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vbartilucci · 1 hour
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So help me, this is the first time I've seen the cab of this calamity. I only ever saw the front or side.
I had no idea it was a pick-up
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vbartilucci · 1 hour
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I've said it endlessly - 90% of the budget goes into the mask, and the costume ends up as a random picture of the character from the model sheet, and their name in large letters.
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Vintage Halloween Masks
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vbartilucci · 1 hour
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And they see no reason to make any changes to her position, if if she should be found guilty.
Meanwhile, they demand a Democrat to resign if someone uses the words "integrity issue" in a sentence.
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The Swamp.
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vbartilucci · 1 hour
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Clarification - they want a dictator that's on their side, and will only do bad things to the people they don't like.
If a new power set was given to the president, and then a Democrat was voted, they'd see it as the single greatest threat to the country in its history.
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Trump supporter: “This country needs a dictator. I hate to say it, but this is the truth.”
Never Trump.
https://x.com/SKWatlanta/status/1784307290524520601
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vbartilucci · 1 hour
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Literally the only reason this will happen moving forwards is when the Republicans continue their childish game of "Got you back" and insist on trying to go after Biden for literally anything they can think of, whether it's valid, rational, or not.
They are doing the same with their ongoing impeachment investigation, even as it becomes increasingly obvious that there's nothing to impeach him over. Their goal is to generate so much smoke they can convince people there MUST be fire.
Which, in case it's not clear, we need to keep the Republicans from anything even approximating a majority in any house of government, until such time that can prove they're able to be trusted again.
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The first non-politician with zero public office experience is begging for unlimited immunity.
Then his trial gets slow-walked by the SCOTUS judges he appointed? It's their version of 'catch and kill' to help a candidate.
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vbartilucci · 2 hours
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Got to love a sentai flaming sword.
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vbartilucci · 17 hours
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They couldn't even give these guys way.
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He-Man / SlushHead 2-Pack - He-Man (Mattel)
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vbartilucci · 20 hours
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I know a lot of people predicted it, but that doesn't mean it makes a lot of sense.
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Rey Mysterio & Dragon Lee vs. Legado del Fantasma
SmackDown: April 26th 2024 - Digitals
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vbartilucci · 24 hours
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We have always strived to be The Wacky Neighbors in other people's lives.
I think the reason I deeply, deeply love aging into middle age is I don’t have an inner child.
Since I myself was a child, I have had an inner indescribable neighbor —
You can’t remember their name, despite living next to them for years
At this point you can’t even remember who arrived first, who moved here first
They politely decline every holiday or party or gathering celebration, but will pick up your paper or take in packages delivered to you but left where it could rain, without asking, leaving a whimsical note that ends in a bad pun
You can’t remember what car they drive, if they drive, and now that you think of it, you only see them just arriving (you can’t remember their method of transportation) or sitting in the back porch, watching the sunset (these sunsets are particularly lovely)
Their home never makes noise you can hear, not even when you are outside
The tone when they greet you, they always greet you, something you occasionally feel the slightest bit embarrassed about before you realize you never see them coming or going — always having just arrived, or unnoticed outside until they greet you
Although their home never makes noise you can hear, there is regularly delightful smells of cooking and baking. You mentioned it, once, and they brought you a plate twenty minutes later.
The food is utterly delicious, surprisingly so, and a note next to the food describes ingredients and prep, all common things in uncommon combinations
You return the plate, knocking on their door the next day, but the inside of their home is lit and arranged and decorated in such a subtle way you can’t really remember details. It looks delightful and whimsical but the experience is so short and unusual you can’t frame it when you try to describe it later.
You are left with “I don’t know how else to describe it other than ‘it’s exactly what you expext’”
And now as I have gotten older and older I realize the reason I “can’t even remember who arrived first, who moved here first” is because at some point I have become that neighbor.
It is.
Mesmerizing.
In its wonder.
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vbartilucci · 1 day
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I can just barely make out your pencils in these video, probably because it looks like you pencil in blue.
I'd love to get a better look at them some time, to see how much detail you start with, or if they're more just layouts and you do most of your work in the inking.
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Heres a little video i put together of making this drawing.
As always, tips appreciated ♥️
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vbartilucci · 1 day
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THE UNKNOWN was ACG's version of both The Twilight Zone and The Afterlife. This book was where their told their Horror/Weird stories, but it's also where a couple other heroes visited a few years later.
Nemesis would get super(natural) powers after being killed unjustly and granted a chance to return after a visit to THE UNKNOWN.
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The mighty Herbie would make the odd visit to THE UNKNOWN for information on villains he was fighting, and what are they gonna do, say no?
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vbartilucci · 1 day
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Gene Roddenberry tried real hard to get another genre show on the air. Of all of them, the one that gets talked about the least is Spectre.
Robert Culp stars as a criminologist with a minor in sorcery. It touches on some ideas that other characters pick up on later. Not to suggest that anyone stole from anybody, just that he looked at them earlier.
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vbartilucci · 1 day
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It's amazing to see how props and costumes get re-used. That Shirley Maclaine in Artists and Models from 1955
Over 20 years later, they pulled the costume out of moth balls and gave it to Pam Dawber to wear on an episode of Mork and Mindy.
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It's the same episode where Conrad Janis wore the "Tholian Web" spacesuit from Star Trek.
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vbartilucci · 1 day
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"Even the Albanians wouldn't drink it!"
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Cockta Cockta
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vbartilucci · 1 day
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Donie O'Sullivan and Jordan Klepper have the same job - letting fans of the former president make fools of themselves.
Donie is stuck not getting to be witty at them, tho.
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vbartilucci · 2 days
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Thought on Night 1 of the WWE draft
It is exceedingly boring when over 3/4 of the "drafts" are simply announcements that a wrestler is not going anywhere The whole thing that makes this draft interesting is seeing people move around. So when only one or two picks per round actually result in a move, you have to ask why they bother. This is fictional - they can come up with any rules they want about how they get to protect X number of performers, and just have the picks be for people moving. I think it worked much better when they made less choices - even tho it meant the same smaller number of people wee moving, EACH pick was someone moving.
What happened to NXT getting draft picks? One of the things I'd heard were they were going to make NXT a bigger part of the draft by letting people get pulled down (over) to NXT, to get more big names on the show to draw eyes for the move to the CW. So what happened? Maybe they're only getting them on Monday? Did I miss something?
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vbartilucci · 2 days
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If I were to pick an unfortunate scenario, I think it's more likely that a kid will get ahold of a teacher's gun than a teacher will pull or fire on a kid.
And god help the news cycle if either one in either scenario is black.
Gov. Bill Lee signed into law Friday a controversial bill to allow school teachers and staff to carry guns in school.
The law goes into immediate effect.
House and Senate Republicans passed the bill, HB 1202/SB 1321, in the final weeks of the legislative session over the protests of school shooting survivors, teachers and gun-reform advocates.
Parents and most school staff will not be told who in the school has a weapon or where it might be stored. There are no safe storage requirements in the bill, and House Republicans in late April voted down a Democratic effort to codify them in the bill.
Armed teachers and staff will be required to undergo 40 hours of training, which Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, at one point likened to less hours than children are sent to summer camp. Approved carriers will be allowed to carry handguns in their classrooms and in most campus situations without informing parents and most of their colleagues they're armed. The legislation also requires criminal and mental health background checks.
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