December 2016
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Here it is, Friday, December 30, 2016. Wednesday of next week will be January 4th, and I've been planning to kick off the 52 Albums series then, assuming there is still interest. As I discussed in a comment thread a few weeks ago, I want to do this one a bit differently. Rather than having…
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No man is an island. – Jon Bon Jovi This quote is the theme of the movie, discussed in voice-over by the main character at the very beginning, and then again at the very end. Will Freeman considers himself “an island”; completely self-sufficient, and in need of no other islanders to share with him his…
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…how they ship shipping materials? I was at the local UPS facility a week or two ago when a guy came in pushing a long cart from which he unloaded all the stuff you see in the windows here, and more. I wonder what it costs to ship a bag of plastic peanuts that's a…
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This post is made up of four short reviews of movies that are only related in the flow of my own stream of consciousness. I was thinking about the first film one day and one thing led to another, and this was the result. I first stumbled on the movie Dark Horse (2016) when I…
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It has only recently sunk in to me that the destruction of English Catholic churches, monasteries, and works of art in the Protestant revolution under Henry VIII et.al. is pretty comparable to what has recently appalled the civilized world when done by Muslim fanatics to Buddhist and other artifacts in the Middle East. Here's an…
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…anyone who uses the word "era" for a period of less than a century will be fined. Anyone who defines an era by reference to a celebrity will be jailed for 30 days. For I am merciful.
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I believe that La Sapienza, a 2014 film written and directed by Eugène Green, has not been widely seen. I forget how it came about that I heard of it; probably there was some approving notice in the local press when it played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. In any case, and…
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That was how Paul described the BBC series Detectorists, back in June in a comment on a post here about another series, River. Apparently I put it on my Netflix watch list at the time. A few nights ago my wife and I were looking for something less than an hour long to watch, and decided to…
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I feel like I ought to preface any remarks about the election with the statement that I did not support Trump, and thought he was entirely unfit for the presidency. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that, but here it is again for anyone who didn't know it. But I admit that I was…
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