I am in the midst of a MASH rewatch and I have discovered something peculiar: Douglas is very angry with Alan Alda. He roars and charges the screen.

My soup vision realized! I air fried the chicken with lots of spices, cooked up a tasty broth with aromatics and added in mustard, turnip and collard greens along with broccoli. I thickened the broth with milk and cornstarch and added in the chicken

I had his name muted. You're telling me that Tate clown got beaten down too? I don't like boxing but if they keep this up, I will need to reassess.

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

Stay tuned for next week! We are closing out the year with a review of something Swedish

Okay, I have a vision for dinner: Spicy chicken lasagna soup with broccoli and kale

I love a new meme format

There are six or ten discourses going down at this moment that are all basically the third rail and I decline

This week's review covers THE TRAGIC ERROR (1913), a French melodrama about a man who sees his wife with another man in the background of a movie. With evidence of adultery, he quickly moves onto the murder. Stars René Navarre, the original Fantômas moviessilently.com/2025/12/21/t...

I do have one question: When did AI art decide we all have red noses? Is there a specific style or artist this was lifted from? I have seen some humans use it (I don't like it myself, makes everyone look like an alcoholic) but with AI, it's everywhere.

Based on one of multiple versions of a Pushkin poem, the 1910 film RUSALKA tells the tale of a prince who seduces and abandons a miller's daughter. She throws herself into the river and is reborn as a water nymph, then drowns him on his wedding day and uses his corpse as underwater decor.

One of the central tenets of AI artists is that their refining prompts makes them equal (or even superior) to any artist, analog or digital. They are so, so close to a breakthrough but they always U-turn just in time to avoid it.

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

That's what gets me too: Is AI an instant miracle genie that will replace millions of jobs because it grants every wish in the blink of an eye or is it a tool with a big learning curve that we can't tackle effectively unless we start now?

It looks like you're trying to make a point about the early 20th century, need some help?

Charlie Chaplin chooses the wrong seat to nap in during a variety performance in A NIGHT IN THE SHOW

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

(Pops head up) You don't have to hand it to Woodrow Wilson because horrible people hate him for the wrong reasons. You can just hate him for the right reasons.

Based on one of multiple versions of a Pushkin poem, the 1910 film RUSALKA tells the tale of a prince who seduces and abandons a miller's daughter. She throws herself into the river and is reborn as a water nymph, then drowns him on his wedding day and uses his corpse as underwater decor.

Louvre Bandits: Do you take requests?

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Ah for the good old days when movies entertained and weren’t politica—

So UK priority #1 is Bovril because it is illegal in the USA

I detest boxing but golly gee that was good

Douglas wonders if perhaps you could spare a morsel for a starving little man

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We will be taking a look at a film all about adultery caught on camera... pre-WWI!

Continuing the watercolor marathon with a little folk art shed

Enid Bennett terrorizes the high seas in STRANGERS OF THE NIGHT

I got past the riskiest period playing the Little Drummer Boy game (I am trying to avoid hearing it in any form) as hotel lobbies and coffee shops are highly risky. I also entered the belly of the beast when I popped into Michaels but I am still in the game!

Enid Bennett terrorizes the high seas in STRANGERS OF THE NIGHT

Dress for the job you want

Oh hai, if you’re a new follower, I think it’s only fair to warn you about the jello

Added to our holiday lineup! 📽️🎼🌫️ Spend NYE watching THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) in 35mm + live score by composer Cliff Retallick. Don’t miss this extraordinarily rich, innovative silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies)! 12/31 LF3: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

Flashback to the common garden pest who ate half my cucumbers this year 🌱

Seeing people use my arguments to take down BIRTH OF A NATION apologists

Kill time at a bookstore, I said I’m just window shopping, I said

Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers. Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

A bit of a gloomy wreath using Kuratake’s graphite colors

Enjoy a Dutch release of a French stencil-colored actuality shot in Spain youtu.be/nVCzGDk568g

I obtained some Irish Moss, so my vegan jelly tests will expand. I love agar agar but not everyone does, so let’s expand our horizons!

Psst Hey Wanna see my jellies?

George Beranger played such great weird freaks that I was not able to accept him as a romantic lead. I want him to be psychotic or at least odd, darn it!

Throwback coconut strawberry jelly mold flex

(What will Sherlock and Elementary fans do when they find out I roll my eyes at both shows? 😜)

Scandinavian free hotel breakfast is still supreme but I will say that California hotel breakfast has countered with tree-fresh oranges and Tapatio packets. More on this as it develops

So some whiny dude is trying to co-opt the Lost Generation, a term coined to describe a generation processing the unprecedented trauma of the First World War, to describe white dudes who might have to compete with women and:or minorities for a job and don’t like it?

Bromangelon is to Jello what Hydrox is to Oreo… it’s all in the name!

Doodling avocados in colored pencil because I am a walking California stereotype