#marge's son poisoning

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The HOMOE Masterpost

Shoutout to @butchbarneygumble for oking me to steal this idea from their Moeney Masterpost! Go peep that btw.

I see almost no one acknowledge all the gay shit these two have going on so i have to ship them all by myself and honestly that's unacceptable given how much this show implies between them. And with a ship name like Homoe? You have got to be kidding me they were handed to me on a golden fucking plater.

Blah blah i know these are jokes or w/e but its a show, no one here is real, you are not affected by me wanting these middle aged men to kiss each other (more than they already do) so lets get on with it!

This is currently only clips from the show, i will go through the comics/books/etc. if anything's hidden in there and ill add it to this post in the future.

This is gonna be a long post so everything is gonna be under the cut.

Episode: (S2E11) One Fish, Two Fish, Blow Fish, Blue Fish

Homer Kisses Moe. Moe responds with "not in public". So in private then?

H: Oh words wont do it- I love you Moe M: Not in public

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Episode: (S8E3) The Homer they Fall

Just this whole episode.

H: Are you an angel? M: Yes Homer, Im an angel. All us angles wear Farah slacks. H: But you stopped the fight. Wont everyone be mad at you? M: Eh, lettem be mad. The only thing that matters to me is your'e safe. - D: Homer, your manager obviously loves you very much.

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Episode: (S9E16) Dumbbell Indemnity

Dancing together + hints throughout. "if you squint" kinda stuff but ill take my breadcrumbs.

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Episode: (S11E6) Hello Gutter Hello Fadder

Homer and Moe consider one another life partners.

Ma: Well, the one sure cure for the blues is to talk it over with your life partner. H: You're right! - H: I cant believe it Moe. The greatest feet of my life is already forgotten. M: Geez, Homer. I never seen ya this depressed. As your life partner, Im very worried.

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Episode: (S11E10) Little Big Mom

When Lisa calls the tavern, Moe asks if Homer is going to another bar like its a cheating situation. Look at me however you want that's how im taking this. Moe's clingy.

M: Hey uh- is Homer there? L: No, he isn't. I dont know where he is. M: Im a little worried. He usually stops in for an eye opener on the way to work. L: He told us he'd been going to the gym. M: Uhahaha- Wow. Anyway, you dont think he could be at another bar do ya? Because i couldnt take that- i- i just couldnt. *crying*

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Episode: (S11E16) Pygmoelian

Homer tells Moe his acting is a turn on.

M: The one hole ive never been able to fix is the one in my soul. H: That was amazing Moe. Im actually a little turned on. M: Yeah, hey i gotta gift.

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Episode: (S16E7) Mommie Beerest

The thing i dont say is that i primarily ship all three of them together especially during late seasons. Reading "Moe takes the place of marge" jokes as shippy is- a bit of a stretch? whatever, it includes Moe telling Homer "i love you" and Homer calling Moe "Honey".

H: What would Marge say? M: Do whatever you have to do to save Moe's. I love my Homie. H: Ok honey, ill do it! Ma: What's going on here? M: Nothin- Nothing.

Also Homer and Moe sharing a bed 1/2.

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Episode: (S17E5) Marge's Son Poisoning

If i had a nickel for every time Moe and Homer were called life partners id have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice. (This has to be a lie, im certain there is a third time this has happened, i have yet to find it again) "They're lying, they're trying to hustle" um stfu- idc that's his life partner. he said so.

RT: God dern it son- what tha hell kinna sissy are you? M: Hey are you calling my life partner a sissy? Cause a hundred bucks says he could whoop you in arm wrestling.

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Episode: (S18E6: Moe n' a Lisa)

Moe tells Homer he loves him.

H: Seriously Moe, I think you have a gift. M: Thanks Homer, I love you man. H: OoooOH you love a man.

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Episode: (S20E8) The Burns and The Bees

Moe explains bees having sex to Homer and Homer thinks Moe is talking about the two of them.

H: But how are we supposed to combine the DNA of two strains of the same species? M: Actually Homer *whispering* H: *gasp* You and me? M: No. The bees. H: Oh! Yeah yeah. That's what i meant too. I... have no... inclination...

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Episode: (S21E30 The Great Wife Hope)

Moe takes Homer dressed as Marge to his class reunion. He says he took Barney the year before.

M: Lets go Marge. My class reunion starts in an hour. H: Uh, Moe, i have a confession to make. Im just Homer dressed as Marge. M: Yeah, but last year i took Barney dressed as Marge. Think how much better they'll think you look. Hmm? H: Well you better not leave me and talk to your old friends all night. M: Keep talkin like that and ill leave ya here right now.

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Episode: (S21E21) Moe Letter Blues

Homer kisses Moe.

H: Moe, i dont know rather to punch you or kiss you. So im gonna do both.

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Episode: (S24E2) Treehouse of Horror XXIV

Look, i know its a demon that looks like Moe and NOT Moe. But cmon what was this???

H: Listen, pal, you seem like an honest guy. Is there any other deal you can accept? D: Three way. H: Hm- You, me, Marge? D: Demon, demon, you. H: Sigh- I guess its one of those things a dad has to do. - H: Now before we start, what's the safe word? D: Cinnamon H: Oh! I like that. Now, id like to try something new, if you dont mind. D: Cinnamon. Cinnamon! Cinnamon! Cinnamon!

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Episode: (S25E12) Diggs

Ok- so the way Bart describes his feeling for Diggs is really queer and Homer immediately compares that to his feelings towards Moe.

B: I met this kid. Little older. Kinda strange. I dont think other people get him but i just wanna hang out with him all the time. H: *gasps* Its even better than i thought. You found your Moe Szyslak!

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Episode: (S27E10) The Girl Code

Homer kisses Moe.

M: Hey what tha hell? Get your kisser off my head puss! H: What? Its how greek men say 'hello'. Non sexual guy kissing is the best.

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Episode: (S28E4) Treehouse of Horror XXVII

Moe kisses a picture of Homer twice.

Thanks @leibi97 for remembering this one for me!

--- Episode: (S28E13) Fatzcarraldo

Homer calls Moe his "sweet wonderful bartender"

H: i had a great day and i really wanna celebrate with the boys so dont wait up for me my sweet wonderful bartender, Moe. M: Alright but whos the boys? H: Marge's boobs. See ya!

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Episode: (S29E16) King Leer

Homer carrying Moe into the store. But also i like this episode over all from a Homoearge standpoint.

M: When i cross this threshold i begin a new life! *Picked up by Homer* This is the first time that ive ever been carried into a store. Look at me now lady foot locker! Look at me now.

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Episode: (S32E15) Do Pizza Robots Dream of Electric Guitars

Ok guys THIS is what im talking about when i say in later seasons i kinda ship all three of them.

Ma: Did you see how he ate his breakfast? He doesn't shuffle his pancakes like a deck of cards. He doesn't air drum while driving, or race the dog in butt scooting across the carpet. And he always won. He's not my Homie anymore. B: We didnt notice any of that. Ma: A wife knows. M: And a bartender. Hes just- hes just not the same. He dont spin Barney around on the stool no more. He dont drink beer from a crazy straw just a sensible straw. What are we gonna do about our little man Midge? Ma: Were just gonna have to love him that much more. M: I didnt think that was possible. - B: Im used to seeing mom upset about dad, but Moe. That really shook me.

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Episode: (S35E7) Its A Blunderful Life

They love each other :)

M: How dare you show your face in here. H: Moe, its me, and beneith all the drinking and the jokes we have a real relationship. And that means something. M: What are you gettin at? H: C'mon man. Deep down, we kinda love each other. H: *thrown through window* M: Love you too

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Episode: (S35E15) Cremains of the Day

Moe and Homer share a bed 2/2.

M: Oh cmon Lenny, ghosts aint real. eh

Holding each other.

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Episode: (S35E17) The Tipping Point

Dont- Even- Get- Me- Started

M: Exact change huh? Thats it? H: Aw, i really wanna tip ya Moe, but i promised my wife id quit. M: Heres a thought Homer. What if you took the moolah outta your pocket but you just stopped before anything happened? Ya know, everything but the tip. H: That dosent seem like it could lead to anything. M: Sure it couldnt. H: *slowly hands Moe ten dollars* H: We shouldnta done that. M: Does that mean- that you wanna stop? H: No *hands Moe more money* *moaning* It feels so good *hands Moe more money* M: Dont stop you generous man *handed more money* *moaning* Aw yeah give it to me big boy H: *handing Moe more money* You like that? M: Oh thats the spot H: I can do this all night M: Right there H: Tell me you want it M: Oh god- Oh god- Oh god- Oh god! H: Yes- Yes- Yes- Yes! *Wallet sprays money on Moe* C: I need a new bar. - M: *following Homer out of the bar* Where ya goin? H: I cant stop tippin Moe. Im hooked on tha rush! I gotta monkey on my back and hes got his hand out. M: But, what about us? H: No one service worker can satisfy my needs. God help me im a tip-phomaniac.

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Jesus ok i dont know how to conclude this post. I will make updates to this. I know im missing stuff.

This is about a 3rd of my "moe is bi" list so maybe ill make that its own masterpost.

Someone asked me today what ship dynamic they are and i told them "the dumb one/the evil one/the woman". My spouse and i have been watching Futurama and they pointed out to me it was the same dynamic when i said i saw something between Fry/Bender/Leela as a trio.

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A list of all of the HP fics I reviewed and filed away in 2024! I don’t specialize in any one fandom, but out of the over 300 fics I read this year, these were my favorite HP fics.

A Little’s Enough — 69K | Drarry: Suffering from PTSD and survivor's guilt, A Post-War Harry joins a trauma support group in the hopes of finding someone who can relate to what he saw Voldemort do. Unexpectedly, he runs into a war torn Malfoy there

Aniseed — 7K | Gen: or: The Art of Identifying the Things which No Longer Serve You

Between Pride and Cowardice — 6K | Drarry: Draco's punishment for not killing Dumbledore was to be turned into a werewolf by Greyback. After the war, he tries to hide from the world but Severus comes to find him

Little Lost Things — 10K | Drarry: If you lose something, your soulmate finds it. What starts small spirals as the war looms. Told over twelve years and ten lost items

Power The Dark Lord Knows Not — 102K | Gen: In a seaside cave far away, a wall crumbles, a poisoned basin dries, enchanted corpses become permanently still, and a seventeen year old boy breaks the surface of the water

Prodigal Son — 8K | Drarry: How far can you let one relationship break another?

Seven Drops and Asphodel Blooms — 102K | Severitus: When Harry blows up Aunt Marge during the summer, Dumbledore is much quicker to react. Snape finds him far before the Minister does, but his plan of dropping him off with a lecture and half a dozen additional summer assignments doesn't work out. In which Harry spends the summer at Spinner's End

Survival is a Talent — 530K | Drarry: In the middle of their second year, Draco and Harry discover they're soulmates and do their best to keep it a secret from everyone. Their best isn't perfect

Then Comes a Mist and a Weeping Rain — 21K | Drarry: It always rains for Draco Malfoy. Metaphorically. And literally. Ever since he had accidentally Conjured a cloud. A cloud that's ever so cross

Unknown Door, The — 60K | Drarry: There is something wrong with the Bellcrest. The heart of the place beats rotten. Everyone says so

Whispers in the Castle — 38K | Severitus: While trying to escape from Dudley and his gang, nine-year-old Harry Apparates himself to Hogwarts instead of the roof of his school

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Christopher McCandless's remains were discovered on September 6, 1992, by moose hunters near the northern end of Denali National Park in Alaska. He had passed away inside an abandoned bus that served as his shelter for the preceding 110 days, providing respite from the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. Found alongside his scant provisions were a .22-caliber rifle, a collection of aged books, a camera containing five exposed film rolls, and a diary documenting edible plants in the book's margins. The cause of his demise was determined to be a combination of starvation and poisoning, likely resulting from misidentifying and consuming toxic plants. For a comprehensive insight into Chris's life, Jon Krakauer's book 'Into the Wild' offers an engrossing, highly recommended narrative. Additionally, a film adaptation of the same name, 'Into the Wild,' faithfully captures the essence of the story and is equally worthy of exploration.

Les restes de Christopher McCandless ont été découverts le 6 septembre 1992 par des chasseurs d'orignaux près de l'extrémité nord du parc national Denali en Alaska. Il était décédé dans un bus abandonné qui lui avait servi d'abri pendant les 110 jours précédents, lui offrant un répit dans la nature impitoyable de l'Alaska. À côté de ses maigres provisions se trouvaient un fusil de calibre .22, une collection de livres anciens, un appareil photo contenant cinq rouleaux de film exposés et un journal documentant les plantes comestibles dans les marges du livre. Il a été déterminé que la cause de son décès était une combinaison de famine et d'empoisonnement, probablement résultant d'une mauvaise identification et de la consommation de plantes toxiques. Pour un aperçu complet de la vie de Chris, le livre de Jon Krakauer « Into the Wild » propose un récit captivant et hautement recommandé. De plus, une adaptation cinématographique du même nom, « Into the Wild », capture fidèlement l’essence de l’histoire et mérite également d’être explorée.

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𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒛𝒌𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕

1980s Horror Film - Wallows

Alone in the Woods - Michal Novinski

Always Forever - Cults

Apocalypse - Cigarettes After Sex

Apparition on the Train - John Williams

As The World Falls Down - David Bowie

Aunt Marge's Waltz - John Williams

Autumn Town Leaves - Iron & Wine

Aventine - Agnes Obel

Ballad Of Mr Jones - Jake Bugg

Big Black Car - Gregory Alan Isakov

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

The Boat of the Fragile Mind - Belle Mare

A Brief History of Time - Jóhann Jóhannsson

Buckbeak's Flight - John Williams

Captain Goddamn - Michal Novinski

Captain Goddamn's Story - Michal Novinski

Cemetry Gates - The Smiths

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

Chord Left - Agnes Obel

The Curse - Agnes Obel

Cursed - Lord Huron

Damn Right - Mickey Driskill

Dance With The Fish - Bruni Coulais

Dandelion Wine - Gregory Alan Isakov

Dead Man's Hand - Lord Huron

Dirty Paws - Of Monsters and Men

Eleanor Rigby - Cody Fry

Endless Story About Sun and Moon - Kai Engel

Entering - Michal Novinski

Fallingforyou - The 1975

Fellowship - Thomas Newman

Finale - John Williams

Flaws - Bastille

Flood - Michal Novinski

Fortune Teller - Mickey Driskill

Forward to Time Past - John Williams

The French Library - Franz Gordon

Full Moon - The Kinks

Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac

Good Looking - Suki Waterhouse

Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps

Hagrid the Professor - John Williams

Harvest Moon - Lord Huron

Head Credits - Bruno Coulais

Holocene - Bon Iver

Home - Dotan

Hot Liquorice - Dick Walter

I'm a WolfWalker - Bruno Coulais

Infinite Love - Emile Mosseri

In The Woods Somewhere - Hozier

It Will Come Back - Hozier

I Wanna Be Yours - Arctic Monkeys

journey in the rain to cry in peace - joiboi

K. - Cigarettes After Sex

The Key In The Sea - Bruno Coulais

Kids - OneRepublic

Kuky Phones Home - Michael Novinski

Kuky's Adventures - Michael Novinski

Landscape With a Fairy - aspidistrafly

Lanterns Lit - Son Lux

Le temps de l’amour - Françoise Hardy

Lily Of The Valley - Queen

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

Living Room - Grouper

Lonesome Hunter - Timber Timbre

Love Like Ghosts - Lord Huron

Love Waltz - Marcuzio Pianist

Lumos! (Hedwig's Theme) - John Williams

Me And The Devil - Soap&Skin

The Meetings of the Waters - Fionn Regan

Meet Me In The City - Lord Huron

Meet Me in the Morning - Bob Dylan

Meet Me in the Woods - Lord Huron

Mélancolie - Patric Watson, Safia Nolin

Melody Noir - Patric Watson

Mischief Managaged! - John Williams

Moment's Silence - Hozier

Monster Books and Boggarts - John Williams

My Tunnels Are Long And Dark These Days - Asaf Avidan

Nevermore - Queen

Not Dead Yet - Lord Huron

Nothing's Here - Michael Novinski

Once Upon a Dream - Lana Del Rey

The Patronus Light - John Wiliams

Phantoms and Friends - Old Man Canyon

The Pink Room - Timber Timbre

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Dream Academy

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Poison Tree - Grouper

Poppy Field - Michael Novinski

The Portrait Gallery - John Williams

Possibility - Lykke Li

Proof - Michael Novinski

Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers

Renegades - X Ambassadors

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

Ribs - Lorde

Riding Into Town - Gun Thunder

rises the moon - Liana Flores

Rosyln - Bon Iver, St. Vincent

Run - Bruno Coulais

Run - Hozier

Run Cried the Crawling - Agnes Obel

Sadness - Bruno Coulais

Saving Buckbeak - John Williams

The Seals - Bruno Coulais

Secrets of the Castle - John Williams

Sedated - Hozier

September Song - Agnes Obel

Setting Sun - Lord Huron

Shortline - RY X

The Silence of the Moon - Frankie Lou

Sit Down Beside Me - Patric Watson

Something French - Devendra Banhart

Something Is Wrong - Bruno Coulais

Some Things Cosmic - Angel Olsen

Somewhere Tonight - Beach House

Squirrel Rescue - Mike Higham

The Storm - Bruno Coulais

Swinging Party - The Replacements

Tea for Two - Art Tatum

Team - Lorde

Thief - Imagine Dragons

Time Passing II - Mark Isham

Time's Blur - Lord Huron

To Be Alone - Hozier

Trees and Flowers - Strawberry Switchblade

The Trial - Michael Novinski

Under Giant Trees - Agnes Obel

Vois sur ton chemin - Bruno Coulais, Les Choristes

Wait - M83

Way Down We Go - KALEO

We Don't Talk About It - Michael Novinski

The Werewolf Scene - John Williams

West Coast - Imagine Dragons

When the Night is Over - Lord Huron

Whisper of a Thrill - The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

White Teeth Teens - Lorde

Who Are You - Bruno Coulais

The Whomping Willow - John Williams

Who We Are - Imagine Dragons

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

A Window to the Past - John Williams

Wiser - Old Man Canyon

Words Are Dead - Agnes Obel

A World Alone - Lorde

The World Ender - Lord Huron

The Yawning Grave - Lord Huron

you are welcome to let go - joiboi

[bussterj]

I just watched The Simpsons 17x05 "Marge's Son Poisoning"

[cliffburton]

i can't listen to my sharona without thinking of jimbo/dolph/kearney bc of that episode (marge's son poisoning, s:16 if i'm not mistaken) (i'm sure of the name not of the season). moreso that destruction cover. i can picture them bantering about it "that cover is so siiiick duuuude" (jimbo) "yeah but it doesn't have the spirit of the original" (kearney) "it's a cover what were you expecting man" (dolph)

[teumbeleur]

Soudain, ils se sont mis à ne jurer que par lui. As-tu lu le dernier "..."? Est-ce que nous n'irions pas voir la lecture de "..."? Il était devenu nouveau maître à penser et sa littérature jemenfoutiste, d'arraché sous keta, l'œil hagard d'un mannequin Balenciaga en descente sur un podium les atisait. Etait-il beau? Peut-être. Il avait de cette allure d'homme tantôt blasé, clope au bec, tantôt soucieux, corps d'éphèbe qui préservait sa frêle jeunesse. Sa moue était constamment indolente, bafouée, son regard observait le monde avec paresse et désinvolture, il se foutait de tout sans aucun rictus moqueur, comme si il connaissait déjà les futurs, leur terreur, leur chaos et n'en avait complètement rien à foutre.

Il trimballait une vieille aura rimbaldienne ou nietschienne ou Schopenhaueusienne. Il n'était pas sain, on l'imaginait mal se nourrir de snack graisseux mais il semblait s'en prendre plein les narines en engloutissant goulument des huîtres jaunes, offertes par des hôtes avides de sa prose.

Malgré tout, sa masculinité était offerte. Et sans doute, en cela il les fascinait, sa dégaine de nouveaux poète moderne qui empruntait tous des anciens, en y ajoutant un peu de flemme, un peu de drogue, un peu de mode, un peu de nudes, un peu de sexe, un peu de.

Un chien qui se mordait la queue. Un air de déjà vu mais toujours tendance, jamais dépassé.

Il était tout ce que nous voulions oublier, le jeune bourgeois esseulé, perdu parmi ses maîtresses qu'il obligeait de le sucer avidement, jusqu'au rebut d'étranglement tandis qu'il les regardait dans les yeux, lorsqu'il se masturbait dans leur bouche.

Oui, il devait être adulé par de nombreuses femmes, toutes belles forcément, au corps malingres d'angoisses et de C. Oui, il devait faire l'amour comme dans un porno puis écrire quelques vers sur un assureur triste au suicide raté. Oui, il avait les réussites et les groupies déjà à sa cause.

Il n'était que le descendant de ces lignées d'Houellebecq qui pour passer inaperçu, tuait le père tout en lui astiquant le phallus, plantait de-ci de-là leur texte, quelques bribes pseudo-féministes pour attendrir les viandes avant de mieux les dévorer.

Il me rebutait autant qu'il me fascinait. Là était sa réussite et son poison; même absent, nous parlions de lui. Nous nous délections de critique à son égard et à juste titre, mais nous n'avions ni son audience, ni son postulat. Il était l'une des grandes réussites du patriarcat ; nous faire aimer et détester un énième bourreau flamboyant dont la chaire resterait inlassablement prise.

Je suis en train de lire "..." Tu m'envoies quelques photos des pages, tu es heureux de me partager cette lecture. Tu es toujours heureux lorsque tu es en famille et ce sont ces rares moments où j'ai de tes nouvelles et de ta présence, apaisé, je reprends une place dans ton cœur.

Je grimace à la lecture; un énième roman d'auto-fiction, écrit à la première personne, d'un antihéros en marge qui philosophe d'un ton cynique sur les bassesses de ses pairs. Trop hautain pour les bourgeois, pas assez soucieux pour les pauvres.

Je souffle, j'ai toujours déteste les "too cool for school" et ces pages en sont un brûlot vivace.

Je voudrais, d'un ton d'une mère aimante te dire "Mon Chéri ne soit pas trop fasciner par cette lecture, au-delà du geste de l'écrit et de l'aura, tu n'as rien à envier à ce jeune crétin". Je réussi pourtant à critiquer le fond, que je trouves diablement bourgeois et pédant, caché sous un vocabulaire racé.

Tu abondes dans mon sens et l'enthousiasme de ton début de message fait place peu à peu à ton libre arbitre.

"Oui c'est quelque peu exagéré".

J'ose espéré que ma remarque ait pu te remettre les idées en place. Je te quitte sur cette lecture.

J'en avais trop entendu de ce type.

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The Simpsons Season 17 Episode 5: Marge's Son Poisoning

Written by Daniel Chun

Storyboard by Brad Ableson, John Mathot & Lucas Gray

Directed by Mike B. Anderson

Directing assistance by Ralph Sosa

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'Ripley is an eight-part television series on Netflix written and directed by Steven Zaillian and based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The mini-series is a carefully and elegantly made work, which is well worth viewing. Whatever the shortcomings of either the original novel or this new adaptation, the latter demonstrates an exemplary degree of artistic seriousness and intelligence. It is a slap in the face of contemporary cultural backwardness and degradation, and for that alone, Zaillian deserves credit.

Zaillian has only directed a few feature films previously, including Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), about the famed chess player, A Civil Action (1998), which treats corporations poisoning a town’s water supply, and the remake of All the King’s Men (2006), with Sean Penn as the Southern populist demagogue. Zaillian also directed numerous episodes of the valuable series A Night Of (2016), which he co-created. He is better known, however, for scripts for such films as Awakenings, Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, American Gangster, Moneyball and numerous others.

The essential drama in Ripley is simple enough. In 1960 or so, Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), an unscrupulous, small-time criminal and conman, living in dire conditions in New York City, is invited to meet a wealthy shipbuilder who has a prospective job for him. Herbert Greenleaf (Kenneth Lonergan) mistakenly believes that Ripley is a close friend of his son Dickie, now living abroad and determined to be a painter. Greenleaf senior would like Tom to travel to Italy, at the family’s expense, and prevail upon Dickie to return to New York.

Ripley gladly accepts the assignment, and the cash and comforts that go with it. He duly arrives in Atrani, a small, picturesque town south of Naples perched on the Amalfi Coast, and makes the acquaintance of Dickie (Johnny Flynn) and his girlfriend Marge Sherwood (Dakota Fanning). Tom falls in love with Dickie’s wealth and lifestyle, and, secondarily or simultaneously, Dickie himself. He and Marge take an instant dislike to one another. Soon enough, Dickie invites Tom to live at his luxurious cliffside residence, which has plenty of space.

Dickie is perfectly pleasant (and amused by his father’s hiring of Ripley), but complacent and lazy, with little aptitude for painting or anything else. Marge is authoring an inconsequential travel book about Atrani. Ripley does what he can to insinuate himself into Dickie’s life, but his presence is always a somewhat awkward one. He doesn’t truly “fit in” anywhere. Despite his best efforts, the fact that his hidden, disturbing self is at variance with his affable public one tends to emerge in unfortunate ways.

Dickie takes Tom on an excursion to Sanremo where he plans to give this unwanted intruder into his life the final brush-off. Out on a small boat, Dickie begins to broach the subject of Tom’s returning to the US, but Ripley strikes him fatally with an oar several times and then drops the dead body into the sea, tied to a weight. This occurs in the third episode of Zaillian’s Ripley, “Sommerso” (“submerged” or “sunken” in Italian).

The rest of the series concerns Tom’s efforts both to conceal his guilt and appropriate Dickie’s identity (and portion of the family’s money). He sets himself up in Rome as Dickie Greenleaf, complete with fake passport, bundles of travelers’ checks and a monthly trust fund allotment. He breaks up with the unfortunate, highly confused Marge by letters composed on Dickie’s typewriter, but runs into difficulties when one of Greenleaf’s friends, Freddie Miles (Eliot Sumner), shows up at his door, expecting to meet Dickie. Ripley takes drastic, lethal action here too, and subsequently faces the questioning and general nosing about of Italian police Inspector Ravini (Maurizio Lombardi). Who will outwit whom?

Zaillian has decided to shoot the series in black and white, in part apparently to push Amalfi-Atrani’s extraordinary beauty into the background. The production and design help create a subdued, even depressive atmosphere. This is not intended to be “the Elysian realm” near Naples “of soft winds and sunny skies” celebrated by poets. Rome and Venice especially are grey and damp, and often ragged and rundown.

Events proceed at a leisurely pace, except at certain hectic junctures. Perhaps too leisurely. Seven and a half hours is a good deal of time. The 1965 Soviet adaptation of Tolstoy’s monumental War and Peace only lasted six and a half! Ripley is overly long and drawn-out, particularly in some of the middle episodes, but this may well be how the packaging and marketing of such things inevitably function these days. A limited series like this is considered the equivalent of what used to be an entire television season.

The acting in Ripley is uniformly fine. Scott is one of the more remarkable performers currently working, capable of suggesting various moods and emotional shadings, including malevolent ones, with a slight movement or change of expression. Dakota Fanning is excellent as a largely oblivious victim of Ripley’s plotting and loathing. Ripley is clever and devious enough and events conspire in such a manner that the viewer does not feel that Marge is obtuse, but simply naïve, a Midwest American girl, and certainly not up to the level of Tom’s cunning and planning. But why should she guess at something so terrible? Effective as the persistent (but not persistent enough!) Roman police inspector, Maurizio Lombardi conveys precision and some degree as well of authoritarianism.

There are minor implausibilities in Zaillian’s series, largely taken over from the novel. For all his persistence, Inspector Ravini seems blind to certain obvious possibilities. Moreover, even in 1961, is it likely that Ravini never requests, or even comes across by accident, a photo of the real Dickie Greenleaf? Is it probable that he would be unable to recognize the now-disguised Ripley when they finally meet? The introduction toward the end of John Malkovich as the slimy “art dealer” (actually, the highly crooked) Reeves Minot seems an unnecessarily cynical touch—or does it merely indicate that plans are afoot to film further novels in the Ripley series? (Highsmith wrote five in all about the character.)

In any event, the compelling question in Ripley ought to be the central character’s ruthless resolve to obtain access to the life he covets. In the novel, when Tom first visits Dickie in Italy, sees his house and boat, he wonders to himself, “Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to-five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn’t as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way he spent his time, and having his own house with a good-natured maid who probably took care of everything for him. And money besides, to take trips if he wanted to. Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.”

The Netflix series conveys this too. There are hints of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, including its scene of death on the water, and a host of striving upstarts in Stendhal (Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black) and Balzac, as well as Fitzgerald’s more felonious (but also less malign) Gatsby.

Ripley is a narcissist, who has no strong feelings for anyone but himself. His emotional attachment for Dickie, of a vaguely sexual character, takes second place to his fierce pursuit of self-interest. By the time he realizes that Dickie is planning to “shove him out in the cold,” Tom hates the other man. On the train to Sanremo, Highsmith writes, Ripley watches Greenleaf sleeping, and stares “at his bony, arrogant, handsome face, at his hands with the green ring and the gold signet ring.” He now despises Dickie, “because, however he [Tom] looked at what had happened, his failing had not been his own fault, not due to anything he had done, but due to Dickie’s inhuman stubbornness. And his blatant rudeness! He had offered Dickie friendship, companionship, and respect, everything he had to offer, and Dickie had replied with ingratitude and now hostility. … If he killed him on this trip, Tom thought, he could simply say that some accident had happened. He could—He had just thought of something brilliant: he could become Dickie Greenleaf himself.”

The weakness ultimately, in both the novel and the series, is that Ripley proves to be a deviant, whereas Clyde Griffiths in American Tragedy or Julien Sorel simply follows implacable social logic. They act as they do, reluctantly or otherwise, because having a better life, the life they desire, the life society manipulates them into wanting, requires certain actions. Ripley takes sadistic pleasure in his deceptions and his crimes, so that a commentator can assert that “Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lechter.”

This is why Highsmith, as gifted and sharp as she was, was not a Dreiser or a Stendhal. She created a character who might have spoken to the nature of her epoch, the postwar boom and the Cold War years, in a more powerful manner, but shied away from such a course, arguing in her journal, for instance, that the “real artists do not overly concern themselves with their age’s social problems. They concern themselves with themselves, working from that germ plasm that has not changed for millions of years in their race, which never will.”

A homosexual herself, and thus existing “semi-legally” at the time, Highsmith harbored various, ill-defined resentments against the prevailing culture and social order, along with well-founded fears, of public “exposure,” disapproval and so forth. Leading a double or hidden life much of the time, she had reason to be concerned with the “flux-like nature of identity,” according to biographer Andrew Wilson (Beautiful Shadow), and a central premise of the novel is that “one man losing his identity” happens “as easily as a snake sheds its skin.” Ripley becomes Greenleaf, and then Ripley again, without batting an eye. In some fashion, Highsmith associated herself with her chameleon-creation, even signing a letter to a friend, “Pat H., alias Ripley.”

The focus on Ripley’s criminal “brilliance” and amorality is a distraction that takes up a healthy portion of the novel and series and transfers attention away from the economic and social sphere into the area of “abnormal” psychology, diluting the socially critical elements. The reader or viewer is able to distance him or herself from this “monster” a bit too much.

To a certain extent, this shift to primarily psychological factors was the product of Highsmith’s development and the cultural-social climate of the time.

Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921, Highsmith attended Barnard College from 1938-1942 where for much of that time she belonged to the Young Communist League and generally considered herself a Communist. She resigned from the Stalinist youth movement in November 1941, on the eve of US entry into World War II, and like many members of her generation, drifted during the war and postwar years toward, in the words of biographer Wilson, “the bleak existentialist writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kafka, Sartre and Camus.” Absurdism and meaninglessness, as in Camus’ The Stranger (1942), now appealed to her (not coincidentally, one of her novels, adapted as a film by Alfred Hitchcock, was entitled Strangers on a Train [1950]).

The anti-rationalist Dostoyevsky remained her favorite author (the title of one of the Ripley novels, Ripley Under Ground, echoes that of the Russian author’s Notes from Underground), and Crime and Punishment her favorite among his novels, the story of a student who robs and murders a vile pawnbroker, reasoning that such crimes when committed by “extraordinary” men are justifiable, but ends up tormented by the deed.

Unlike Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s book, however, Ripley is not troubled in the least by his crimes and always prepared for new ones. Highsmith’s “amoralism” is legendary, and an element of her enduring allure. (Her novels and stories have been adapted more than 40 times for film and television, including by directors Hitchcock, René Clément, Claude Autant-Lara, Wim Wenders, Claude Miller, Michel Deville, Claude Chabrol, Anthony Minghella, Liliana Cavani, Roger Spottiswoode, Hossein Amini, Todd Haynes and Adrian Lyne.)

In her diary, Highsmith wrote in 1954, “What I predicted I would once do, I am doing already in this very book [The Talented Mr. Ripley], that is, showing the unequivocal triumph of evil over good, and rejoicing in it. I shall make my readers rejoice in it, too. Thus the subconscious always precedes the conscious, or reality, as in dreams.”

First of all, this seems a slightly unworthy ambition. In addition, Highsmith’s argument doesn’t really hold much water. The events and characterizations in the book and series are strongly stacked so that we lean toward sympathizing with Ripley, despite his misdeeds. A murder in a novel is different from a murder in real life. So is a murderer. Moreover, audiences usually—unless the character involved is an out-and-out fiend—would like to see him or her evade the authorities. Most people have excellent instinctive reasons for hating and fearing the police. It takes a great deal to convince us that someone should be handed over to them. Also, when we see a middle-aged Italian policeman in 1960, it is difficult not to envision him only 15 or so years before taking part in round-ups of Jews or left-wing political opponents under the fascist Mussolini regime. Why in the world should we “pull” for Ravini?

Furthermore, in the conformist conditions of 1955, Highsmith’s amoral Ripley could be, and was, perceived as someone thumbing his nose at official society, albeit in a very limited fashion. And, indeed, despite her new fondness for existentialist icons Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Jaspers, at the expense, as she once noted, of both “Freud and Marx,” the novelist did not entirely abandon her youthful radicalism. In 1957, two years after the publication of the first Ripley book, in response to the ongoing anti-communist crusade in the US and the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by Soviet troops, Highsmith noted in her diary that there was still “truth in Communism. Axiomatic, of course, ideal, Communism. The time is ripe for a new Communism of the purer sort.”

For its straightforward and effective storytelling, its psychological and social precision, its thoughtfulness and aesthetic refinement, this Ripley deserves recognition and widespread public interest.'

[devenirmilliardaire]

Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023. Bonjour à tous et bienvenue sur Kafunel, le site d'information qui vous propose chaque jour une revue de presse des principaux titres de la presse écrite sénégalaise. Aujourd'hui, mercredi 13 septembre 2023, voici ce qui fait la une des journaux quotidiens, hebdomadaires et magazines. Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 QUOTIDIENS_1_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 Bonjour à tous et bienvenue sur mon blog dédié à la titrologie, l'art d'analyser les unes des journaux. Aujourd'hui, je vous propose un tour d'horizon des principaux titres de la presse écrite, qu'il s'agisse des quotidiens, des hebdomadaires ou des magazines. Voici ce qui a retenu mon attention : Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 QUOTIDIENS QUOTIDIENS_2_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - Le Monde : "La crise climatique s'aggrave, l'ONU lance un ultimatum aux pays pollueurs". Le journal de référence fait sa une sur le rapport alarmant du GIEC, le groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat, qui appelle à des actions urgentes et radicales pour limiter le réchauffement global à 1,5°C. Le Monde souligne les enjeux politiques et économiques de cette bataille pour le climat, qui sera au cœur de la prochaine conférence COP28 à Paris. - Libération : "Macron face à la fronde des régions". Le quotidien de gauche revient sur la grogne des présidents de région, qui dénoncent la recentralisation du pouvoir et la réduction de leurs marges de manœuvre financières. Libération pointe les risques d'une fracture territoriale et d'une montée du populisme, à quelques mois de l'élection présidentielle. QUOTIDIENS_3_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - Le Figaro : "Sécurité : le gouvernement renforce son arsenal". Le journal conservateur se fait l'écho des mesures annoncées par le ministre de l'Intérieur, qui promet plus de policiers, plus de caméras, plus de sanctions et plus de coopération européenne pour lutter contre la délinquance et le terrorisme. Le Figaro salue une "offensive sécuritaire" qui répond aux attentes des Français. HEBDOMADAIRES HEBDOMADAIRES_1_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - L'Express : "Les nouveaux visages de la droite". L'hebdomadaire d'actualité consacre son dossier à la recomposition du paysage politique à droite, où plusieurs personnalités émergent pour tenter de s'imposer comme alternative à Emmanuel Macron. L'Express dresse le portrait de ces "nouveaux challengers", qui vont de Xavier Bertrand à Valérie Pécresse, en passant par Laurent Wauquiez ou Éric Zemmour. - Le Point : "Comment sauver notre patrimoine". L'hebdomadaire d'information se penche sur la situation critique du patrimoine français, menacé par le vieillissement, les intempéries, les incendies ou les pillages. Le Point explore les pistes pour préserver et valoriser ce trésor culturel, qui passe par une mobilisation citoyenne, un mécénat innovant et une politique volontariste. →A lire aussi Cube Maggi, « le poison populaire qui tue rapidement en Afrique » : Histoire de sa création et Conséquences pour la santé - Marianne : "La France malade de son école". L'hebdomadaire d'opinion s'attaque au système éducatif français, qu'il juge en déclin et en décalage avec les besoins du XXIe siècle. Marianne dénonce les maux qui rongent l'école républicaine, comme le nivellement par le bas, l'abandon des savoirs fondamentaux, la perte d'autorité ou la fracture sociale. Il propose des pistes pour réformer en profondeur l'école et la rendre plus performante et plus juste. MAGAZINES MAGAZINES_1_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - Paris Match : "Brigitte Macron, confidences d'une première dame". Le magazine people publie une longue interview exclusive de Brigitte Macron, qui se confie sur son rôle, son couple, sa famille et ses projets. Paris Match brosse un portrait flatteur de la première dame, qu'il présente comme une femme engagée, moderne et proche des

Français. - Elle : "Spécial mode : les tendances de l'automne-hiver 2023-2024". Le magazine féminin consacre son numéro spécial à la mode, avec un décryptage des tendances qui vont marquer la saison froide. Elle présente les pièces incontournables, les couleurs phares, les accessoires indispensables et les conseils pour se créer un look stylé et personnalisé. →A lire aussi Justice pénale internationale et violences électorales : Les enjeux de la CPI au Kenya - Science & Vie : "Les secrets de la matière noire". Le magazine scientifique se plonge dans l'un des plus grands mystères de l'Univers, la matière noire, qui constitue 85% de la masse totale mais qui reste invisible et indétectable. Science & Vie fait le point sur les recherches en cours pour tenter de percer les secrets de cette énigme cosmique, qui pourrait révolutionner notre compréhension de la physique.

[baitibindja]

Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023. Bonjour à tous et bienvenue sur Kafunel, le site d'information qui vous propose chaque jour une revue de presse des principaux titres de la presse écrite sénégalaise. Aujourd'hui, mercredi 13 septembre 2023, voici ce qui fait la une des journaux quotidiens, hebdomadaires et magazines. Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 QUOTIDIENS_1_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 Bonjour à tous et bienvenue sur mon blog dédié à la titrologie, l'art d'analyser les unes des journaux. Aujourd'hui, je vous propose un tour d'horizon des principaux titres de la presse écrite, qu'il s'agisse des quotidiens, des hebdomadaires ou des magazines. Voici ce qui a retenu mon attention : Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 QUOTIDIENS QUOTIDIENS_2_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - Le Monde : "La crise climatique s'aggrave, l'ONU lance un ultimatum aux pays pollueurs". Le journal de référence fait sa une sur le rapport alarmant du GIEC, le groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat, qui appelle à des actions urgentes et radicales pour limiter le réchauffement global à 1,5°C. Le Monde souligne les enjeux politiques et économiques de cette bataille pour le climat, qui sera au cœur de la prochaine conférence COP28 à Paris. - Libération : "Macron face à la fronde des régions". Le quotidien de gauche revient sur la grogne des présidents de région, qui dénoncent la recentralisation du pouvoir et la réduction de leurs marges de manœuvre financières. Libération pointe les risques d'une fracture territoriale et d'une montée du populisme, à quelques mois de l'élection présidentielle. QUOTIDIENS_3_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - Le Figaro : "Sécurité : le gouvernement renforce son arsenal". Le journal conservateur se fait l'écho des mesures annoncées par le ministre de l'Intérieur, qui promet plus de policiers, plus de caméras, plus de sanctions et plus de coopération européenne pour lutter contre la délinquance et le terrorisme. Le Figaro salue une "offensive sécuritaire" qui répond aux attentes des Français. HEBDOMADAIRES HEBDOMADAIRES_1_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - L'Express : "Les nouveaux visages de la droite". L'hebdomadaire d'actualité consacre son dossier à la recomposition du paysage politique à droite, où plusieurs personnalités émergent pour tenter de s'imposer comme alternative à Emmanuel Macron. L'Express dresse le portrait de ces "nouveaux challengers", qui vont de Xavier Bertrand à Valérie Pécresse, en passant par Laurent Wauquiez ou Éric Zemmour. - Le Point : "Comment sauver notre patrimoine". L'hebdomadaire d'information se penche sur la situation critique du patrimoine français, menacé par le vieillissement, les intempéries, les incendies ou les pillages. Le Point explore les pistes pour préserver et valoriser ce trésor culturel, qui passe par une mobilisation citoyenne, un mécénat innovant et une politique volontariste. →A lire aussi Cube Maggi, « le poison populaire qui tue rapidement en Afrique » : Histoire de sa création et Conséquences pour la santé - Marianne : "La France malade de son école". L'hebdomadaire d'opinion s'attaque au système éducatif français, qu'il juge en déclin et en décalage avec les besoins du XXIe siècle. Marianne dénonce les maux qui rongent l'école républicaine, comme le nivellement par le bas, l'abandon des savoirs fondamentaux, la perte d'autorité ou la fracture sociale. Il propose des pistes pour réformer en profondeur l'école et la rendre plus performante et plus juste. MAGAZINES MAGAZINES_1_Titrologie du mercredi 13 septembre 2023 - Paris Match : "Brigitte Macron, confidences d'une première dame". Le magazine people publie une longue interview exclusive de Brigitte Macron, qui se confie sur son rôle, son couple, sa famille et ses projets. Paris Match brosse un portrait flatteur de la première dame, qu'il présente comme une femme engagée, moderne et proche des

Français. - Elle : "Spécial mode : les tendances de l'automne-hiver 2023-2024". Le magazine féminin consacre son numéro spécial à la mode, avec un décryptage des tendances qui vont marquer la saison froide. Elle présente les pièces incontournables, les couleurs phares, les accessoires indispensables et les conseils pour se créer un look stylé et personnalisé. →A lire aussi Justice pénale internationale et violences électorales : Les enjeux de la CPI au Kenya - Science & Vie : "Les secrets de la matière noire". Le magazine scientifique se plonge dans l'un des plus grands mystères de l'Univers, la matière noire, qui constitue 85% de la masse totale mais qui reste invisible et indétectable. Science & Vie fait le point sur les recherches en cours pour tenter de percer les secrets de cette énigme cosmique, qui pourrait révolutionner notre compréhension de la physique.

[suffernotindoubt]

'The Simpsons' Disneybriations

Ongoing, likely-inexhaustible compendium of edits applied after, to episodes produced and aired before, Disney acquired 'The Simpsons'.

Episode: 'Weekend at Burnsie's'

Edit: Homer does not smoke joint with Smithers; in the end, he is not lying to his family regarding smoking marijuana.

'The monkey suit'

Girl checks off 'kiss 100 boys' instead of '10,000'.

'Marge's son poisoning'

Milhouse does not say 'I will bring yu back eyecare pamphlets'.

'Ziff who came to dinner'

'Bubbles can burst?!' Homer does not say amidst Arnie's go-go '90s flashback.

'Fat man and little boy'

Sea captain does not get to respond 'I just want friends who are not work friends' to Bart's 'Viking funeral' because Bart does not say 'I really do not want to talk about it'.

'T.o.H. XVII'

In third act, Carl does Not start to take off his shoes, so Chief Wiggum does not say, 'shoes are part of uniform.'

'Homer Simpson this is your wife'

Homer not allowed to say 'you can see the soulless emptiness in Charlie Sheen's eyes'.

'Homer's paternity coot'

Edited out 'Well my hat size is six...'

H.S. 'Aaah! Wait -  is that small?'

'Smaller than average.'

H.S. 'Aaah!'

'Behind the laughter'

At end, the closed captions do not, yet in-episode voiceover does, name 'Southern Missouri' as opposed to 'Northern Kentucky' as The Simpsons' home state.

'Last temptation of Krusty'

Krusty is not given 5 minutes after schilling for the Canyonero - 'o I am not going back out there' to which stage manager would have said, 'No, 5 minutes to pack up your stuff and get out of here'.

'The wizard of evergreen terrace'

Carl: 'James Watt invented the steam engine.'

Homer: 'That's boring. Stop boring everybody.'

'T.o.H. iii'

'Doll without pity' 

Homer wraps up conversation with store's proprietor, who continues to pile on 'poison pills' to the sale terms before getting to say: 'I am going to go now.'

'Homie the Clown'

At the Ace awards, the presenter who knows Woody Allen is not allowed to identify himself as Dick Cavett.

'King-size Homer'

Edit removes gifting of perpetul motion toy from Lisa to Homer. He does not say: 'In this house, we obey the laws of physics!'

Also, he does not set up the toy to push the Y button or mention to Marge that he tripled his productivity by only typing 'Y' of 'Yes'.

'T.o.H. X'

'I know what you diddily-did' - Homer does not sing the Super Sugar Crisp theme song, only the phrase 'guess I forgot to put the fog-lights in' to its tune.

'T.o.H. XII'

'Hex and the city'

Lisa does her hoof scratch but Homer does not say, 'see, 2 means yes'.

'They saved Lisa's Brain'

Lenny does not say, 'If only I had somewhere to go' after illustrating the benefit of only red and yellow traffic lights.

'Bye-bye nerdie'

(Screenshot taken 2022-11-18 7.05.53 P.M.; no product placement in original...)

'Old-yeller belly'

'Hit her in the spleen with a frozen Jimmy Dean' from 'spleen with a broken tambourine'.

'Simple Simpson'

Homer says 'I cannot stand to serve anyone. I just can't!' instead of 'I'll serve anyone but the community!' and we are not allowed to see picture shown to Marge as 'proof' that Homie is not Pie-man.

[princessmadafu]

Potted History of Royal Succession since HMTQ

HMTQ came to the throne on her father George VI's death in 1952. Her sister Margaret was third in line, after the young Prince Charles and Princess Anne.

As each generation marries and has a family, by 1964 the next seven in line to the throne were:

(i) Charles (b 1948)

(ii) Andrew (b 1960)

(iii) Edward (b 1964)

(iv) Anne (b 1950)

(v) Princess Margaret, sister of HMTQ (b 1930)

(vi) David Armstrong Jones, son of Marg (b 1961)

(vii) Sarah Armstrong Jones, dau of Marg (b 1964)

These top seven stayed the same until Anne married in 1973 and produced Peter and Zara. The top seven then looked like this:

(i) Charles (b 1948)

(ii) Andrew (b 1960)

(iii) Edward (b 1964)

(iv) Anne (b 1950)

(v) Peter Phillips (b 1977)

(vi) Zara Phillips (b 1981)

(vii) Princess Margaret, her two children being bumped off the top seven

Then in 1981 Charles married Diana Spencer, and subsequently produced William and Harry. By the end of 1984 the top seven were:

(i) Charles

(ii) William (b 1982)

(iii) Harry (b 1984)

(iv) Andrew

(v) Edward

(vi) Anne

(vii) Peter, with sister Zara and Margaret's family being shunted off.

When Andrew married in 1986 and subsequently had Beatrice and Eugenie, the top seven became:

(i) Charles

(ii) William (b 1982)

(iii) Harry (b 1984)

(iv) Andrew

(v) Beatrice (b 1988)

(vi) Eugenie (b 1990)

(vii) Edward, with Princess Anne and her kids being shunted off...

...I wonder if Her Markleness has got the hang of royal succession yet?

Now it's 2021 and the top seven are:

(i) Charles

(ii) William (b 1982)

(iii) George (b 2013)

(iv) Charlotte (b 2015)

(v) Louis (b 2018)

(vi) Harry

(vii) Archie, with Andrew and his girls shunted down the list...

Now, what can we say about where this is going?

Her Markleness's meal ticket has been shoved way down the line and no-one is interested in her, her sproglets, her pregnancy, her belly, grubby nasty feet, dubious La-La-TV deals, any of their fauxmanitarian charities...

Unfortunately for Harry, he has as much relevance today as David and Sarah Armstrong Jones did in 1964 - and to their credit both David and Sarah have made a success of their lives, living privately and earning their own way without trying to hog the limelight that their mother Margaret basked in! And again, Harry has as much relevance now as Peter and Zara Phillips had in the 1980s, though they too are both making successful careers off their own bat, and Zara, in particular - with her well-grounded and much admired sportsman husband Mike Tindall - is pretty well loved as a massively talented non-royal working grandchild of HMTQ.

So when did it go so badly wrong for Harry?

Ooooh, let's think. About 2018-2019, wasn't it? Shortly after the wedding.

We all wanted the marriage to be a success but Her Markleness wasn't prepared to buckle down and act like the wife of a 6th-In-Line.

She poisoned his mind and turned him against his family and his duty. She never wanted to open little supermarkets and unveil statues of people she'd never heard of and stand in the rain while the mayor of Diddlypoolington made a speech about how the new carrot factory would bring jobs to the town.

Harry lost the anchor he had with his military roles, and with no other discernible talent he has nowhere to go except rag-tag along at Her Markleness's heels, reciting her word salad speeches and pretending he hasn't forfeited more than he's gained in her rabid pursuit of $$$.

Having few discernible talents of her own, Her Markleness has always wanted - needed - an Alpha-male to make her look good. Sadly Harry isn't one. By virtue (or otherwise) of his birth, he never has been. He's only ever been the third or the fourth or the fifth or the sixth.

I really wish he could have found himself an Army wife, maybe someone who'd served in the Forces herself and understood what the words service and duty really mean: someone who'd stand beside him at supermarkets and statues and carrot factories, because she understood the job description of "wife of a 6th-In-Line".

I remember Harry as a child and had so many hopes for him.

And maybe this is what lies at the heart of his current predicament:

Too many hopes on shoulders that couldn't bear them.

[archive-archives]

SIX BY SONDHEIM (2013) Run Time             86:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English Aspect Ratio       1.78:1; 16 X 9 Widescreen Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 25

From award-winning director and frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, Six by Sondheim is an intimate and candid look at the life and art of legendary composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who redefined musical theater through such works as Company, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George. Told primarily in Sondheim’s own words from dozens of interviews spanning decades, the film is a highly personal profile of a great American artist as revealed through the creation and performance of six of his songs. It features rarely seen archival performance footage and original staged productions – created exclusively for this film – with stars including Audra McDonald, Darren Criss, America Ferrera and more.

HARLEY QUINN: THE COMPLETE FIRST AND SECOND SEASONS (2019,2020) Run Time             594:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English Aspect Ratio       1.78:1, 16 X 9 Widescreen Disc Configuration           2 BD 50

Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker (Alan Tudyk) and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City in this half-hour adult animated action-comedy series. With the help of Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs, Harley tries to earn a seat at the biggest table in villainy: the Legion of Doom. Don’t worry – she’s got this. Or does she? In Season 2, Harley has defeated the Joker, and Gotham City is hers for the taking…what’s left of it, that is. Her celebration in the newly created chaos is cut short when Penguin, Bane, Mr. Freeze, The Riddler and Two-Face join forces to restore order in the criminal underworld. Calling themselves the Injustice League, they’re intent on keeping Harley and her crew from taking control as the top villains in Gotham.

NEW 2021 1080p HD master! PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990) Run Time             102:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English Aspect Ratio       1.85:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50 Includes Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he’s Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love, and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down. An outrageous rebel with a cause, Slater gives a brilliant performance as the reluctant hero who inspires his classmates to find their own voices of rebellion and individuality. A movie with a message, Pump Up the Volume is a raw and witty celebration of free speech that will make you laugh, make you cheer and make you think.

NEW 2020 1080p HD master! A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935) Run Time             126:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Audioscopiks (MGM short); 2 Classic Cartoons 'Hey, Hey Fever' and 'Honeyland'; Radio adaptation with Ronald Colman; Trailer

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens’ tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works: David O. Selznick (David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind). Ronald Colman (The Prisoner of Zenda) stars as Sydney Carton – sardonic, dissolute, a wastrel…and destined to redeem himself in an act of courageous sacrifice. “It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done,” Carton muses at that defining moment. This is far, far better filmmaking too: a Golden Era marvel of uncanny performances top to bottom, eye-filling crowd scenes (the storming of the Bastille, thronged courtrooms, an eerie festival of public execution) and lasting emotional power. Revolution is in the air!

NEW 2021 1080p HD master! BABY DOLL (1956) Run Time             114:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.85:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox Product Color    BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: "Baby Doll: See No Evil" vintage featurette; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who’ll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof – yet never in the same bed – is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award® nominations, Golden Globe® Awards for Baker and Kazan, and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide proclaims, “still sizzles.”

NEW 2021 1080p HD master from nitrate preservation elements! SAN FRANCISCO (1936) Run Time             115:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Product Color    BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Alternate Ending Sequence; "Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome" featurette with Liam Neeson; two vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks: 'Cavalcade of San Francisoco' & 'Night Descends on Treasure Island'; Classic Cartoon 'Bottles"; Theatrical re-issue trailer (HD)

Romantic drama combines with humor, starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award-winning extravaganza’s street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide).

Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar® nominations,* Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.

NEW 2021 1080p HD master from 4K Scan of original Technicolor negatives! SHOW BOAT (1951) Run Time             108:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 STEREO - English, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Original Mono Theatrical track- - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Commentary by Director George Sidney; Till the Clouds Roll By - Show Boat (1946) Sequence; "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill" Ava Gardner Audio-only Outtakes; Lux Radio Theater Broadcast (2/11/1952); Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol’ Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin’ along. Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of riverboat lives and loves has glorious stars (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion) in Technicolor® radiance, a made-from-scratch 170-foot paddle wheeler, timeless songs and an equally timeless outcry against racial bigotry. “This was music that would outlast Kern’s day and mine,” Ferber said in recalling her first reaction to hearing “Ol’ Man River.” She was right as rain.

NEW 2020 1080p HD master! MY DREAM IS YOURS (1949) Run Time             101:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: Vintage Joe McDoakes Comedy Short "So You Want to be An Actor"; The Grass is Always Greener short subject; Classic Cartoon 'A Ham in a Role' ; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star (Lee Bowman) and scrambles to discover another who will shine even brighter. He finds effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. Doris Day plays Martha. Think she has a chance? During the shooting of Day’s first film (Romance on the High Seas), director Michael Curtiz was sure the sparkling newcomer had much more than a chance and set the wheels in motion for My Dream Is Yours. Curtiz dots his film with authentic Hollywood locales (including the fabled Schwab’s Pharmacy). And Bugs Bunny himself hops into a dream sequence. Welcome to the Dream Factory. Make it yours.

NEW 2020 1080p HD master from 4K scan of Original Technicolor Negatives! ON MOONLIGHT BAY (1951) Run Time             95:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1 Disc Configuration           BD 50

Special Features: 'Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight' vintage short; Classic Cartoon 'A Hound for Trouble'; Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin’, croonin’ and swoonin’ On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington’s Penrod stories. “Try not to walk like a first baseman,” Mama (Rosemary DeCamp) tells tomboy Marjorie (Day) as she prepares to date college man Bill (MacRae). The advice takes. The lovebirds hear wedding bells ahead, just as soon as Bill gets his sheepskin. But World War I rages “over there.” And Papa (Leon Ames) rages at home after a flap with his prospective son-in-law. Will harmony return to this Hoosier home? Surely Day and MacRae will make musical harmony. And On Moonlight Bay will have you sailing along.

[vajranam]

SHRI RAMANUJACHARYA

Ramanujacharya was a great scholar with lot of patience, was simple and generous. He belonged to the Allavandar tradition. His father was Keshav bhatt who stayed in southern region of Terunkudur. Ramanuj lost his father at a very young age. He went to study under the tutelage of a guru named Yadav Prakash. Ramanuj was a sharp student who now started taking out mistakes from his guru's wrong teachings. So the guru, on pretext of sending his disciples to Kashi, conspired with Ramanuj's cousin to kill him in deep forest. But he was saved by a hunter and his wife. Later he acquired many siddhi's and cured the Princess of Kanchi.

When the sage Allavandar was on his deathbed, he sent his disciple to call Ramanuj. But before Ramanuj could reach , Allavandar was no more. On reaching Shrirangam, Ramanuj noticed that three fingers of Allavandar were turned. Only Ramanuj understood it's significance that his guru had entrusted him the work of analysing Brahmsutra, Vishnusahastranaam and Divya Prabhandam. Ramanuj vowed there to get these works completed. The guru's finger now were straight. He took Vaishnav diksha from the main disciple of Allavandar whose name was Periyanambi.

Although he was married but he decided to become sanyasi under Yatiraj. His first guru Yadav Prakash was now Ramanuj's follower in repentance.

He took guru mantra from sage Nambi(Om Namo Narayanaya). His guru urged him to keep this mantra secret but Ramanuj publicly declared this mantra. On facing his guru's ire and curse, he said that if so many people can attain moksha with this mantra, he was ready to go to hell. The guru repented and embraced him.

He was made to take the seat of Allavandar by his followers. His enemies tried to poison him but was alerted by a lady.

He travelled extensively. He wrote the bhashya of Gita and Brahmsutra. He wrote Shri bhashya on vedant. His group was known as Shri sampraday. They believe Shri Mahalaxmi as their originator. His main follower was Kurtallavar who had two sons named Parashar and Pillann. Ramanuj made Parashar write the bhashya of Vishnu sahastranaam and made Pillann write on Divya Prabhandam, thus completing his guru's last wish.

The King of Shrirang was a staunch shaiva. He called Ramanuj to his court with an ulterior motive. Recognising this Ramanuj sent Kurutallwar impersonating as Ramanuj. As a true shishya, he propagated Vaishnav dharm in the court. The King got Kurutallwar's eyes removed.

Ramanuj now came to stay at Shalgram in Mysore. There the King Bhittidev was a Vaishnav. Here Ramanuj stayed for twelve years. He restored an ancient temple at Nimmle which still exists and is known as Tirunarayanpur temple. Once he was attacked by dacoits but was saved by his disciples. He teturned to shrirangam on the death of the King there. He established a vaishnav temple there for Allwar and Nammalwar followers. He reconstructed the temple at Tirupati. He propagated bhakti marg upto ripe old age of hundred and twenty.

His teachings tell us that ishwar is the only Purushottam. He practised VISHISHT ADVAITWAD. According to him ishwar is present in each and every body. Jeev is just his sevak. The aim of life should be purusharth. Bhagwan Narayan is Satt, Mahalaxmi is his shakti and is chitta and this world is their Anand vilas. Laxmi narayan are the parents and jeev is their santaan. The duty of santaan is to serve parents and receive their kripa. They come as avtars from time to time. Always recite the name of Narayan and serve them with our thoughts words and deeds.