection here: bsky.app/profile/foun...

Hollywood History - The Marion Davies Beach House cinemascholars.com/the-hollywoo...

For Sale: The Tough-Talkin’, Finger-Lickin’ Legacy of Colonel Sanders In the town where Kentucky Fried Chicken grew up, they’ll auction off the home, restaurant and maybe even the secret spice mix of a cantankerous innovator. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/d...

I’m looking for fellow fans of meditation who can recommend some guided meditations with a guide who uses a normal voice not the dreaded meditation voice. It’s not quite as bad as poetry voice buts it’s close.

Margo Price and Joan Baez sing Woody Guthrie’s Deportee www.youtube.com/watch?v=89vL...

Outstanding dance company #GroupDance #MakeItFunky

Ann Lowe designed one of the most famous dresses in American history. Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress. For years, many people admired her work without ever knowing her name. History remembered the dress. It’s time we remembered the designer. #SheShed

The great Millie Jackson sings, “It’s Hard to Believe She’s a Child of God.” youtu.be/tJFyFYisGYc?...

If you need some weird dark hilarity with heartbreak , madness, and wonderfulness in your life watch Steve and Alice. It’s outstanding. “Alice and Steve is a British comedy television series…t features Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement in starring roles.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_a...

Me, too Billy. Me, too. But Washington, more than Oregon. youtu.be/FjKv4RJx-Q8?...

These women are the best thing I've seen today and probably best of the week. Watch ‘em humiliate diminutive billionaire Canadian goons who pretend they gaf about Utah….with straight facts, a massive dose of humor and smartassery. Suck it, Kevin O'Leary these Utah ladies own you. Watch n’ share!

Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the second film studio after The Black Maria, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896).” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumont First Animation : youtu.be/o1d28X0lkJ4

Thanks to my friend Josh for teaching me about the legend of Tiger Whitehead and his wife.

From the comments: "Without Doc Lewis, the Depression would have been a way bleaker and darker time than it was. Later, they called him "corny," but that corn lifted up very many who needed it. For my money, it is one of the best of such renditions. Lots-o-fun!)" More: archive.org/details/TedL...

Lisa Hanigan sings Moon River backed by Richard Hawley. I'll listen to Moon River any time. Hank Mancini arranged the music, and his pal Johnny Mercer the lyrics.

“…Mrs. Lawrence’s assertion that the office-world is a method of giving the largest possible number of people the largest possible amount of nervous discomfort, to the end of producing the largest possible quantity of totally useless articles...” Excerpt From The Job -Sinclair Lewis

“This illustration is one of sixteen Wilde commissioned Beardsley to create for the publication of the play. The series is considered to be Beardsley's most celebrated work, created at the age of 21.”

If you want to watch something you can multi-task to and ignore but when you do watch is beautiful and peaceful with no talking then here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country... youtube.com/@country_lif... I never imagined wanting to move to Azerbaijan.

If you’re a jazz fan or would like to be, check out the David W Niven archives at archive.org/details/davi... “Description: 650 tapes · 1,000 hours · 637 GB · 691 scans of cassette cards. Compiled and Narrated by David W. Niven, 1930-1993. All of it is free to listen to or download.

His album Just Divorced is an all time fave country album if mine. youtube.com/playlist?lis... savingcountrymusic.com/outlaw-count...

I'm loving this movie. Makes me want to go to Venice but no doubt it's nothing like this, if it ever was. Or is it?

Read this on my phone this week thanks to Project Gutenberg, though I had to enbiggen the font til the book became 1400 pages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton_...

“The great silent film star Alla Nazimova stars as "Salome" in this adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic. The art direction, of course, is by Natacha Rambova, Nazimova's lover and the future Mrs. Rudolph Valentino.” youtu.be/44OmwMoGWfs 🎬🍿

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Sonny Berman -Nocturne Sonny died at 21, on the cusp of being mentioned in the same breath as trumpeters like Clifford Brown. Shot heroin and had a heart attack. Such a loss. youtu.be/Ip_BgYZOM_A?...

981 public domain movies, free to watch and/or liberate. archive.org/details/publ...

The Welsh Rarebit Fiend (1906)

So Welsh Rarebit is basically an early grilled cheese open-faced? #Food!

Great album by the late Yvonne Fair. She sang with James Brown's band (and had a kid with James) and with Chuck Jackson. She opened for The O'Jays, The Temptations, The Jacksons, Stevie, and Marvin. It's a shame this is her only album. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_...

Fascinating. Watch Bernie get surprisingly honest answers from AI platform Claude. crooksandliars.com/2026/04/bern...

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Good news from Washington State University's Bread Lab: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCEf... #WSU #BreadLab

I always read the NYT wedding announcements. I never know anyone, but I enjoy reading their semi-private moments made public. They're often like a little novel and often moving in a positive way.

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I'm at an event displaying The medieval manuscript collection of Flagler College. They were talking about this site where Collectors and scholars can upload and digitally share their books and fragments of manuscripts. fragmentarium.ms

You can watch the full movie on HBO. Jimmy Stewart plays the guy he always plays...Jimmy Stewart. Its a fun movie but Ginger Rogers is hilarious, particularly in this cat fight scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCe8...

New Indian rap superstar Sarooj Cherukat www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s... youtu.be/hOHKltAiKXQ?...

A comic book teaching kids about pulverized smokeless tobacco: Snuff-Man #TakingTheCountryBack comicbookplus.com?dlid=97762

Dude picks up a Booker T Xmas record, some Lucinda (he did a co-write on her new album), a couple other things, and a record by free jazz drummer/composer Milford Graves, which I'm too old to listen to, but the story he tells about Graves and one of the ways he composes is fascinating.

Here's yr No Kings Day National Anthem!

“Shadow on the Land, It Can't Happen Here, is a 1968 television film which aired on ABC. It was adapted from the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel It Can't Happen Here…The plot involves a President creating a fascist, totalitarian regime in the United States, and a resistance movement forming against it.

Want to watch a large collection of Abbott and Costello movies from 1940 - 1956? Here: archive.org/details/abbo...

🎧https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnSzlmSVz4 @Amoeba @fkatwigs.music-social.com

🎧 Trumpet solo by Jack Sheldon. In case you thought he was just the Only a Bill guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbT0...

Men need to women up and know when to help. This is the domestic violence hand signal.

I’ve never seen a full movie embedded in a Wikipedia piece. It is public domain (1931) so it makes sense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimarro...

🎧 This song and the performance is so next level.