New Max. Foggy mornings are like ambrosia for me. Seriously, the even light and the intense chiaroscuro create an effect so cool that it feels like cheating.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!
We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.
The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.
These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.
“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”
No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.
Everybody saw this coming.
The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.
White supremacy is terrorism.
The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.
David Koch
Chuck Todd on the nightly news said the shutdown is the fault of …. wait for it.. “both sides”.
Brian Williams was pissed that his stock portfolio went down today. No really.
lamh36
Geaux Saints!!!
The Dangerman
SquirrelBoehner!/same thing
Baud
@lamh36:
Who dat!
Birthmarker
Nice pic!!
NotMax
Bigfoot lives.
gogol's wife
Noble beast. Humans don’t deserve to walk the same earth with him.
Violet
He’s looking for a stick or a ball. Where is it? Throw it already!
Svensker
He looks a lot more intelligent than Gohmert or Bachmann. Also, cuter. Love that Max.
How’s the rug rat?
Montysano
A couple of my best selling photos were taken on foggy mornings, and yes, I too felt like I was cheating.
Ash Can
What a good doggie!
Steeplejack
I’m walking a tightrope with my TV viewing tonight. Gotta monitor the football and the baseball, and then there’s Castle. I thought the premiere of The Blacklist last week was pretty bad, but I’m going to give it a couple of more episodes because James Spader was good and I think it could have potential. Other shows have recovered after stumbling out of the starting gate.
Citizen Kane is on TCM at 11:00 EDT, for those who want a refresher, but the real late-night gem is The Best Years of Our Lives at 1:30 a.m. A surprisingly (given when it was released, 1946) affecting and not-gauzy movie about the aftermath of World War II. Good acting all around: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and real-life disabled war veteran Harold Russell.
And it’s followed by Roberto Rossellini’s Open City at 4:30 a.m., a hard-hitting movie about the late stages of the war in Italy.
raven
Love that big goofball.
Jane2
That’s a fab pic of Max!
koalaholik
@Steeplejack: Didn’t they give Russell an Oscar for that film? Loved it.
Betty Cracker
What a handsome boy!
Ruckus
Nice looking dog.
How’d you get him to sit still? All the dobies I’ve known had more energy than the borg.
raven
@Ruckus: cookie!
Yatsuno
MAXPUPPEH!!!
@Ruckus:
Apparently Dobies go from zero to zoom and back again. A friend breeds them, when they weren’t scaring me when I was walking in to his house (only once, once they knew me they literally fought over who would get head skritches from me) they were laying around in the house and occasionally demanding attention from stray hands. They can be lazy things when they want to be.
Steeplejack
@koalaholik:
He won the Best Supporting Actor award and also got a special Oscar for being an inspiration to returning vets.
I have seen that movie so many times, but now I am thinking about watching it again or making room on the DVR for it. There are so many great scenes, and the issues are not soft-pedaled in the usual Hollywooden rah-rah way. Great scene where Teresa Wright confronts—and accepts—the Russell character’s disability. And a particular favorite of mine comes late in the movie, when Dana Andrews, leaving town after the collapse of his marriage, comes upon the graveyard of airplanes, climbs up into a bomber and flashes back to his wartime experience.
These days it really makes you think about the legacy we will have from Iraq and Afghanistan.
kc
Nice pic!
Amir Khalid
I’ll never forget these 7UP commercials from the 1990s, which I got to see thanks to the miracle of the Internet.
kc
@David Koch:
What a pair of original thinkers.
DanR2
Best Max pic so far, Tim, and there have been some good ones.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
D’oh! It’s Cathy O’Donnell, not Teresa Wright, in that scene with Harold Russell.
Amir Khalid
When I see that much grey low-hanging sky around here, it doesn’t make me think of morning mist, alas. It makes me think that some Indonesian plantation work crew, perhaps in a Malaysian-owned plantation, is burning agricultural waste again, and the smoke is drifting all over Southeast Asia.
raven
@Steeplejack: One very important part of Russel’s story is when they are talking about how he got hot. Andrews was a pilot and March was a grunt. They are saying how Russel must have seen a lot of shit and he says, “no, not really, I was below deck and took a torpedo” (or words to that effect). It threw a little cold water on the supposition that there was one way to be in the shit.
raven
@Amir Khalid: Not Max knows this better than I but they were burning cane when I was in Maui and even with the trades it was nasty.
worn
Good Lord, Tim, you sure do take some great pictures of that dog of yours!
Steeplejack
@raven:
Yeah, it’s a surprisingly realistic movie, given the time.
I looked up the airplane graveyard scene.
One of the underlying themes is that these guys had unbelievable pressures and responsibilities in the war, and then they’re expected to go back to their previous lives as soda jerk (Dana Andrews) or office jockey (Fredric March) as if nothing had happened.
PurpleGirl
Max! Beautiful doggy. Love how Dobermans look when they sit up straight like that. Noble, regal.
Max!
Liberty60
It isn’t the intense chiaroscuro that marvels me, its finding that one moment when the photography subject is able to look noble and inteligent, before discovering something of intense fascination in his butt.
Truly, Annie Liebovitz would be proud. She had the same challenge, from what I hear.
Tim F.
@Liberty60: well yes, I often compare myself with Annie Liebobitz. Mostly to do with how well I manage my finances.
@Ruckus: Duck jerkey wrapped around dried sweet potato. Max is a treat monster.
Tata
That’s a very large lap doggy.
Ruckus
@Tim F.:
I knew there had to be some ulterior methodology employed.
dww44
@Birthmarker: I agree. Nice Pic and gorgeous dog.
dww44
@Svensker: Thanks for the laugh. I definitely needed it.
efroh
STARING INTO YOUR SOUL
sherparick
Max is simply a magnificent dog. How is he with cats, I wonder. You are a great photographer with a wonderful subject.
someofparts
Max is beautiful. Wish I could reach through time and space and pet him.