More and more I’ve noticed I care less and less. Maybe that’s part of getting old and then older and older still. Maybe it’s because too many people I’ve loved have died.I … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
BROWSER HISTORY
#369  [archive]
 • US woman sentenced to two years in prison for giving her daughter abortion pills
[Original link]
  
 We’re not living in the America that forced me to pledge allegiance,
and it’s not even some shit-hole new America. … [read more]

When you’re awake and not drunk, not sleepy, not preoccupied with worries, thoughts roar past like Niagara. You pick one, wet, from a thousand, say it out loud or type it, while all the other thoughts aren’t in your head even long enough to be forgotten. Well, … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#186  [archive]
Manchester by the Sea (2018)  

Lee Chandler (Casey Afleck) is the handyman at an apartment complex, surly and with a bad attitude and looking for a fight. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#185  [archive]
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996) [Streaming free]
Scientists at Roritor Pharmaceuticals are experimenting with a new drug to treat severe depression, but Roritor is on the brink of bankruptcy and can’t simply wait for the test results. … [read more]

Yesterday I declared myself free of Google’s ever-worsening search engine, and switched to the Kagi search engine, which has no ads, no tracking, and no garbage in the results. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
BROWSER HISTORY
#368  [archive]

• This Spanish city eliminated street parking, and became slightly a paradise
[Archived page] • The oldest fish in captivity
[Archived page] • Visit what’s left of Sex Flags New Orleans
[Archived page] • The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it: Noctalgia
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🌎 THE NEWS YOU NEED 🌎• New claims that WW2 Pope Pius XII knew about Nazi crimes
[Archived page]
    I
thought that the Pope’s complicity was already established and widely
known. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#184  [archive]
District 9 (2009)Writer-director Neill Blomkamp has faded from view, but this was his first and best movie, packed a wallop, and it still holds up as a thoughtful thrill ride.The … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#183  [archive] 
Ménilmontant (1926)[Streaming free]This starts with a few rural axe murders, as jarring and unsettling as anything in a George Romero movie. … [read more]

Riding downtown on the #99 bus, I seated myself behind two 30-something women speaking Swahili or something, and their young kids in strollers. Behind me sat a white or lightly ethnic man, folded over, moaning, holding his head as if giant invisible tweezers were squeezing it. Seemed … [read more]