My apologies for this entry. It’s not really ‘writing’, but it’s been a hectic few days, and this is the best I can do right now. … [read more]

by Bruce AndersonWay back, I had a very odd experience at San Francisco City Hall — beneath City Hall, to place the site exactly.

I was instructed to see a man about a foster home rate for some kids I was responsible for at the time. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #394  [archive] DEC. 13, 2023

Corporate America is testing the limits of its pricing power
    The article soft-pedals it, but we’ve all sorta known what’s been happening all across every corner of the economy: The bastards are raising prices as high as they can, strangling all of us by the wallet. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #236  [archive] DEC. 13, 2023

Black Narcissus (1947)
Streaming free This is a movie I’ve heard of all my life, and with such a turgid title
I’d always thought it would be a sweaty thing about romance and betrayal
or some such, but — there be nuns here. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #235  [archive] DEC. 12, 2023

Crack-Up (1946)
Streaming free
Pat O’Brien is an art expert, lecturing at a museum, who thinks art is art if you like it, and if you don’t that’s OK too. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #393  [archive] DEC. 11, 2023

And now the news. Most of it’s bad.Texas woman leaves state to have abortion after Texas Supreme Court paused ruling that would have allowed it
  
 I will try to hold back too many profanities, but it’s seriously
FUCKED UP that anyone but this woman and her doctor know that she’s
pregnant, with a doomed fetus, and needs an abortion, and it’s FUCKED UP
that anyone gets to overrule her decision, and it’s FUCKED UP that she
has to flee the state during what’s obviously a traumatic time for her, and it’s
FUCKED UP that the FUCKERS will vilify her now, hell maybe even
prosecute her, and it’s FUCKED UP that making the worst days of her life much more
difficult is “good politics” in the state of Texas, which, by the way,
is an utterly FUCKED UP place. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #234  [archive] DEC. 11, 2023

Did someone dare me to watch this? Vanilla Ice plays a white rapper in a small town, in love with a girl who doesn’t know he’s trouble.In … [read more]

My last real job laid me off at the end of January, 2022. 22 months later I’m still in my recliner, looking for work.
Mostly, that’s because I packed and moved to Seattle, and since getting here I’ve only been halfheartedly job-hunting. … [read more]

The Boys in the Band (1970)

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #233  [archive] DEC. 9, 2023

The Celluloid Closet told me that this is the first movie with gay characters wherein none of them have to die for being gay. … [read more]