I find it easy to imagine what that time might have been like, and I would like to be able to step into it for a day or two, knowing what I know now, and also having stuff like medication and whatever else. But I feel like I could fit in and it would be interesting.
If you haven't seen "Boardwalk Empire" yet, stop whatever you're doing and watch it start to finish. Bootlegging/crime noir set in 1920s Atlantic City. Total music p0rn, clothing p0rn, car p0rn, Jersey geography, top-tier acting from the entire cast, the gross yet hot Steve Buscemi, and Richard Harrow.
Melies was originally a stage magician. When he saw the filmed "realites" of the inventors of projected film, the Lumiere Brothers, in Paris, he realized that film could be used as a medium of artistic expession, and began to use his illusionist's creativity to produce wildly fantastical films as a response to the Lumieres' rather strict realism. So it was that two schools of cinema, realism and expressionism began to form. Eventually when the French Pavillion at the Cotton States Exposition World's Fair in Atlanta became the first place in the US to show projected film, as opposed to Edison's nickelodeons, American story tellers began to combine elements of the two French styles to create the American narrative style.
Yahoo news said a tornado hit "southern Michigan" last night but didn't say where in southern Michigan. So I Duck Duck Go'd it. The Detroit New Press is behind a paywall,, so it the Detroit New and MILive. I finally did find a free link that mentioned Three Rivers, which is in the Southwest corner of the Wolverine State. It's hard to keep up with the news when all the news sites won't tell you the news.
HuffPost: "Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, on Tuesday said Russia had denied sharing intelligence with Iran. Reports have suggested that Russia, which has long maintained friendly relations with Tehran, has given information to Iran that could help the regime locate American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region as it launches counterattacks.
But in a CNBC interview, Witkoff said Russia's denial came during a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. “Yesterday on the call with the president, the Russians said that they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said.
“So, you know, we can take them at their word,” Witkoff added.
On Monday, Trump said he attacked Iran because Witkoff, among others, said Iran was “going to attack us.”"
HuffPost: Another Statue Of Trump And Epstein Appears On National Mall — This Time Inspired By 'Titanic'
"The group known as The Secret Handshake is back at it. On Tuesday morning, a 12-foot statue of President Donald Trump gently holding Jeffrey Epstein à la the star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose from the film "Titanic" was erected near the U.S. Capitol and will be on display, according to the group, for several days. And in a nod to the Justice Department's heavy hand redacting the Epstein files, the statue is also flanked by 10 foot banners depicting a photo of Epstein and Trump with a logo made to look like the Department of State logo — except the "State" part is redacted.
In a statement Tuesday, the group said they are flying the banners because it's been a "banner year for President Trump." "Meaning, he's added giant banners of his face to federal buildings all across D.C. We want to help him on his mission by tossing a few of our own into the mix," the group said."
'Trump says the Iran war is pretty much “very complete,” but Pete Hegseth says it’s just getting started. Which is it? Yes, says Dementia Hitler. Yes.' It's very completely war and it's not over yet. Hope that helps.
HuffPo: "House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday declined to condemn Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) for declaring “Muslims don’t belong in American society.” Asked about Ogles’ offensive remarks, Johnson said only that the "demand to push Sharia law in America is a serious problem," and the "language that people use is different language than I would use,” according to reporter Patrick Svitek."
Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee. Get a load of this mook. Get a fucking haircut, weirdo.
Holee fuck, only made it through the first bit of that WaPo editorial, but, maaaan, LIGHTEN UP FRANCIS.
I could do a whole goddamn thing about modern society and hyper-individualism and the corporate pressures to commodify every moment of our lives and every square inch of space is what's been driving this bullshit, in addition to an insistence on individual transportation as opposed to mass transit, but what the fuck do I know? Nope, it's COFFEE ORDERS THAT ARE MORE COMPLICATED. Jesus. Feel ashamed the deli clerk is taking three extra seconds on your breakfast roll because YOU have to have salt, pepper, AND KETCHUP, you selfish bastard!
On the other hand, we appear to be in the Last Days, so there's that.
Captain Bone Spurs will soon board one of the world's largest oil tankers in the Persian Gulf of America and have the crew make ready to sail to the Straits of Hormuz with a bazillion barrels of oil en route to...China? Captain Bone Spurs will show the world what real guts look like.
But first, an inspection tour, in a golf cart, to review the crew. Captain Bone Spurs insists on clean and pressed uniforms, perfect posture and whip-crack salutes. He is also looking for any wily jihadist saboteurs who might have smuggled bombs on board Captain Bone Spurs' boat. Captain Bone Spurs knows he can spot that kind of terrorist based on skin hue.
Once the boat clears the terminal Captain Bone Spurs will get messages from his US Navy escort that 16 different drones and missiles have been spotted flying towards Captain Bone Spurs oil tanker. Captain Bone Spurs fires the helmsman, dresses up as a woman and immediately gets on a life boat and gets the fuck out of there as six missiles get through the escort barrage and slam into the oil tanker.
Captain Bone Spurs declares flawless victory and then contacts the insurance carrier to make a claim on the policy Captain Bone Spurs bought the day before the oil tanker sailed.
a little late to the show today. lord, that wapo coffee story was 10 minutes of my life i won't get back. and some of the commenters were taking it seriously, or analyzing and/or improving it.
That WaPo editorial about coffee drinks isn't entirely wrong, but it's like pointing at the burning Cuyohoga River in 1969 and arguing the problem is all the people urinating and defecating into it from its banks.
Captain's Log Entry, 3/9/2026: There are no words to describe the despair of the crew in the face of our becalming in a relentless sea of staggering, monumental stupidity flowing from the headless chickenhawk think tank of Brian Kilmeade and Donald Trump.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/gugusse-vs-the-robot
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/8084d8a3-5ffe-4dcd-82e5-837dee894624?utm_source=share
So the first robot movie has a robot turning on its maker. That tracks.
The very first mention of the word 'robot' is in a play that features a robot uprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
I absolutely love old silent pictures. They make me feel so wistful, somehow.
I feel that way about 1920s jazz.
Me TOO!
I find it easy to imagine what that time might have been like, and I would like to be able to step into it for a day or two, knowing what I know now, and also having stuff like medication and whatever else. But I feel like I could fit in and it would be interesting.
If you haven't seen "Boardwalk Empire" yet, stop whatever you're doing and watch it start to finish. Bootlegging/crime noir set in 1920s Atlantic City. Total music p0rn, clothing p0rn, car p0rn, Jersey geography, top-tier acting from the entire cast, the gross yet hot Steve Buscemi, and Richard Harrow.
I'm not sure what to do with that but give me a minute.
Ben Kingsley plays Meilies in the 2011 film Hugo, and automatons are featured in that.
Can we substitute some of our politicians for the hammer down?
Melies was originally a stage magician. When he saw the filmed "realites" of the inventors of projected film, the Lumiere Brothers, in Paris, he realized that film could be used as a medium of artistic expession, and began to use his illusionist's creativity to produce wildly fantastical films as a response to the Lumieres' rather strict realism. So it was that two schools of cinema, realism and expressionism began to form. Eventually when the French Pavillion at the Cotton States Exposition World's Fair in Atlanta became the first place in the US to show projected film, as opposed to Edison's nickelodeons, American story tellers began to combine elements of the two French styles to create the American narrative style.
Those early Jack-In-The-Box restaurants were WEIRD......
and of course, then as now, the first thing men do with an automaton is try to get "romantic" with them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlGDNoliH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czRsltWGhw0
Heh, you’ve reminded me of a paper I ran across while researching robots through the ages: https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Automata-artificial-bodies-and-reproductive-futurisms/9983776892402771
great! I forwarded it to a friend who studies "robotic anthropology" in Seoul
Patayta. patata
Wow! Fascinating, thanks Martini!
Beautiful bit of work by Melies, and hooray for the family that donated it and the Smithsonian for restoring it!
Yes, ISWYDT!
Big mallets. That's the only thing these clowns understand.
Oh, you thought that was a noncomment about the tabs gif, did you?
If only Méliès were still here to be able to beat the shit out of AI, and then on all of the tech bros trying to foist it on us.
Jack’s off. 👀
LOL
🤔
Yahoo news said a tornado hit "southern Michigan" last night but didn't say where in southern Michigan. So I Duck Duck Go'd it. The Detroit New Press is behind a paywall,, so it the Detroit New and MILive. I finally did find a free link that mentioned Three Rivers, which is in the Southwest corner of the Wolverine State. It's hard to keep up with the news when all the news sites won't tell you the news.
Jesus, when the corruption is so blatant The Washington fucking EXAMINER is calling you out, you know shit’s gotten baaaaaaad.
HuffPost: "Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, on Tuesday said Russia had denied sharing intelligence with Iran. Reports have suggested that Russia, which has long maintained friendly relations with Tehran, has given information to Iran that could help the regime locate American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region as it launches counterattacks.
But in a CNBC interview, Witkoff said Russia's denial came during a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. “Yesterday on the call with the president, the Russians said that they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said.
“So, you know, we can take them at their word,” Witkoff added.
On Monday, Trump said he attacked Iran because Witkoff, among others, said Iran was “going to attack us.”"
There needs to be a remake of "Twins" starring Carol Kane and Cyndi Lauper.
That is all.
HuffPost: Another Statue Of Trump And Epstein Appears On National Mall — This Time Inspired By 'Titanic'
"The group known as The Secret Handshake is back at it. On Tuesday morning, a 12-foot statue of President Donald Trump gently holding Jeffrey Epstein à la the star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose from the film "Titanic" was erected near the U.S. Capitol and will be on display, according to the group, for several days. And in a nod to the Justice Department's heavy hand redacting the Epstein files, the statue is also flanked by 10 foot banners depicting a photo of Epstein and Trump with a logo made to look like the Department of State logo — except the "State" part is redacted.
In a statement Tuesday, the group said they are flying the banners because it's been a "banner year for President Trump." "Meaning, he's added giant banners of his face to federal buildings all across D.C. We want to help him on his mission by tossing a few of our own into the mix," the group said."
'Trump says the Iran war is pretty much “very complete,” but Pete Hegseth says it’s just getting started. Which is it? Yes, says Dementia Hitler. Yes.' It's very completely war and it's not over yet. Hope that helps.
HuffPo: "House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday declined to condemn Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) for declaring “Muslims don’t belong in American society.” Asked about Ogles’ offensive remarks, Johnson said only that the "demand to push Sharia law in America is a serious problem," and the "language that people use is different language than I would use,” according to reporter Patrick Svitek."
Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee. Get a load of this mook. Get a fucking haircut, weirdo.
Woke to a skiff of snow on the ground. It will be gone b y the time I finish my coffee, but WINTER!
Holee fuck, only made it through the first bit of that WaPo editorial, but, maaaan, LIGHTEN UP FRANCIS.
I could do a whole goddamn thing about modern society and hyper-individualism and the corporate pressures to commodify every moment of our lives and every square inch of space is what's been driving this bullshit, in addition to an insistence on individual transportation as opposed to mass transit, but what the fuck do I know? Nope, it's COFFEE ORDERS THAT ARE MORE COMPLICATED. Jesus. Feel ashamed the deli clerk is taking three extra seconds on your breakfast roll because YOU have to have salt, pepper, AND KETCHUP, you selfish bastard!
On the other hand, we appear to be in the Last Days, so there's that.
"Excuse me, but why the fuck did you just take a massive shit in my living room, in front of me and my entire family?"
"I just don't know enough about it."
Captain Bone Spurs will soon board one of the world's largest oil tankers in the Persian Gulf of America and have the crew make ready to sail to the Straits of Hormuz with a bazillion barrels of oil en route to...China? Captain Bone Spurs will show the world what real guts look like.
But first, an inspection tour, in a golf cart, to review the crew. Captain Bone Spurs insists on clean and pressed uniforms, perfect posture and whip-crack salutes. He is also looking for any wily jihadist saboteurs who might have smuggled bombs on board Captain Bone Spurs' boat. Captain Bone Spurs knows he can spot that kind of terrorist based on skin hue.
Once the boat clears the terminal Captain Bone Spurs will get messages from his US Navy escort that 16 different drones and missiles have been spotted flying towards Captain Bone Spurs oil tanker. Captain Bone Spurs fires the helmsman, dresses up as a woman and immediately gets on a life boat and gets the fuck out of there as six missiles get through the escort barrage and slam into the oil tanker.
Captain Bone Spurs declares flawless victory and then contacts the insurance carrier to make a claim on the policy Captain Bone Spurs bought the day before the oil tanker sailed.
a little late to the show today. lord, that wapo coffee story was 10 minutes of my life i won't get back. and some of the commenters were taking it seriously, or analyzing and/or improving it.
JFC.
Tuesday's Tab's with Toast and Coffee ☕💯👍
That WaPo editorial about coffee drinks isn't entirely wrong, but it's like pointing at the burning Cuyohoga River in 1969 and arguing the problem is all the people urinating and defecating into it from its banks.
Captain's Log Entry, 3/9/2026: There are no words to describe the despair of the crew in the face of our becalming in a relentless sea of staggering, monumental stupidity flowing from the headless chickenhawk think tank of Brian Kilmeade and Donald Trump.