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Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting (1973) dir. George Roy Hill

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TV show people writing poker scenes putting layers of intricate symbolism and push-pull back and forth conflict and strategy between characters into every hand and combination of cards. Me watching it: whats a flush is that good.

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'Stańczyk' by Jan Matejko, 1862 // Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce, Mash episode 'As You Were', 1974

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Crazy thing to say to me

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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uh ohhhhhh feeling a little emotionally wobbly today, I think I’m gonna have to try not to cry at work. UH OH

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MASH s02e13 - Deal Me Out

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Iranian photographer Hossein Fatemi, offers a glimpse of an entirely different side to Iran than the image usually broadcasted by domestic and foreign media. In his photo series An Iranian Journey, many of the photographs reveal an Iran that most people never see, presenting an eye-opening look at the amazing diversity and contrasts that exist in the country.

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“Your boss is quite a card player, Mr. Kelly. How does he do it?” “He cheats.”

The Sting (1973) dir. George Roy Hill

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The Sting (1973)

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"I would much rather see a picture about two homosexual men in love than see two romantic actors going through a routine whose point is that they’re so adorably smiley butch that they can pretend to be in love and it’s all innocent. (It was more fun in the forties and fifties, when male couples played these games and we guessed from the way they looked at each other that they really were lovers offscreen.)" - from Pauline Kael's review of The Sting (1973) for The New Yorker

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This is a good one. The fake smile…..

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Let him sleep.

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bj knew hawkeye would come around and decide not to go home. he had to have. but it's still such a gamble to turn around and walk off the bus when this guy who is quickly becoming your best friend and safety net says "dead serious," and then stays put. because what if bj had been wrong? what if he hadn't figured hawkeye out as well as he thought he had, and the last words they ever spoke to one another were "you serious?" and "dead serious." imagine that guilt and constant wondering of "what if."

we know hawkeye comes back. we know the show continues on, and we know the wounded kept coming. but it feels almost like a cautionary tale reminding the viewer that war doesn't care about individuals. it keeps churning out bodies and destruction and it doesn't stop for just one person.

it only stops if they actually die.

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Interesting word choice ‘what used to be one human being’