Tucson’s Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures has wonderful exhibit of Ray Harryhausen’s cinematic creatures. Here’s my take on it and a brief talk with the late master himself. open.substack.com/pub/danlybar...

Because it’s New Year’s Eve, I’m going to watch Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” again. It’s a personal favorite. authory.com/DanLybarger/...

I like how the use of "social club" evokes those Mafia storefront hangouts in NYC.

This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.

Stop threatening me with a better world. I love technology that’s useful. A spreadsheet that bungles calculations because of AI is not worth all the money that has been wasted on it.

They also elected a president convicted on 34 counts of business fraud. They don't care about fraud.

I vividly remember it. She is a giant, gushing fountain of wrong. He sloppiness and inability to read a news story are everlasting. She has Dick Cheney’s aim when it comes to the truth. Then again, I am an old. 😉

It’s Lloyd Kaufman’s 80th birthday. For @thepitch.bsky.social, he and I talked about The Toxic Avenger, Surf Nazis and Shakespeare? www.thepitchkc.com/lloyd-kaufma...

RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. Seen here in what is clearly his most notable role: the doctor at the end of GOODFELLAS

This looks less like a Mike Wallace ambush interview and more like an ambush. Traumatizing little kids won’t help them find fraud. These twerps want the legitimacy legacy media used to have but reveal that investigations take, um, work and good judgement. This IMPEDES the search for truth.

Here’s a thoughtful piece on Bardot’s complicated legacy. I love her in “Contempt,” but her Islamophobia was deeply disturbing.

Rural hospitals are closing, but he needs a Venice wedding and ugly rockets. “Not Necessarily The News” suggested a maximum wage law. This seems like a strong argument in favor.

Ah, here is some good news! He’s damn good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We need Nuremberg trials for the Trump administration officials who illegally sent these men to a torture camp. No "forward, not backward" BS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BOTD Marlene Dietrich!! MCCT5: 5)Stage Fright (Hitch) 4)Foreign Affair (Wilder) 3)Blue Angel (J vS) 2)Witness/Prosecution (Wilder) 1)Touch of Evil (Welles) [NB: Heroic antifascist] More: @tanjilrashid.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/the-... @suchmayer.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/my-...

¡Feliz Navidad from Tucson!

I’ve had a few things on my mind this Christmas season some of them are things people in power don’t want you to see. open.substack.com/pub/danlybar...

Polish poster for THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964) Directed by John Huston Starring Ava Gardner - BOTD in 1922

I wonder how much of the "affordability crisis" is really about this particular stat. It wasn't that long ago that you could go to the supermarket and get a week of groceries for $100. $100 groceries are like $4/gallon gas -- a psychological line that you are asked to confront constantly.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

The president are what? This White House don’t hire spokespeople who write correct.

We are tremendously lucky that this entire cadre of evil motherfuckers are also drooling incompetents

This should be the “I’m feeling lucky” Google Images result for “What does it look like when white supremacy gets confronted and exposed?”

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions. There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues. Not even a “no comment.” www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

What a relief. JD really cares about the oppressed white folk. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The vast majority of Rep Ilhan Omar’s voters and constituents are white. Median income is $82k. Among the highest density of college grads per capita nationally.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Bari Weiss wasn’t even in charge yet when this veteran 60 Minutes producer resigned over interference from above. We can only imagine how much worse it’s gotten recently.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Happy seventh night of Hanukkah to all who celebrate

It's gone. This story is being memory holed as we speak.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

A Gentile’s First Hanukah.

“Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.” Born on this day Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, the lifelong muse of poet W.B. Yeats, born in Aldershot, England, in 1865

I finally go to properly hear jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli playing on “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd. It makes a wonderful song, even more poignant and haunting. Maybe there is hope for the world.

This is not that clip but this is a clip of Charo’s brilliance. She has been named Best Flamenco Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine's readers' poll twice: youtu.be/I5niviXZhok?...

It’s been been 40 years since “Clue” came to the big screen. It’s now back on in 4K, and Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett) and Colleen Camp (Yvette) talk with me and #ArkansasOnline about a move that’s as unpredictable as the movie. ao.pressreader.com/article/8183...

It's Keith's birthday!!! Rec Morgan Neville's doc. Gentle & kind but a pleasure throughout - @timgrierson.bsky.social rev: www.screendaily.com/reviews/keit... And Keef's own sharp memoir [rev via Liz Phair: www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/b... Here at his most awesome ⬇️ youtu.be/ybP40lbKFTg

Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger: “Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”

I’m often struck by how these guys ignore a passage in the Bible that forbids passing false witness against thy neighbor. At least now he can enjoy his porn at home.

Wes Studi is 78 Superb opening anecdote about getting Daniel Day-Lewis’ autograph. youtu.be/oaqQ41Fi370?...

He was from Arkansas.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Bananarama to Dan Bongino: youtu.be/HnYWmgSZdlM?...