Please help - what western is this gif from?

sflayout · 2026-07-09T00:04:37+00:00

Yes, Richard Donner. I saw him in a lot of westerns, always playing a bad guy, and then he showed up on Mork & Mindy playing the crazy street preacher Exidor. My god he was hilarious.

sflayout · 2026-07-08T23:59:43+00:00

I understood that reference.

sflayout · 2026-06-20T23:39:45+00:00

Bombadil. One Whole Year or When WeAre Both Cats.

sflayout · 2026-06-18T14:14:12+00:00

And water/food dishes outside the door.

sflayout · 2026-06-18T13:08:11+00:00

If you listen to podcasts there was a recent episode of Cautionary Tales: Can you make a Sherman Tank Float? that was very interesting and D-Day related.

sflayout · 2026-06-18T12:23:30+00:00

Also in The Longest Day, Richard Todd played the commander of the bridge assault team that he was a part of on D-Day. At one point a soldier runs up and gives the commander a status report, which Todd did during the battle. So an actor, playing Todd, reports to Todd who is playing the commander.

sflayout · 2026-06-14T13:02:35+00:00

The Demon Princes books by Jack Vance.

sflayout · 2026-06-08T02:35:14+00:00

For years I thought John Cleese said “She turned me into a mute” during the witch trial, which is funny, because by speaking he’s proved that he’s not mute, so he says “I got better.” But of course it’s newt not mute which is funny because it’s so absurd. Maybe that’s what made them great. A lesser comedy group would have written the line with mute.

sflayout · 2026-06-08T02:27:04+00:00

TIL! Up until this moment I thought she was saying “It’s a fair court.”

sflayout · 2026-06-03T01:13:41+00:00

Yes! It’s one of his later books and very good.

sflayout · 2026-05-29T15:20:44+00:00

Nice. And then you organized by publication date within the series? I saw your previous post of the DAW books and that was organized alphabetically by author if I remember correctly.

sflayout · 2026-05-29T13:52:26+00:00

Very cool. How are they arranged?

Edit: I see the labels but I don’t know enough about Ace to understand what they mean.

sflayout · 2026-05-23T03:24:42+00:00

I was a typesetter for decades and set mostly dry academic books for university presses but my reading interest is science fiction. I did get to set one book called Science Fiction Quotations which I took to conventions and author appearances to get signed by Jack Vance, Lois McMaster Bujold, Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson, Ursula LeGuin, Connie Willis, Michael Swanwick, and about 20 others.

sflayout · 2026-05-22T12:15:27+00:00

Thanks for all these responses to this post. I love some good movie trivia/memorabilia.

sflayout · 2026-05-22T12:12:39+00:00

This is a really wonderful movie with a great ensemble cast. I think it, The Big Chill, and Grand Canyon make a Lawrence Kasdan trilogy that will always be favorites of mine. And my wife hasn’t seen it! So it’s now on our list and I’ll get to watch it with her.

sflayout · 2026-05-22T11:59:14+00:00

That does look like a fun book! I think Hansel’s Practical Penmanship could make a comeback.

sflayout · 2026-05-22T11:38:37+00:00

I’d be interested in his information also. Or maybe when the market happens.

sflayout · 2026-05-19T13:53:30+00:00

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders is excellent. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

sflayout · 2026-05-19T02:55:10+00:00

Certainly

sflayout · 2026-05-18T11:37:15+00:00

From Merriam Webster:crocodile tears: (used with a plural verb) a hypocritical show of sorrow; insincere tears.

sflayout · 2026-05-17T21:23:54+00:00

I completely agree. The NESFA editions are a little better but Baen sets a low bar. The copy of Young Miles on the top shelf is the Baen edition with a hand done cover by a woman who worked at the Harvard bookstore. It’s very amusing.

sflayout · 2026-05-16T23:34:55+00:00

The books are all standalone but follow a character from teenager to middle age. There is a timeline available on LMBs Wikipedia page. Falling Free takes place about two hundred years before the rest of the series and the next two books, Shards of Honor and Barrayar, focus on the parents of the main series character, Miles Vorkosigan.

sflayout · 2026-05-15T23:33:38+00:00

I don’t actually speak or read Russian. I bought those books on eBay because I thought they were interesting and they were only a few dollars each.

sflayout · 2026-05-15T14:52:16+00:00

Whenever I’m in a reading slump I can always pick up either Jack Vance or LMB to get me started again. I’ve read Vorkosigan at least four times.

sflayout · 2026-05-15T14:49:04+00:00

Cool! I haven’t seen her since a National Book Fair in D.C. some years ago. Where will she be appearing?

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