Today’s theme song:
Also Sprach Zarathustra,
by Richard Strauss & Deodato

These spiders sleep like humans. But do they dream?

“I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the Jonestown massacre.” … [read more]

Having finished the K’s and before beginning the L’s, Father forgive me for I have sinned — a few movies watched out of proper alphabetical order. … [read more]

Honesty is the goal in my occasional diary entries, so with no attempt to polish a turd, here’s my Wednesday morning.

I was watching a pretty good old movie, when a sudden gurgling announced that I needed to be on the toilet. … [read more]

Kybernetická babicka (1962)

Superb stop-motion, in service of a decent story about a girl who wanders through a future both fantastical and quaint, only to find that her loving grandmother has been replaced by a robot. … [read more]

Today’s theme song:
All You Fascists, by Billie Bragg

Here’s what happened when I went to a Pride festival dressed as Jesus

OG Nazis’ favorite retreat burns to the ground

As a kid I was nothing but strikeouts at bat and errors in right field — couldn’t play the game at all, but I’ve always enjoyed watching baseball. … [read more]

our 103rd weekly open mike

Let’s see what happens when your host (me) has nothing to say. Step right up, speak your mind, tell a story, sing a song, whatever. … [read more]

Four out of today’s five flicks are foreign, but that’s just the alphabet — not many American movies fall between Ks and Kw.

Reading so many subtitles has made me restless, eager to see some good old American schlock, where the conversations are in English and inane, often interrupted by gunfire or explosions or dames in bikinis. … [read more]

Hey, I read a book. I do that a lot, but it’s usually one of the same dozen books over and over again. Books outside that dozen tend to bore me, and are never finished. … [read more]

‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US counterculture

This snake cartwheels to escape danger