Billionaires must stop taking ketamine to facilitate the coming of the Antichrist. They should return to cocaine to produce movies like Gremlins 2.

Dr. Gonzo in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" in a bathtub demanding, at knifepoint, that Raoul Duke (offscreen) throw a radio into the bathtub just as the song "White Rabbit" peaks. Gonzo's head has been replaced with the head of a coked-up salmon.

"When it comes to that fantastic note where the... rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to - throw - that - fuckin - radio - into the tub - with me."

My answer to this question will always be The Inferior Five. I know exactly how I'd approach it (turn the Five's weaknesses into strengths: Awkwardman keeps tripping & accidentally knocking out bad guys, Dumb Bunny is actually the smartest member of the group and just lacks self-confidence, etc).

It's like people skimmed over it and came away thinking he'd said $600-700 *each*. And/or that "four flights that I can remember" was "four flights in the last two weeks".

The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat (a comic strip by Gilbert Shelton, part of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic book), copyright 1982: Panel 1: Fat Freddy sees his cat sleeping near some garbage cans, saying "What's my cat doing out here? I thought I left him inside!" Panel 2: Freddy brings the cat inside, where there is already an identical cat. Word balloons have both cats saying "!", and Freddy saying "?" Panel 3: The cats are now fighting, while Freddy watches. Freewheelin' Franklin, another of the Freak Brothers, enters to say, "Don't just stand there! Throw one of them out!" Panel 4: Freddy looks back and forth between the two cats, who are now hissing and growling at each other with raised hackles, and says, "I can't throw one out! I can't tell which one is really mine!" Panel 5: Franklin tosses both cats out the door, saying, "Well, if you can't make up your mind, I'm throwing both of them out!" Panel 6: Seven identical cats sit around the alley and on top of the garbage cans. One of them says, "Why did you guys go and blow that easy gig? Now you've ruined it for all seven of us!"

In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler's supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. "Nobody applauded," Hallet recalled. "Nobody laughed."

Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.

I'm convinced Tim Curry chose most of his roles based on how outlandish a costume he'd get to wear.

I mean: Rocky Horror, Legend, Three Musketeers, Treasure Island...

Marx Bros. Why a Duck? YouTube video by James Hardin

Alright, why a duck? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHMr...

a man in a robe sits next to another man in a blue robe Alt: Willem Dafoe as Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, drinking a cup of wine at the wedding at Cana.

I didn't actually see that one until some years later. If we restrict it to films that I saw in a theater that year, I'd probably go with:

Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.

I've never seen my 91-year-old mother misgender her trans granddaughter (my niece), so, y'know, it can be done even if you're old and set in your ways.

Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Well, Fellini would have a difficult time making any new movies these days, but this just made me think of Charlie Kaufman's Super Mario Brothers, and now that's a thing I definitely wish would happen for real.

Page 97, "Spells, Charms and Incantations". A finger is pointing to a statement circled in red: "You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese."

"Behold the power of cheese."

If you missed the Threadnought, which arose out of mockery of the anime subnormals and legal dregs who were supporters of a sex pest voice actor, you missed some of the greatest collisions of law, weird culture, and personality disorders.

Day three: Power-washing trees, passing vehicles, local wildlife.

libertarian scholars struggled with the conundrum of how to reconcile private ownership with the fact that all ownership has its root in at some point illegitimately seizing something that was public, conservatives neatly resolved this dilemma by saying "so?"

Watch them try to rush through a bill to explicitly make "previous employment" a protected class under anti-discrimination law.

It's been a brain-melting week here at my house. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

I'm waiting for Godot
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 1-2-5
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for Godot

Non-zero chance he briefly thought it meant a store that sells corners.

Exactly one year ago today:

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

I like that I live in a country where half of the people would probably visit Omelas and ask why there can’t be more children getting tortured in the basement

Logically, if Omelas is this great now with only one tortured child, even adding just a second child to torture would make Omelas twice as awesome!

Sure, there's presumably a point of diminishing returns, but it's probably not one or two.

Maybe a few members of the extended Coppola family in crowd scenes.

I want to make a movie cast entirely with Hemsworths, Baldwins, and Arquettes.

The Illinois Enema Bandit
youtu.be/xnOSw045gvc?...

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