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Happy birthday. Until today, I believe Andre the Giant holds several records on drinking, but I know you two can do it!

Two episodes are out for Vince Gilligan‘s Pluribus (Apple TV) and they set up a likely very fun season.

Nolan Streitberger's Oregon’s Trail of Tears wet-plate photographs https://petapixel.com/2025/11/05/photographer-retraces-oregons-brutal-trail-of-tears-with-wet-plate-camera/ https://www.nolanstreitberger.com/trail-of-tears-1

Flytrap Central https://gardenandgun.com/feature/venus-flytrap/?src=longreads

I Photographed an Appalachian Family for 15 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/opinion/appalachia-family-photographs-poverty.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sPlI.uB8LeWerNWJP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (gift article)

Have you tried English Teacher yet?

Caira (formally Alice) AI camera reviews. Changes coming.

The Greasy Strangler's reputation keeps growing!

I was today years old when I found out there’s not only a King (aka Eastern King) and California King, but also Wyoming King, Texas King, and Alaskan King size mattresses. 😵‍💫 https://sleepopolis.com/guides/bed-size-dimensions/

Maybe you can use a photo from his Vice Presidential Library?

Rosalía - Berghain feat. Björk & Yves Tumor

Sinéad

Also kinda

If you're like me and love nearly everything about it, except the whiplash relationship at its core (and echoed usually a scene or two later with the other couple), it does feel an awful lot about relationships. 😆 If you happened to have just finished The Dollop podcasts on Bill Clinton, well, even more so...

With all the great analysis videos out there is it time for a separate thread?

Later she starred in Dead Women in Lingerie with Jerry Orbach. Dream casting.

Martin Denny - Exotic Moog ex.

One more Stephen Gill post as I find his work fascinating and you may too. He followed the above with Please Notify the Sun. "It was in 2017 that I began to have an inkling that a single fish might contain a universe of infinite proportions and how amazing a journey within its body could be. So I started to research everything I would need to embark on such an expedition. By January 2020 I had built a work top, obtained a microscope, a camera, optics, lights and fridge." https://collectordaily.com/stephen-gill-please-notify-the-sun/ https://americansuburbx.com/2021/02/stephen-gills-sublime-decay-please-notify-the-sun.html

Hey, hey, wanna waste some time with me?

Happy another trip around the sun!

In the consumerism thread, I mentioned tracking down a copy of The Pillar by Stephen Gill, a self-published photobook that made waves a few years ago. Thought some of you may enjoy a few shots also. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/karl-ove-knausgaard-on-stephen-gills-bird-images-in-the-pillar https://www.1854.photography/2019/07/the-pillar-by-stephen-gill/ https://www.photohastings.org/book-review-the-pillar-by-stephen-gill/

Need time to setup the GoFundMe

The M EV1 is official https://leica-camera.com/en-int/photography/cameras/m/m-ev1-black