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Grey day; September has been one long dull toothache. Hey, I forgot to tell you what I had for supper yesterday! Pizza. On a Monday, you say? Doesn’t that violate the Order of Things. Yes. But wife is out of town, and daughter wanted to try this:
The 100-option drink dispenser. And it [...]
1. I will be going back to the old format. I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. the change will come at the start of the new year. New software will be needed; there might be – gasp – an URL redirect. There will be comments. There might not be [...]
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On September 6, 2011 · 47 Comments · In Disney, Domestic Life, Pop Culture, The Fifties, The Forties, The Sixties
Summer ended as it usually does: drinks and meat with friends, the drive home in the dusk lamenting the return to school and work, the nip in the air, the sense of dim acceptance of the ruminative season ahead, and the discovery of a forgotten, completed novel. You know how it goes. This novel was [...]
On a Hitch jag. Color + 1950s + New York Street Scenes = happiness from the very start. I know I did a freeze-frame analysis of the opening scene previously, perhaps years ago. This:
And I’m quite sure I noticed her.
Searching . . . sure enough: I wrote about it [...]
Answer to that question on Wednesday. I’m not sure I agree.
Saw Captain America vs. the Ideologically Indistinct Germans on Saturday. He was up against Hydra, who came from the Nazis but weren’t exactly Nazis. Notzis, if you want. Cap is also ideologically indistinct, his philosophy summed up in his opposition to bullies, more [...]
So: I was thinking about the 80s yesterday because I’d watched some of an early 80s sort-of horror / thriller, “Murder by Phone.” People are murdered. By phones. They pick it up, their brain melts, and they’re thrown across the room. Starring John Houseman! Really. He was the go-to guy for corrupted gravitas, playing against [...]
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