Walky, Your Prayer Has Been Answered.

Walky, your prayer has been answered.

Hey, yez doesn't have to go to another language!

The New York Times is doing a cracking job at translating Trump's English-based emissions into pithy, professional and statesman-like sentences.

Interestingly, part of the reason that, until now, Trump has been supported in Russia is due to translation. If you read the Russian language papers like I do, you’ll notice that the Russian translators don’t verbatim copy what Trump says. Instead, they’ll translate what he’s saying into short, professional, statesman-like statements, instead of what he really says. So instead of “I think nuclear weapons should be way down, and reduced, that’s part of it.”, the Russian audience gets a statement that translates back into English as “I think we’ll start with a substantial decrease in nuclear weapons stockpiles.” When Trump calls something “dumb” or “sad”, the Russian press will have him call it “damned”. “Bad hombres” becomes “armed bandits” and so on. 

The Russian support for Trump becomes a lot easier to understand when you realize they’re literally not listening to the same person we are. 

My embarrassing day is coming: Someone will,in the future, post a genuine train wreck photo and I’ll say “Oh, it’s that set piece from The General” before even looking!

The sequence that is considered the most expensive shot in the Silent Era is the climactic train crash in Buster Keaton’s epic comedy “The General”. At $42,000 (in 1927 dollars), the cost was more than 10% of the film’s budget. Because this was a time before CGI, Keaton, shooting in Oregon, took a real locomotive, a real bridge and set up multiple cameras. He then lit the bridge on fire, yelled “action” and captured the wreck on film all in one take.

Top-notch existential nightmare fuel.

One night I’m gonna triple-bill this with The Man Who Laughs and The Last Laugh. Then I’ll never get to sleep!

He Who Gets Slapped, directed by Victor Sjöström in 1924

I’d apply the term salty to an old salt...

The Decatur Herald, November 11, 1935

Everything you ever did, you did for her.

Now she’s gone

but we’re still here.