R.J. Jeffreys

Writer, Poet, Essayist, Editor, Copywriter, Graphic Artist, Radio Talk Show Host, Producer, etc., etc., etc... Don't drive angry. Why so serious?

[R.J. Jeffreys @WriteStep]

I think we could all use a little less of a serious day, today…

[R.J. Jeffreys @WriteStep]

Harpo Marx: A beautiful spirit, exceptional comedic actor, and exquisite musician.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Harpo Marx performs Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2—a delightful mix of brilliance and charm!

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

The precious bit of film shows of Stan Laurel visiting his father, Arthur Jefferson, during the 1932 visit to England by Laurel and Hardy. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

The sunset from Winthrop tonight was incredible...

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[Malwarebytes @Malwarebytes]

Not every crypto heist starts with a hack. Sometimes it starts with a copycat website.

A fake BlueWallet download page is targeting Mac users with malware that can steal credentials, wallets, and even swap copied wallet addresses.

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[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Thank you for extraordinary reporting extraordinary stories and we will see you soon somewhere else

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

Thx for the mention, Robert. 🙏

To read the full article in VIE Magazine visit:

https://t.co/2Z70ZENcDW

[Blackmagic Design @Blackmagic_News]

Blackmagic Camera 10.2 Update! Adds phase detect autofocus and support for Blackmagic Cloud stream routing to Blackmagic PYXIS 6K. Download now from https://t.co/A0FjDhbW63

[Patricia Cornwell @1pcornwell]

When taking a spin with @dan_aykroyd he always shows up in something fun. 👻❤️

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

And another paint job on William Paquet’s ⁦@PaqWilly⁩ Dorian Gray but Corben style colors.

[Ronnie Wood @ronniewood]

Remembering my Gemini twin @charlieboywatts on his 85th birthday today. Here we are getting some help from Keith blowing out the candles of our birthday cake on the Urban Jungle tour!

[Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @RodSerlingFndtn]

For tickets and more information: https://t.co/RXygzmccK0

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961.

The Blue Danube.

[R.J. Jeffreys @WriteStep]

Congrats, Julian!

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

Back in stock—My ‘because…’ EP vinyls with signed inserts by Moi are available exclusively from @TalkShopLive …

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[R.J. Jeffreys @WriteStep]

Congrats, Lee!

[Lee Goldberg: also at bsky.app/profile/leegoldberg @LeeGoldberg]

OUT TODAY! MURDER BY DESIGN by Lee Goldberg
“Hilarious and thought-provoking... Goldberg balances the humor and drama to perfection. The second book in this series cannot come fast enough.” —FirstClue
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[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

本のページをめくる様子をイメージして作られた噴水

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[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

The beloved Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy being interviewed in Hull, England in 1947.... and unable to resist a gag... Are you a fan of the boys?

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Bob Hope performed within mortar range every Christmas for twenty-three years. The man America dismissed as a harmless joke-teller voluntarily saw more front-line combat than most generals.

Christmas Day, 1967. Long Binh base, South Vietnam. Hope was mid-punchline when the first rocket hit the perimeter. The explosion shook the stage. Soldiers in the front rows dropped flat. Military police moved toward Hope's position. Protocol was clear. Evacuate the performer. Get him to a bunker.

Hope did not move. He waited for the noise to stop, looked at the audience, and said, "If they're going to shoot, at least they'll get the best audience in the world." The soldiers laughed. He continued the show.

He had been doing this since 1941. That first audience was a few hundred servicemen at March Field in California, months before Pearl Harbor. Hope told jokes. The men laughed. He looked at their faces and understood something no agent or studio executive had ever told him: these men needed to laugh more than any civilian audience ever would.

By 1943, he was performing in North Africa. By 1944, he was in the South Pacific. By 1950, Korea. By 1964, Vietnam. He went where the war went. He flew on military transports. He slept on cots. He ate what the soldiers ate. He performed on aircraft carriers, jungle clearings, hospital wards, and forward operating bases close enough to the fighting that his crew could hear small arms fire during the shows.

He brought women. That was deliberate. Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Jayne Mansfield. Hope understood that a woman in a sequined dress standing on a plywood stage in the middle of a war zone was the closest thing to home most of those soldiers would see for months. The laughter when the women appeared was different from the laughter at his jokes. It was relief.

The military never ordered him to go. No contract required it. He funded portions of the trips himself. He turned down holiday specials, family Christmases, and network money every December for twenty-three consecutive years because he had decided that Christmas belonged to the soldiers.

At his final USO show in 1990, after the Persian Gulf deployment began, he was eighty-seven years old. A reporter asked why he kept going. Hope said he didn't have a complicated answer.

"I looked at them, they laughed at me, and it was love at first sight."

He performed for over eleven million servicemen and women across four wars. Nobody asked him to. He went anyway. Every Christmas. For twenty-three years.

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

First pass- washes and highlights coming… @ACROjapan

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Group performs Beethoven’s symphony No.5 a cappella

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