'I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning' | Apocalypse Now YouTube video by The Dollar Theater

Robert Duvall has died at 95. He was one of the greats, from his start in To Kill A Mockingbird, to The Godfathers 1 & 2 (Tom Hagen was perhaps my favourite role of his), The Great Santini, Tender Mercies, and this, his most out-there role:
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FFS

Turning Point USA Halftime Show Opens With Snake-Handling Preacher

Turning Point USA Halftime Show Opens With Snake-Handling Preacher

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

My coffee this morning. Happy Hallowe'en

From a June edition of The New Yorker but very much on point in October.....

Fall colours today

My Little Town YouTube video by Simon & Garfunkel - Topic

Somehow this album is 50 years old today. This is my favourite song from the LP and the last great collaboration between Paul and his former partner. youtu.be/X1_CNl6w2Tk?...

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (Official Audio) YouTube video by PaulSimonVEVO

It's crazy but true. This album came out 50 years ago today. This is my second favorite song off the LP youtu.be/Q5Eoax6I-O4?...

Grand day to take part in the St. John's Pride Parade

We went to a pop-up event yesterday on the back deck of Memorial University's Geo Centre on Signal Hill. What a lovely little nook.

Rhododendron
Is a nice flower
Evergreenin'
It lasts forever...

from Do the Strand by Roxy Music

Elon Musk breaks with Trump on energy: "Oil is small-time"

"Compared to solar, oil is small-time," Musk wrote on X.

Nice berg off the Logy Bay Marine Lab

Jacques Cartier, right this way....

Sad but true. Funny because it's true.

A one-teen prom on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula brings small community together | CBC News Breanna Bromley-Clarke may be the sole graduate of her all-grades school on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, but her prom helped bring many in her community together.

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Seen at this past weekend's Toronto Marathon

My great uncle was lynched after coming home from WWI because he went to town & wanted a drink and they refused to serve him— a VET who just fought for this country

After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree

THATS why I protect my peace

Every time I shine it’s for THEM

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS?

…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?

Oh wait…🥴

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

The view from Brier Avenue is something else

Saw an interesting job posting on Water Street today....