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Sipping Basil Hayden’s Dark Rye in Buffalo—spice, dark fruit, and that silky port finish. A smooth pour with just enough bite to match the city’s edge. #WhiskeyWeather #basilhayden #BuffaloNights 🥃

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Julie Christie gets trapped in a smart house and impregnated by a smug AI. Yes, Demon Seed (1977) is as weird as it sounds. My 2-star review: shorturl.at/D0CZI #DemonSeed #SciFi #FilmReview

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Why did St. Paul the Hermit ditch society for 90 years with a skull, a raven, and killer abs? Luca Giordano paints the wild answer. Baroque, weird, divine. 👉 shorturl.at/r1nbT #ArtHistoryUnfiltered

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Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth

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Happy Pride to all my queer and trans friends—I love you, I’m proud of you, and I’m with you. Always. Thank you for being exactly who you are. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth #ChosenFamily #LoveIsLove

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A Technicolor fever dream with dubbed baritones, pink filters, and Mitzi Gaynor in full force. Our 3⭐️ review of South Pacific (1958) pulls no punches: shorturl.at/Rv6vS #ClassicFilm #Musicals

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Ever seen two pregnant women change the course of history by candlelight? Mattia Preti’s The Visitation is all drama, shadows, and divine purpose. 🔥 👉 shorturl.at/Dj6uB #BaroqueArt #TheVisitation #MattiaPreti #HolyDrama #Chiaroscuro

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Robert Downey Jr. + Zach Galifianakis + a masturbating dog = one unhinged road trip. My 3⭐️ review of Due Date is here to wreck your nostalgia: shorturl.at/YF4J1 #DueDate #FilmReview #ComedyChaos

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

✨ Baroque drama. Celestial lighting. One deeply unimpressed ox. Paolo de Matteis’ Adoration of the Shepherds is your holy art detour today. 👉 shorturl.at/NvCTO #HolyGlowUp #DivineDrama #BaroqueArt #OxJudgesYou

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Murder, manuscripts, and a forensic doc with a pasta problem. Our 3-star review of Body of Evidence pulls no punches. Read it here 👉 shorturl.at/Bt5d7 #CrimeFiction #PatriciaCornwell #BookReview

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Roman honor meets Baroque brutality: Salvator Rosa’s Death of Regulus turns a spiked barrel into a moral crucible. Art, agony, and irony—all here 👉 shorturl.at/KF3rw #ArtHistoryUnhinged

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

DOD’s new AaaS pilot lets COs skip competition, ignore cost data, and call building leases “as-a-Service.” GOVCON just changed. Are you ready? 🚨👉 shorturl.at/oThwK #GovCon #AaaS #NDAA2024

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Heartbreak never sounded so groovy. 💔🎻 Dive into ELO’s “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”—a disco-rock plea on purple vinyl. Analysis, laughs, and tears👇 👉 shorturl.at/h7dBt #ELO #ClassicRock #MusicAnalysis

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What if Superman was… a sociopath? 🛸🔥 Brightburn flips the cape and sets the barn on fire. My 3-star review dives into this dark, twisted origin tale. Read it here 👉 shorturl.at/EZtlF #Brightburn

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Claude Lorrain’s Battle of the Milvian Bridge is the calmest war painting in history. Constantine? Somewhere offscreen. The real winner? The sunset. 🌅⚔️ Read the irreverent breakdown 👉 shorturl.at/CrApc #ArtHistory #ClaudeLorrain #BaroqueVibes #PushkinMuseum

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What if a porn star grew a stinger in her armpit and turned Montreal into a blood-soaked war zone? Cronenberg’s Rabid (1977) is wild, weird, and worth revisiting. Read my 3⭐ review: shorturl.at/IjKsp #Rabid1977 #Cronenberg #HorrorReview #CultCinema

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

When Achilles grabbed the sword instead of the jewelry, the wig came off and so did the lies. 🎭⚔️ Poussin painted it straight—we decoded the chaos. 👉 shorturl.at/bVJWC #ArtThatHitsDifferent #AchillesUnmasked

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The real Little Mermaid doesn’t get the guy—she dissolves into sea foam after sacrificing everything. The original tales are darker, stranger, and far more human. Read my review 👉 shorturl.at/whKrD

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A ruin, a volcano, a boat, and a moonbeam walk into a painting… Joseph Wright’s Vesuvius from Posillipo is Romantic dread at its peak. Read the full breakdown (and existential slap): 👉 shorturl.at/R41Y0 #ArtThatHaunts #JosephWright #Sublime

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Venice, fading but radiant. Guardi’s Piazza San Marco captures a republic dressed for its final act. Elegy in oil, grandeur in decline. 🎨✨ 👉 shorturl.at/my2D0 #FrancescoGuardi #ArtHistory #Venice

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Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 might be his final verdict—and it’s a damn compelling one. 4-star review: moral twists, killer cast, no easy answers. Read it here 👉 shorturl.at/pqIIS #JurorNumberTwo

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Pete Hegseth Accused of Getting His American Flag Suits Made in Thailand Source: Mediaite -according to the U.S. Flag Code, wearing clothing made from the actual American flag is considered disrespectful. “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.”

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Pink Floyd’s Run Like Hell wasn’t fiction—it was prophecy. From fascist rock operas to the Trump era, here’s why this track still hits like a warning shot. 🎸🔥 👉 shorturl.at/4REiX #PinkFloyd #RunLikeHell #TheWall #TrumpEra #MusicAsWarning

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Patty Duke vs. her evil spider alter ego. Dan Curtis directs. A giant rubber arachnid screeches like Rodan. Yes, it’s Curse of the Black Widow (1977). 2 stars, all chaos. 🕷️ shorturl.at/4yVmF

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What happens when a Roman emperor drops a scroll instead of a mic? 💀 Meet Septimius Severus: part philosopher, part warlord, full marble flex. You need to see this. 👉 shorturl.at/VEHsB #VMFA #ArtWithTeeth #ScrollDrop #RomanEmpire

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

That better include those unconstitutional provisions against the courts - fascist assholes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

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Is The Velvet Underground & Nico brilliant, or just noisy art school cosplay? I gave it 3 stars and zero passes. Track-by-track, myth-busting review here: shorturl.at/Q6rZO #VelvetUnderground #MusicHotTake

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A bishop walks miles holding his own severed head—and makes it a miracle. Meet St. Denis, France’s headless patron saint, carved in Gothic stone. 🗿 🔗 shorturl.at/738L6 #SaintDenis #MedievalArt #Cephalophore

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👑 700 years old and still serving looks—meet the Virgin and Child, Gothic stonework with more poise than your last Zoom call. Elegance. Attitude. Eternity. 👉 shorturl.at/ZWDUf #GothicGlowUp #FaithInStone #VMFA

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Wesley Snipes, White House murder, deleted love scenes, and Alan Alda quoting Roosevelt like a Bond villain. Our caustic 3⭐️ review of Murder at 1600 👉 shorturl.at/SODa0 #90sThriller

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone knows Black Beauty. Few have actually read it. I just did—and it’s darker, flatter, and more righteous than you remember. My 3⭐ review of a book we all pretend we’ve read: shorturl.at/KpnCW #BlackBeauty #BookReview #DrewReads

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Blasco de Grañén’s Crucifixion is gold, grief, and Gothic devotion in one panel. Step inside a 15th-century altar and feel the weight of sacred art. ✨💔 👉 shorturl.at/ugO6z #ArtHistory #GothicArt #BlascoDeGranen

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Woody Guthrie’s Dusty Old Dust is the Dust Bowl’s toe-tapping goodbye letter to America. Folk, fury, and fatalism—read the full story here: shorturl.at/xp9rx #WoodyGuthrie #FolkMusic

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A corpse in a deed box. A solicitor with insomnia. And the driest murder mystery this side of Lincoln’s Inn. Read the full 4-star review of Smallbone Deceased: shorturl.at/aWdkG #CrimeFiction

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What did Egypt’s last native pharaoh do as his empire crumbled? Carved a granite shoutout to Ra. Bold move. Read the snarky breakdown 👉 shorturl.at/E1vBo #NectaneboII #RaKnowsBest #GraniteDon’tLie

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US homeland chief says illegal immigration levels could warrant suspending habeas corpus Source: Reuters - and there we have it ladies and gentlemen - martial law is next.

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Opera, fistfights, and a court-ordered nightclub residency? My 3-star review of Hills of Rome (1958) pulls no punches. 🇮🇹🎤🍷 Read it here 👉 shorturl.at/k1DB6 #MarioLanza #FilmTwitter

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Still flexin’ 2,600 years later. 👑 Headless, exiled, and carved like a god—Senkamanisken’s statue is a granite power play you need to see. 🔗 shorturl.at/PDgVk #KushStillKing #VMFA #GraniteFlex #AncientAfrica

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Was Toy Story 4 the sequel nobody wanted—or the ending we didn’t know we needed? Existential sporks, a runaway Woody, and peak Keanu. 🎬 Read the 4⭐ review 👉 shorturl.at/DJPRP #ToyStory4 #Pixar

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Seti I didn’t just win battles—he etched the win into history. Power, myth, and propaganda carved in stone. 🔥 Read the story behind the relief: shorturl.at/mJC5T #AncientEgypt #VMFA #SetiI

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Dennis Hopper, a fake ambulance, and a real gun. Wim Wenders’ The American Friend (1977) is noir at its weirdest. My 3⭐ review digs in: shorturl.at/avrYA #Ripley #FilmNoir #WimWenders

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Caligula: madman or marble myth? 🏛️ This statue at VMFA hides an emperor Rome tried to erase—but couldn’t. Power never looked so polished. Read the story: shorturl.at/SRS9l #Caligula #VMFA #RomanArt

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Patty Griffin’s “Take It Down” isn’t a breakup song—it’s a demolition hymn. A deep dive into one of folk’s quietest devastations. 💔 Read here: shorturl.at/hTIl9 #PattyGriffin #TakeItDown #FolkMusic #MusicForTheBroken

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

finance book that actually helps? 💸 I Will Teach You to Be Rich by @ramit is the no-BS guide every 20-something (and a few 50-somethings) should read. Smart. Simple. Shame-free. 👉 shorturl.at/GOrGG #PersonalFinance #RichLife

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

800 years old and still radiating grace—this Kamakura-era Kannon shows us what compassion looks like in wood, gold, and silence. Discover the story: shorturl.at/kYNOZ #JapaneseArt #Kannon

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What if your school therapist was a teen with a limo, a script pad, and a bathroom office? Charlie Bartlett still slaps. Read the 4-star review 👉 shorturl.at/Y4DJZ #CharlieBartlett #TeenRewind

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Snow, sparrows, and gold-leaf serenity—Kunii Oyo’s 1900 screen is winter stillness at its finest. ❄️✨ Discover the beauty behind the brushwork: shorturl.at/fA9AY #MeijiArt #KuniiOyo

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