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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies paulftompkins.com/live

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Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 20h ago

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...

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterday

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’ Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber
@isthisthingon23.bsky.social · yesterday

the concept of willingly growing boobs and losing muscle mass and facing mass abuse by the general public just to *checks notes* beat other women at a sport for significantly less pay and recognition than the average male professional golfer

Minneapolis is better in summer@nicksb.bsky.social · 2d ago

🙄. If Scottie Scheffler held a press conference tomorrow and said my whole life has been a lie, I’ve started HRT and I’m going to compete in LPGA tournaments from now on, that is transparently absurd. And defending his (or her) “right” to do it is insane.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"
Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d ago

My sister found us a dessert shop called Banana Mousse and when we came in it was just a forlorn guy at a counter in front of a single fridge. And a bunch of nonfunctional flatscreens on the wall. And one functional flatscreen with a picture of a crying moose saying "we're out of mousse 😢"