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Radical Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras turns 92 today. Many great films, Z (1969), STATE OF SIEGE (1972), HANNAH K (1983), MISSING (1992) & others. What I most admire about his work is how he was unafraid to combine a radical political vision with a more mainstream narrative approach.
February 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Radical Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras turns 92 today. Many great films, Z (1969), STATE OF SIEGE (1972), HANNAH K (1983), MISSING (1992) & others. What I most admire about his work is how he was unafraid to combine a radical political vision with a more mainstream narrative approach.
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The Blue Dahlia (1946) is not just another Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake noir. It’s set in the LA of demobilized Navy vets facing PTSD, marriages that didn’t survive separation, and war injuries. Noir acknowledges that not everyone who came home made it safely through the war. #filmnoirclub
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#ValentineNoir 💌 #TheBlueDahlia
February 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Blue Dahlia (1946) is not just another Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake noir. It’s set in the LA of demobilized Navy vets facing PTSD, marriages that didn’t survive separation, and war injuries. Noir acknowledges that not everyone who came home made it safely through the war. #filmnoirclub
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Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can reduce up to 93% of what little joy you have left?
January 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can reduce up to 93% of what little joy you have left?
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Édouard Manet, French (1832-1883), Young Woman among the Flowers, 1879, oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.3 cm, private collection
January 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Édouard Manet, French (1832-1883), Young Woman among the Flowers, 1879, oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.3 cm, private collection
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Some of you said on here, “Bob Scott, why did you ever go and join a Cult?? You seem far too ‘with it’ to fall for that kind of hippy dippy baloney,” so I am right now here to tell you the story of how I came to find myself living a life of Wanton Sex and Potato Farming
This is a Thread 🧵
This is a Thread 🧵
January 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Some of you said on here, “Bob Scott, why did you ever go and join a Cult?? You seem far too ‘with it’ to fall for that kind of hippy dippy baloney,” so I am right now here to tell you the story of how I came to find myself living a life of Wanton Sex and Potato Farming
This is a Thread 🧵
This is a Thread 🧵
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This is worth another watch
January 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is worth another watch
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my biggest 2024 breakthrough: discovering that scarecrows aren't real. crops are just SO much easier to steal now. i used to pull up one or two turnips and run off, but i'm not scared anymore. the only challenge ahead of me in 2025 is to keep from eating so many turnips i give myself a stomach ache
January 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
my biggest 2024 breakthrough: discovering that scarecrows aren't real. crops are just SO much easier to steal now. i used to pull up one or two turnips and run off, but i'm not scared anymore. the only challenge ahead of me in 2025 is to keep from eating so many turnips i give myself a stomach ache
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I have turned absolutely feral during these two weeks off and I am not prepared for the humbling that next week will bring
December 29, 2024 at 4:18 PM
I have turned absolutely feral during these two weeks off and I am not prepared for the humbling that next week will bring
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every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”
December 29, 2024 at 5:04 PM
every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”
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Today’s book marginalia
December 26, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Today’s book marginalia
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How many Happy Meals do you need to eat before they start to work? I've just had six and I feel terrible.
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
How many Happy Meals do you need to eat before they start to work? I've just had six and I feel terrible.
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You know, the Grinch ain't wrong. Those Who toys would be annoying AF.
December 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
You know, the Grinch ain't wrong. Those Who toys would be annoying AF.
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It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
December 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
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I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me incredibly unemployable, hence that first part.
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me incredibly unemployable, hence that first part.
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The other swans aren't gonna believe this
December 16, 2024 at 12:50 PM
The other swans aren't gonna believe this
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Good night 🌙
“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake...”
- Sir Francis Bacon
“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake...”
- Sir Francis Bacon
December 15, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Good night 🌙
“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake...”
- Sir Francis Bacon
“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake...”
- Sir Francis Bacon
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Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
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#Nowwatching Woman of the Hour (dir. Anna Kendrick, 2024)
December 10, 2024 at 6:47 PM
#Nowwatching Woman of the Hour (dir. Anna Kendrick, 2024)