“Lions Also Cry” - Gato Barbieri

For a long time it was Huevos Rancheros, but that got nudged into the #2 spot when I discovered Eggs Benedict.

Is their first language Python, by any chance?

Stalfarfar!

ROTFLex

I’m afraid they might be a whole bunch of oldies but goodies:

2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Empire Strikes Back.
Miller’s Crossing (the third movie written and directed by the Coen brothers, from 1989).
A Bridge Too Far (from 1977, a sprawling, star-studded epic about the Allies and their costly, ill-advised and ultimately unsuccessful Operation Market-Garden in WWII).
A Bout De Soufflé. (Godard’s seminal French New Wave cannon blast).
From Russia With Love.
The Spy Who Loved Me.

He’s still got a valid point. In songs and in some ads, they even show up.
Add cellphone ringtones to that list, the list of “whoever thought this was a clever idea is an idiot” ideas.

This visual is uniquely soothing, reminds me of artist Cory Arcangel, who did an art piece with just the Super Mario clouds drifting on a television screen - hacking into the NES cartridge and getting rid of everything else - to much admiration.

I remember reading an art journalist applauding the Impressionistic feel of the thing, the way Arcangel brought a background object to the fore, and in the process transformed it into something new entirely, with a surprising character and strength of presence.

Here’s a Whitney Museum link to the work.

Must be Yonge Street. That’s where all the wickedness and… sinfulness… prowls. Oh dear… I do believe I am getting a case of the vapors… quick, do be a darling hand me my Holy Bible to clutch and feel the warmth and comfort of the word.

Diamonds, or any sort of gemstone, as trying to sell those things would probably be as risky as stealing them in the first place.

Pulling SIX times sends you to the Oceanview Motel 6 & Casino!

The thing about Perry is that everyone always suspected the ball had funny stuff even when there was nothing on it that day, and Perry stoked that feeling, was a GOAT at playing mind games with opposing batters, keeping them off-balance, never knowing if it was coming or not.

California government gets it right way more often than wrong, since it went solidly Democrat. Not perfect, nothing can be, but leaning towards the correct direction. Here it is again.

Reminds me of 1970s ace pitcher for the Oakland A’s, Vida Blue. One time in… I think it was '72… he got fined $250 for some harsh behavior or comment, maybe it was to the umpire or an opposing player. Already a superstar, Vida Blue was an aggressive competitor, known for speaking his mind, took no shit from anybody.

Anyway, he paid it all in quarters, dimes and nickels. Asked about this at the time, he replied - “I wanted to pay it all in pennies, but they’re hard to come by”.

I wish I could have seen his face when he committed to the prankster bit. “Oh, you wanna fine me, motherfuckers? I’m gonna make even that a hassle for ya.”
The man was a legend. A monster on the mound, too, in '71 he won both the AL Cy Young and MVP.

Pull on the chain once for bright genie,
Pull twice for dim genie,
Pull a third time for OFF.

After reading the app description in your link, I still don’t understand, what does this Captcha app actually do, and what does it have to do with A.I.?

That’s the patina of my parents’ old photos. The feeling they evoke feels almost… mystical, at this point.

This looks like a pose for a professional photographer, in his photo studio, with those cameras where the man behind was covered in a black curtain, and the film plate was slid in and out the side, in a handheld tray.
At least two lamps, maybe four, were pointed at the couple. Very uniform, consistent lighting.

Or as they call that upright bass in Spanish - el tololoche.

This is probably the sort of thing Karl Pilkington was visualizing when mentioning going to the toffee shoppe, or the candlestick maker.

One of the Gallagher brothers should be flipping that ol’ reverse peace-and-love sign.