Wise buncha birds!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Completely irresponsible waxwing birds 🐦🐦🐦 tend to eat fermented fruit and then lie drunk on the sidewalks.Wise passers-by collect them and put them in a safe place until they sober up. pic.twitter.com/jff6nuv2nw— State of Poland 🇵🇱 (@StateOfPoland) January 9, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
Yikes
https://variety.com/2023/film/global/jfk-assassination-viggo-mortensen-shia-labeouf-david-mamet-1235612087/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 00:19 (eleven months ago) link
What am I reading.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 04:06 (eleven months ago) link
deranged movie. makes a good counterpart piece to oppenheimer
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Monday, 24 July 2023 12:38 (nine months ago) link
Please don't make me watch it
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 July 2023 13:06 (nine months ago) link
Just a quiet chat between gentlemen.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 July 2023 13:42 (nine months ago) link
The most audacious film to be produced by a Hollywood studio in the last 50 years. Robertson’s cinematography is astounding, as is the editing.
Producer/financier/former Israeli weapons smuggler Arnon Milchan is currently knee-deep in Netanyahu’s corruption trial. I remember once boarding an airplane, probably not too long after this film came out, and noticed a man in the first row who was flanked by two Dobermans he had purchased the adjoining seats for. My father leaned over and told me it was Milchan
― beamish13, Monday, 24 July 2023 14:44 (nine months ago) link
We're going back into the case. The murder of the President.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jfk-assassination-witness-breaks-silence-142858952.html
The Warren Commission decided that one of the bullets fired that day struck the president from behind, exited from the front of his throat and continued on to hit Connally, somehow managing to injure his back, chest, wrist and thigh. It seemed incredible that a single bullet could do all that, so skeptics called it the magic bullet theory.Investigators came to that conclusion partly because the bullet was found on a stretcher believed to have held Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital, so they assumed it had exited his body during efforts to save his life. But Landis, who was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, said that is not what happened.In fact, he said, he was the one who found the bullet — and he found it not in the hospital near Connally but in the presidential limousine lodged in the back of the seat behind where Kennedy was sitting.When he spotted the bullet after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he said he grabbed it to thwart souvenir hunters. Then, for reasons that still seem fuzzy even to him, he said he entered the hospital and placed it next to Kennedy on the president’s stretcher, assuming it could somehow help doctors figure out what happened. At some point, he now guesses, the stretchers must have been pushed together, and the bullet was shaken from one to another.“There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me,” Landis said. “All the agents that were there were focused on the president.” A crowd was gathering. “This was all going on so quickly. And I was just afraid that — it was a piece of evidence, that I realized right away. Very important. And I didn’t want it to disappear or get lost. So it was, ‘Paul, you’ve got to make a decision,’ and I grabbed it.’”Landis theorizes that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back but for some reason was undercharged and did not penetrate deeply, therefore popping back out before the president’s body was removed from the limousine.
Investigators came to that conclusion partly because the bullet was found on a stretcher believed to have held Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital, so they assumed it had exited his body during efforts to save his life. But Landis, who was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, said that is not what happened.
In fact, he said, he was the one who found the bullet — and he found it not in the hospital near Connally but in the presidential limousine lodged in the back of the seat behind where Kennedy was sitting.
When he spotted the bullet after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he said he grabbed it to thwart souvenir hunters. Then, for reasons that still seem fuzzy even to him, he said he entered the hospital and placed it next to Kennedy on the president’s stretcher, assuming it could somehow help doctors figure out what happened. At some point, he now guesses, the stretchers must have been pushed together, and the bullet was shaken from one to another.
“There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me,” Landis said. “All the agents that were there were focused on the president.” A crowd was gathering. “This was all going on so quickly. And I was just afraid that — it was a piece of evidence, that I realized right away. Very important. And I didn’t want it to disappear or get lost. So it was, ‘Paul, you’ve got to make a decision,’ and I grabbed it.’”
Landis theorizes that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back but for some reason was undercharged and did not penetrate deeply, therefore popping back out before the president’s body was removed from the limousine.
― omar little, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:08 (seven months ago) link
~deep exhale, pinches bridge of nose~see that’s the thing with this whole bag of cats now: the explanations are always somehow even dumber than the crackpot theories
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 September 2023 00:24 (seven months ago) link
Stop eatin' that crab meat, VegGrrl, and listen!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 September 2023 00:24 (seven months ago) link
"it's my belief that the bullet was already embedded in the backseat of the car when Kennedy got in, and when he sat back it was pushed into him. i heard him say ow, what's that?"
― omar little, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:25 (seven months ago) link
dammit liz i've been sleepin for three sixty years!
― omar little, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:35 (seven months ago) link
lmao
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 September 2023 00:38 (seven months ago) link
I'm in my 40's, so I'll have shuffled off this mortal coil by then. But I'm telling my eight-year-old son to keep himself physically fit, so that one glorious September morning, in 2023...
― omar little, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:40 (seven months ago) link
never in the history of warfare has there been a bullet this ridiculous!
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 11 September 2023 00:44 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5YOiaBq3KI
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 01:52 (seven months ago) link
(2m 37s in that clip)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 01:53 (seven months ago) link
Coming soon to 4K UHD from Shout Select JFK (1991) 4K UHD #4KUltraHD #4K #Bluray #PhysicalMedia #Movie #Movies #Film #Cinema #FilmTwitter #JFK #KevinCostner pic.twitter.com/TuWhdNh4i4— Dawn of The Discs (@dawnofthediscs) October 2, 2023
― peanut filibuster parfait (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2023 18:11 (seven months ago) link
According to the site:RUN-TIME205 / 188 minSo here’s hoping we are getting the theatrical version in 4K
― peanut filibuster parfait (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2023 18:14 (seven months ago) link
Camelot in smithereens!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 October 2023 19:27 (seven months ago) link
I don't think John Williams is given enough credit for this film's score. It's traditional American epic by way of Morricone's score for The Thing. It really gives a sinister, eerie undercurrent to so many of the scenes. It's off-kilter, and elsewhere when he engages in some patriotic marching band motifs, it morphs into a horror score (like the opening assassination scene.)
― omar little, Sunday, 29 October 2023 16:56 (six months ago) link
Fuck yeah!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 October 2023 17:15 (six months ago) link
i missed the 4K announcement somehow. Lord, wake me. I must be dreaming.
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:39 (five months ago) link
Unfortunately, that set's theatrical release is only BR, not 4K, but honestly, that's still better than I'd hoped for given Stone's preference for the idiotic director's cut.
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:31 (five months ago) link
I haven't seen this film since it came out. I've gone down the Dave Emory rabbit hole, I feel like I should rewatch this and also watch JFK Revisited.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:38 (five months ago) link
the director's cut really is pointless, all of the additional conspiracy backstory stuff feels so blatantly extraneous, and i actually think unlike a lot of DCs where there's gold mixed in with runtime padding, there's absolutely zero added value to the film from any of it.
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 21:44 (five months ago) link
I dunno.
We got back from touring a distillery this afternoon and I was in the office restroom, standing in the common space buckling my belt, stifling the urge to go, "Mr. Garrison! Mr. Garrison! I have something for you!"
― pplains, Thursday, 9 November 2023 03:26 (five months ago) link
Like the directors cut, your encounter could’ve been a half hour shorter
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 November 2023 03:33 (five months ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/friend-secret-cia-agent-think-190000508.html
this theory is LIT
― omar little, Monday, 20 November 2023 16:51 (five months ago) link
^^ the woman who's the subject of that book would be fascinating regardless of any connections to the JFK assassination, but her admission that she was in Dallas that day and flew out immediately after the assassination is hugely implicating!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 20 November 2023 18:54 (five months ago) link
holy shit! yeah i love this one jerrie cobb is legit incredible even without this, can confirm(also any fans of For All Mankind tv show she was the basis for Molly Cobb’s character)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 November 2023 19:01 (five months ago) link
babushka lady all set to fly oswald INTO SPACE
^^my take
― mark s, Monday, 20 November 2023 19:38 (five months ago) link
The Texas theater (theater they arrested Oswald) has an absolutely amazing itinerary for JFK assassination 60th anniversary. pic.twitter.com/LDmCwV2sCj— pugmane 🦃 🐾 🐛 🥫 (@pugmane) November 19, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 November 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link
I think the only way to read the warren report is a hallucinatory late-night session
Her book even builds a convincing case for Jerrie being a CIA agent with the cryptonym QJWIN, whose role was to recruit killers for an assassination squad that originally targeted Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba.She is anxious to point out, though, that hers is not a “case closed” type of book, saying: “Books that claim to have those answers are probably not as credible as books that present the evidence and let people decide.”
She is anxious to point out, though, that hers is not a “case closed” type of book, saying: “Books that claim to have those answers are probably not as credible as books that present the evidence and let people decide.”
I have decided this is insane, but amazing.
― omar little, Monday, 20 November 2023 20:09 (five months ago) link
Babushka Lady sort of fucked up really, getting caught on camera dressed up all like a CIA op in a tan trench coat, calmly stood on the grassy knoll - while all other bystanders had hit the deck!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:24 (five months ago) link
I was thinking about all this shit yesterday as I finally finished off The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:28 (five months ago) link
one of the best books table has recommended
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:58 (five months ago) link
I hope you like squab!
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:29 (five months ago) link
How was your mousse?
― omar little, Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:49 (five months ago) link
“Frankie!”
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 November 2023 04:05 (five months ago) link
don’t you— don’t you think THIS has something to do with THAT?
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 November 2023 07:57 (five months ago) link
i promise [grits teeth] i'll make more time for jasper
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 November 2023 10:45 (five months ago) link
My life is fucked, Liz! And yours is, too!
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 November 2023 10:51 (five months ago) link
in fact, i admired president kennedy. a man of true panache. wife with impeccable taste. [brief cut to liz at ruined brunch]
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 November 2023 10:56 (five months ago) link
Christopher Wallace 🐊@Wallace_Chris12DeSantis is our generations JFKHe’s
- A family man- Faithful to his wife - Young gun who brings energy to the party
I see no reason why we shouldn’t nominate DeSantis
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Currently rated helpful7h·View detailsShown on XDirectly addresses the post’s claim · Provides important contextJFK was not faithful to his wife
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 November 2023 11:30 (five months ago) link
Ask not if my party can bring the young gun with the energy...
― pplains, Thursday, 23 November 2023 16:11 (five months ago) link
The only reason to get him on Elm is you got him in a triangulated crossfire. You put a team there down at the fence. Frontal shot. Flat, low trajectory. Put a third team down in this building on a low floor. When Kennedy gets in the kill zone, it's a turkey shoot.
― omar little, Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:18 (five months ago) link
That's a Texas Live Oak, boss. It sheds its leaves the first week of March.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:32 (five months ago) link