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Airplane movie review May 2025

Well, the pope apparently read my screed about not believing that an American could ever be elected, and decided to prove me wrong by stacking the cardinals with his own peeps. I had a bunch of new movies favorited for this trip (“The Room Next Door“, “Presence“, “Sing Sing“, “Nosferatu“, etc.) but only got around […]

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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