Something Blue (conclusion)
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]
Agnes sipped wine from her plastic cup, with her pinky extended. … [read more]
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Gobsmacked
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News & links & a sing-along
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#421 [archive]
MAY 9, 2024Many climate scientists predict a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms Only “semi-dystopian,” eh? … [read more]
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Please, not Roswell.
Something Blue, part 4
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]Agnes had gone down the hall to fetch her super-secret whatsit, and
Raoul was clearing dishes off the table, so I stepped into the living
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Ghost in the Shell, Ghostbusters,
and a few more films 
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#288The Ghost and Mr Chicken (1966)
Streaming free at Internet Archive
… [read more]“It was terrible. It was just terrible. I’ll never get over it as long as I live.”
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My dinner with Agnes
Something Blue, part 3
[Part 1] [Part 2]
For some people, meeting a stranger for dinner at their house might
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You are cordially invited
Something Blue, part 2
[Previously]It was early afternoon, autumn in Wisconsin, which means wearing
layers, gloves, and something fuzzy on your head. There was no snow on
the ground but plenty in the forecast, and outside our workplace it was
cloudy, windy, and too darn cold. … [read more] -
Get Carter, Get Out,
and a few more films Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Streaming free at YouTube
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#287 [archive]
MAY 6, 2024Here’s a story, possibly true, wherein several prominent men are joyriding on one of those newfangled automobiles, which gets a flat tire. … [read more]
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Third cubicle on the left
Something Blue, part 1
Power on. New file. … And now I’ve been looking at a blank screen
for several minutes, with no idea how to make anything make sense, but
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Cinco de Mayo with the family
Dear diary,I spent Sunday afternoon at the home of my brother Clay and his wife Karen, with my brother Dick and his wife Young-sook, and with Leon, who’s a lifelong friend to me and both my brothers. … [read more]
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Germany Year Zero, Geronimo, Gerry,
and a few more films Geneviève (1964)
Streaming free at YouTube
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#286 [archive]
MAY 5, 2024This short subject fooled me — right up until the closing credits, I thought it was a documentary about two young women out for a day of fun in the frozen wilds of urban Montreal.Nope, … [read more]
