Laurence Ballard

@laurenceballard

Don't like bullies, busybodies, name-takers, list-makers, or self-selected moral scolds. “Den sterkeste mannen I verden er den som står mest alene.” - En folkefiende, H. Ibsen

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Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jun 13

Smuggled video from last night’s dress rehearsal of the Opening Ceremonies for the UFC fight on the White House lawn.

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Feb 10

“Dear America, you are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that ⅓ of your people would kill another ⅓, while ⅓ watches.” — Werner Herzog

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jan 30

Indeed.

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Dec 28

Blow it out your ass, Tiberius.

All passes. Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust outlasts the throne—
The Coin, Tiberius.

Even the gods must go.

—Henry Austin Dobson, Ars Victrix

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Dec 24

Nutliks’s home world:

The square Bizzaro World, from Action comics.

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Dec 12

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Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Oct 30

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Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Sep 18

The Duty of Comics
Molière faced excommunication and tried to defend his work in letters- especially one in particular —writing about the nature of comedy: "the comic is the outward and visible form that nature's bounty has attached to everything unreasonable, so that we should see, and avoid, it. To know the comic we must know the rational, of which it denotes the absence and we must see wherein the rational consists... incongruity is the heart of the comic... it follows that all lying, disguise, cheating, dissimulation, all outward show different from the reality, all contradiction in fact between actions that proceed from a single source, all this is in essence comic."
Lettre sur la comédie de 'Imposteur of 1667

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Sep 16

Soviets: Red Fascists 😉

Graphic in the style of Marilyn Monroe over the subway grating. The flowing dress is red with a hammer & sickle, revealing a swastika underneath.

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Sep 13

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

—Joseph Goebbels

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Aug 27

This is the full extent of what I saw at the Monday Pressathon.

Still from 1954 animated film version of ANIMAL FARM showing wealthy, well-turned pigs sitting around a table

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jul 24

Why, Bruce Wayne’s Ward. “During his time working in venture capital in San Francisco, Vance became a protégé of Peter Thiel…” -NPR

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jul 23

It’s a trifecta; Millard Fillmore is no longer the most bigoted President. ‘Fillmore had the Fugitive Slave Act of 1853 passed to aid enslaver states—not only requiring free states to return enslaved people to their enslavers but also making it a federal crime *not to assist* in doing so.’ —Tom Head

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jul 4

Claude Rains publicity shot as Capt. Louis Renault…

Jan Brandel:
Captain Renault... may I?

Captain Renault:
Oh no! Not here please! Come to my office tomorrow morning. We'll do everything businesslike.

Jan Brandel:
We'll be there at six!

Captain Renault:
I'll be there at ten.

from CASABLANCA—Louis was also shocked, shocked, to discover gambling in the casino where he wagered.

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Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jun 26

“Who’s a good boy?!”

Milk-Bone minis - dog treats for special ones.

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jun 25

#MTG has something to say.

Laurence Ballard@laurenceballard· Jun 19

Gary Larsen nailed this in December ‘83. At the time he didn’t realize he’d be drawing the Republican caucus in both Houses of Congress, 42 years later.