#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 13. Favorite low-budget noir I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) Made by Monogram Pictures, one of the "Poverty Row" studios archive.org/details/i-wo...

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 12. Sexiest noir Gilda (1946) Read more on the tangled relationships between the characters in this article. montagesmagazine.com/2024/11/im-n... 2/2

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 12. Sexiest noir Gilda (1946) Rita Hayworth is the epitome of femme fatale in a film loaded with sexual tension, between Gilda and Johnny (Glenn Ford), and Johnny and Ballin (George Macready). Several film scholars cite the homo-eroticism angle. 1/2

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember 11. Favorite bar scene or cocktail DOA (1950) Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) is slipped a Mickey at a San Francisco dive and jive bar. He learns that he has been incurably poisoned and has just days to live. reelsf.com/doa-fisherma...

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social @wahrhaftig.bsky.social 10. Favorite Gloria Grahame film Tie: In a Lonely Place (1950) as Laurel Gray and The Big Heat (1953) as Debby Marsh

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social @wahrhaftig.bsky.social 9. Favorite Dan Duryea film Black Angel (1946) as Martin Blair

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social The Smithereens hit song, In a Lonely Place (1986), used this line as the refrain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJl... 2/2

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social 8. Favorite line: “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, In a Lonely Place (1950) 1/2

Talk about being willing to give EVERYTHING to your country!

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social 7. Best dream sequence Spellbound. Two minutes of the dream sequence appear in the final film, but according to Ingrid Bergman, the original had been twenty minutes long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPe...

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 6. Coolest character Philip Raven, a contract killer played by Alan Ladd, who has a soft spot for cats.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 5. Film noir I'd show someone who's never seen one

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 4. Film ahead of its time

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 3. The film that made me a fan (first one I remember seeing)

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social I'm just now catching up! 1. Favorite opening scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmI... 2. Favorite character introduction www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5D-...

The GOP spent months "investigating" an autopen, calling it a threat to democracy itself, surely they could spend some time looking into a POTUS pardoning someone he says he doesn't know that just happened to make his sons $2B in crypto profits? Is this democracy working? I can't hear a thing.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

Mike Don’t Know

CALIFORNIA: “Contra Costa County to declare local emergency, issue grocery debit cards during SNAP freeze” www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco... - CBS News Bay Area #BayArea #California #ContraCostaCounty #EastBay #Martinez #SNAP

Cheers

Neomedievalist memes are doing white Christofascist work religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...

Pickled Pete couldn't even fly a paper airplane.

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Billionaires and corporations with business in front of the Trump administration are coughing up millions to build Trump's BALLROOM. What are these companies getting in return? I'm pushing for answers.

Oh wow

No one is OK right now. At least, no one with working empathy and a knowledge of History who’s paying attention. It is an emotional impossibility to be living in days like the ones we’re in and to be fully unaffected. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...

If you haven't hear this yet, it's sharp & stirring. She says she's looking down from above, speaking directly to every one of us. "Don't love hope. Don't give up."

You can feel the bloodlust in every cinematic scene. The full-metal gear. The racing cars. The roar of the Black Hawks. The drawn guns aimed at their targets. Doors blasted open. The residents zip-tied and put into vans. The performative humiliation. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Liquidity #Caturday

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

I can't think of a better example of an elite *choosing* to look away from the depravity of his garbage-bag leader.

Today is Octidi the 18th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate buckthorn.#JacobinDay More information on buckthorn

Today is Septidi the 17th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate teasel.#JacobinDay More information on teasel

You're either on the side of Epstein, Maxwell, and Donald Trump, along with lies, cover-ups, sex traffickers, and abusers. OR You back survivors, truth, accountability, and WANT TO RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES. This isn't hard. It's one or the other. You cannot be both.

The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate lemons.#JacobinDay More information on lemons

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

So fed up with Republicans and their sick firearm fetish and their useless, performative prayers after each mass shooting they facilitated.

Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.

When children are killed in school, Republicans make gun ownership *easier*. When disease kills and gives major long-term sequelae, Trump limits and even plans to ban vaccines. This is a culling.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!

If the gun is a water gun, you are 9 years old and your neighbor laughs in your face before giving you instructions

Great news!!! Thanks, Norm, for all that you and your associates do to get us back on track.

Me reading the news every day

Erasing history never turns out well!