Hulyo 12, 2012

At the Karloff Café...



... Boris Karloff seems strangely familiar.

(Via Michael Stipe's Tumblr, via this NYT article about Tumblr.)

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98 komento:

chickelit ayon kay ...

I met Karloff's daughter once. She's disabled but is an avid horseback rider.

Ron ayon kay ...

FrankenMeade?

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Yes, Meade definitely.

Meade ayon kay ...

My biceps are bigger. In fact, they're huger.

Meade ayon kay ...

Plus, my nipples are closer together.

chickelit ayon kay ...

I wonder if Jack Pierce is lurking in that photo or maybe even took it.

Beta Rube ayon kay ...

Well, someone owes us bicep and nipple pics.

edutcher ayon kay ...

OK, Meade or Mrs Meade?

Karloff was, in fact, a much more versatile actor than his hall mark performances suggest.

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

I knew Meade was actually built from scratch to specs written on a lonely and rainy Madison night, and then fabricated from body parts collected and stored in the freezer over the years.

Nice work, Althouse, but where do put his batteries?

ALH ayon kay ...

If I should die tonight in my sleep, i will be at peace...knowing that Meade's biceps are of large portion and his nipples are of appropriate spacing.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

No Batteries Required. He's solar powered.

Ron ayon kay ...

I'll fill in for Old Peter Lorre and Boris Meadloff and I can reenact "The Raven", featuring VinceAnn Price!

chickelit ayon kay ...

bagoh20 said...
I knew Meade was actually built from scratch to specs written on a lonely and rainy Madison night, and then fabricated from body parts collected and stored in the freezer over the years.

Ah! That explains the Batman in Meade.

Ron ayon kay ...

and, according to data downloaded from UW's BuckyDrone, Meade is correct about those nipple measurements as well... #LandOfTheFree?

Meade ayon kay ...

Also, my body odor is much stronger.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Okay, feast your eyes.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne ayon kay ...

Ann! Bob Dylan related link for you:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/12/ownership-bob-dylan-historic-guitar-in-dispute/

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"Ann! Bob Dylan related link for you..."

I saw that this morning, but declined to blog it. They are promoting a TV show, and there's a phoniness to the set-up that I found unappealing.

chickelit ayon kay ...

@Meade, why haven't you altered the logo on that shirt?

Meade ayon kay ...

And one last thing -- I'm 30 years older.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Karloff is 33 in that photograph (if the white "20" I'm seeing in the corner means the photo was taken in 1920).

Meade is 58.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Woo Hoo Ann! He's wirey, but it appears there are some rock hard muscles under that shirt.

Robert ayon kay ...

I guess it's the huger biceps that push the nipples closer together.

Saint Croix ayon kay ...

Oh no!

Crimes inspired by 50 Shades of Grey!

I want you to spank me but "Don't sauce me!"

garage mahal ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
Phil 314 ayon kay ...

What a stud muffin

garage mahal ayon kay ...

think he looks like cross between Meade, Joe Conason, and Billy Bob Thorton.

And to those of you that have opined that I've lost a step, blah blah blah, this post is like that north wind hitting you square in the fucking face. You hate it. You refuse to acknowledge it sometimes. But you remember it. That's okay. I still hear you!

Tim ayon kay ...

Stipe's Tumblr doesn't have any naked chicks.

That I could find, anyway.

What up wit dat?

Meade ayon kay ...

dramage mahal

Tim ayon kay ...

I see a cross.

I wonder if he found his religion?

Tim ayon kay ...

If you call 1-900-2-Insult, does Garage pick up?

Beta Rube ayon kay ...

Be still my heart, I was only kidding.

Tim ayon kay ...

Chicks!

In bikinis!

Forming a pyramid!

On the beach!

Whew.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

St. Croix, what a waste of steak sauce. It would be no more steak for him, bye bye!

Tim ayon kay ...

He missed the most iconic pyramid of all.

Pink Floyd's.

On the cover of "Dark Side of Moon."

Maybe he thought they deserved a dis?

Anyway, that light-switch is very punny.

But in light of the Penn State story today, more tragic than funny.

Tim ayon kay ...

Ugh.

Naked and near naked dudes.

One penis.

Time to find another corner of the internet.

Over Stipe.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Althouse follows Drudge's black and white motif.. mofit.. monochrome.. monogram..
Life in Mono.

k ayon kay ...

Amazing.And love.Because of course.

Saint Croix ayon kay ...

He: "Stop reading that spank book!"

She: "I like spanking!"

He: "Stop reading it or I'll spank you!"

She: "Don't you dare spank me!"

He: "Spanking is evil."

She: "I love spanking!"

He: "I'll spank you!"

She: "Don't you dare."

He: "Don't you want to be spanked?"

She: "Yes!"

He: "You are sick! God, I want to spank you."

She: "You better not!"

Sex is really damn funny.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

If somebody ever tried to spank me, I'd kick his ass.:)

Quaestor ayon kay ...

I wonder if Jack Pierce is lurking in that photo or maybe even took it.

Almost certainly. Step by step photos of the makeup process is SOP to help ensure continuity.

BTW, color photos of the Monster reveal that the pancake was a yellowish green color. This was applied not to make Frankenstein's creation look like an alien from beyond, but to give the Monster a death-like palor, the green registering almost white on the orthochromatic stock used by Whale to shoot the film. Lots of similar tricks of color were used in B&W horror movies. The "Creature from the Black Lagoon" costume used for the underwater shots was actually bright orange.

ALH ayon kay ...

Meade and Boris K
shirt off, pecs flex mightily
tread not on the nips

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

It just so happens, I need to buy a color printer.

To the Althouse portal..

The new batmovie is coming soon.

Chip Ahoy ayon kay ...

Who was that hairy ape anyway?

No srsly speaking of poses

I was waiting for the next café to say.

We food stylist types prefer our images to be starkly sexual as possible without getting kicked out. The first three pics are innocent enough. So the post goes: skip, skip, skip, pow right in the face.

That's what the whole thing is about. It's not about breakfast, potatoes, bacon, or eggs, no, it's about pow in right in the kisser.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Oh yum. Drooling here. Hey Chip, if you like spicy potatoes and you are interested, I make a spicy Hungarian potato dish. I'll post the recipe if you like.

Quaestor ayon kay ...

Karloff is 33 in that photograph (if the white "20" I'm seeing in the corner means the photo was taken in 1920).

I doubt the "20" indicates 1920. More likely it means "20th in a series" or something like that. William Henry Pratt (aka Karloff) was 48 when he starred in Frankenstein.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

I don't think I could ever tire of eggs, bacon and potatoes.

Its heavenly..

That reminds me of Rice.. Condi Rice.. she once said that had she known she would have "moved heaven and earth".

I like Condi.

God, An Original A-hole ayon kay ...

In your last post, Althouse, you noted that Obama quip about him using the Presidency to tell a story:

"...But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times."

Read this so: War with Iran is coming, right before the election.

What better way to cement his "story" as the warrior-president, the one who killed Osama bin Laden, and distract attention from the negative story of the country's sorry economic and fiscal condition?

The Leftists will fall right into line; if you are still an Obama supporter now, you've lived through three-and-a-half years of broken promises and opportunism, and one more item is not going to change the size of the pile.

And the rest of us will be hit with this sales pitch: Are you really going to abandon our Commander-in-Chief at this critical moment for our county? For having Obama go out and Romney come in will certainly be a disruption that we shouldn't encumber ourselves with.

This is even more likely now that chatter about Condi Rice as the VP has reached DRUDGE EXCLUSIVE levels. She's the no-nonsense neo-con; the black conservative Warrior princess. But she and her team couldn't kill Osama the first time around, and they're the ones who started, and then mismanaged, all these wars in the first place.

When to launch the war for maximum domestic political impact? Let Romney have his moment in the sun with his V.P. announcement. Then... closer but not too close to Election Day... the Obama re-election campaign really gets rolling, with a whole 'lotta BANGS!

Saint Croix ayon kay ...

If somebody ever tried to spank me, I'd kick his ass.:)

Oh yes, the infamous top-top brawl for supremancy! The dom-dom duel for dominance. My dog loves to play that game.

We can't go to the dog park anymore. It's like a Turkish prison movie.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

I went to the Althouse portal.. but then I had to find the price I was comfortable with..

I wander if doing that (clicking away) severs the link back to... the 'Althouse portal'.

Just wondering.

Titus ayon kay ...

FYI-details says if you are over 40 no t shirts with any type of slogans.

It should always be a monotone color in the t's and tankys for the over 40 group.

David ayon kay ...

I see Meade is going Full Metal Jacket. That ought to creep out the 99%.

David ayon kay ...

Althouse has embraced the black and white approach of Drudge. It's a trend!

Ruth Anne Adams ayon kay ...

How about a little more Carl Dean and a little less Karloff.

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

Meade looks as good as man could want to at 58, but Karloff looks a lot older than 33 there. More like late 40's.

I can never tell how old men are with their hair slicked back. In old movies of the 30s, 40s, and 50s it's impossible for me to tell how old those actors were.

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

"FYI-details says if you are over 40 no t shirts with any type of slogans."

How about "Do not resuscitate"?

Meade ayon kay ...

Ruth Anne.

Meade ayon kay ...

Thanks for giving.

Ralph L ayon kay ...

That's a handsome piano. Turn of the century?

Chip, how do you keep your bacon so flat?

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

So.. while I was ordering my printer, I forgot dinner was boiling away upstairs.. I was alerted by a beeping sound.. good to know that works.

So then I was thinking.. I'm not boiling any more platanos con huevos..

So where am I going?.. I had never been to the Tic Toc Dinner off Route 3.. just a few minutes from my new residence.. (my sister's really)

While there, I came across the eggs, bacon and potatoes on the menu.. Thats when Chip came in.

While waiting for the eggs, bacon and potatoes, I thought, how could I have burned my dinner? Its not like I have many preoccupations..

When, on the screen, up against the wall, came the local news that Cory Booker has been tapped by the democrats to help write the Democratic Party's Platform... and I thought he must have been cleared by his doctor.. doubling his nausea prescription... and then it occurred to me... That's how I burned dinner.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

That photo of Karloff is most likely from makeup sessions for The Mummy (1932), when he would have been about 45 years old. Studios NEVER put dates (like 1920) on photos, because it would, well, date them.
Also, Karloff wasn't billed simply as "Karloff" until after the success of Frankenstein in 1931.

rcommal ayon kay ...

I've enjoyed David Byrne's blog for quite a very long while, now, off and on. So, who knows? Who can tell?

rcommal ayon kay ...

I mean, honestly.

chickelit ayon kay ...

Hey, Ruth Anne!

chickelit ayon kay ...

RIA too!

rcommal ayon kay ...

That said:

rcommal ayon kay ...

Full-bore interrupted in mid-comment by seeing something that has actually managed to shock me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so going to...not comment at the moment. And maybe do something else.

Ruth Anne Adams ayon kay ...

R,L:
What?? Carl got yer tongue?

KCFleming ayon kay ...

Hi, Ruth Anne,.

Hi, Reader.

Ruth Anne Adams ayon kay ...

Hiya, Pogo. I like your schtick.

KCFleming ayon kay ...

Speak schoftly and carry a big shtick.

chickelit ayon kay ...

The local San Luis Rey Mission is celebrating Christmas In July.

chickelit ayon kay ...

Wrong linkage, try this one: link

Chip Ahoy ayon kay ...

Ralph L, the bacon was baked. On a rack but maybe that wasn't the best thing. The package said to bake them on a tray (in their oil, I suppose) or broil. I used a rack and they were uneven in the middle. And I even turned the tray.

I tried to eat the whole thing but the intense salt made my gills slam shut. I didn't even know I had gills until they slammed shut like that. It makes me want to go swimming and try breathing underwater. Okay, now I'm just lying again. Sorry.

Quaestor ayon kay ...

Ann,

I left a long comment on your photography at your Flickr page. Since posting there Flickr has informed me that you used a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX9, a good little camera that I'm sure comes in handy with its HD video capability. But you've outgrown it, frankly. This portrait is gallery quality -- no joke. Anybody with a good eye would linger to study and appreciate it. Just think what you could do with more flexible tools at hand.

rcommal ayon kay ...

Hey, Ruthie. I have missed you here for years.

Ruth Anne Adams ayon kay ...

R, L:
You know who loves ya, Baby.

rcommal ayon kay ...

Exactly.

rcommal ayon kay ...

Hey, babies. It's all about the--um, lollipops.

(When I was young kid, we--us kids--didn't call them lollipops, for the record.)

rcommal ayon kay ...

Pogo and chickelit: Thanks.

rcommal ayon kay ...

Dear Chip Ahoy:

It will not be news to you that I have loved your blog for years. I have even, whether you know it or not, used a few of your recipes and more of your tips.

I have also known how to meet the demands of cooking for a household since I was in middle school, having had my training therein started when I was, oh, 4 or 5 or thereabouts. (This was similar to my learning the imperatives of sewing on buttons, and ironing handkerchiefs and sheets, and doing white laundry, and picking beans, and generally being trustworthy enough to carry valuable instruments and reeds and sheet music and whatever else for whomever and all over the place.) I considered all of that to be normal on account of its every-day nature.

As I said, I have always admired your work. I have always also admired your persona, which I think I understand, in part and a bit.


Regards,

Lori

[formerly reader_iam)

rcommal ayon kay ...

P.S. Plus, indeed, you have been among the most talented of all.

Paco Wové ayon kay ...

"It's like a Turkish prison movie."

I was in Istanbul last year. Our guide was still P.O.'ed about Midnight Express. He thought it was all part of an Israeli conspiracy.

Robert Cook ayon kay ...

I guess this makes you the (ersatz) Bride of Frankenstein.

KCFleming ayon kay ...

It's "Frahnk-en-steen."

gerry ayon kay ...

Also, my body odor is much stronger.

When did you smell Karloff?

Meade ayon kay ...

Pogo, you know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that speech impediment.

KCFleming ayon kay ...

What shpeech impediment?

caplight45 ayon kay ...

I simply find the pictures of Meade profoundly and deeply disturbing.

Meade ayon kay ...

Why do you say "pictures of Meade"?

They look like Bob Wright to me.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Karl-off, Carl-on.

Meade always has his Carl on, but sometimes he gets his Karloff.

chickelit ayon kay ...

caplight45 said...
I simply find the pictures of Meade profoundly and deeply disturbing.

Well they sure aren't Pictures of Lily, like Althouse used to like to pose.

Ask Laurie Watson ayon kay ...

Hot! You go, Ann!

Tacitus ayon kay ...

So tell me Victor, what did you get from the Monster?

T

test ayon kay ...

How about a post on the Obama Administration wiping out Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform via bureaucratic "interpretation"?

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"I left a long comment on your photography at your Flickr page. Since posting there Flickr has informed me that you used a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX9, a good little camera that I'm sure comes in handy with its HD video capability. But you've outgrown it, frankly. This portrait is gallery quality -- no joke. Anybody with a good eye would linger to study and appreciate it. Just think what you could do with more flexible tools at hand."

I do have other cameras, including a Nikon SLR with a bunch of lenses. I have a better little camera too, a Panasonic, which is actually visible in my second photo there (on the tripod).

I was just being lazy.

Thanks for liking the pictures. It was mostly hit or miss and choosing the ones that came out best and tweaking them in iPhoto.

I don't know why I'm so lazy about the photography. I used to take the trouble to draw and even paint things, so I know attention to the details of the process can be valuable.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

And thanks for the comment at the photo, Qaestor.

I do pay attention to not cutting off body parts (except when I want to, like, here, the hands). But I didn't cut the top of the head in taking the photo. I do carefully frame things. But this was a case of cropping after the fact. What happened was the top of Meade's head looked oddly pointed because of the way it extended above the top of the piano. It looked busy, so it was better to crop it at the top of the piano. I wouldn't normally do that.

Quaestor ayon kay ...

Ann wrote:
I do have other cameras, including a Nikon SLR with a bunch of lenses.

SLR as in film? I used to be a film bigot, but it got too expensive. The original Nikon D1s weren't very impressive except in the ticket, but When the D50 came out the combination of affordability and high resolution made the transition to digital a no brainer. I haven't looked back.

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