Rolando
I looked through a few posts and didn’t see this group mentioned.
Oh yeah, it’s mostly a place where people who “keep communities alive” post and encourage one another about ways to get other people engaged, etc.
But I totally understand that because a lot of people completely fail to find this interesting, understand the “joke” and generally consider these posts to be spam and have blocked the group or me.
Tha hell with em! Your posts are killer.
Garfield, the other orange cartoon cat that came out three years after Heathcliff, isn’t welcome here. If you post any Garfield content here it better be really, so very really, good.
You’re in luck, all of the major AIs refuse to render an image of Garfield bursting out of Heathcliff alien-style and wearing his skin as a trophy.
p.s. love the community, check out the weekly “how is your community doing?” post on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Abolitionists were inherently secretive, due to the nature of their work freeing slaves
You seem to be confusing the abolitionist movement, which involved public meetings and newspapers, with the “conductors” of the underground railroad, who were mostly free African-Americans who risked being enslaved by slave catchers (even if they had never been enslaved in their lives.)
“That’s not all, Nancy has the gall / to pray and pray for her downfall.”
I have a very elderly relative. If you can only eat food that is not too firm, and you want easy-to-prepare stuff that you can keep on the shelf, and your tastes are kind of old fashioned, this sounds great.
Academic publishers pointing at even bigger scammers, saying “See? They’re the REAL bad guys!”
How about:
- The Match Factory Girl (1990) - truly a great film with a very slow pace
- Dogville (2003) - it’s got Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Chloë Sevigny, and James Caan! I wonder what the sets are like?
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) - about an exotic river trip. yet so much more.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
I see and raise you: The Wannsee Conference (1984) - about the Nazi meeting in which the “final solution” was decided upon. They just sit around a table talking. Later adapted into Conspiracy (2001). wait these are TV films so maybe they don’t count.
Lost in Translation (2003)
Pretty much everything by Jarmusch. “Hey, want to see a movie about a modern samurai who works for the mafia? It’s got gunfights!” “Sure! Sounds exciting!” Well it is, but not how you think. (Ghost Dog)
Partially excavated pyramid
I was once visiting some friends in Guatemala, and we all went out to some park in the middle of nowhere. It wasn’t a tourist place or anything, it was just a bunch of hills. I walked up one of the hills and looked down to see that the other half of it had been excavated to reveal the steps of a temple. In fact, all the hills there were covering buildings because that place used to be an ancient Mayan (?) town. There just wasn’t enough funding/interest to excavate it all, so it was just a park of hills.
The good ending:
take out USB drive that my friend says will let me use something called “Linux”…
