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You know you've been on the internet too long when you can't see a simple innocent company logo like this one without thinking awful thoughts.
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Husband of Vickie
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You know you've been on the internet too long when you can't see a simple innocent company logo like this one without thinking awful thoughts.
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Chris Williams
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To quote Frank Wilhoit: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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I'm at a wedding, and the wedding dress has pockets. Despite appearances, the world is actually becoming a better place.
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Missouri has recreational weed as well.
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Kansas (they know what they did.) Going to build a Berlin style wall down the middle of State Line Road.
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This is my favorite period of Crumb's work.
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By the way, I can highly recommend seeking out R. Crumb's superb work "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick".
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His book "Galactic Pot-Healer" predicted the boring and stupid ways we would use infinite computing power and communications ability. "The cliche is inexperienced."
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It was an unfair fight. President Biden had to recall a huge amount of absolutely true and accurate information, where all Trump had to do was lie. He knew the moderators would never call him on it, and his fans don't care.
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I don't do anything with color correction other than fixing the occasional camera that I didn't get a chance to white balance properly.
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I just bought a new machine, and will be putting tons of RAM in it, as well as a nice fast 4TB SSD drive. I shoot eight camera concert videos, and have a project that I shot with a BMD Mini Extreme Pro ISO that I'll be learning on. Nothing that I shoot ends up on a movie screen, therefore no 4K.
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I like what I see, although most of my editing is multi-camera. The color correction tools are powerful.
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I totally stand by right not to watch some TV show because everybody else is watching it. I have not watched Game of Thrones, I have no desire to ever watch it I tuned in for one episode, watched a character played by a favorite actress be beaten to death at the whim of a psychopath. Screw that.
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What do you cut on? I use Grass Valley Edius (I'm *old*) and I'm in the process of learning Blackmagic Resolve.
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She just wanted to make it to see him behind bars. But she did get to see a whole bunch of amazing things.
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Mmmmm! Schadenfreude goodness! I am heartbroken that my late wife didn't make it to this day. I can just see the smile on her face if she heard this.
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My wife and I would always refer to America's favorite fast food burger restaurant as "The Scottish place."
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My favorite part of "The Incredibles" is that she learned all of the pilot lingo and manner of speech.
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Presumably, for a very short period of time.
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I've been waiting for the opportunity to share this: When he was young, Henry Rollins actually used to work at a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop. "Do you want sprinkles on that?" "No." " YOU'RE A LIAR!"
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"I'm not really that hungry."
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But what will the ice cream trucks play?
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I propose that the new guarantee of quality in a movie is the presence of Stephen Root. Seriously, look through the man's IMDb and you will be absolutely stunned when you see how many characters.
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I'm not defending Musk, I'm defending the idea of not turning every orbital shell around the earth into shrapnel moving faster than the speed of sound as countries start blowing up each other's satellites. We have to track every loose bolt, and we can't turn space into the next war zone.
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Personally, I believe he was asked to do it by the Pentagon, and agreed to it because everybody thought he was an a-hole anyway. In return, SpaceX/Starlink got a lucrative military communications contract. From Walter Isaacson's biography of Musk:
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Not actually. I believe the Pentagon asked him to turn on the geofencing to avoid space being turned into a war zone. Ukraine (who I support) turned a civilian network product into a satellite controlled mine intended to take out most of Russia's naval forces. Much more complicated.
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As Jesse Pinkman told Walter White: "You need a Criminal...Attorney."
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Also, while he may be destroying Twitter on behalf of the Saudis, there is public good in building satellite connectivity covering every part of the world, and cheap access to space. All Zuck does is pile money higher. Everything he does is about making money and locking down the internet.
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Threads is the one that I will have nothing to do with, because, as evil as Musk may be, Zuck is 10 times worse. It's just that he has public relations people and listens to them, keeping the stench of brimstone to a manageable level.
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You have a problem with stapling it on?
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That's the hat that says "golf course in the front, baseball game in the back."
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I remember the first time I was called a "Social Justice Warrior" and remember thinking "Was that supposed to be an insult? Every part of that was positive."
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More alt
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Additional photo, and the alt is a continuation of the text in the previous post.
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Here's what Graeme Thomson wrote about our late friend Richard Klecka in the introduction to the third edition of his book. I'll post the rest of the alt with a couple more pictures of him.
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Our original tickets went to two incredibly talented Italian photographers, Guido Harari and Armando Gallo. This is me, Armando, Vickie, Andy Mac and Guido.
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Eventually, through a friend who had three extra tickets, we managed to upgrade to the sixth row! A good friend whom we hadn't seen in 20 years came from Bali for the concert, and wound up being a subject of the introduction to the best biography of Kate Bush, Graeme Thomson's "Under The Ivy."
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Vickie spent all of her free time that summer trying to hook up people who had extra tickets with those who needed them, concentrating on couples like us, making sure that nobody paid more than face value.
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Tomorrow morning is the 10th anniversary of when my late wife called me me in Kansas City from Chicago to tell me that Hell had frozen over, and that Kate Bush was going to be doing a series of concerts.
#katebush
#BeforeTheDawn
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It's been years, but the midtown Chicago Costco location (bizarrely called the Lincoln Park one, even though it's south of Diversey) actually served cheeseburgers. I haven't been back there since the start of the pandemic, which is also when they eliminated supreme pizza.
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Are you telling me there's not going to be a churro the next time I go there? Oh, hell no!
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"No, we don't collect Mid-Century Modern furniture, we just can't afford to buy any new stuff."
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I think you confused your professors of defense against the dark arts. Kenneth Branagh played the useless one who stole people's memories. I believe you're thinking of Remus Lupine, a werewolf played by David Thewlis (the only competent one.)
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That's like having holes in your jeans as a result of actual use.
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Sitting at the gate and on the tarmac is the worst airplane air quality. I highly recommend a FloMask with replaceable filters. I modified mine with a SIPmask port so it's possible to drink with a straw. I wore it every day when my late wife Vickie was in the hospital. Http://www.flomask.com/
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I would think my fellow men would be capable of the minimal level of empathy necessary to imagine the exact same thing happening to their wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, aunt, cousin or female friend and whether they would consider that "rape."
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It's all there in the business section of your local paper, being reported as good news. The most amusing one here in Kansas City was Bob Hamilton Plumbing/Heating/AC being bought out, then him taking the money and running for Kansas senator as Ultra-MAGA. Tarnished it so much they dropped his name.
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I wonder if the owners of the New York Times might have been included in information contained in Jeffrey Epstein's safe? The one that was opened by the FBI, full of hard drives and CD discs, the contents of which they weren't able to get a warrant to obtain for several days.
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"And this is the 'no makeup' look!"
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