It's one of the few shows of that era that really does hold up well. We've tried watching some 'Streets of San Francisco' and 'Ironsides' episodes and boy were they much hokier than we remembered.
The devotion to lovingly photographing cars in that era looks kind of odd now. I'm not a huge Spielberg fan, but it is amazing to see that he directed the premiere episode of Columbo when he was 25 years old.
One of my favorite quotes about Lecter is from Red Dragon: "They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago trying to find out where he buried a Princeton student,” Graham said. “He gave them a recipe for dip."
I've seen those movies and read the books several times more than once. Truth to be told I became a bit obsessed with this film and serial killers in general. I went on a book binge regarding these homicidal psychopaths, reading both fiction and non-fiction tomes on the topic.
It is damned disturbing to contemplate just how close you might be to someone capable of committing such horrific crimes.
Thomas Harris is a terrific writer, his characters live and breathe. The thing that made his killers terrifying, to me, was their complete obsession with achieving the object of their desires.
I'm really, almost laughably, easily scared by even kind of mundane movies. However, I have seen Silence of the Lambs a TON, because when it came out it was playing at the twin screen where the guy I liked worked (the other movie was The Doors) so my friend and I would go to one or the other whenever he was working, which I'm sure made him think I was a little weird.
i'm the same way - but also want to know every damn thing that happens in them. i've been THOROUGHLY enjoying 'ruined' on crooked media (for sure beats reading the wiki plot summary).
Ohhhh, man! That always sucks. I really hope you were still able to get some R&R anyway. I'm doing well, just wanted to know that you were missed. 😊 Good thing tomorrow's Friday, whoo hoo!
Oh really? It's nice to know someone's looking for me (aside from the assholes who KNEW I WAS OUT OF STATE and decided that's when they'd have to call me at all hours!)
We saw it when it was in theaters and people were screaming during the scene when Clarice is wandering around the killer's house in the dark and he was wearing night vision goggles. He'd reach out and almost touch her.
When I used to go to pantomimes we would always yell “He’s behind you” when the bad guy was stalking the good guy while the gg was asking us where the bg was.
The guy in the blue shirt and shades off Walz's left shoulder (See! I used the apostrophe correctly!) looks like someone would look behind Chump who was 100% sure he was getting paid.
Love that Tim on Fire clip! It's pretty stunning to realize that the Washington Post published this just two months ago today –
Donors pledge $2 million for ‘mini-primary’ if Biden drops out: A Democratic donor says he and others are seeking presidential debates among potential nominees if President Biden decides to step aside. https://wapo.st/3ZdHOrT
Also, today I am avidly reading a story in the Daily Mail. Strange days.
“Jennifer and Jason Reinoehl, the parents of five children who lived in the Mishawaka-based district, claimed the state’s requirement to teach evolution in high school classes violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “
Notice it says their children “lived” in the district not they were attending school in the district.
These jokers, Jennifer and Jason Reinoehl, claimed that "major portions of evolutionary theory ... have been scientifically disproven". In dismissing the case, the judge showed admirable restraint in not stating that while most modern humans are the result of an evolutionary process, the Reinoehls slipped through the cracks.
What major portions? Because most of the bits of evolution that I am aware have changed in the last few decades have been discoveries around things like epigenetics. Turns out junk DNA is not so junk; it's how our bodies react to environmental factors across generations, and a lot of that DNA is just getting turned on and off based on conditions in the womb.
Is it weird that I think it's cute (as in awwe, the cute puppy) the way the wind is blowing the fluff atop Tim's head about? Love his speech too, of course.
Speaking of fluff, glad to see Hilton & Kardashian doing something more important than simply acting like fluff-brained professional beauties.
OT: for those of you with netflix who are wondering "WTF is this movie called Aloha with lots of faces I know, that came out 9 years ago, and is just showing up in my netflix feed, and I had never heard of, and why?"
It is a Bradley Cooper is grumpy and has a bad attitude but turns nicer romcom-ish movie with evil tech billionaires and sketchy government contractors and Hawaiian politics and traditions but mostly almost all white people on screen, including Emma Stone who is supposed to be a quarter Native Hawaiian. In the movie, she explains her mom has Swedish ancestry, and her dad is half Hawaiian and half Chinese. Sandra Oh made a joke about her at the Oscars in the way backs about an Asian lead like Scarlett Johansson. The landscape is pretty.
I watched it because I was too sick in bed to even read Wonkette (so sick!) and had already watched "Set it Up" and "Anyone But You" so the algorithm was pushing "Aloha." Bradley Cooper has to do a lot of lifting to come across as redeemable, for me, but Glenn Powell starts out half-decent even at his most assholeiest and then improves, so, listen algorithm, find a different nice-looking lead dude. Bradley Cooper isn't it.
Not sick now, so I'm back to pounding my keyboard mad at real evil tech billionaire company stooges requesting different information on my latest design than they have requested for all prior designs. Do you think my design review approvals would come faster or possibly not at all not at all if I add a four letter word sentiment at the end of the message about a certain sesame street puppet? F your boss and the emerald mine he rode in on. Approve my design already.
LOL! That anti-evolution couple. Really? Ridding the entire IN education department because you don’t believe? Oh honey. Let me introduce you to the entire world of differing work views and religions. It’s gonna blow your minds!
in the clip tiedrich had of ted cruz--somebody ought to tell cruz that he put on a boys' size suit jacket and it looks like crap. or did he intend to wear something with sleeves halfway up his arm?
Funny how I never see an ad against a trans man/boy playing football. Also funny-how a biological female who punched another biological female is labeled trans. Hilarious.
"Tucker Carlson’s favorite new historian: The Holocaust was an accident, and the villain of WWII was Winston Churchill. Oh Tucker Carlson, you actual Nazi I mean you scamp." Yep, building those work camps/death camps--oops...
IF you need some cheering up, I suggest you go out and take a look at the hundreds of empty seats available for purchase to see Tucker Carlson's "speaking" tour. It gives me delight to tell you that places like Kansas City, MO and Colorado Springs (home of Focus on the Family, so right of Atilla the Hun) and have almost as many empty seats as they do sold tickets. He speaks tonight in Anaheim, and entire sections are still for sale.
Your hed gif source info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/sightings-of-the-lampoons?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
And a meme chat too! https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/de7853a9-e66a-4b95-91d3-56ecaea35e38?utm_source=share
Johnathon Demme directed a Columbo episode. Near the end the murderer tries to off Columbo. Nice and creepy, just like SOTL.
Columbo is still worth a watch after all these years, if only for the spectacular guest casts!
It's one of the few shows of that era that really does hold up well. We've tried watching some 'Streets of San Francisco' and 'Ironsides' episodes and boy were they much hokier than we remembered.
The devotion to lovingly photographing cars in that era looks kind of odd now. I'm not a huge Spielberg fan, but it is amazing to see that he directed the premiere episode of Columbo when he was 25 years old.
One of my favorite quotes about Lecter is from Red Dragon: "They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago trying to find out where he buried a Princeton student,” Graham said. “He gave them a recipe for dip."
With chianti?
There may have been fava beans involved.
Lol...the most Hannibal Lecter thing ever.
Love your suit.
'Tini, your gif today really lives up to the "vile nasty snark mob" reputation of this here mommy blog and recipe hub. Fine job, ma'am. Damn fine job.
"I can smell your both-sidesism."
“Though you try sooo hard to hide it, I can hear your West Virginia accent. Daddy was a small-town newspaper editor?”
"Alllll the way to the New...York...Times."
Given the headline, I'm kinda surprised it wasn't David Mitchell "Are we the baddies?" Might've been too on the nose, though.
"C:loser...closer..."
This one is so brilliant, not that they all aren't. It's morning hours, thanks for not getting Miggs involved.
Have the monkeys stopped screaming yet, Antonia? 🐒🐒🐒
I've seen those movies and read the books several times more than once. Truth to be told I became a bit obsessed with this film and serial killers in general. I went on a book binge regarding these homicidal psychopaths, reading both fiction and non-fiction tomes on the topic.
It is damned disturbing to contemplate just how close you might be to someone capable of committing such horrific crimes.
I like Serge Storms from Tim Dorsey. Florida bizzarity.
Thomas Harris is a terrific writer, his characters live and breathe. The thing that made his killers terrifying, to me, was their complete obsession with achieving the object of their desires.
I'm really, almost laughably, easily scared by even kind of mundane movies. However, I have seen Silence of the Lambs a TON, because when it came out it was playing at the twin screen where the guy I liked worked (the other movie was The Doors) so my friend and I would go to one or the other whenever he was working, which I'm sure made him think I was a little weird.
i'm the same way - but also want to know every damn thing that happens in them. i've been THOROUGHLY enjoying 'ruined' on crooked media (for sure beats reading the wiki plot summary).
Babe!!! I was just thinking about you, how the hell are you??
I'm fine, honey--how are you?
I foolishly thought I could go on a nice week-long vacation last week, but work kept calling me and so I'm still feeling a little edgy.
Ohhhh, man! That always sucks. I really hope you were still able to get some R&R anyway. I'm doing well, just wanted to know that you were missed. 😊 Good thing tomorrow's Friday, whoo hoo!
AMEN!
Yes, the General Public was asking for you all over last night. :)
Oh really? It's nice to know someone's looking for me (aside from the assholes who KNEW I WAS OUT OF STATE and decided that's when they'd have to call me at all hours!)
Y'all are very nice to me!
Ha. I did mention that you had sneaked in a comment or two a few days ago. Jeez, had we known, we woulda called you at 3am,
When Clarice turns the corner and looks into the cell I half expect to see a Rally Monkey
I like the hed gif.
I don't think I've seen that whole movie. It was just too creepy.
We saw it when it was in theaters and people were screaming during the scene when Clarice is wandering around the killer's house in the dark and he was wearing night vision goggles. He'd reach out and almost touch her.
My favorite part of any movie is when people in the audience start shouting advice to characters.
When I used to go to pantomimes we would always yell “He’s behind you” when the bad guy was stalking the good guy while the gg was asking us where the bg was.
"I love what you've done with the place! It's almost like spelunking."
That's some mighty fine spelunking boys, mighty fine.
"Your friend Donald sent me"
SNERT!
https://substack.com/@tehbaddr/note/c-39919481
As is Christmas tradition in our house, whenever Rudolph's doe friend makes her first appearance I have to say "Hello, Clarice."
Great GIF!
Niall Ferguson, who is usually on the wrong side, just CAN'T with Tucker and Cooper:
https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-history-and-anti-history
The guy in the blue shirt and shades off Walz's left shoulder (See! I used the apostrophe correctly!) looks like someone would look behind Chump who was 100% sure he was getting paid.
I always suspected there was more to Paris Hilton than meets the eye, but I didn’t know she got sent away to a “troubled teen” establishment.
Love that Tim on Fire clip! It's pretty stunning to realize that the Washington Post published this just two months ago today –
Donors pledge $2 million for ‘mini-primary’ if Biden drops out: A Democratic donor says he and others are seeking presidential debates among potential nominees if President Biden decides to step aside. https://wapo.st/3ZdHOrT
Also, today I am avidly reading a story in the Daily Mail. Strange days.
“Jennifer and Jason Reinoehl, the parents of five children who lived in the Mishawaka-based district, claimed the state’s requirement to teach evolution in high school classes violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “
Notice it says their children “lived” in the district not they were attending school in the district.
I wonder why that is?🤔
These jokers, Jennifer and Jason Reinoehl, claimed that "major portions of evolutionary theory ... have been scientifically disproven". In dismissing the case, the judge showed admirable restraint in not stating that while most modern humans are the result of an evolutionary process, the Reinoehls slipped through the cracks.
What major portions? Because most of the bits of evolution that I am aware have changed in the last few decades have been discoveries around things like epigenetics. Turns out junk DNA is not so junk; it's how our bodies react to environmental factors across generations, and a lot of that DNA is just getting turned on and off based on conditions in the womb.
Is it weird that I think it's cute (as in awwe, the cute puppy) the way the wind is blowing the fluff atop Tim's head about? Love his speech too, of course.
Speaking of fluff, glad to see Hilton & Kardashian doing something more important than simply acting like fluff-brained professional beauties.
Fuck Hamas & Netanyahu both.
Who were the real villains in WWII? Obviously, the Belgians. The Sprouts. The Phlegms. The Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards.
OT: for those of you with netflix who are wondering "WTF is this movie called Aloha with lots of faces I know, that came out 9 years ago, and is just showing up in my netflix feed, and I had never heard of, and why?"
It is a Bradley Cooper is grumpy and has a bad attitude but turns nicer romcom-ish movie with evil tech billionaires and sketchy government contractors and Hawaiian politics and traditions but mostly almost all white people on screen, including Emma Stone who is supposed to be a quarter Native Hawaiian. In the movie, she explains her mom has Swedish ancestry, and her dad is half Hawaiian and half Chinese. Sandra Oh made a joke about her at the Oscars in the way backs about an Asian lead like Scarlett Johansson. The landscape is pretty.
I watched it because I was too sick in bed to even read Wonkette (so sick!) and had already watched "Set it Up" and "Anyone But You" so the algorithm was pushing "Aloha." Bradley Cooper has to do a lot of lifting to come across as redeemable, for me, but Glenn Powell starts out half-decent even at his most assholeiest and then improves, so, listen algorithm, find a different nice-looking lead dude. Bradley Cooper isn't it.
Not sick now, so I'm back to pounding my keyboard mad at real evil tech billionaire company stooges requesting different information on my latest design than they have requested for all prior designs. Do you think my design review approvals would come faster or possibly not at all not at all if I add a four letter word sentiment at the end of the message about a certain sesame street puppet? F your boss and the emerald mine he rode in on. Approve my design already.
LOL! That anti-evolution couple. Really? Ridding the entire IN education department because you don’t believe? Oh honey. Let me introduce you to the entire world of differing work views and religions. It’s gonna blow your minds!
in the clip tiedrich had of ted cruz--somebody ought to tell cruz that he put on a boys' size suit jacket and it looks like crap. or did he intend to wear something with sleeves halfway up his arm?
Funny how I never see an ad against a trans man/boy playing football. Also funny-how a biological female who punched another biological female is labeled trans. Hilarious.
"Tucker Carlson’s favorite new historian: The Holocaust was an accident, and the villain of WWII was Winston Churchill. Oh Tucker Carlson, you actual Nazi I mean you scamp." Yep, building those work camps/death camps--oops...
I *have* seen a lot of targeted hate for actual women playing football, though, specifically women kickers on college teams.
If a trans man is able to get on a college team, even as a walk on, I say more power to him.
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u6e_4RVgq0
And they still haven't taken a shower.
IF you need some cheering up, I suggest you go out and take a look at the hundreds of empty seats available for purchase to see Tucker Carlson's "speaking" tour. It gives me delight to tell you that places like Kansas City, MO and Colorado Springs (home of Focus on the Family, so right of Atilla the Hun) and have almost as many empty seats as they do sold tickets. He speaks tonight in Anaheim, and entire sections are still for sale.