Now watching: Playtime (1967) A million details and each is important to the story. Love this movie.

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results." ~ James Dean

To help me remember the order of the three rhyming letters in ChatGPT, I just think of the word gypped.

This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.

Rewatching Northern Exposure. I’d forgotten how much I love this show!

SAGAFTRA Foundation posted a 35-minute 1997 interview with Sylvia Sidney on YouTube a couple of days ago, and it’s pure gold from beginning to end!She’s one of my all-time favorite classic film actresses, and I adore her as a person too. So blunt, charming, and vivacious! youtu.be/-GVLrtywfo0?...

“By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque” … an important heritage moment on the streets of Toronto (by artist Sarah Lazarovic).

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Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

Pizza and a beer for dinner? Yes, please!

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Now watching (this Christmas and every Christmas): White Christmas (1954)

Cunk spittin Christmas cheer

My Mardi Gras mask is finished! First time I've managed this before Christmas. Anyway, it's maybe still not possible to guess what this costume is -- a zombie-esque person, sure; a clown-type fella, yup. ("But doctor--" Nope.) Some remaining pieces will make it clear.

This time of year I always think of this deliciously unhinged photo shoot with Truman Capote & Andy Warhol for High Times magazine's 1978 Xmas issue, with Capote soused to the gills & Warhol gamely playing along as Santa. I want someone to write an extended oral history of this photo shoot alone

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Terrible traffic at LAX as people head out of town. Spoiler alert: this is also how LAX looks on every other day of the year.

Gang, we are not watching the Kennedy Center Honors tonight. Watch a Rob Reiner movie instead.

I've seen over 700 Pre-Code movies, and hands down Sing and Like It (1934) has to be the funniest so far. A cast entirely made up of character actors, which may have something to do with how good it is. But the script by Marion Dix and Laird Doyle is chock full of gems I'll share in the next days.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

ChatGPT 😂

A couple of bees napping in a flower. The bees sleep 5 - 6 hours in 24 hours period and many bees hold each other's legs as they sleep. Some native bees sleep in the flowers. Photo: Joe Neely

It's your birthday, Duane.

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

Rory spends nearly all of every weekday in a fluffy bed on Stacey’s desk, “working.” So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.

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It's a good piece; the actual history is also interesting:

Finally broke down and subscribed to TCM Cinéma. It’s not TCM live, but I get to enjoy the movies I love. #tcmparty

Let the games begin! #mastermind

I think I was prepared to hate A.I. by already hating leafblowers, which are also extremely wasteful and can't do anything we didn't already know how to do.

Cracks me up every time I cross into Spain my phone carrier sends a notification that says “Hey Macarena!”

Rob Reiner credited his dad Carl Reiner and his "second father" Norman Lear for his activism. Losing them all in a span of just 5 years is heartbreaking. Rob Reiner's creative achievements will live on, but his willingness to risk it all for social justice is, for me, his greatest legacy. #FilmSky

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He died from an unprofitable disease.

First have your coffee time, then do your stretching, fight evil until lunch, then you can have a little nap; then you'll bring joy to the world, then cocktails.

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Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

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Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke ♐️ 🎂

When you can’t say “sorry we capitulated to bigots” because you’re afraid the bigots might hear you, so you just throw some glitter around and hope for the best.

Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow. I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV... Thank the maker- I was feeling clumsy for about three releases. Well done Apple.

The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.

A quick reminder that I have a small online shop, if you're interested! If you ever want a print of any of my art that I don't have listed, just drop me a note and I can make one for you. featherdust.storenvy.com

Remembering Jean Marais on his birthday 🎂 📷 Clifford Coffin, Vogue, 1946 Someone who looks that cool in 1946 is obviously one of the inventors of cool.