CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #392  [archive] DEC. 9, 2023

Biden administration offers $3 billion in funding for the Brightline West rail project,
  
 I frickin’ love trains, but this is absurd. … [read more]

The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) 

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #232  [archive] DEC. 8, 2023

Werner Herzog made this short documentary about two daredevil mountain-climbers, Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner, as they embark on climbing two mountains back-to-back, and without oxygen.During … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #391  [archive] DEC. 6, 2023

Panama Canal drought sends ships sailing continents out of the way
    Pause and ponder how vital the Panama Canal is to worldwide shipping and the economy in general. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #231  [archive] DEC. 6, 2023

Dead Man (1995)It’s a black-and-white western, with Johnny Depp as a meek accountant named William Blake (but not the poet). … [read more]

Waiting at a bus stop, I saw a woman coming from two blocks away, and knew something was wrong long before she came into focus. She was a middle-aged, plump but not enormous black woman, her face painted white like kabuki theater, and she wore a huge platinum blonde wig that rose two feet above her head. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #230  [archive] DEC. 5, 2023

Cellular (2004)This opens with a mother walking her son to the school bus stop, holding his hand all the way. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #390  [archive] DEC. 4, 2023

Russian Supreme Court bans “LGBTQ+ movement”; cops begin raids on gay bars
    Jeez, this makes my gut ache. … [read more]

I’d sure like that job with Metro Transit’s help-the-homeless program, but it’s unlikely. I’ve applied for several jobs with Metro, and the bureaucracy is thicker than the all-day fog out my window. … [read more]

NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #229  [archive] DEC. 3, 2023

Blaze (2022) I came into this expecting a movie, but it’s a tornado — so angry, intense, fiery that I needed to pause it several times to catch my breath. … [read more]

You’ll be so proud of me — I’ve started looking for work again.Not by choice, certainly. There’s nothing much better than tilting back in this rickety recliner and watching old movies, or laughing at squirrels in the tree out my window, napping whenever a nap is needed, petting the cat, scratching my ass, whatever. … [read more]