The Amazing A

i watch a lot of tv and have no life.

[weyoun-five]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS | S04E03 | Human Best Friend

[aenslem]

Una Chin-Riley & Christopher Pike in 4.03 "Human Best Friend" STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022–)

[harrykim]

LIKE KIRKS ARE BORN TO DO

[weyoun-five]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | S04E01 | Valles Marineris

[beverlycrushr]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS — 4.01 · Valles Marineris

[depsidase]

[azspot]

“And yet, strangely, Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. What has changed is what they read, and how. People are bombarded with emails, text messages, X posts, Reddit threads, Instagram captions. This explosion of textual fragments has come at the expense of devoting sustained attention to longer written works that convey rich and complicated information. Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn’t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate.”

— The End of Reading Is Here

[bellenotthebeast]

Supergirl and Krypto! The film was so good😭

[lonelyspect12]

[sandersstudies]

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)

[sandersstudies]

True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

“𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞. 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐈’𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐲𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞. 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 ‘𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬’ 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐆𝐢𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫.’ 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭.”

𝐖𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝.

“𝐌𝐚𝐧, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭.”

“𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧?” 𝐈 𝐚𝐬𝐤.

“𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰,” 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨, “𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬.”

-James Garner during an interview with Robert Ward conducted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for GQ magazine, March 1984 issue. (Fun Fact: Garner's real last name was "Bumgarner".)

Photo of James Garner in tennis togs by Don Ornitz, 1966. 🍑

[porterdavis]

Re-upping my post from yesterday...

...because what Trump just released as the 'peace' document is a straight-up surrender...by the US.

H E G O T N O T H I N G

[mxjackparker]

Sometimes homeless people will be off-putting and rude and demand more of your attention than you're comfortable giving. I promise you, if you had to deal with a fraction of what they do on a daily basis, you'd become off-putting too. Sit with your discomfort and direct your anger at the systems which made them homeless, not at the person in front of you who is struggling.

[kwebtv]

TV Guide - May 21 - 27, 1966

Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk; March 1, 1935 – February 8, 2020) Actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the 1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West. He also portrayed private investigator Tom Lopaka in Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963) and World War II ace Pappy Boyington in Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976–1978; later syndicated as Black Sheep Squadron). (Wikipedia)

Ross Martin (born Martin Rosenblatt, March 22, 1920 – July 3, 1981) Radio, voice, stage, film, and television actor. Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which aired from 1965 to 1969. He was the voice of Doctor Paul Williams in 1972's Sealab 2020, additional characters in 1973's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and additional character voices in 1978's Jana of the Jungle. (Wikipedia)

[thebelchers]

Bob’s Burgers, It Snakes a Village (S03E18)

[depsidase]

[forthegothicheroine]

I don't want to be a teacher but I do like the idea of having a big book of Short Stories to Fuck You Up on a high shelf, secured with a chain, which I get down and dust off and unlock and read from on special request, and then a group of young people go away from it forever shaken.

Some of the stories would be...

Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

The Chaser by John Collier

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

The Teacher by Paul Tremblay

Feed by Richard Matheson

Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen

From A to Z, The Chocolate Alphabet by Harlan Ellison

Monster by Kelly Link

In the Hills, The Cities by Clive Barker

The Werewolf by Angela Carter

The Dream Detective by Lisa Tuttle

Sardonicus by Ray Russell

The Gospel According to Mark by Jorge Luis Borges

The Vampire Lovers by Tanith Lee

The Picture in the House by H. P. Lovecraft

The Story-Teller by Saki