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#i feel the need #the need for mead

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One of my favorite shorts from this period.

Sing Bing Sing 1933

#sing bing sing #bing crosby #short subjects #short film #movie musical

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, DeForest Kelley guest stars in "No Amnesty for Death," episode 25 of the third season of Bat Masterson (original air date March 30, 1961).

Kelley plays one of three men who are about to be hanged for their participation in the Lincoln County War when Bat Masterson arrives with a last-minute pardon, to the horror of the local sheriff, whose sons were killed in the conflict. As soon as the prisoners are released, they immediately rob a stagecoach and Kelley kills the driver. Masterson helps track them down, but instead of arresting them the sheriff starts a gunfight in which he and Kelley are both killed. Another perfectly good saloon floor ruined.

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #bat masterson #1960s tv #tv sci fi #tv western #deforest kelley #r.g. armstrong #james anderson #billy wells #gene barry

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reblog to give the person you reblogged it from a good night’s sleep (maybe)(please)(I’m begging the universe)

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Denis Patrick being a handsome weasel in an episode of A Man Called Shenandoah (1965).

#dennis patrick #scruffy boy #a man called shenandoah #1960s tv #jeanne cooper

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In his head he was already pulling the solar panels off the White House roof.

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

#us politics #republican party

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“The Queen lowered her voice. ‘You will not be killed,’ she whispered. ‘I promise you that. You’ll be left alive, to dribble and gibber and soil yourself and wander from door to door for scraps. And they’ll say: there goes the mad old woman.’ ‘They say that now,’ said Granny Weatherwax. ‘They think I can’t hear.’ ‘But inside,’ said the Queen, ignoring this, ‘inside I’ll keep just a part of you which looks out through your eyes and knows what you’ve become. ‘And there will be none to help,’ said the Queen. She was closer now, her eyes pinpoints of hatred. ‘No charity for the mad old woman. You’ll see what you have to eat to stay alive. And we’ll be with you all the time inside your head, just to remind you. You could have been the great one, there was so much you could have done. And inside you’ll know it, and you’ll plead all the dark night long for the silence of the elves.’ The Queen wasn’t expecting it. Granny Weatherwax’s hand shot out, pieces of rope falling away from it, and slapped her across the face. ‘You threaten me with that?’ she said. ‘Me? Who am becoming old?’ The elf woman’s hand rose slowly to the livid mark across her cheek. The elves raised their bows, waiting for an order. ‘Go back,’ said Granny. ‘You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don’t die can’t live. What don’t live can’t change. What don’t change can’t learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You’re right. I’m older. You’ve lived longer than me but I’m older than you. And better’n you. And, madam, that ain’t hard.’”

— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (via fuckyeahdiomedes)

#terry pratchett #granny weatherwax #lords and ladies #discworld

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Happy birthday to my Dad's doppelganger. Your movies have helped me work out a lot of stuff over the years.

#jack nicholson

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You can’t unionize autoworkers in the South, they said.

Well, whoever “they” are, they were wrong. Because, on Friday, 73 percent of Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to become the first non-union auto plant to unionize in decades, and the first foreign-owned auto plant to unionize in the South, period.

This happened despite a union-busting campaign so fierce that even governors in the South got on board, sending out a letter last week warning workers not to organize, telling them that “The experience in our states is when employees have a direct relationship with their employers, that makes for a more positive working environment.”

Clearly, the employees didn’t think so.

Via UAW:

“This election is big,” said Kelcey Smith, a worker in the paint department at Volkswagen. “People in high places told us good things can’t happen here in Chattanooga. They told us this isn’t the time to stand up, this isn’t the place. But we did stand up and we won. This is the time; this is the place. Southern workers are ready to stand up and win a better life.”   “We saw the big contract that UAW workers won at the Big Three and that got everybody talking,” said Zachary Costello, a trainer in VW’s proficiency room. “You see the pay, the benefits, the rights UAW members have on the job, and you see how that would change your life. That’s why we voted overwhelmingly for the union. Once people see the difference a union makes, there’s no way to stop them.”   “This is a movement for every blue-collar worker in America,” said Doug Snyder, a body worker at Volkswagen. “Our vote shows that workers everywhere want a better life on and off the job. Fair pay is important, but so is time with our families. So is a voice for safety in our plant. We’re looking forward to getting to the bargaining table with the company and winning a contract that makes things right at Volkswagen.” 

#labor #us labor #labor relations #labor unions

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The Terre Haute Tribune, Indiana, March 28, 1952

#steve

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Just out of frame: Hawks, hounds, and a fallow doe.

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Just a little reminder that no, you cannot "tell" if that person you saw get an accommodation for disability "really needs it" or not, even if it was your business, which it almost certainly wasn't.

#disability #pet peeve

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Vincent Price as Frederick Loren

The House On Haunted Hill (1959) dir. William Castle

#vincent price #house on haunted hill #1950s movies #william castle

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I am utterly charmed that she misspells "fledgling," crosses it out, and then misspells it in a completely different way.

Rules - you cannot make a flegling for whom you don't take responsibility. You must guide & train your fledgling. He runs amok? You pay for it.

Yes, you can breed as to speak. But you must nourish your offspring.

Anyone who sells the blood is anathema. Anyone who gives the blood by force is anathema. (to the ignorant or the unwilling)

Which means what?

They are proscribed. Rather like Sulla's list in ancient Rome. You break the rules & you're fair game.

Which implies of course some penalty for hurting blood drinkers who are not fair game.

hey I've got an idea! let's rule like Sulla!

(Anne Rice - Tulane Special Collections - Prince Lestat era.)

#anne rice

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the collinsport sartorial society, social club, and murder consortium.

a present for @devilagent ! based on the original ponyo comic by @millionfish.

#dark shadows #fan art

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When I came across this photo, at first glance I thought it was from “Laura” starring Gene Tierney. Then I realized the actress was Joan Bennett!

The photo is from “The Woman in the Window” (1944). Bennett costarred with Edward G. Robinson in a complicated plot involving accidental murders and the attempts to cover them up. Only to discover at the end, it was all a dream!

#noir meets gothic #the woman in the window #laura #joan bennett #gene tierney #portraits

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Jonathan Frakes guest stars in "Mrs. Daisy Hogg," episode 1 of the fourth season of The Dukes of Hazzard (original air date November 22, 1978).

Frakes plays Boss Hogg's nephew from Atlanta, who comes to town to run a counterfeiting ring out of the family grits mill. (This show was basically a live action cartoon; you gotta just roll with it.) He and Daisy Duke fall in love and become engaged despite the longstanding feud between the Dukes and Hoggs, but it's all over when he gets caught and sent off to the Federal hoosegow. The Malibu Ken hairstyle is really working for him here.

Other Trek Connections: Stunts!

Paul Baxley, the second unit director of this episode, was also a legendary stunt performer (and patriarch of a stunt family that's performing to this day) who worked on many episodes of Star Trek. He was William Shatner's primary stunt double, frequently worked as stunt coordinator, and played a bunch of small or background roles involved in action or stunt sequences. The first part he played outside of doubling was the knight who kills Dr. McCoy in "Shore Leave."

Two uncredited stunt performers also have Star Trek connections. Ted Barba did stunts on several episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and Henry Kingi played one of the Native American colonists in the Next Generation episode "Journey's End."

I just had to share these two bonus shots. "GRITS: HANDLE WITH CARE" is giving me life right now, and I love the backwoods version of the M*A*S*H signpost.

#star trek #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #the dukes of hazzard #1960s tv #1970s tv #1980s tv #1990s tv #tv sci fi #tv crime drama #jonathan frakes #sorrell booke #catherine bach #paul baxley #ted barba #henry kingi #roger robinson