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A former pixel-pusher living comfortably at the event horizon of irony

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Milton, Homer, and Borges walk into a bar. Milton says, “Zooterkins! Whence thither is brought this bar?”

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"We don’t use AI in any of our design or production processes. Here’s why." https://t.co/YRvQEITSLo

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Achievement Unlocked!

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@HGACinema No reflection on Raymond Massey, but it's too bad they couldn't get Karloff as Jonathan for the movie.

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@ATRightMovies Seconds (1966)

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One of the most visually inventive films ever made

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This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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@HGACinema ...and that's Thurl Ravenscroft as Stewpot's singing voice.

FWIW, Bloody Mary's daughter, Liat, is played by a very young France Nuyen, whom I first encountered when she played Elaan of Troyius, opposite Shatner's Capt. Kirk, in the eponymous 3rd season episode of Star Trek.

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@NewYorker Yep.

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This design, which I first rolled out in 2017, is what I'll be wearing on a t-shirt tomorrow (printed from a higher-rez source). If there's even a scintilla of interest, I suppose I could bring this back for public consumption (at a very reasonable price).

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@DannyDrinksWine You're only off by six years; the premiere was in 1960.

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Happy birthday to national treasure Mel Brooks, who turns 100 today.

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@DannyDrinksWine I can't say enough good things about this movie, but I tried: https://t.co/2UDIMkYZQL

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@Noirchick1 FWIW, the painter is RADA graduate Reginald Gardiner, who worked prolifically for three decades in Hollywood.

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First-world problem: I really do hate shopping, especially for clothes. When I find something at the right price, I usually can't find it in my size, or the color is wrong.

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Got my $300 Oxford wingtips for $89.95, and they look great.

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...especially with the new suit.

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It's that time again. 🇮🇪 ☘️

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@yesterdaysprint I've been meaning to find a way to spend astral dollars.

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#WinterSolstice2025 in the northern hemisphere: Sunday, December 21, at 10:03 AM EST (3:03 PM UTC),