RonEhmke

Writer, performer, media artist, etc. For everything else I do, visit Pronouns: We/Us/Y’all.

[RonEhmke @RonEhmke]

HBD PTA

[Jacob T. Swinney @jacobtswinney]

Today is Paul Thomas Anderson’s birthday 🎂

Here is an SNL sketch he directed back in 2000 starring Ben Affleck, Jimmy Fallon, and Molly Shannon 📹

[Jacob T. Swinney @jacobtswinney]

Today is Paul Thomas Anderson’s birthday 🎂

Here is an SNL sketch he directed back in 2000 starring Ben Affleck, Jimmy Fallon, and Molly Shannon 📹

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Robert Altman explains the reason why 'Nashville' (1975) wasn't a big commercial success:

"Interviewer: 'Nashville' never became the commercial blockbuster that you and many pro-Altman critics anticipated. Why?

Altman: I can only think it's because we didn't have King Kong or a shark. I don't mean to take anything away from 'Jaws' (1975), but Nashville was not a one-focus thing like that. Also, maybe there was too much critical response; the word masterpiece frightens people away. It's still been more profitable for me personally than any film I've ever made; it's grossed about $8,000,000 and may go to $10,000,000. I think Buffalo Bill is going to be easier for audiences than Nashville, because it doesn't pose a threat: The indictment is in history, so we can always put that blame somewhere else. Nashville's indictment made too many people nervous. The whole community of 'Nashville' disowned it; the country music people said it was no good, it was a lie; and that kept a lot of those fans away.

Interviewer: Wasn't the specific charge they leveled against you that the music was phony, wouldn't pass muster at the Grand Ole Opry?

Altman: This crap about a Nashville sound is mainly a matter of opinion. I wasn't making records, goddamn it, I was making a movie. Take any song in there, I can point out a current hit or failure that's better and worse-musically, lyrically and every other way. The main reason for that criticism was that they saw the names of actors, not professional songwriters, on the songs; and Richard Baskin, who did all the arrangements, was not a country-and-western guy. It's my contention that anybody can write a song. The Nashville people have to claim they're more professional; otherwise, how are they going to justify the $1,000,000 a year they make?"

(Robert Altman's interview to Playboy, 1976)

P.S: On this day, 51 years ago, "Nashville" premiered in New York City, USA.

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

Making new friends as an introvert is hard because the people I’d probably get along with best are at home avoiding people too

[doctor idk @bigmonkeong]

the man who shot the man who shot liberty valance

[Cool Hand Luke @joffer8079]

@HQNewsNow

[DylanRevisited @DylanRevisited]

When Jacques Levy bumped into Bob Dylan on a Greenwich Village street, he did not expect that his evening would conclude with co-writing a classic.

Having started out drinking at The Other End, the pair retired to Levy’s home and together created the epic tale of Isis. 🧵

[Ray Padgett @rayfp]

Elvis Costello on dueting with Bob Dylan:

“As we came off the stage, he said, ‘You sing loud. We should do a record of Johnnie & Jack songs.’ I walked away with his manager and I said, ‘That's never going to happen, right?’”

(from the new issue of Mojo)

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Cloris Leachman's final scene in "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was filmed without any rehearsal. She wanted to rehearse the scene but Peter Bogdanovich was against the idea as he thought that it would ruin the scene.

Bogdanovich was so happy with the first take, he said to her, "Cut, print, you just won the Oscar.’

Leachman replied, ‘I can do it better.’

Then Bogdanovich said, ‘No, you can’t.’

Bogdanovich felt that way since the scene was so fresh and she was shaking. He knew she couldn’t possibly do it better. She could hardly breathe after filming the scene.

He was proved right when she won the Oscar for her performance.

P.S: Remembering Cloris Leachman on her 100th birthday!

("Remembering Cloris Leachman, an Oscar- and Emmy-Winning Actor of Stunning Range", Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 2021 & IMDb)

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I'm watching Pete Hegseth testify and anyone who does so with an open mind, will readily see that he is a caricature. He has delusions that he is starring in an action movie.
He is arrogant and ignorant. His narrative never has any depth. He speaks as if what's good and what's right are not even complex subjects, or debates borne of perspective.
He loves American Exceptionalism but believes that it's only defined by musculature and pomposity. He couldn't care less for us being a shining example for others, or a force for a greater good. He couldn't care less for sharing strategy or being accountable.
He creates lasting disdain for America on a global level like few others ever have and make no mistake - this disdain will permeate for generations.
He doesn't present arguments. He doesn't share justifications. He doesn't care for transparency, and the only thing he cares less for than that, is humanity.
As a behaviorist, I can feel the things he's been accused of - like alcoholism and misogyny and reckless sharing of info - underlying his attitude and every utterance, and you can feel how unapologetic he is for any of it.
He is a brazen politician serving an audience of one.
He is a Made for TV concoction, and a vacuous mishmash of hormones and neurotransmitters.
That he's running the US Defense Dept. is incredibly dangerous and disturbing.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

In 1991, Patrick Stewart danced and sang on the USS Enterprise-D bridge as a birthday surprise for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The clip wasn’t meant to be public but later appeared as a DVD bonus feature.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Top music artists ranked by record sales, streams, and global popularity (1969-2025)

[🎞️ mochicharts]

[RonEhmke @RonEhmke]

🤫 Absolute double peak Imagine energy overload! This comment on an ad for AI generated video was almost certainly generated by AI itself. Pure bedtime gold—it’s mastering the lingo of human talking with chef’s kiss perfection. Hit me again next time!

[Oracle 🪔☠️ @wf_oracle]

@MattDabit @grok 😂 Absolute peak Imagine energy! That crossed-eyed cutlery knight jousting the Great Wall under fireworks is pure bedtime gold. Your wife's prompts are chef's kiss – she's mastering the absurdity. Hit me with her next wild one, I'm ready for the chaos sequel! 🚀

[RonEhmke @RonEhmke]

#Soakinginthe70s

[Dr. Jebra Faushay @JebraFaushay]

April 10, 1976 on American Bandstand, history was made when John Travolta showed up in a turtleneck and gold chain to sing a song you probably don’t remember.

[𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖓 🇺🇲 @GermanicFren]

Hallo Leute, ich glaube, ich werde mir heute ein neues Buch kaufen😄

[RonEhmke @RonEhmke]

@BunniiFangz @MChronologer @oldtoons_ Which will almost certainly happen. I heard an interviewer ask John Lithgow what roles he thinks he’ll be remembered for, and he said probably none, because the shelf life of almost any actor/star’s work is about 20-30 years at best. I’ve seen this play out over my own 65 years.

[RonEhmke @RonEhmke]

Math is hard.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

IN 45 DAYS, YOU WILL SEE HALLEY’S COMET.

Not with a telescope.
Not through a screen.
With your eyes, from your backyard.

Halley’s Comet returns every 76 years.
It was last visible in 1986.
It will swing through the inner solar system again in May.
And this time, it will be an easy naked-eye object.

Right now, it is a faint smudge even in telescopes.
But as it falls toward the Sun, it will brighten.
The coma will grow. The tail will stretch.
By mid-May, it will be as bright as the brightest stars.

You will find it low in the western sky after sunset.
A fuzzy star that does not twinkle.
A star that moves noticeably night after night.

Edmond Halley predicted this exact return in 1705.
He saw the same comet three times in his life.
You will see it once.
Maybe twice, if you live long enough.

Start checking the western horizon in early May.
The comet will be waiting.

Are you going to watch for it?

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Treat this as today’s essential clip because it is so on point it should be pinned bookmarked and returned to as the months and years pass.

If this cancer is not removed, it’s game over and that is not hyperbole.

My thanks to Soprano Big Sister for her essential contribution to the conversation.

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