Oh sister, when I come to knock on your door
Don’t turn away, you’ll create sorrow.
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore;
You may not see me tomorrow.
— Bob Dylan, “Oh Sister”
“Alcohol is like love,” he said. “The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.”
— Raymond Chandler, “The Long Goodbye”
Anyone got any?
Not exactly the same, but there are some pharmaceuticals that were developed for one purpose but became popular for a completely different purpose, such as minoxidol aka Rogaine (originally intended to treat high blood pressure and peptic ulcers, now used to treat baldness in men and women) and semaglutide aka Ozempic, Wegovy, etc (originally an anti-diabetic medication now used as a long-term weight-loss/weight management drug). Then there’s LSD, originally developed to treat psychiatric disorders including depression and ADHD…
From a licensing POV, George Lucas was smart to change the protagonist’s name from Starkiller to Skywalker.
I can never look at Reba McIntire the same way again.
Sam Keith died on the 15th
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sam-kieth-creator-of-the-maxx-and-sandman-has-died-aged-63/
That’s sad news, especially given that he was relatively young (translation: he’s younger than me).
I heard someone say that really good cheese has to be close to disgusting. The special flavor elements in good cheese have to be very outspoken and striking and strong tasting, like in a stinky French cheese. The same is true for good Dutch cheese.
Staying with a cousin in England a few years ago, I bought a cheese called Stinking Bishop at a local shop, ate some of it (it was delicious!) and put the rest in her refrigerator intending to eat it later. A few days later I flew back to the US. Speaking to her a while later, she mentioned that after I left she smelled a horrible odor in her kitchen and thought that her dog had made a poo somewhere in the room…until she opened the refrigerator and found the Stinking Bishop.
Good times…good times…
Chuck Norris stared into Death’s eyes…and Death blinked.
Rest in Peace to the subject of an entire genre of great jokes.
I assumed there was probably a medical explanation for how Weller looks. Hopefully he’s OK.
It could simply be that Peter Weller is almost 79 years old, while Robert Llewellyn is only 70.
This has to be the stupidest thing Trump has done so far.
Chilling thought: he’s still got 2.75 years left in his term.
Makes me wonder what was running through Rubio’s mind.
Doesn’t matter; Rubio’s as much a racist as Hegseth and Trump.
I suspect there’s some level of fakeout going on with the trailer, Sinestro is apparently in the show
Yeah, but he’s a barista at the local coffee shop.
Al-x wrote:
You’re firedLet’s not celebrate. Her replacement is most likely worse.
He’s a former MMA fighter. What could possibly go wrong?
Richardson made Dark Horse into a creator-friendly company that attracted the likes of Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Art Adams, Mike Allred, John Byrne, Paul Chadwick, Geof Darrow and others in the mid-1990s. I can’t imagine Dark Horse without his guiding hand; on the other hand, Richardson knew what to expect when he sold the company to a conglomerate like Embracer.
Merz is a fucking moron. He might not be quite as bad as Trump, but goddamn…what a fucking idiot.
Not sure if he’s a moron/idiot, but I can’t imagine Angela Merkel ever sucking up to Trump the way Merz did this week. Where’s Justin Trudeau when we need him?
Nothing like a pointless war in the middle east to show everyone how well your Presidency is going!
He will do literally ANYTHING to try to distract the American public from focusing on those Epstein files! If this doesn’t work, Denmark better prepare for the invasion of Greenland.
So, Neil Sedaka has died and all the American news channels are acknowledging his contribution to American pop music. But where is the love for one of my favorite horror/science fiction writers, Dan Simmons?? His book “The Terror” was adapted as a thrilling TV mini-series a few years back, and his novel “Hyperion” is considered one of the best science fiction books ever written.
What’s the good word if there is any?
Here’s some good words, Alfred: next week’s NYC snowstorm that was threatening to dump 13-15 inches on our poor town has now been reduced to a mostly-rain event, with less than an inch of snow.
Here’s another bit of good news: television remote controls have a “mute” button you can press whenever the talking heads start to mention 47 or any other political story that offends you.
Hey, I’ll take my good news wherever I find it. 
Robert was always in the shadow of his brothers David and Keith, but his role in Revenge of the Nerds made him a hero to a lot of “uncool” kids. Rest In Peace, Lewis!
Forecast of a huge snowstorm starting tomorrow in the city. So I go to the market and (guess what?) everybody else had the same idea. Long lines, but glad I got out when I did.
We should be hitting a high in the low 80s today.
You’re not welcome in my snow fort, Todd. 
Forecast of a huge snowstorm starting tomorrow in the city. So I go to the market and (guess what?) everybody else had the same idea. Long lines, but glad I got out when I did.
Did you buy bread, milk and eggs? Those seem to be the mandatory purchases when faced with snow.
I’ve never understood this sudden urge to buy groceries ahead of a storm, particularly if you live in the New York City area. Tomorrow’s storm, while large, is expected to end by midday Monday, so by Tuesday morning things will be close enough to normal (streets and sidewalks plowed, most subways running, etc). Is the average New Yorker’s pantry/regrigerator SOO empty that you can’t survive one day without buying groceries?
Personally, I just need to make sure I have enough gas for my snowblower.
Story of my life…
I’m glad I saw it, but I doubt I’d ever watch it again.
I would definitely watch it again for the musical performances. The soundtrack is one of the best I’ve heard outside of a Coen Brothers film.
I’m gonna be skipping this year, for the obvious reason.
Good taste?
Sad news indeed. Duvall will be best remembered for playing Tom Hagen in The Godfather 1 and 2, and for the lines “Charlie don’t surf!” and ” I love the smell of napalm in the morning” from Apocalypse Now, but his best roles IMO were in the films The Great Santini and Tender Mercies. Rest in Peace, Lt. Col. Meachum.
“Harold and Maude” is one of my all-time favorite movies. Cort and Gordon were perfect in that movie.
Yeah, I saw this one in a theater in 1971 when I was 12, loved it without really understanding it, and made sure to watch it again whenever it showed up on television. I remember Ruth Gordon was amazing in it, but Bud Cort embodied the role of Harold seamlessly (and got a couple of acting award nominations for it).
RIP, Bud.
FANTASTIC Sean Phillips cover on that Shade the Changing Man Omnibus!
Catherine O’Hara and James Vander Beek, both dead from colorectal cancer this month.
This should be a wake-up call to all of us. If you’ve never had a colonoscopy, or haven’t had one in 10 years, please schedule one TODAY! Vander Beek was only 48 years old!!
During that period in the late 80s/early 90s, I always felt that Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld were great “pin-up” artists, capable of drawing an exciting, sexy image, but not very good at telling a story through their art. Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri were much better at sequential art that was also dynamic and exciting.
On the turning away From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say Which we won’t understand
“Don’t accept that what’s happening Is just a case of others’ suffering
Or you’ll find that you’re joining in The turning away”
No more turning away From the weak and the weary
No more turning away From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share It’s not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there’ll be No more turning away?
And now this US-Canada bridge
He probably thinks it’s grossly unfair that Gordie Howe has a bridge named after him but there is no Trump Bridge anywhere.
The two women were old enough to remember when the Dead Sea was just getting sick.
—
“You ever been in love, Sarah?”
She laughed. “Lord. no, I’m married.”
— Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne
Unbelievable:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-penn-station-dulles-airport-named-after-funding/story?id=129910999
He doesn’t realize what happens to everything when is name is added to it.🤣
This is the behavior of a spoiled child, not a grown man. Someone needs to send him to his room without supper.
I saw this listing:
What is it, and who generated it? Is it a list of Marvel-only pages drawn by these artists? Did Curt Swan, Jerry Ordway and Kurt Schaffenberger draw for Marvel?
Or is this a list of the original artwork that Al-x has stored in his mansion? That seems more likely… 
If you smile and tell them “It tastes like shit!”, will they be offended or will they feel proud?
There’s a bit of a gap in the progressives right now, isn’t there? Warren and Sanders are too old, AOC is too young… there’s Cory Booker, but it feels like his time has also come and gone.
I would love to see Cory Booker’s fellow New Jersey Senator ANDY KIM get party support for a Presidential run. As a reminder, while everyone else was pointing fingers and wringing their hands the morning after the January 6 insurrection, Kim showed up to work at the US Capitol, took off his suit jacket, and began cleaning up the mess. Literally; he picked up trash, straightened out overturned chairs, and did it without fanfare or self-publicity.
READ MORE HERE
This is a man who has the right values, who does the right thing when it needs to be done, and does it with his own hands rather than leave it to a subordinate. Having him in the White House would make me proud of the USA again.
Depending on how well Governor Tim Walz responds to the current shitstorm in Minnesota, he could be a viable candidate for the White House in 2028. He handled himself well on the campaign trail as Kamala’s running mate, and he’s been pushing back against Trump’s Gestapo tactics in Minnesota; if he ends up getting credit for making Trump and ICE back down, that would make him look strong.
That trailer has made me excited to watch the series. That hasn’t happened with the Marvel shows in a while.
That “charismatic leader” is California governor Gavin Newsom.
The last time we elected a California governor to the White House, ketchup became a vegetable and trickle-down economics became a thing.
What can the Democrats actually do at the moment to stop all the shit that Trump is perpetuating?
Like Arjan says, they can use their pulpit to speak out against the excessive abuses of ICE; they can repeatedly use their powers to remind the nation that Trump’s administration has ignored a COURT ORDER to release all the Epstein files; they can go on all the national news channels and raise questions about his sanity and ability to perform his Presidential duties in the face of all the fucked-up shit he’s been pulling lately from his witch-hunting of any politician who dares to speak out against him, to his punishing of primarily-Democrat states by withholding funding of programs in those states, to his attempts to control Venezuela and Greenland despite the questionable legality and ethics of such actions… the list goes on.
Honestly, lately there seems to be more Republicans than Dems willing to go on camera to censure Trump for his maniacal behavior. IF the Democratic Party chiefs think their current strategy is making the party stronger, they are sadly mistaken.
But they are all right now out of politics and private citizens, but still the frustration and this taking it out on the old guard, low hanging fruit.
No need to blame the old guard Dems, there are plenty of current Democrats who rightly deserve to be shamed for their lack of action and response to the Republican offenses, starting with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic Senate and House leaders, respectively. Where are they while Trump is censuring Mark Kelly, and while the DOJ is investigating Tim Walz and the mayor of Minneapolis? Where is DNC Chairman Ken Martin? Has he started the groundwork yet to find and groom the next Democratic candidate for the 2028 election?
The more I notice that the Democratic Party is literally doing NOTHING, the easier it is to believe that they are in league with Trump, both actively and passively, to line their pockets at the expense of every US citizen who isn’t in the Top 2 percent. The only thing I see them doing, honestly, is sending me texts and Instagram messages asking for donations to support their re-election campaigns.
Two years after starting this stupid project I’m finally finished.
Thank you for your efforts, Uncle. You introduced me to a lot of music I might never have tried otherwise.
My only criticism is that there wasn’t a single Taylor Swift album in the bunch. Not one!!
Have no idea what this is, looks like a mate for Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty, just somehow doubt anyone with authority signed off on this.
I don’t know….but suddenly I want to be a Phillies Phanatic.
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
— Michael Chabon, The Wonder Boys
“I’m going to regret this tomorrow,” I said.
“That’s nice,” she said. “Everybody ought to have a hobby.”
— Michael Chabon, The Wonder Boys
Oh I’m sure Europe will strike back mercilessly with all its might, mocking Trump at the Eurovision song contest with some mean lyrics.
No way, that’s not what the ESC is for! Mean lyrics are NOT allowed there!
If mean lyrics are banned, the American fascists win!
Here’s a bit of news that isn’t about Trump or COVID:
Matthew McConaughey trademarks his image and voice to control unauthorized AI use
And here I was, thinking that the global pandemic was the worst thing I’d ever have to live through. I’m kinda missing COVID right now…
Here’s the best two ep / mini album compilation to ever come out of Larne, Northern Ireland
Just out of curiosity, Uncle: what other two ep/mini album compilations out of Larne, Northern Ireland are there?
Should’ve posted this Friday, but better late than never:
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir passes
I can’t even imagine how this feels to (sane) people in the US.
The entire last 12 months have been a nightmare to sane Americans. And the biggest nightmare of all is that there is a HUGE percentage of the population who don’t appear to be bothered by any of this.
I quite liked The Last Days Of American Crime, but not sure it warrants the deluxe treatment.
I dunno…it might look nice on my shelf next to the hardcover of Remender’s A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance
Schiphol made it to the pages of the Guardian. This country truly sucks at dealing with weather conditions. Absolutely shameful.
I don’t know about that, Arjan; from the article, it seems like they are trying to do the best they can in dealing with an extreme weather event. I believe you even called it a Snowpocalypse in another post. Flight delays and cancellations occur routinely in the busiest airports here in the US; it’s just safer to postpone a flight when high winds and low visibility make takeoffs and landings dangerous.
just not in the mood for Casablanca
I’m never NOT in the mood for Casablanca — fantastic cast, quotable dialogue, classic storyline, and Dooley Wilson’s singing.
Germany is well on its way to becoming a fascist country.
I’m glad I live in the United States, where something like that could never happen. Oh, wait…
US military strike against Venezuela; Maduro captured
And of course our classy leader responds to this tragedy with his usual flair:
Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott take us on an exciting race between the Daily Planet and the Daily Bugle
I like the idea of this one; great creative team, too!
Americans read more books.
That may be true, but it doesn’t prove that Americans aren’t dumb.
Map of psychopaths in Europe:
I have… questions.
It’s bike lanes…
So…cycle paths, NOT psychopaths?
They’ve spent years struggling over relatively small patches of Ukraine and France and the UK
A little comma after “Ukraine” would have prevented me from briefly wondering why I haven’t heard about recent Russian incursions into France and the UK.
That raccoon did what the rest of us WISH we could do!
Well, maybe not all of us.
Well, maybe just me… 
I think continuing past the first series hurt the show…
When the satisfaction/pride in producing a successful single-season miniseries bumps up against the potential $$ in producing numerous sequel seasons, greed is always going to win out over creative integrity.
Sad; his contributions to the soundtrack of THE HARDER THEY COME were powerful, and led me to discover other great reggae stars. RIP
Who do they have? JD Vance? MTG? Mike Johnson?
I never gave much thought to Mike Pence during the first Trump term, but he’s managed to distance himself from his former boss while maintaining a party-line Republican persona. Don’t count him out in 2028.
And @Todd, I must say it’s always refreshing to find a Texan who ISN’T a Republican/MAGA. My cousin and her husband, who grew up in New York and should know better, are both GOPers (their gay son, however is definitely not!!) Thank you restoring my hope for a better American people.
Mamdani seems to be having a great time with Trump. Weird. But it could be good.
Elon Musk had a great time with Trump, too…until he didn’t.
‘Task’ Renewed for Season 2 at HBO With Mark Ruffalo Returning – Variety
This is good news as season I really enjoyed season 1.
Helps that it had a great cast and story.
This makes me happy; TASK is one of the best shows I’ve watched this year, and Ruffalo is just a fantastic actor.
Image Comics has quietly taken over the “specialty collections” that used to be handled by IDW, involving books and creators that were not previously involved with Image. Upcoming books include the Hellboy in Hell Artists Edition #2 Hardcover, the Darwin Cooke “Spirit” collection, Jim Aparo’s DC Classics collection, Wally Wood EC stories Artist Edition, Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-Man Artists Edition HC, and so on.
It remains to be seen how many of these books actually make it to shelves, but it’s interesting to see Image being associated with quality publications like these.
Curaçao qualified for the football world cup. The smallest country to ever do.
Yeah, Vatican City would have held that title, but they were disqualified for cheating by using miracles.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
–Gandalf, in Lord of the Rings
Line of Duty is coming back for another series.
That’s the one with Adrian Dunbar leading the squad that goes after corrupt police? He was constantly great in that role, but toward the end the plotlines got a bit dodgy.
Yesterday I rewatched RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES for probably the first time since it originally debuted on streaming services. I think I must not have been paying very good attention that first time, because this time I picked up a lot of Easter Eggs and homages to the original 1968 PLANET OF THE APES film. My favorite was reference to the spaceship Icarus (Charlton Heston’s ship in the original), bound for Mars and piloted by an astronaut named Taylor (Heston’s character), which suddenly goes missing. Other homages include the water hose punishment of Caesar in the Animal Control center, and one “jailer” referring to the place as “a madhouse; a MAAAADHOUSE!!” Another cool one is that the name given to Caesar’s mother, Bright Eyes, was also Dr. Zira’s nickname for Heston’s character in the original POTA.
Oscar Issac was born to play a mad scientist!
That was his profession before he went into acting. True story (but maybe not…)
Hideous massacres in Sudan right now. It’s time the world paid more attention to this conflict.
Unfortunately, if you get your news from an American television channel, you won’t hear a word about this. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc. have no interest in reporting about mass killings and other atrocities in black Africa. I heard about this from NPR (National Public Radio, whose funding was cut in half by Trump earlier this year) over the weekend; meanwhile, this has been going on for weeks!!
Dick Cheney has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/dick-cheney-vice-president-republican-bush-dies
Is this an appropriate response? 
Al, it’s worth noting that the Irish president has no real power, the position is roughly analogous to the British Queen.
So she gets a palace, two castles, and a pair of corgis? Sweet!!
…it’s just a couple of years of disruption to get through before normality begins to return.
Living in the eye of the storm (so to speak), it’s hard for me to be that optimistic about ever getting back to normal.
That’s actually maybe a hopeful note, isn’t it? If social media is flooded entirely with made-up AI shit, sooner or later people will just turn it off, won’t they?
Won’t they?
Don’t overlook the real likelihood that there is a group of MAGAs out there who actually believe that Donald flew a fighter jet over Times Square and released a load of poop onto a crowd of No Kings protesters.
@Al-x, where did you find that photo of young Gwyneth Paltrow meeting young Brad Pitt for the first time?
Just finished the latest season of Only Murders In The Building. Is it me, or has this season been a bit of a letdown?
They need to bring back Sting as a completely fictitious character named Sting, to get them back on track.
Grammar: It affects the choice of the indefinite article, as in “an H-bomb”.
“Haitch”
This brings to mind one of my pet peeves with local TV news anchors and reporters: the insistence of referring to something as “an historic moment” (right now they’re talking about Hurricane Melissa as “an historic storm hitting the island of Jamaica”. Now I was always taught in school that, if the “H” is heard at the beginning of the word (as in Historic or Horrible), you use the article “a”; but if the “H” is silent (as in Honor or Homage) you use “an”: It’s an honor to meet you at such a historic moment!
But somewhere along the way during the past 50 years, the grammar police have turned a blind eye to the misuse of “an” in front of “historic”. I never hear anyone say they went to see an horror movie last night, or that they had an horrible meal at a restaurant, because such usage would be grammatically wrong. So why is it okay now to say an historic moment?
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/nba/nba-gambling-scandal-chauncey-billups-terry-rozier-rcna239490
Seriously, don’t these guys already make enough money?! Chauncey Billups’ salary for the 2024-25 season was $4.7 million; and he received an undisclosed raise for this season.
Fucking idiots.
Bullies are always gonna be bullies. Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin are a gang of thugs.
They may not actually give a shit about a theme ride movie losing a few hundred million dollars.
No matter how rich Disney is, I imagine the loss of a few hundred million dollars will result in some firings and re-evaluations.
At last count, there are only 63 sites designated as National Parks, including two (American Samoa and US Virgin Islands) that are not actually in the United States. Most of the sites on the above list are National Monuments, National Forests, or other sites that fall under the broad cover of the National Parks Service.
Dodgers sweep 4 from Milwaukee and go back to the World Series.
Shohei Ohtani pitched 6 innings and hits 3 HR last night.He is the modern day Babe Ruth…
We are a long way off from calling Ohtani a modern day Babe Ruth. Let’s come back in ten years to discuss if he is or not.
I think it’s fair to compare Ohtani to Babe Ruth in the sense that he is a home-run hitter who is also a pitcher. Not too many of those in modern baseball.
Bue Jays tied the series 2-2!
Another beat down on the Mariners!
Shhhhhh…@Sean Robinson might be listening… 
D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51
Is it wrong to feel relieved that he died after a long illness rather than as a result of a drug overdose? It just seems like too many celebrities lately have died of the latter. RIP D’Angelo.
There is little to no evidence of the existence of the main figures of the religions from Krishna to Moses to Jesus to even the Buddha (and even Mohammed is getting a little sketchy as historians look into the evidence)…obviously fictional and legendary…obvious fables…obviously not…Deductively, we are left with no demonstrable evidence for the existence of god or gods…
Using words like “obvious” and “obviously” does not automatically confirm the obviousness of something if you haven’t provided the research and facts and deductive reasoning to support that position. Similarly, using phrases like “little to no evidence” and “no demonstrable evidence” are meaningless without the research to back them up.
There is, in fact, historical proof of the existence of Jesus. Not proof that he was the Son of God, but that he was an actual person who actually existed, was baptized, and was crucified. He wasn’t a fable or a mythical figure. As stated in the linked article:
“Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure, and the idea that Jesus was a mythical figure has been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus as a fringe theory.”
Fringe theories are the ones that usually “prove” things by the use of buzzwords like “obvious” and “deductively” rather than by providing the research to back things up.
Arjan, our president has some time on his hands now that he’s settled the problem in Gaza. Would you like us to send him to Amsterdam to straighten things out?
Oh wait, it’s a holiday (Canadian Thanksgiving).
Happy Thanksgiving, Sean!
