Marlowe 🦇

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Not the one who wrote Shakespeare. Writer, editor, explainer, fact-checker for hire: movies, music, technology.

Created as a protest, Whitey Schafer's 1940 photograph 'Thou Shalt Not' depicts ten objects and concepts banned by the Hays Code
Photo of comedian Peter White. Overlaid is a text quote from his performance a couple of years ago: "I think the golden rule for men should be - If you're a man, don't say anything to a woman on the street that you wouldn't want a man saying to you in prison."
A lobby card for Frank Capra's screwball comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace", starring Cary Grant with a fantastic ensemble cast
A black cat sitting in judgement atop a wooden file cabinet. If you're curious, on the wall behind is memorabilia related to the Beatles, Clapton, and Iggy & the Stooges
A bright pink one-story building with two small arched windows disproportionately high on the wall and one rectangular window that looks like a door used to be there. Written in script are the words, "Hey pal, my eyes are up here"
A black cat sleeping contentedly on a sofa upholstered in a muted peacock feather print fabric. Both the cat and the sofa have lasted longer then the Confederacy
Photo of a youngish Keith Richards, cigarette dangling from his mouth, posing with a guitar
Graphic shows not much information about California's property tax postponement program and suggests visiting ptp.sco.ca.gov or calling 800-952-5661 to learn more
Photo is a closeup of a cheap computer speaker. The layout of knobs and random open space are reminiscent of a distressed face
Photo shows a plaque at St Anne's Well Gardens in Hive, commemorating the site of George Albert Smith's film studio
Baby bat dressed in a Santa-style red hat, trimmed in white, and a matching cape. It's being gently held by a bat rescuer in Australia
Text mistakes Suni Muslims and instead declares them to be "sunny". It reads: "Leo made the appeal during a Mass on Saturday in Istanbul for Turkey’s tiny Catholic community, which numbers around 33,000 in a country of 85 million, mostly Sunny Muslims"
Photo of a white air fryer on a wooden table. The placement of the controls and handle makes it look like the head of a plastic robot doing its best to please humans
Photo shows a modern day Bonfire Night commemoration with costumed men preparing to burn an oversized effigy of Guy Fawkes
Photo of a commercially released cassette tape of Bow Wow Wow's earworm single "C:30 C:60 C:90 Go!"
AI generated image shows the White House with construction workers building a Death Star in place of the vaporized East Wing
Search Assist AI reply says: Some five-letter Shakespeare character names in Clyde Aaron from "Titus Andronicus" and Balthazar from "Romeo and Juliet"
An image from the 1962 movie "Billy Budd" showing Terence Stamp in the title role with Robert Ryan as the Master of Arms
Screenshot from a DuckDuckGo search for the actress Sarah Palmer that conflates her with Grace Zabriskie, who portrayed the 'Twin Peaks' character Sarah Palmer
Artwork shows Judge Dredd with the catchphrase "I am the law!" in giant red letters
Xkcd comic showing Palpatine, random guy, and Darth Vader IT WAS I WHO ALLOWED THE ALLIANCE TO KNOW THE LOCATION OF THE SHIELD GENERATOR. YOU MEAN "IT WAS ME." YOU'RE FOLLOWING AN ARCHAIC GRAMMAR RULE. IT WAS ME WHO ALLOWED THE- NO, MY MASTER, AN ARCHAIC TONE IS APPROPRIATE HERE. THE SENTENCE SOUNDS- IT WAS I WHO ALLOWED- COME ON, THE ACCUSATIVE CASE IS FINE. NOMINATIVE PRONOUNS ARE- IT ME 1 I ALLOWED IT MY MASTER, PLEASE NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN.
Gif of The Count from Sesame Street
Photo of a black kitten ready for an imaginary fight. Credit https://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/36537-black-kitten-frightened
Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz. The photo shows a red baseball cap embroidered with Make Americans Go Away on the front and the Greenland flag on the side
Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz. The photo shows a red baseball cap embroidered with Make Americans Go Away on the front and the Greenland flag on the side
Image shows a painting of Julius Caesar being assassinated. A text overlay says March 15 - Beware the Ides of March
Linocut portrait of Pat Bag, later known as Patricia Morrison, by artist Mark Vallen
Still from 1983 movie "The Hunger" showing Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie
A quote from Christopher Marlowe against a background of bookshelves: I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper, and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books burned. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus Act II, scene 2
A quote from William Shakespeare I know he would not be a wolf But that he sees the Romans are but sheep. He were no lion were not Romans hinds. Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 3
Black and white photo of a fenced path surrounded by winter trees. Overlaid is this text: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think.'" — G. K. Chesterton
Photo shows empty liquor store shelves that display signs reading "Buy Canadian Instead"
Quote from Raymond Chandler: "There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
Quote from Raymond Chandler: "There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
Screenshot of headline "Live: Former President Jimmy Carter continues to lie in repose"
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate (Movie still from "Addams Family Values)
A still from the movie "Dr. Strangelove" in which the mentally unstable general warns fluoride is dangerous
A still from Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film "Barry Lyndon" that shows a beautiful English landscape reminiscent of a Constable painting. Five people are in the middle distance
A montage of 1970 pop music images surrounding the logo of famous pirate radio station Radio Luxembourg
Sculpture of Julius Caesar
A screenshot of a post by beloved English lexicographer Susie Dent that says, "Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve."
An artist's illustration of what Guy Fawkes might have looked like. There's a silhouette of the Houses of Parliament behind him, reminding us that he plotted to blow up that building.
Black cat stretched out on laptop keyboard
A jumble of six very young black cats, each of which is wearing bat wings. Unlike my cats, they don't seem to mind.
A tweet from Tim Robbins that reads: 'To anyone drawing a parallel between my film Bob Roberts and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s be clear. What happened yesterday was a real attempt on a presidential candidate’s life. Those that are denying the assassination attempt was real are truly in a deranged mindset. A human being was shot yesterday. Another killed. They may not be human beings that you agree with politically but for shame folks. Get over your blind hatred of these people. They are fellow Americans. This collective hatred is killing our souls and consuming whatever is left of our humanity."
Twitter user comment: "they came for Dolly. we ride at dawn "
A medieval painting shows three women in courtly attire, along with an animal that certainly appears to be a cat in full armor. Helmet, visor, and even a flexible metal tube for its tail
Original poster shared a photo of Prince William, casting doubt in a recent survey's claim that he's the third sexist man in the UK "unless there are only three men there"
Picture shows a possessed Karen Black alongside the evil doll that possessed her in the movie "Trilogy of Terror"
Hypoolyta: "This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard"