CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#345  [archive] • Country Music Channel goes woke, won’t play popular pro-lynching ditty • A black man was elected mayor in rural Alabama, but the white town leaders won’t let him serve
    Mighty
big news from a site I’d never heard of, but some rapid Googling
confirms all the major details. … [read more]

Not long after meeting the tall, skinny, ugly man, I went alone to a double feature at the Roxie, and a middle-age dweeb approached me during the break between movies.”You’re … [read more]

One fine workday morning as I was waiting at my downtown bus stop, a pile of trash bags began to stir. You wouldn’t have known it, but under the bags was a man.He … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#164   [archive]
 Ghosts with Shit Jobs (2012)Jim Munroe is a long-ago zine guy, and former editor of Adbusters, who’s since had a long run as a novelist and general “artsy guy.” … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#344  [archive]
• The Supreme Court uses a made-up doctrine to put itself in charge of the executive branch
    This is seriously worrisome stuff.• … [read more]

At my afternoon bus stop one day, I watched a black man at least 60 years old, driving a power wheelchair down the sidewalk, and bending over from his chair to pick up litter. … [read more]

People-watching is always a good time, and the very best people-watching is bum-watching. The commute to work at my last job was a two-bus trip, so I stood at a downtown bus stop every morning, and every evening. … [read more]

Riding a crowded bus across the bridge from Mercer Island into Seattle, several of us were standing, and one of us may have been stoned.He was a hippie in a pink shirt, standing a few steps in front of me, the stale scent of marijuana all over him and his clothes and hair. … [read more]

 CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#343   [archive]
• In-N-Out orders workers not to wear masks unless they have a doctor’s note
    In-N-Out
is regionally famous for pretty good burgers and fries, served with a
side of stale conservative politics and Bible verses on the Coke cups, burger wrappers, etc. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#163   [archive]

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
a/k/a Innocent Moves

This is a sports movie, with all the familiar touchstones of the genre — the gifted player, the wise coach, the concerned dad, the crisis of confidence, the big game. … [read more]