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Oh hey! Do you happen to remember where you found access to those old Marvel novels? The excerpt from the 1979 one about Clint’s “wicked handsomeness” has me intrigued lol

i have ebook copies of these two but idk where to acquire them anymore. the physical covers rule tho

the 1979 one was "the marvel superheroes," and the 1967 one was "the avengers battle the earth-wrecker." the intro page described him as "irreverent"

he's also the occasional punching bag

who is so tough

and definitely did all the work

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What tumblr fails to grasp is that I’m not interested in community groups for the things I like because fans of my favorite things are often very wrong about them

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"settle" means they are going to fight over who gets to own midjourney like dogs over a carcass. then, when they've had their fill, they will fire all of their own artists and creators and replace them with midjourney's guts.

midjourney may die, but the beast they created will live again under a new, invincible brand name.

Link to thread

Link to news story

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that looks more like tobacco juice than your last one. swamp sonny

No one is prepared

For the Sonny Crocktail, Mach Two: The Blue Shirt Elvis' Swamp Water Edition

So my intention here was blue

Like, Teal Shirt Sonny Blue

The recipe for what I thought would be blue:

1 tsp blue spirulina powder

1 oz pineapple juice

Mix the above together

1 handful blueberries

.5oz tobacco syrup

Add the above to your glass and muddle

2 more oz pineapple juice

2 oz (fake, in my case) mezcal

Stir, add ice

6 oz pineapple seltzer

I want to be very clear here. I went to buy some blue spirulina powder because what the fuck else is going to make Teal Shirt Sonny blue, right? The first bag I found was FORTY DOLLARS for LESS THAN TWO OUNCES, so I did not buy that. The second bag, which was normal sized and cheap-- that one I bought.

Unfortunately bargain spirulina powder

Well

It's breen! It's foamy! It's cloudy! It's full of ~detritus.~ Maybe even flotsam. Jetsam, perhaps.

Hilariously:

a) This is the most delicious thing I've made with the tobacco syrup. It's abidingly earthy and yet tropical, and just the right balance of sweet and dry. Genuinely drinkable! b) I immediately proceeded to knock half the glass onto the table and now the whole living room smells like Candy Everglades

Womp womp

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"i hope they both lose" or whatever parks and rec meme phrase you use to express that sentiment is not a good analysis of the disney-universal midjourney lawsuit because it is a legal case, not a football match -- the stakes are not abstract, nebulous "wins" or "losses" for the (all certainly very loathsome) parties involved but a specific legal precedent that if set will vastly expand the scope of u.s. copyright law (which because of its position as global hegemon, affects the whole world). it is not about if disney or midjourney Win, it is about whether or not the legal basis for transformative work is comprehensively eroded to an unprecedented degree!

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I was in a house with two (boy) children in it the other day, and while they had toys one exclusively watched television and the other couldn't even put down Roblox to eat a meal. My friend has two little girls who love toys, but also cannot resist the easy allure of phone. parents just hand phone to child and all else is forgotten.

Here's where it is bad for toy sellers: Mom puts kid in cart, gives kid phone, kid never looks up even if surrounded by toys. Normally kid has grabby hands and hope in their eyes when in a store containing toys. Now they just know phone. Here's where it is good for toy sellers: Collectors, and grandparents who still believe toys are paramount in the child mindset, are not as concerned with prices as a parent engaging in the expensive activity of Raising Child might be. So they can up the quality, reduce the quantity, and then add extra 9's and 0's to price tags. I won't be surprised when this doesn't pan out, but for some it might.

Currently Nintendo is banking big on nostalgic adults to buy their newest versions of their oldest titles. The prices are astronomical for families with kids, but potentially doable for adults without. Having a couple theme parks in the bag also helps (plus Lego, Disney, Universal, and any toy IP's within their respective brands; e.g. Toy Story).

However, my old neighbor has three small kids who she refuses to introduce to video games and phone, has set an allotted time for TV, and organizes arts-n-crafts, cooking, and science activities for them. When I babysat them while she was working, they did play with toys but often preferred dirt, sticks, and being chased. To each their own.

There are still kids who play with toys, and parents who value the education their children receive from "play" vs "phone." There will always be schools, shelters, and daycare centers that still invest in toys, and certainly there are many parts of the world where "phone" is far less of a plaything than toys.

@ OP "they aren't creating the next bunch of long term customers. The current crop of adult collectors are going to die off eventually" As someone who has lately been binging Pawn Stars, American Pickers, and a genre on YouTube of "yard sale hauls" I swear to you the demographic of "collector" is just a different type of hoarding that they never grow out of and never just dies off. Old people with treasure troves of stuff selling to middle-aged people who then sell to young collectors who claim it's an investment their future child can profit from. The cycle is endless.

On top of that, adults who hoard toys are more often purchasing the things they didn't have as children vs re-acquiring things they did have. It's a big reason why grandparents are a huge buying demographic, making up for the toys they couldn't buy for themselves or for their kids by giving them to grandkids. So, while I doubt it's a legitimate business plan because execs seem shortsighted in the extreme, keeping amazing toys out of a kid's grasp is a lost sale now, but a potential future of hoarding that same product in a nostalgic package later.

It sucks that kids barely play with toys anymore. That's valuable creative play, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills that aren't getting developed. Plus toys are just neat

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we shpuld make a tumblr bar with drinks like sonic screwdriver and the baker street mule

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why cant i read a book and watch a movie and play a game and clean all at the same time

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summer is the worst time of year and I do not want to do things in hot humid air. may I please have some cooler air? I can’t find a label on me that says “store in a cool, dry place” but I’m sure it’s there somewhere.

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The Sands, c. January-February 1960

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop on the board during a 4-week engagement (Jan. 20 to Feb. 16) while filming Ocean’s 11 (1960). The marquee was seen at the end of the movie.

We did the marquee here, the panel change, just the lettering … The name Joey Bishop, as you can see, is kind of hanging off the bottom of the sign, and he didn’t like that. He said, ‘Hey, I want to be up there just like the rest of the guys are. What can you do?’ And I said, ‘Well, Mr. Bishop, we can make the name Frank Sinatra smaller.’ He said, ‘Never mind,’ and walked away. - Kent Carmichael.

The lineup was referred as the "Summit at the Sands." The entertainers did not identify themselves as a group, but some in the national press called them "the Clan." One local columnist called them "The Summiteers." Others writers used the name "The Rat Pack," which the culture adopted in later years. Senator John F. Kennedy attended the show at the Sands on Jan. 31st. The lineup also performed at the Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, in Apr. 1960.

The Clan claims they don't call themselves that, but everyone else does. It's the tight little group that operates socially, and sometimes professionally. - Bob Thomas, Associated Press, 1/19/60

(1) Photo by Bob Willoughby. (2, 3) Photos by Floyd McCarty. (4) Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1/19/60.

Several real Las Vegas locations and casino exteriors were used for Ocean’s 11. The interior scenes—especially those involving casino floors, lounges, and the vault heist—were primarily filmed on studio sets in Hollywood, not inside the actual casinos. The Flamingo interior set is based on the Flamingo Stage Bar lounge.

Sammy Davis Jr on the set of Ocean’s 11 with Peter Lawford & Normal Fell. Todd Franklin Collection

Bob Thomas, Associated Press. Lawford in Big Business. Review-Journal, 1/19/60; Forest Duke. The Visiting Fireman. Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1/31/60 p3; Forrest Duke. The Visiting Fireman. Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2/17/60; An Interview with Kent Carmichael (OH 03648), Oral History Research Center at UNLV, Special Collections & Archives. 

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happy Clint Barton birthday everyone

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:o)

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he's an idiot for marrying caitlyn and an utter simpleton for cheating on gina, but if it helps he's also a moron for divorcing caroline

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♪ Fighting evil by moonlight, selling drugs by daylight ♪

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queue finally on fumes after i glutted it with a year's supply of content. i'm in the middle of another house move—the big one, my name is on the deed this time—so stay shiny without me!