This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, Iβm not getting what I wantβIβm not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, βI know you werenβt happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldnβt have gone home if I had felt we werenβt getting it.β And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, βYou find it difficult to be happy, donβt you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.β And I said, βWell, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.β He talked to me then about when he was making, I donβt know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, βI didnβt enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.β And then he said, βYou know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, youβll have hours of happiness.β
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
idea: a Venture Bros game where you play as Brock Samson, and its basically the same overall setup as Yakuza. Big serious "world is in danger" main plotline full of intrigue and drama, but tons of subquests where you're forced into absurdly silly scenarios
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
AGENT ASHCROFT? WELL HOW THE HELL ARE YOU? UMBRELLA? GOOD IDEA, YOU NEVER KNOW WITH THIS WEATHER.
Panels from Comrade Girls Shoot the Enemy of Serafima holding a rifle and speaking directly to the camera that say "CHECK IT OUT NOW FUNK SOUL BROTHER"
extremely powerful stuff being written in our time
Re9 comic Grace and Leon on opposites site of a gate Leon: Don't worry, you'll be fine Leon: You know how to suplex a guy, right? Grace: umm... no... Leon: oh... but you can parry a chainsaw, yeah? Grace: what?! no!!! Leon, walking away concerned: "oh... well, good luck anyway" Grace looks very sad and pathetic
smh what are they teaching kids these days? π #re9
this made me cackle all the way through
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how youβre not a slaver.
It's too late America, we've been depicted as the stammering white news guy and him as the doctrinemaxxing Chadister
the US has already lost in iran, their only hope was iran collapsing in a day or two, and it didn't, so now their only options are to declare victory & slink away or try to put boots on the ground & lose way harder
Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
this gif transcends sports and time, race and creed. every single human being has been here.
For years we said theyβre going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to βstop being so dramatic.β
Now weβre at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.
Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?
folks weβre going to see some wild litigation between the worldβs worst people
I hope you arenβt drunk and took your staffβs advice, Rashida and I donβt know this man and feel confident he didnβt care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,
uhhh oh my god
the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default
βI am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarketβ is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompsonβs ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
deleted scene from Revenge of the Sith where Anakin uses his tablet communicator to place a parlay on "Number of younglings killed tonight: >100" and "Mustafar mining efficiency wk/wk: <50%" while walking to the Jedi Temple.
This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.
But since she asked,
"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."
www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...
I had forgotten how The Simpsons put the extra effort in to flip this joke. Rather than just satirizing US nationalist parochialism, Homer is (momentarily) an expert on Iranian politics.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.