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Brent Shepherd (he/him)
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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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God, sometimes I hate that I'm so good at casting, and in this case, to be clear, casting against type, but: Jonathan Groff as Hegseth in the inevitable limited series about this absolute clusterfuck we're living through.

Sorry, Groffsauce. Also: Not sorry, because you'll totally fucking crush it.
The future Defense secretary in medium close-up, drunk, holding a champagne bottle, thoroughly soaked through his white dress shirt so you can clearly see the not-strictly-speakng-a-Nazi-tattoo-but-TOTALLY-FUCKING-LOOKS-LIKE-A-NAZI-TATTOO on his chest.
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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POV, 9:29 a.m. Thankful for this one, every single day. #Marlowe
As a hand holds open the new Pynchon novel in the background, a back-white-and-tan calico cat stretches out on the photographer’s sternum, head tilted, her green eyes glancing askance into the camera.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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POV, 7:36 a.m. #Caturday. Distracted from her biscuit making to wonder beyond the window at which the local free-range orange interloper incited her fury at 5:39 a.m. #Marlowe
In medium close-up, three-quarter profile, a black-white-and-tan calico cat with pale green eyes gazes off to her left toward a sunny window against the blurred background of a bedroom.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Meet Patrick. He’s worth half a billion dollars and doesn’t own a pair of dress socks.
A sponsored United Airlines Facebook post, captioned, “Meet Patrick. He flies United for work.” Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes strides across an airport tarmac with his carry-on luggage, a United Airlines commercial jet in the background. He is wearing wraparound sunglasses, a powder blue double-breasted suit over a white point-collar dress shirt and navy blue necktie, navy blue suede loafers, and no socks.
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Remember, kids …
My post of 9/27/2023: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is just a polite way of saying “I’ll deal with you motherfuckers later.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Now playing: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Nichols, 2016)
In medium close-up in the foreground of a gas station, blue goggled Alton Meyer (Jaeden Martell), a supernaturally gifted 8-year-old, looks to the night sky.
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Now playing: THE FACE OF ANOTHER (Teshigahara, 1966)
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I called out of work Friday, the reason for which my employer and team need not know the specifics.

Vonnegut knows, though.

Shhhh …
From PLAYER PIANO (1952): Paul, calming the anxious cat with his long, slender fingers, wondered indifferently if Shepherd really was sick. Probably not.
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band.
Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) and the Attackers, from STREETS OF FIRE (Hill, 1984)
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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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