John Stonehouse. Dude gets elected as an MP, then spies for the Eastern Bloc. He fakes his death and flees the country to live with his mistress, then is found and forcibly returned.

Look kids! It’s Ask Jeeves! Over here Jeeves!

@bakoon.bsky.social Pee-Wee finally in the Criterion Collection. No word if they’ll also have a backwards running version. www.criterion.com/films/34870-...

Wrap it up RC Cola.

Chomping on the bread that makes Homer funny.

the thing about amazing art/books/movies/music is the "holy shit, a person made that" whether you're talking about guernica or catch-22 or do the right thing or "a love supreme" and if you remove the human creator from the equation who gives a shit

1993.

@niedermeyer.online new report: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... > The driver, a Westminster, California, resident, was driving using the Tesla’s cruise control and lane assistance features, Anderson said.

Posting this for no particular reason

fartlow says a lot of disgusting, offensive things but this is beyond the pale on a personal level

Most people think the theremin is just for aliens, maybe ghosts. Only Brian Wilson had the true vision that it could also be for summertime sweetheart jams

SMASH-MOUTH SAND-WICH CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

In light of recent news, it’s time to revisit a classic defense of foreign film and diversity writ large. “When the world is fragmenting into groups of intolerance, ignorance and hatred, film is a powerful tool to knowledge and understanding.” www.nytimes.com/1993/11/25/o...

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

I guess in retrospect we were all slightly wrong on this classic cartoon, so here’s an update for 2025.

Brat summer is a thing of the past -- 2025 is officially Mr. Bean summer. Changing into our swimsuits without removing our underwear. Getting our heads stuck in turkeys. Feuding with three-wheeled cars. Cutting the hair of strangers. Insulting the Queen.

I feel like when this is all over we also need to implement a mechanism to allow us to recall our elected federal officials. Imagine how different things might be now if NY or PAers could simply *threaten* to boot Schumer or Fetterman from office.

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.” Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College. Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.

When a major company references this track as part of a promotion it’s done culturally, right?

Tea drunk from a ceramic or china cup: perfect, wonderful experience, I waited all day for this, God's own beverage Tea drunk from a cardboard or polystyrene cup: scalding, somehow both too watery & too tanniny, why does the devil want me dead personally

It's very important that you tell someone in your life that might not know how cool the B-52s were. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_E...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news @bakoon.bsky.social www.cleveland.com/entertainmen...

Scott Walker, "The Old Man's Back Again" (1969) www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zg...

Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)

Reading my news summaries like Homer.

[post credits Samuel L Jackson] “a complete unknown.” Did you really think you were the only one traveling? I’m here to talk to you about the Wilbury Initiative.

I can’t believe Blue Sky’s first main character of the day is the muppet history account. No doubt left in my mind that his place truly has the juice.

I was definitely under 7 - so probably The Good Son?

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

Gizmo providing a timeline cleanse

We have all failed and are better for it.

yo im gettin a LOBOTOMY

Hell of a night for TCM to play All the President’s Men.

"Lemonade?" "Please." "I made it just for you." "You are my best friend."

@andrewhickey.500songs.com good god the new Bonzo Dog set is absolutely packed with some neat goodies. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qvwn...

if you think about it, olympic breakdancing existing and having an australian called "dr. raygun" who did her phd on breakdancing and just does strange awkward moves is functionally a "Look Around You" sketch

Gizmo - redefining the word ‘ragamuffin’.

Thing I love about any time a track from Fun House gets used by music supervisors in anything: you know that things are about to get real bad and fucked-up.

AW MAN THIS SHOW AIN’T NO GOOD

one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Happy 27th anniversary of Screwy Squirrel Day. 🫡 cartoonnetwork.fandom.com/wiki/Screwy_...

"Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. "

"Comic Strip," Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Uf...

@bakoon.bsky.social hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...