Bzzzzzttt. Wrong! One fun thing about being an American is that I can say literally whatever I want whenever I want.
Americans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore
Miles Klee 🦉
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Bzzzzzttt. Wrong! One fun thing about being an American is that I can say literally whatever I want whenever I want.
Americans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore
british people legally can't talk about their culture of elite pedophilia because they don't have freedom of speech. that's not a right they have. and what speech her undying majesty does permit is subject to prior approval by jo terf.
Americans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore
At some level, each of us who writes things lives in fear that one day someone will read it back to us and ask, “do you really mean that?”
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
I think a lot about a post that I can't find that takes aim at the genre of jokes about x, y or z soundtrack composer and how they "didn't have to go that hard" for some silly movie. The post is like "yes they did? they care about their job? they want to make good work?"
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
Besides the fact that I didn't know about this, this is also how I was reminded that I left my YouTube subtitles in Irish
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
Cannot even begin to explain how many lines from Frozen Peas have become go-to non sequiturs: "C'mon boys you're losing your heads." "YOUR FRIEND" "That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me my saying so." "UNREWARDING" "You don't know what I'm up against."
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
If anyone's hunrgy for market research data, this is the story that finally got me to subscribe
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
hahahahaha "The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger has scheduled the trial for March 2027. The scheduling matters a lot to Paramount, which will begin paying Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million a day on Sept. 30 until the deal is complete."
Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial for March 2027
The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has issued a preliminary scheduling order, with a trial set to start in March 2027 -- considerably lat...
variety.com
This just might be the most psychotic act of sexual harassment I’ve ever seen. Not the worst per se, or most menacing but in terms of sheer insanity it’s really up there.
i promise to do zero work and eat at the French Laundry every single day
no we're setting the stage for California governor @milesklee.bsky.social
Can't be a Maurice LaMarche fan, without having heard his version of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-w...
Maurice LaMarche Orson Welles Impression - "Frozen Peas"
YouTube video by theemilyesse
youtube.com
So many people my age can quote so much of this verbatim. Many of them have no idea where it's originally from or who Orson Welles is. I love how Warner Brothers cartoons historically don't care if you're too young for the reference.
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
Yes, Rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness and green pea-ness
Rosebud Frozen Peas
YouTube video by keith172
youtu.be
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
"Is there time? Death doesn’t scare me as much as remembering that there will be a last of everything. There will be a last July." i think about this very thing all the time! not july, but the last whatever when will you know it is the last time?
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
Absolute banger, have this on white vinyl 7” with free cigar
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
A recording so iconic it’s been part of comedy lore for decades, here’s John Candy as Orson Welles referencing it in an SCTV sketch from 1981. “You people are pests, no money is worth this.” youtu.be/ZrNIFFl8Mao?...
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TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on RFK Jr.'s stupid cooking show. "When he is not making inane claims like 'The government was lying to us for 70 years and saying that protein causes heart attacks,' Kennedy stands there looking like a wet and sleepy raisin." flaminghydra.com/open-your-mo...
Open Your Mouth, Await the Harvest
This Absolute Fucking Shitwhistle Has A Cooking Show
flaminghydra.com
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
A Celebration of Orson Welles’s Frozen Pea Commercial Outtakes
I never let a July pass me by without revisiting the infamous 1970 bootleg audio of Orson Welles attempting to record voiceover narration for advertisements for various foods, beginning with frozen pe...
flaminghydra.com
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
short-stories.co
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
it’s amazing that there are ostensibly famous British people i never know about until they die and are remembered as a pedophile
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
my latest masterpiece, Laptop Smoking a Cigarette (gouache, colored pencil)
I know Herzog claims it’s a coincidence, but my god, Abel Ferrara, Herzog, and Miike all doing their own take in a new locale is wonderful. Every 20 years we need a different auteur to make their own Bad Lieutenant
really like the idea of a movie series where some psychopath picks it up every decade or two & directs the most over the top film screenable around a singularly unhinged lead performance. praying it never becomes prestige tv
i was like hmmm wonder who directed this and then punched the air in delirious excitement when his name came up
I'm on board 📽️