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  • Doctor Who (3rd season, 2006-07)

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    7th season

    “He’s completely insane… and a bit magnificent.”

    That’s The Doctor — strange alien from another world, traveling across time and space, finding trouble, and being casually heroic, usually with a wisecrack. … [read more]

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    Sunday, February 11, 2024

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    #404  [archive]
    FEB. 11, 2024

    That time Mojo Nixon and Don Henley sang “Don Henley Must Die” together
        Excerpt: “There I was, the king of bullshit, completely flabbergasted,” remembers Nixon. … [read more]

  • The Holdovers and The Shooting,
    and a few more films

    A Hidden Life (2019)

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    FILM FESTIVAL
    #243  [archive]
    FEB. 10, 2024

    Every time I try to watch something Terrence Malick has made since the 1970s, I hate Terrence Malick a little more. … [read more]

  • Deliverance

    I could bore you with every wretched detail of the sickness, but it’s too difficult. I’m so exhausted. Every word is a battle against not wanting to type it. … [read more]

  • Catching COVID over the phone

    My brother Clay had said he and his wife Karen would be there for breakfast, so of course they weren’t, but my brother Dick and Young-sook, his wife who speaks three words of English, were the first to arrive. … [read more]

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    Sunday, February 4, 2024

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    #403  [archive]
    FEB. 4, 2024

    Behind closed doors, Biden says Trump is a “sick fuck”
        We are years past the point where our leaders need to criticize Trump bluntly like this, and on the record, not behind closed doors. … [read more]

  • The Day of the Locust,
    and a few more films

    The City of Lost Children (1995)

    Ron Perlman speaks French and plays a good-natured giant named One, who teams up with a little girl to try to rescue a little boy who’s been kidnapped by an old man named Krank, who’s upscaled kidnapping to an industry of the future. Visually … [read more]

  • Thrilling

    Call centers keep statistics on everything, and there are more stats than baseball. Anything can be quantified by the software, which tallies every keystroke, every detail of every phone call, and records it all for playback if there’s a mistake.Who … [read more]

  • The grass is greener

    There’s
    a lady who lives down the street, and any time it’s not raining she’s
    on her hands and knees in her yard, taking care of the grass. … [read more]

  • Heroes, and a hardass

    “Would you like a seat, sir?”

    It’s not the first time I’ve been offered a seat on the bus. This time it was offered by a man, which is better than when it’s a pretty young woman. … [read more]

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