There was some talk about whether Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" (which nobody has seen yet) was "camp" (using the word in a sense I hadn't heard it used in years). Luc Besson's "Dracula" is very definitely "camp." So is most of his stuff. Whether or not Scorsese's 1992 "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is "camp" I'm pretty sure that Baz Luhrman's "Moulin Rouge" (another influence on Besson's film) is campy, as is everything he's done.
Jonathan Harker is a bit of a nebbish. Mina is played by Roseanna Arquette's daughter. I guess it's good to know that the nepo train is still running. Dracula is incredibly old and wrinkled and then he's suddenly young again, a testimony to the regenerative quality of young blood, I guess. At some point around the 100-minute point, I started to lose interest.
I saw the rumors about Starmer, and also got a look at the crowd. If that's a verified aerial shot, wow it's a huge gathering and apparently totally peaceful.
I'll say it--Dracula is a lousy book. As bad in its way as Frankenstein. I haven't seen most of the adaptations, but must suppose them to be about the same.
OTOH, I looove doing my Bela Lugosi Dracula line imitation-- "To be dead, to be truly dead, must be glorious, Doctor Van Helsing!"
A group of protesters in London despicably called for a controversial rightwing figure to be killed, “like Charlie Kirk,” disturbing video shows.
The crowd was filmed chanting about Tommy Robinson, who organized a massive “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London Saturday which saw tens of thousands of demonstrators turn out.
“Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk!” they can be heard chanting in the clip.
People are already complaining about Lupita Nyong'o as "Helen of Troy" aka the most beautiful woman in the ancient world. But they're Ok with Matt Damon as Odysseus!
Just give it up Dude Bros. You lost western civilization a long time ago. The Rightwing just wont get it through their heads that Hollyweird is just that. Whining about "Wokeness" isn't going to accomplish anything.
Here's an idea - go read the Odyssey. Robert Fagles did an excellent translation. Accept the fact that Hollywood movies are made for morons. And they are leftists.
Keir Starmer stepping down is like Trudeau. He will when he has certainty in his successor. Canada isn’t better because Trudeau is gone and Carney is cleaning things up. It is a different name as a figurehead of the corruption.
I’ll believe the people overthrew a corrupt leader when Keir Starmer is held to account for his crimes. He won’t be.
Keir Starmer. LOL. I keep calling him Keith. He should've been kept out of office just for having a fake "celtic" first name. He's English. Not Scottish. Not Irish. He's not a "Keir". Message: I dont Keir.
The problem isn't "Keir" - its Labour. People got so sick of the Goddamn Tories and their lies and contempt for the average Brit. And they got Labour. That hates the average Englishman even more.
Sadly because of the British system they'll have to wait till 2029 to vote them out.
Eliot Page is in the new Nolan movie. My guess is that he's playing the part of Tiresias. That's a role that he can credibly play. There aren't a lot of other roles that Eliot can comfortably play. Whatever role he plays, the audience is going to be paying more attention to him than to his screen character......I've never read Dracula. It's probably a bad book, but it films well.....I read one James Bond novel. Meh. He's better on the screen than on the page......I've seen several screen versions of Vanity Fair. They never seem to work. There's something about Becky Sharp that doesn't translate to the screen the way Jane Austen's characters do.
Watching the goldfish in my pond again. There are eight of them. I bought them two years ago, at a pet store. They were less than an inch long, and they sold them five for a dollar, to be fed to other pets. Lizards. Turtles. Bigger fish. Snakes. They scooped them up in a plastic bag, and sealed the end with a rubber band, and off you go, to your fate. The fate of this batch was to laze about in my pond, getting bigger and fatter, and performing some kind of weird social clumping thing. There is apparently plenty to eat in that pond, but I also give them these pellets that are supposed to make their colors brighter. They seem to work, they are quite lovely when they hoist themselves onto the lily-pads, or thrash about in the shallows. A radiant orange color, with these intricate highlights of gold along the edges of their scales. But what I am interested in this evening, since it's cloudy and I can't see Jupiter and Venus going down in the West, is those pellets. I toss in a handful, a dozen or so, and they land a few inches apart, each one making a disturbance which consists of a concentric set of rings. But as those waves spread, they merge with each other, so that after a couple seconds, there is a single concentric set of rings, centered on the middle of where they all landed. I guess you could call it the "center of splash". For those who have studied physics, this is a near-field/far-field situation. But it is fascinating to watch it develop on the surface of the pond. I am in danger of over-feeding my little pet-food refugees.
The Dark Knight has perhaps the most fantastic bad guy I've ever seen in a drama. Better than Darth Vader, better than anybody. And drama is defined by your bad guy. Heath Ledger is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. Christian Bale is very good. Ledger is in a place where few actors have ever been.
On the eve of the London protests something happened that may have crystallized things for the British Normies. A young man was walking home from a pup and chanced upon a Sikh wearing, and possibly waving around, a ceremonial sword. As the wearing of a sword, like the wearing of a turban, is part of the Sikh religion, he is legally allowed to have a genuine, sharp, sword in public. He and the young man somehow got into an argument, the attacked the native Brit, and the Brit ran away.
He almost made it, but the Sikh caught up with him as he tried to get over a fence, and stabbed him multiple times. At this point the police came upon the scene. The Sikh claimed that the native Brit had called him a racial slur, and the police handcuffed the victim, who bled out still in handcuffs.
The Sikh is now in custody. He had his victim's cell phone on his person, and there is a claim, which I have not been able to verify, that it is damning about the Sikh's behavior. Be that as it may, the thought that the police in Starmer's Britain handcuffed a man with multiple stab wounds on the unsupported claim of a racial slur says volumes about the place where law enforcement is in Starmer's England.
1992 Dracula was Coppola, as Lazarus I'm sure knows but just transposed the name of the other iconic Italian 70's filmmaker. And I agree with Lazarus about the movie, a stinking mess. By the time you get to the cowboy with the silver bullets in his Winchester, it's gone from camp to crap. I also concur with Narr concerning the literary quality of the two novels, Dracula and Frankenstein. The first is written as a collection of letters and it is a dreary slog, the second is better but still freighted with dated prose. Universal made simple and enjoyable movies out of two unwieldy stories that were not fun to read.
I've never read the original Dracula, nor the original Frankenstein.
I will, however, heartily recommend Fred Saberhagen's Dracula series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40505-dracula). He also wrote The Frankenstein Papers, which I remember reading, but cannot recall much about it. I recall most of the Dracula series, and think each book would make a good standalone movie. Perhaps a totally AI movie since AI is getting more realistic every day.
He is best known for his Berserker series. (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40506-berserker) And I didn't bring it up in an earlier thread there are, IMHO, only two universal explanations for the complete lack of any kind of evidence of alien cultures. One, God, or mere chance, created us and only us. (Also called The Ultimate Anthropic Principle.) There are no others. Two- Berserkers are real and snuff out intelligent life whenever and wherever they detect it. Any other explanation requires that all preexisting civilizations cannot overcome the obstacles placed in front of them. And the "Zoo Hypothesis" is particularly laughable. How would they hide all the light trails and ship wakes, as well as all the interstellar communications?
I fear sometimes the answer may be simpler. Civilizations and species strive towards stasis. We can see that evident in many of Earth's civilizations. Particularly in the Orient. China and Japan were both happy for centuries without change. India also, but in a different manner. The Chinese developed gunpowder centuries before Europe. European nations used gunpower and iron to subdue China. Even today the question always arises "Why should we spend money on space when we could use that money to feed the starving multitudes on Earth?" The fact that throwing money- or even direct food aid- at that questions has never worked doesn't mean it won't work again... Most people are comfortable with a never changing world. Those that revel in it- like me- are rare. Those that can enact major change- like Elon Musk- are even rarer. Is Elon the real life version of Delos D. Harriman? He may be. I'm rooting for him. He's a flawed human being in many ways, but many who have accomplished great things are.
My favorite Dracula movies are the 1931 starring Bela Lugosi, Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu starring Klaus Kinski, and Dan Curtis's 1974 version starring Jack Palance. Dan Curtis who brought us Kolchak The Night Stalker- 70's television would be much poorer without Dan Curtis's contributions. https://youtu.be/5XiGUPoxJ-M?si=wBAe1CBm5EfJGwYG
Dishonest, Dumbshit RINO Bill Cassidy lost in LA primary. The fool got 25 percent of the vote. Way to go Bill!
He couldn't resist Grandstanding in Jan 2021 and joining the D's to convict Trump of some mysterious "Crime" no one has ever been able to state clearly.
And now he's paid the price. He could've shown some guts on J6 and spoke to the "mob" but like all the R Senators he hid in the basement, pissed in his pants, and cried for the Capital hill police to murder the protestors.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a very entertaining book. Jonathon Harker's sojourn in the castle, the story of the doomed ship that carries Dracula to England, Renfrew's madness, Lucy's illness, death and annihilation at Van Helsing's hands, the pursuit of Dracula in Transylvania are all well told and extremely memorable. There's a reason that it has become part of our culture.
Jupiter, that was one of the best pieces of writing i have ever read as an exposition of the real, contemporary American outlook. The way we are. It's like what EB White used to do. But then we became mesmerized by Hunter Thompson -sanity observing insanity. Well, that's all exciting. But most people are still just living the life, only our lives have these Japanese garden moments that reach beyond. We aren't disconnected from them but the (il)literate culture is. They say "America is hard to find" and it is - big, loud, intrusive as we seem to be - and this an example of that.
This piece ought to be in anthologies showing America was still alive but I suppose it will sink away. You should send it somewhere. Perfection is lucky strike for anyone.
I suspect it's because she's a fantastic plotter. Her books are tightly structured (apparently -- I can't read them) and make fantastic films.
Twain's books, on the other hand, are unwieldy and all over the place. They make lousy films.
Austen is obsessed with class. That may be why I find her so unreadable. She keeps writing about Who's Who in the Who's Who. And you can see why Twain would despise her. But she's a deeply humanist writer. And her books are filled with passion. I love her from afar because I cannot read her.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 STEPHEN A. SMITH NAILED IT PERFECTLY:
CALLER: Some of MAGA are mentally ill
SMITH: "Nope, nope, nope, don't talk to ME about mental illness on the side of the right — but you have people talking about transgender without parental consent!"
"And men transitioning to women and playing in women's sports, and thinking that that was OK!"
"And people could be incarcerated and they could have s*x changes and stuff like that. Oh, no, no, no!"
"You don't get to sit up there and just point to the right about that and not act like there wasn't craziness on the left too."
"[Democrats are] turning your back on black folks who supported you since the 60s. Don't get me started with all of that!"
"The extreme left is a DAMN PROBLEM! That's why 77 million people said Donald Trump is closer to normalcy than some of those folks!" 🔥
"How would they hide all the light trails and ship wakes, as well as all the interstellar communications?" Maybe there aren't any light trails and ship wakes, because all that faster-than-light stuff is complete and utter fantasy.
It's not antisemitic to oppose Israel. Every Jewish person I know does, and they are ashamed of what Israel is doing in their name. There are Orthodox Jews who believe literally in the Bronze Age text we call the Old Testament, and believe that God has ordained that Israel should dominate the Middle East, like a lot of evangelicals, the common theme is zionism, not Judaism, so stow the "antisemitism" charge.
Here is Robert Barnes, google him with DuckDuckGo and set the date range to the period leading up to the 2024 election before you accuse him of Trump derangement syndrome. He was a huge supporter and helped get Trump elected twice. In fact he won a $500,000 bet in 2016 that Trump would win. The interviewer is a Ukrainian, born in Donbas, who served in the US military, but now lives in Russia. He worked for Haliburton in the ME for a stretch.
"That Trump is gone." —Robert Barnes of Barnes Law.
He will also tell you exactly how the polls are lying to you if you think that Trump is actually holding up with the former MAGA base, he's not. Just with the boomer cons and Israel firsters.
Bibi is now telling trump he needs to start bombing again, this think is going nowhere fast. Putin and XI meeting to discuss what kind of help to send IRAN, BOMBS,INFO,SPIES, ? It's time for the administration to say War WILL BE over in 2 weeks (AGAIN) before numbers come out, check KALSHI for the odds.
Watching the Rededicate 250 WH-coordinated faith fest on the Mall. Pretty good. Lots of cheesy praise bands; guess it's the clock-radio concept. But since I started late, I can fast-forward thru them to the speakers. Bishop Barron was quite good. Jonathan Roumie as always showed that you can be religious and still be cool. The president of Hillsdale gave a very short speech. Hegseth provided a recorded address - nothing really memorable for good or ill. One of the many Soloveichik rabbis talked about Irving Berlin seeing pogroms then coming here and writing God Bless America.
A really good pre-recorded message from Marco Rubio (yes, I am surprised he didn't build the stage then say Mass while playing guitar in his own praise band; guess he got a bit of a break).
Coolest thing he said is that before Christianity, all religions were about the cycle of nature: rains/dry seasons, flooding/receding rivers, etc. Those civilizations were on wheels going nowhere - they did not progress. Christianity OTOH is a leap into the unknown future, so our civilization progresses. He gave many examples of how explorers and inventors were overtly informed and inspired by Christianity and the Bible.
Not quite what Dawkins and I say about Christianity underlying modernity in less overt ways, but still pretty damn cool. CC, JSM
Trump's pre-recorded message has him reading the bible passage where (I'm paraphrasing) God allows Solomon to build a temple, and says if you walk in my ways, I will bring prosperity to Israel, but if you go after the gods of the Goyim, I got something for you.
Was distracted and so I couldn't FF past Blessing Offor. Glad I didn't. Actually a quality musician and singer. Kind of a mix of jazz and emo - kind of reminds me of Francis And The Lights. He's black and blind with a higher voice, so the Stevie Wonder parallels come naturally. CC, JSM
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There was some talk about whether Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" (which nobody has seen yet) was "camp" (using the word in a sense I hadn't heard it used in years). Luc Besson's "Dracula" is very definitely "camp." So is most of his stuff. Whether or not Scorsese's 1992 "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is "camp" I'm pretty sure that Baz Luhrman's "Moulin Rouge" (another influence on Besson's film) is campy, as is everything he's done.
Jonathan Harker is a bit of a nebbish. Mina is played by Roseanna Arquette's daughter. I guess it's good to know that the nepo train is still running. Dracula is incredibly old and wrinkled and then he's suddenly young again, a testimony to the regenerative quality of young blood, I guess. At some point around the 100-minute point, I started to lose interest.
I think coppola was trying to be very faithful to the book
Although what he had gary oldman speak wasnt romanian
Kier Starmer is the first European ruler to fall.
Tommy Robinson won.
Trump had to defeat our globalist rulers first. Now all of the dominos are going to start falling.
I like the top pic best.
I saw the rumors about Starmer, and also got a look at the crowd. If that's a verified aerial shot, wow it's a huge gathering and apparently totally peaceful.
Robert eggers version was weird
Luc besson is more frank about frances true nature from paris with love and three days to kill but politically bonkers
He got his film set trashed in one of those mostly peaceful ban lieus years before bataclan
I'll say it--Dracula is a lousy book. As bad in its way as Frankenstein. I haven't seen most of the adaptations, but must suppose them to be about the same.
OTOH, I looove doing my Bela Lugosi Dracula line imitation--
"To be dead, to be truly dead, must be glorious, Doctor Van Helsing!"
Re: Tommy Robinson...
A group of protesters in London despicably called for a controversial rightwing figure to be killed, “like Charlie Kirk,” disturbing video shows.
The crowd was filmed chanting about Tommy Robinson, who organized a massive “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London Saturday which saw tens of thousands of demonstrators turn out.
“Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk!” they can be heard chanting in the clip.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/world-news/shoot-him-in-the-neck-like-charlie-kirk-vile-chant-erupts-during-massive-london-protests/
Stay classy, leftards.
As long as I'm slagging artistes and auteurs, let me add that I've never enjoyed a Nolan movie, and the critiques I've seen have been brutal.
The British swamp will do all it can make the resistance there violent, even if only in the lies they tell about it. It won't work.
People are already complaining about Lupita Nyong'o as "Helen of Troy" aka the most beautiful woman in the ancient world. But they're Ok with Matt Damon as Odysseus!
Just give it up Dude Bros. You lost western civilization a long time ago. The Rightwing just wont get it through their heads that Hollyweird is just that. Whining about "Wokeness" isn't going to accomplish anything.
Here's an idea - go read the Odyssey. Robert Fagles did an excellent translation. Accept the fact that Hollywood movies are made for morons. And they are leftists.
Keir Starmer stepping down is like Trudeau. He will when he has certainty in his successor. Canada isn’t better because Trudeau is gone and Carney is cleaning things up. It is a different name as a figurehead of the corruption.
I’ll believe the people overthrew a corrupt leader when Keir Starmer is held to account for his crimes. He won’t be.
Man Carrying things on the New Noland movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsQkJdHkKI
Keir Starmer. LOL. I keep calling him Keith. He should've been kept out of office just for having a fake "celtic" first name. He's English. Not Scottish. Not Irish. He's not a "Keir". Message: I dont Keir.
The problem isn't "Keir" - its Labour. People got so sick of the Goddamn Tories and their lies and contempt for the average Brit. And they got Labour. That hates the average Englishman even more.
Sadly because of the British system they'll have to wait till 2029 to vote them out.
"The British swamp will do all it can make the resistance there violent, even if only in the lies they tell about it. It won't work."
Don't be so sure.
Eliot Page is in the new Nolan movie. My guess is that he's playing the part of Tiresias. That's a role that he can credibly play. There aren't a lot of other roles that Eliot can comfortably play. Whatever role he plays, the audience is going to be paying more attention to him than to his screen character......I've never read Dracula. It's probably a bad book, but it films well.....I read one James Bond novel. Meh. He's better on the screen than on the page......I've seen several screen versions of Vanity Fair. They never seem to work. There's something about Becky Sharp that doesn't translate to the screen the way Jane Austen's characters do.
Watching the goldfish in my pond again. There are eight of them. I bought them two years ago, at a pet store. They were less than an inch long, and they sold them five for a dollar, to be fed to other pets. Lizards. Turtles. Bigger fish. Snakes. They scooped them up in a plastic bag, and sealed the end with a rubber band, and off you go, to your fate.
The fate of this batch was to laze about in my pond, getting bigger and fatter, and performing some kind of weird social clumping thing. There is apparently plenty to eat in that pond, but I also give them these pellets that are supposed to make their colors brighter. They seem to work, they are quite lovely when they hoist themselves onto the lily-pads, or thrash about in the shallows. A radiant orange color, with these intricate highlights of gold along the edges of their scales.
But what I am interested in this evening, since it's cloudy and I can't see Jupiter and Venus going down in the West, is those pellets. I toss in a handful, a dozen or so, and they land a few inches apart, each one making a disturbance which consists of a concentric set of rings. But as those waves spread, they merge with each other, so that after a couple seconds, there is a single concentric set of rings, centered on the middle of where they all landed. I guess you could call it the "center of splash".
For those who have studied physics, this is a near-field/far-field situation. But it is fascinating to watch it develop on the surface of the pond. I am in danger of over-feeding my little pet-food refugees.
I've never enjoyed a Nolan movie
The Dark Knight has perhaps the most fantastic bad guy I've ever seen in a drama. Better than Darth Vader, better than anybody. And drama is defined by your bad guy. Heath Ledger is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. Christian Bale is very good. Ledger is in a place where few actors have ever been.
These two know exactly how to get under Trump's skin.
Putin to visit Chinese leader Xi Jinping days after Trump’s trip to Beijing ~ AP
Starmer is not going to step down. But they will kick him out.
On the eve of the London protests something happened that may have crystallized things for the British Normies. A young man was walking home from a pup and chanced upon a Sikh wearing, and possibly waving around, a ceremonial sword. As the wearing of a sword, like the wearing of a turban, is part of the Sikh religion, he is legally allowed to have a genuine, sharp, sword in public. He and the young man somehow got into an argument, the attacked the native Brit, and the Brit ran away.
He almost made it, but the Sikh caught up with him as he tried to get over a fence, and stabbed him multiple times. At this point the police came upon the scene. The Sikh claimed that the native Brit had called him a racial slur, and the police handcuffed the victim, who bled out still in handcuffs.
The Sikh is now in custody. He had his victim's cell phone on his person, and there is a claim, which I have not been able to verify, that it is damning about the Sikh's behavior. Be that as it may, the thought that the police in Starmer's Britain handcuffed a man with multiple stab wounds on the unsupported claim of a racial slur says volumes about the place where law enforcement is in Starmer's England.
Starmer is like Julius Caesar now. Et tu, Brute?
Weird that they don't vote for p.m. in the u.k.
It's all conspiracy and daggers in the back over there.
Herr Schtarmer will eventually fuck off. What a ridiculous failure he proved to be and at a time when the UK could least afford it.
@Saint.Croix, the Brits think it’s weird tha we can have a President from one party but Congress in the hands of a different party.
The first photo is so… inviting. Come, glide with me into this new day.
1992 Dracula was Coppola, as Lazarus I'm sure knows but just transposed the name of the other iconic Italian 70's filmmaker. And I agree with Lazarus about the movie, a stinking mess. By the time you get to the cowboy with the silver bullets in his Winchester, it's gone from camp to crap.
I also concur with Narr concerning the literary quality of the two novels, Dracula and Frankenstein. The first is written as a collection of letters and it is a dreary slog, the second is better but still freighted with dated prose. Universal made simple and enjoyable movies out of two unwieldy stories that were not fun to read.
I've never read the original Dracula, nor the original Frankenstein.
I will, however, heartily recommend Fred Saberhagen's Dracula series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40505-dracula). He also wrote The Frankenstein Papers, which I remember reading, but cannot recall much about it. I recall most of the Dracula series, and think each book would make a good standalone movie. Perhaps a totally AI movie since AI is getting more realistic every day.
He is best known for his Berserker series. (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40506-berserker) And I didn't bring it up in an earlier thread there are, IMHO, only two universal explanations for the complete lack of any kind of evidence of alien cultures. One, God, or mere chance, created us and only us. (Also called The Ultimate Anthropic Principle.) There are no others. Two- Berserkers are real and snuff out intelligent life whenever and wherever they detect it. Any other explanation requires that all preexisting civilizations cannot overcome the obstacles placed in front of them. And the "Zoo Hypothesis" is particularly laughable. How would they hide all the light trails and ship wakes, as well as all the interstellar communications?
I fear sometimes the answer may be simpler. Civilizations and species strive towards stasis. We can see that evident in many of Earth's civilizations. Particularly in the Orient. China and Japan were both happy for centuries without change. India also, but in a different manner. The Chinese developed gunpowder centuries before Europe. European nations used gunpower and iron to subdue China. Even today the question always arises "Why should we spend money on space when we could use that money to feed the starving multitudes on Earth?" The fact that throwing money- or even direct food aid- at that questions has never worked doesn't mean it won't work again... Most people are comfortable with a never changing world. Those that revel in it- like me- are rare. Those that can enact major change- like Elon Musk- are even rarer. Is Elon the real life version of Delos D. Harriman? He may be. I'm rooting for him. He's a flawed human being in many ways, but many who have accomplished great things are.
@Saint.Croix, the Brits think it’s weird tha we can have a President from one party but Congress in the hands of a different party.
What's kind of horrifying about our system is how weak Congress is. It's the weakest of our three branches of government.
What I like about the UK system is when they sit opposite each other and dog each other out in the open. That's pretty cool.
My favorite Dracula movies are the 1931 starring Bela Lugosi, Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu starring Klaus Kinski, and Dan Curtis's 1974 version starring Jack Palance. Dan Curtis who brought us Kolchak The Night Stalker- 70's television would be much poorer without Dan Curtis's contributions.
https://youtu.be/5XiGUPoxJ-M?si=wBAe1CBm5EfJGwYG
Dishonest, Dumbshit RINO Bill Cassidy lost in LA primary. The fool got 25 percent of the vote. Way to go Bill!
He couldn't resist Grandstanding in Jan 2021 and joining the D's to convict Trump of some mysterious "Crime" no one has ever been able to state clearly.
And now he's paid the price. He could've shown some guts on J6 and spoke to the "mob" but like all the R Senators he hid in the basement, pissed in his pants, and cried for the Capital hill police to murder the protestors.
Hopefully, Coryn will be the next to go.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a very entertaining book. Jonathon Harker's sojourn in the castle, the story of the doomed ship that carries Dracula to England, Renfrew's madness, Lucy's illness, death and annihilation at Van Helsing's hands, the pursuit of Dracula in Transylvania are all well told and extremely memorable. There's a reason that it has become part of our culture.
St Croix: "dog each other out in the open"
That means something different in British English. CC, JSM
Jupiter, that was one of the best pieces of writing i have ever read as an exposition of the real, contemporary American outlook. The way we are. It's like what EB White used to do. But then we became mesmerized by Hunter Thompson -sanity observing insanity. Well, that's all exciting. But most people are still just living the life, only our lives have these Japanese garden moments that reach beyond. We aren't disconnected from them but the (il)literate culture is. They say "America is hard to find" and it is - big, loud, intrusive as we seem to be - and this an example of that.
This piece ought to be in anthologies showing America was still alive but I suppose it will sink away. You should send it somewhere. Perfection is lucky strike for anyone.
St Croix: "dog each other out in the open"
That means something different in British English.
ha ha
I had to google that
That ought to be a porn, the hot and angry debaters start shouting and then they're taking their clothes off
I'm not saying add Rin Tin Tin, but that would be funny
There's something about Becky Sharp that doesn't translate to the screen the way Jane Austen's characters do.
I can't read Jane Austen. I've tried and I just can't read her. I'm like Mark Twain that way. And her movies are fantastic.
Pride and Prejudice (the best, with Keira)
I also really like Emma and Mansfield Park.
I suspect it's because she's a fantastic plotter. Her books are tightly structured (apparently -- I can't read them) and make fantastic films.
Twain's books, on the other hand, are unwieldy and all over the place. They make lousy films.
Austen is obsessed with class. That may be why I find her so unreadable. She keeps writing about Who's Who in the Who's Who. And you can see why Twain would despise her. But she's a deeply humanist writer. And her books are filled with passion. I love her from afar because I cannot read her.
Dracula is a dense epistolary novel perhaps the 1979 one woth frank langella was most faithful although coppolaa was more atlospheric
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 STEPHEN A. SMITH NAILED IT PERFECTLY:
CALLER: Some of MAGA are mentally ill
SMITH: "Nope, nope, nope, don't talk to ME about mental illness on the side of the right — but you have people talking about transgender without parental consent!"
"And men transitioning to women and playing in women's sports, and thinking that that was OK!"
"And people could be incarcerated and they could have s*x changes and stuff like that. Oh, no, no, no!"
"You don't get to sit up there and just point to the right about that and not act like there wasn't craziness on the left too."
"[Democrats are] turning your back on black folks who supported you since the 60s. Don't get me started with all of that!"
"The extreme left is a DAMN PROBLEM! That's why 77 million people said Donald Trump is closer to normalcy than some of those folks!" 🔥
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@JasonJournoDC
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2055983925059531031?s=20
One might argue that stoker was revisionist to someone romania considered a hero
"How would they hide all the light trails and ship wakes, as well as all the interstellar communications?"
Maybe there aren't any light trails and ship wakes, because all that faster-than-light stuff is complete and utter fantasy.
"You should send it somewhere."
Wildswan, I did send it somewhere. I sent it to you.
There isnt a conventional work around to the mass to energy conversion ratio
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/trans-track-star-ab-hernandez-shares-california-podium-after-sweeping-finals/
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/opinion/the-lefts-turn-against-israel-is-complete-with-the-ny-times-latest-antisemitic-smear/
It's not antisemitic to oppose Israel. Every Jewish person I know does, and they are ashamed of what Israel is doing in their name. There are Orthodox Jews who believe literally in the Bronze Age text we call the Old Testament, and believe that God has ordained that Israel should dominate the Middle East, like a lot of evangelicals, the common theme is zionism, not Judaism, so stow the "antisemitism" charge.
Here is Robert Barnes, google him with DuckDuckGo and set the date range to the period leading up to the 2024 election before you accuse him of Trump derangement syndrome. He was a huge supporter and helped get Trump elected twice. In fact he won a $500,000 bet in 2016 that Trump would win. The interviewer is a Ukrainian, born in Donbas, who served in the US military, but now lives in Russia. He worked for Haliburton in the ME for a stretch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOK1boSzJH8&t=45s
"That Trump is gone." —Robert Barnes of Barnes Law.
He will also tell you exactly how the polls are lying to you if you think that Trump is actually holding up with the former MAGA base, he's not. Just with the boomer cons and Israel firsters.
Top picture is awesome. Y’all got a way with clouds.
Bibi is now telling trump he needs to start bombing again, this think is going nowhere fast. Putin and XI meeting to discuss what kind of help to send IRAN, BOMBS,INFO,SPIES, ? It's time for the administration to say War WILL BE over in 2 weeks (AGAIN) before numbers come out, check KALSHI for the odds.
Watching the Rededicate 250 WH-coordinated faith fest on the Mall. Pretty good. Lots of cheesy praise bands; guess it's the clock-radio concept. But since I started late, I can fast-forward thru them to the speakers. Bishop Barron was quite good. Jonathan Roumie as always showed that you can be religious and still be cool. The president of Hillsdale gave a very short speech. Hegseth provided a recorded address - nothing really memorable for good or ill. One of the many Soloveichik rabbis talked about Irving Berlin seeing pogroms then coming here and writing God Bless America.
Worth watching. CC, JSM
A really good pre-recorded message from Marco Rubio (yes, I am surprised he didn't build the stage then say Mass while playing guitar in his own praise band; guess he got a bit of a break).
Coolest thing he said is that before Christianity, all religions were about the cycle of nature: rains/dry seasons, flooding/receding rivers, etc. Those civilizations were on wheels going nowhere - they did not progress. Christianity OTOH is a leap into the unknown future, so our civilization progresses. He gave many examples of how explorers and inventors were overtly informed and inspired by Christianity and the Bible.
Not quite what Dawkins and I say about Christianity underlying modernity in less overt ways, but still pretty damn cool. CC, JSM
Trump's pre-recorded message has him reading the bible passage where (I'm paraphrasing) God allows Solomon to build a temple, and says if you walk in my ways, I will bring prosperity to Israel, but if you go after the gods of the Goyim, I got something for you.
Pretty damn crafty. CC, JSM
Speaker Johnson gave a very long prayer, a bit tame, but also on the theme of how US history is intertwined with Christianity. CC, JSM
Three military chaplains gave a prayer. One of them was a rabbi. All three have campaign ribbons.
Then Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, the very energetic Pontiac revrun who gave a benediction at Trump's second inaugural, really revved up the crowd.
Gabbard gave an almost entirely religious message in her recorded address. Not really attempting to blend in history or ideology. CC, JSM
Was distracted and so I couldn't FF past Blessing Offor. Glad I didn't. Actually a quality musician and singer. Kind of a mix of jazz and emo - kind of reminds me of Francis And The Lights. He's black and blind with a higher voice, so the Stevie Wonder parallels come naturally. CC, JSM
"Three military chaplains gave a prayer . . . ."
There's just got to be a joke . . .
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