This must be the most portally portal that ever there was.

There sure are a lot of folks with strong opinions about bronze age literature! I'm sure that all the folks angry about a black Helen of Troy were equally upset at the Coen Brothers for their adaptation of the Odyssey.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

The State Theatre in Washington, Iowa, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest continuously operating movie theater, first screened films on May 14, 1897. #OnThisDay

May 13, 1776: “God only knows when we shall set foot again on Terra Firma,” writes a Tory who has been on one of Lord Dunmore’s ships off Virginia for 5 months. “Independence is publickly declared throughout the Colonies, and nothing but force will settle the unhappy dispute.”

A deep dive into Trump’s obsession with an arch and the reflecting pool. Tl;dr it’s not just about ego. Whether he knows it or not, his changes are/will erase the monuments to America’s progress www.salon.com/2026/05/07/t...

Did Eddie say that Van Heflin acted according to a MATHEMATICAL FORMULA? Yes folks, the Delsarte System journeys.dartmouth.edu/fdelsarte/te... ^PG #TCMParty #NoirAlley #StrangeLoveofMarthaIvers

Sadly, there will be no one riding to their rescue. The Soviet army on the outskirts of the city stopped allowing the Nazis to regroup and defeat the Polish home army (and thus ensuring the pro-Soviet faction would control post-war Poland) #TCMParty #Kanał en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_...

Do where did that money go?

In memory of BOTD George Orson Welles, his noir masterpiece…

#ComingUpOnTCM I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison Dir.: Jacques Tourneur 2:30 PM PT A nurse who is hired to care for the wife for a Caribbean sugar baron resorts to voodoo to cure her. 1h 9m | Horror | TV-PG #TCM #TCMParty

This is a story that I put in my highest five S&S, I think it is an undersung masterpiece. So happy to see this kind of engagement with it.

Just arrived today. Beautiful words from @lordsteerpike.bsky.social

May 4, 1926: The Stinson Aircraft Co. is incorporated in Detroit to manufacture some of the first planes with enclosed cabins. In its first week the company founded by aviator Edward Stinson receives orders for eight SB-1 planes, which form the basis for Northwest Airlines.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

It would be 20 more years before the Americans would get Detroit

Currently painting: American War of Independence (British) Regulars

Slightly diminish a book: The Empire Sends a Strongly -Worded Email

Slightly diminish a book: Bi-monthly club of the Ring

On May 2, 1844, pioneering mechanical engineer & inventor Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, ON, Canada. Best known for creating an automatic lubricating oil cup in 1872 after he settled in the Detroit area, McCoy went on to earn 50+ patents. Learn more: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

Enter the razorwire garden with my collection of 21 deadly poems… a.co/d/0cZIHf4U

The best film noir? Certainly one of the best. I love it

Why, Timothy!

‘General Washington made one salient pledge to the gathered audience that day. “When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen,” he said’

April 17, 1776: The Main Ridge Forest Reserve on the British island possession of Tobago in the Caribbean is made a protected crown land on the urging of Parliament member Soame Jenyns. The chain of hills is the oldest legally protected rain forest in the Americas.

16 APRIL 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “Public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics,” John Adams writes to Mercy Otis Warren: founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...

April 14, 1776: Slaves at a Virginia plantation make one of the largest mass escapes of the Revolutionary War. Eighty-seven men, women and children—the entire enslaved Black population at the Willoughby property in Norfolk County—flee to the protection of the British. 1/7

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Opening lines from #FilmNoir LAURA (1944)... "I shall never forget the weekend Laura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection. I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York". ~ Waldo Lydecker

Stream both seasons for free: pluto.tv/on-demand/se...

Waiting impatiently for the Pope to excommunicate Vance 🙏

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Another 80s anti-war classic from 1st Wave…

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

1st Wave this morning… #Iran #WarWhatIsItGoodFor

What’s in the box!!! #TcmParty #ABucketofBlood

For those who might be spending time with conservative relatives this weekend, a quote you may find helpful: Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword. Matthew 26:52

Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand at the premiere of Molly O' (1921)

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Hello from Hollywood 1958

Yes

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Watching the new doc on Thoreau on PBS. I’m left with a few thoughts Namely, that not addressing his class and education privilege to wander off and have insufferable grad student-esque musings is a glaring oversight And that Jeff Goldblum narrating anything is a joy

Science fiction writer Shigeru Kayama, who wrote an initial treatment for the original 1954 Godzilla, writing in the introduction to his novelization of the film, in case anyone still has thoughts about art being political.

Der deutsche Spielfilm „Der blaue Engel" unter der Regie von Josef von Sternberg mit Marlene Dietrich in der Hauptrolle wird 1930 in Berlin uraufgeführt. Das Drehbuch stammt von Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Gustav Vollmoeller, Robert Liebmann nach dem Roman Professor Unrat von Heinrich Mann 

Human remains found in a church in the Netherlands could be those of d'Artagnan, one of the legendary French swordsmen who inspired the novel The Three Musketeers. n.pr/47xN0dL

Pope Leo XIV rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.