A Shroud of Thoughts: In a Lonely Place (1950) at 75 mercurie.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-l...

The Comey case is shaping up to be another legal face-plant for Team Trump. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

In particular, the history of journalism is written by ... journalists.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Ive seen this so many times and only now do I realize that Ed Randolph is The Devil. #MagnificentObsession #TCMParty

That kid's such a champ. #MagnificentObsession #TCMParty

The Magnificent Monkey's Paw. #MagnificentObsession #TCMParty

Veteran viewer. Jane's hair never stops being horrifying. Lord. #MagnificentObsession #TCMParty

Here for some 1950s Sirkian weirdness. #MagnificentObsession #TCMParty

This lineup Sirk-enly Rocks! #TCMParty

Your gym teacher and your English teacher are getting married.

"You must be your own health care advocate. Thank LBJ for Medicare, because it allowed me to go to Mayo Clinic when a private insurance policy would not. ... Everyone deserves Medicare. We can afford it." www.stormlake.com/stories/cryo...

The sky had a nearly IR look this morning. 📷 Fujifilm X-T5 | Fujinon XF 18-35 F2.8 #Photography

Gordon Lightfoot, BOTD in 1938. This one hits me deeply, like a lot of Gord's songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xbR...

Jeff Bridges is a fan of the ingenious Widelux F8 panoramic film camera. He would take panos during film productions then print them in books that he would give to cast and crew members as souvenirs of the shoots. #TCMParty silvergrainclassics.com/en/widelux/w...

John Turturro is a god. 😂 #TheBigLebowski #TCMParty

The Dude remains friends and bowling partners with Walter no matter what. That's unconditional love. #TheBigLebowski #TCMParty

Diana Krall, BOTD in 1964.

my partner still laughs at me because this is what I always thought the song said as well; it makes more sense! They have to sleep SOMETIME! Little me had it right!

PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C. The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end. “We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.” current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

Yaphet Kotto, BOTD in 1939. #TCMParty

Every day the felon spends attacking Republicans is a good day.

Some fun with lady Belted Kingfisher today. I found a good spot for them. Thinking about actually dragging a tripod with me next time out. 🪶

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

Veronica Lake sets sail, 1941. #botd

Current mood

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

TIL that a baby puffin is called a “puffling”.

florence pew: thread

When multiple supernova explosions and stellar winds combine, you get something super! Below is a raku vase inspired by the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, where smoke, flame, and drifting starlight meet on clay. #space #astronomy #pottery

Went record hounding today and found a couple of things from my wish list. 📷 Fujifilm X-E2 | Fujinon 50mm F2 #Photography

I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.

Ida Lupino in "The Light That Failed."

they are sending their very best people, I'll give them that much

Since federal immigration agents ramped up operations in Chicago communities, residents are supporting their neighbors. In Albany Park, a group of mothers and educators recognized the need for help and initiated what they call the walking school bus. https://to.wttw.com/4pvyOIP

#TIL that, in 1947, Admiral Grace Hopper was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University when a moth was discovered stuck in a relay. "First actual case of a bug being found," was subsequently written in the log book 🦋

Talk about a still photo that absolutely makes me want to see a movie!!

Jamie Lee Curtis and Elizabeth Taylor 💞

Morning walk. A local park just re-opened with a fancy new paved trail around the lake. 📷 Fujifilm X-T5 | Viltrox 27mm F1.2 #Photography #SOOC

The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.

The most corrupt administration in U.S. history.

Happy “Birthday” to one of Ansel’s most storied images and creative breakthroughs—‘Monolith, The Face of Half Dome’—photographed on April 10, 1927. Ansel was just 25 years old. (Courtesy of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All rights reserved.)

Kathleen Hughes, BOTD in 1928. She was the *other* actress in It Came From Outer Space (1953) and played Henry Blake's wife, Lorraine, in the M*A*S*H episode "Dear Dad ... Three". #TCMParty m.imdb.com/title/tt0638...

Distopian London City in the fog #photography #photo

IU is no longer a real university and that is very sad.

I am nerding out so badly to this! 😂📽️ #TheInventionOfCinemaCinemaFindsItsVoice #TCMParty

Nice day for biking, stopped for a refreshment. 🚲