Michael

@durak.bsky.social

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moderately healthy adult

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poster for Babylon A.D.
A dumbbell rack with the dumbbells all disorganized
G. Gordon Liddy shakes Joan Rivers's hand in a boxing/wrestling ring
A small grey Tom Bihn bag
A man in a hat and sunglasses sitting in front of a handheld microphone, from the film Breathless
A big bowl of labneh
A recruitment ad for the U.S Postal Inspection Service
Final score: Nationals 5, Pirates 16
confirmation information for the purchase of a ticket to see the film Satantango in theaters
Five books on a shelf, one of which is 'Remembrance of Things Past' Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
Posters, showtimes for: Breaking the Waves, Au Hasard Balthazar, Threads, Mikey and Nicky, Trouble Every Day, Wake in Fright
bleak week: cinema of despair June 12-18
two people sit behind a desk the ~7 monitors
Portrait of Washington Nationals pitcher Miles Mikolas. He has a big, bushy mustache
The Maryland Mentioned meme
Two loaves of fresh baked bread
Two ads for a bottled green tea drink featuring baseball player Shohei Ohtani in the window of Japanese store
Still from the music video for "Guillotine" by Death Grips with the word 'Creatine' in all caps across the image
Videos and Popular Videos from the BroScienceLife youtube page.
Revolver "Liquid Ocelot" Ocelot from the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots pointing a finger-gun at his head
"We've been turned in for everything. We had a raid here. It was a set-up deal. A couple of crooked cops had some guy bring in cans of lunch meat. The guy said he's goin' out of business and he had a couple cases. I got a good price off of him. I set it in the aisle. About a half an hour later in walks these two guys. 'That's stolen merchandise. What else you got that's stolen?" They went through the house. 'We're gonna have to take your television. We're gonna have to take this. This is stolen. That's stolen. We know how things are. Give us a thousand dollars and we'll leave you alone. "We were new at this thing and got scared. So I went out and borrowed the money and gave it to these guys. I took the license number of their car and reported it. They put us through a lie detector test. They didn't want to believe us. We had to go to the police show-up and things like that. During this time cop after cop was comin' in raiding us with search warrants, just harassment, one thing after another. All the time, we were waitin' to identify these guys at the show-up. "The phone'd ring all night long, with heavy breathing and all. They worked on the family and stuff like that. We had health inspectors, building inspectors, fire inspectors, all the harassments of the city that you could get. Just because we turned in a couple of cops. They were hushing it up all down the line." Irene interjects: "One day, nine or eleven plainclothesmen come in and started goin' through the store, tearing stuff out and everything. He has a search warrant that we had a printing press and we're supposed to be print-ing false credit cards and false ID cards. They tore the place upside down, up in the attic, in the basement. What really took the cake, they came in looking for these pornography books. They said some woman in the neighborhood reported us that we were selling to children. They put me in a state of shock. What we were selling were those coin saver books. We had 'em behind the counter …
The novel Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
Balzac's work habits were legendary. He wrote from 1 A.M. to 8 A.M. every morning and sometimes even longer. Balzac could write very rapidly; some of his novels, written with a quill, were composed at a pace equal to thirty words per minute on a modern typewriter. [59] His preferred method was to eat a light meal at five or six in the afternoon, then sleep until midnight. He then rose and wrote for many hours, fueled by innumerable cups of black coffee. He often worked for fifteen hours or more at a stretch; he claimed to have once worked for 48 hours with only three hours of rest in the middle. [24]
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
A can of diet coke with a price sticker: $5.99
The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
Years ago, we ran through city streets, alongside streetcars, buses, and what have you. It was a two-hour run from the mills of Gary to the North Side of Chicago. Some seventy-six traffic lights. Every one of them had to be individually timed and played differently. If you have to stop that truck and start it, it's not only aggravating and tiring, but you'd wear out the truck twice as fast as you would if you made those lights. It was a constant thing of playing these lights almost by instinct. This is all changed with the expressways. It's just as if automation had entered the trucking business. Now you pull out of U.S. Steel in Gary and you don't have a light until you drop off at the expressway in the city of Milwaukee. It's a miracle compared to what it used to be. So much easier on yourself, on your equipment.
Since the wildcat strike of 1967 he's been an organizer for the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers (FASH). "Forty-six months trying to build an association, to give the haulers a voice and get 'em better working con-ditions. And a terrific fight with the Teamsters Union."
He had just bought a hat; they all started trying it on.
Fortunes of War, The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning; Trojan Instrumentals Box Set; Godsmack, Godsmack
URGENT: Tell the Senate to Protect Trans Health ATE ADVOCATES FOR All done! Thanks for taking action on this important issue. Your message has been delivered to Senator Angela Alsobrooks and Senator Chris Van Hollen. Thank you again for your support!
"You know something," he went on, sprinkling sugar on some pink rhubarb, "you and your friends are playing with fire. There can be really terrifying occurrences. One Viennese doctor told me about some incredible metamorphoses the other day. Some woman-some kind of fortune-telling hysteric-died, of a heart attack I think, and, when the doctor undressed her (it all happened in a Hungarian hut, by candle-light), he was stunned at the sight of her body; it was entirely covered with a reddish sheen, was soft and slimy to the touch, and, upon closer examination, he realized that this plump, taut cadaver consisted entirely of narrow, circular bands of skin, as if it were all bound evenly and tightly by invisible strings, something like that advertisement for French tires, the man whose body is all tires. Except that in her case these tires were very thin and pale red. And, as the doctor watched, the corpse gradually began to unwind like a huge ball of yarn... Her body was a thin, endless worm, which was disentangling itself and crawling, slithering out through the crack under the door while, on the bed, there remained a naked, white, still humid skeleton. Yet this woman had a husband, who had once kissed her-kissed that worm."
A drawing of Lena Dunham. Caption: Lena Dunham ("Goodbye to All This," online only) is an Emmy-nominated
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders; 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Mission: Impossible - Fallout; All the President's Men; Targets; Wrath of Man
“If he ever ends up back in the United States, he would immediately be deported again,” Leavitt said. “Nothing will change the fact that Abrego García will never be a Maryland father. He will never live in the United States of America again.”
Letterboxd Recent Activity: Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation; Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol; Mission: Impossible: III; To Live and Die in L.A.
Movie poster for DelMar: a young woman surfs a wave
Still from Monument: a chemically altered 8mm frame of a statue of Abraham Lincoln's head superimposed over a color-inverted still of a riot cope wielding a can of pepper spray
Still from Black Printmakers of Washington, DC: Percy B. Martin & Michael B. Platt: an artistic rendering of a African American face painted yellow
Movie poster for Dora Fugh Lee: A Life in Art: a collage of the artist's work
Movie poster for Moon Crab: a top-down view of a horseshoe crab on a blue background of seaweed, shells, and fossils
Movie poster for Back to the Sky: a hooded hawk is held down on a medical examination surface
Letterboxd Recent Activity: Mission: Impossible 2 (4 stars, liked), Mission: Impossible (5 stars, liked), The Mechanic (3 stars), The Mechanic: Resurrection (2.5 stars)
“We got 160 [games] left; nobody’s hitting the panic button,” said Sims, who has a 40.50 ERA. “It’s two bad games. We’ll get another one tomorrow, and
A label on Trader Joe's Dijon mustard. Reads: Trader Joe's Dijon Mustard is made according to ancient methods.
Letterboxd Recent Activity: Spectre, Vivre Sa Vie, Trinity and Beyond, Wicked City
Peter Griffin of Family Guy doing the Grinds My Gears TV segment. Text overlay reads "IF YOU'RE STILL SLEEP KILL YOURSELF; CUZ IT'S BLACK BAG FRIDAY"
Letterboxd Recent Activity: Stagecoach (4.5 stars, liked), Golgo 13: The Professional (4.5 stars, liked), Demonlover (4 stars), Irma Vep (5 stars, liked)
Maggie Cheung in a latex bodysuit paces around and leaves a hotel room while "Tunic (Song for Karen)" plays diegetically in the background. From the film Irma Vep (1996(