Martin Schneider

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Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· 25d

OK, here we go. Come back is in full swing. PUT IN PLASTIC BERTRAND

B/W pic of Plastic Bertrand looking insouciant, he also has a boutonniere

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· 25d

Haven't seen 1415 France England beat this much Middle Ages Agincourt since Mbappé Hundred Years' War——bzzt **shorts out**

Dennis Miller wearing jacket and tie, seated in front of a world map, typical of the SNL Weekend Update set.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· 25d

A favorite passage from Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game. The player in question is Maurice Lucas.

hardly a rich man's school, but rich indeed to him. It was the whitest atmosphere he had ever known, everyone always sitting around drinking beer, a white thing to do (and even worse, talking about how much they were going to drink, which was very white, he decided), instead of drinking wine, which was the black thing to do. The environment was very Catholic and it seemed as though there were priests everywhere. Luke was Baptist, a soft one, but Sunday, in his own words, "was a day I'd always go out and make me a hustle." He became somewhat obstreperous in theology class, asking one day if Jesus was white. The professor had hemmed and mumbled and Luke knew he had hit the right question and he immediately followed up. "Well then, how come he always looks so **white** in your pictures? Why does your Jesus always look like he comes from London or Paris when if he was from Egypt or Israel or one of those places he wouldn't look like that? Everyone down there," he added, "is **dark**. " In general, though, he liked Marquette; they let you alone and they did not try to make you into something you were not.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· 29d

From The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam, 1979, p. 601.

Ferris's frustration with network practices persisted, and on one occasion, he had an opportunity to vent it. In October 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned because of his involvement in Maryland kickbacks, the former Vice-President asked the networks for prime time to make one final statement. They granted it. Charles Ferris was absolutely appalled; here was the most precious time imaginable being given to a man who had first abused the networks, then been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, then had pledged an all-out fight to clear his name, and had finally copped a plea. **And he was getting prime time to clear his name.** Ferris, half in jest but quite bitter, picked up the phone and called his friend Bill Small, the head of the CBS bureau in Washington. He asked Small for prime time to answer Agnew. He listed a number of available Democratic senators. "Of course, Bill, we've got a problem," he said. "None of them is a convicted felon."

Donald Trump wants to give a national address on prime time. There was some debate here, whether television networks would preempt their shows to permit Trump to do this.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 12

Haven't seen a Swiss defense this tough since Adrian von Bubenberg’s troops fought off Charles the Bold in the town of Murten during the Burgundian Wars in 1476.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 11

No food recs but if you are there in the day at all, I highly recommend taking a half-hour to check out Oslo's amazing city hall.

picture of Oslo's City Hall which is a brick building that has two prominent wings that jut up into the air.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 10

A weird thing about the Platner situation is that if you happen to accept the premise that **Platner was not going to beat Collins anyway**, then **literally nothing the Dems did downstream of that** is really all that bad. But this is the NY Times on it. It seems very out of proportion.

NYT opinion piece with a big banner image with a hand holding a GRAHAM PLATNER brochure. The headline reads "The Democrats Can't Go On Like This."

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 9

I think you shouldn't surround a cooked chicken breast with two pieces of bread.

Normal Rockwell's famous free speech guy, standing and speaking in a public forum with Will Rogers or someone next to him

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 8

picture of Alan Hale in his role of "the Skipper" in Gilligan's Island

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 8

old Doonesbury in which Duke attends a Chinese opera that features automatic weapons fire as the overture.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 5

book cover, 5th of July, A play by Lanford Wilson
picture is a b/w pic of the cast, two of the actors are an identifiably young William Hurt and Jeff Daniels.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jul 1

Then it's up to this guy.

Jesse Plemons in CIVIL WAR wearing weird red protective glasses, wearing fatigues, heavily armed. Subtitle reads "What kind of American are you?"

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 30

One of the reasons I put on movies like THE FIRM (1993) while I work is to get away from the depressing headlines of the day.

still from THE FIRM (1993): a white man's two hands framing a little handwritten note reading "AT LUNCH BREAK TAKE SHUTTLE TO REFLECTING POOL — LINCOLN MEMORIAL .... IT'S TIME TO TALK, W. TARRANCE, SPECIAL AGENT FBI"

still from THE FIRM (1993): Steven Hill sitting on a bench in snowy winter, in front of a body of water.

still from THE FIRM (1993): Vernon Doyles (Steven Hill) in front of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, telling Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) his life is over. It's snowy.

still from THE FIRM (1993): Tom Cruise seated on a bench in front of the Lincoln Memorial, looking poleaxed at Steven Hill. It's snowy.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 30

Halberstam, The Breaks of the Game, p. 172

Once during practice Petrie had bet Wayne Thompson, a writer for the Portland Oregonian, that he could not only hit eight jump shots in a row, but hit them in such a way that each time the ball would come right back to him.
He had proceeded to do exactly that, with his first seven shots, although on the eighth the ball went through the hoop but did not come back. Still it was a feat of skill which stunned Thompson for it meant not just making a basket, but making it at so precise an angle that the ball would touch the back of the rim and bounce right back. That, Thompson thought, was a real shooter.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 25

Here's the third one my dad loved. May as well finish the set. Saul Steinberg.

two men stand on a pier looking out at a man who is clearly in the process of drowning off in the distance. Between them a rowboat can be seen heading in the direction of the drowning man. The drowning man is crying out "au secours! au secours!" Back on the pier, one of the men says to the other "If he's not a Frenchman he's certainly an awful snob."

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 25

I nominate this other Arno. Another one my father liked.

A convertible with a Western man in the back seat drives by a devout Muslim on the side of the road in the middle of his prayers. The Western man is shouting to the Muslim. Caption: "Hey, Jack, which way to Mecca?"

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 20

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. The photo, that is, not the painting. Go.

painting on white, of a large group of women posing for an old-timey institutional photo of some sort, like the graduating class of 1931 or something, but the painting is curious in that only the woman seated at front center is fully depicted and as you spread out away from her, the women become paler and less sketched out until at the edges they are barely depicted at all, they fade away. It is all done in apparently blue watercolor.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 19

Share a movie soundtrack you love.

album cover, American Gigolo, the cover is black and in a weird red script the title is written at the top. The center of the image is dedicated to a photograph of circa-1980 Richard Gere standing in a room wearing a jacket and tie, he is in the shadow of venetian blinds and the entire image is drowned in light blue for a moody noir effect.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 17

Rectangular box with a line down the middle. On the left side of the line is young Ben Vereen looking natty in almost a zoot suit, and young Jeff Goldblum wearing a trenchcoat. Vereen is smiling, looking slightly surprised, and Goldblum is smiling rakishly.
On the right side of the line is a gray field and in an art deco font it reads "TENSPEED AND BROWNSHOE."

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 14

A Private Venus by Giorgio Scerbanenco #recentbook I've read resuscitated continental noirs before, Manchette, Dard etc., and they seldom stick. Pleased to report Scerbanenco is very much the exception, this noir (1966) is on the level of Sjöwall/Wahlöö which is really saying something. First-rate.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 13

A picture of scaffolding with a title in front, hand-painted "HOW TO PUT UP SCAFFOLDING"

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 13

I can't explain it, but just popped into my head just now.

Statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 9

this one is kind of amusing. one of the pitches we could not challenge was a called strike on DeLauter with the count at 3-1. It was called a strike by the ump even though it was low. MLB says it was a swing (it was not a swing).

graphic of Chase DeLauter strike zone during at-bat, with red dots denoting strikes and green dots denoting balls. The 5th pitch is below the strike zone and marked as a "Swinging Strike" even though DeLauter did not swing (I promise you he did not swing).

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 8

$Demetri Martin in front of a purple curtain, clearly performing standup comedy. He has an acoustic guitar and and is also holding a microphone on a mic stand in front of him. To the left is this text: "It's weird how one group of people took refracted light. That's very greedy, gays."$

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· Jun 1

The Procane Chronicle by Ross Thomas (writing as Oliver Bleeck) #recentbook I love Ross Thomas. This one was breezy a.f. but no less enjoyable for that. There's a reference to the Watergate in a copyright 1971 book, which is fun. And a half-dozen tossed-off asides nobody else would think to make.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· May 30

Maigret at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon #recentbook The denizens at a seemingly innocuous intersection are gradually transformed into a den of vipers. Quite all right.

Book cover for Maigret at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· May 25

The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever #recentbook Few people ever wrote better than Cheever in what is, properly, not quuuite a novel. If it's about anything, it's the fleeting period of irresponsibility we call young adulthood before everything sets—and the unreasoning tyranny of the elderly.

Book cover for The Waphot Chronicle by John Cheever

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· May 20

Timeline cleanse

Picture of José Ramírez stealing home in 2023, bird's-eye view. Ramírez slid head-first and edged on the fair-territory side of the basepath and snuck his hand in on the plate before KC's Salvy Perez could tag him. He was originally called out but it was reversed on appeal.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· May 20

I enjoyed this part of the game.

PROBABILITY & GAME FLOW for tonight's game, chart shows Knicks likely to win at the end of the 1st Q, then it's all uphill for the Cavs for Qs 2 and 3, the high point for Cleveland is 99.9% chance of winning and then it's sharply downhill from then on out.

Martin Schneider@wovenstrap· May 19