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Masking for life

There must be something in the air, and I think I know what it is… I just saw a video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading something first written in 2011, but my experience with this has been post-pandemic, where it seems like all manners and rules are completely gone, everywhere [1]. Apparently this was a thing […]

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Airplane movies 2025 so far

I’ve been flying quite a bit, but haven’t been finding too many airplane movies. If you remember the definition: something that’s maybe worth watching, but not worth saving to watch on a bigger screen. In the theatre, I’ve seen Black Bag and 2001: A Space Odyssey in IMAX (also saw this at the Hollywood Bowl […]

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Gene and Val

For Gene Hackman, I watched some mid-tier things that I had missed before, like Runaway Jury.  Fine, but I always go back to Heist.  A whole movie of Hackman saying things like: ”He isn’t gonna shoot me? Then he hadn’t oughta point a gun at me. It’s insincere.” “Don’t you want to hear my last […]

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Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it

  Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.   –(now-deleted) post by @PerthshireMags      

It’s the best catch there is

I was looking for where I hid my license the other morning, because I was about to head out on a bike ride. Why do you bring your license, you ask? Riding a bike requires no license. California doesn’t require you to carry ID. I have an ID bracelet in case of emergency, and devices […]

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5000

5000 images since I started this instance of this blog… Original instance of web page (what was a blog? would have been started in the early 90s.

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