THE NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #158
Sunday, May 28, 2023The Man in the Moon (1991)

Hey, I remember this. It was the first movie I saw during my brief attempt to live in Los Angeles, before deciding on San Francisco instead. … [read more]

 

Every morning it’s a three-block walk from where I get off my inbound #99 bus, and where I get on the #550 or #554 to Millionaires’ Island. … [read more]

 

I sleep naked, in a shared house, with a shared bathroom. My flatmates have normal levels of modesty, and I don’t want to see my flatmates’ junk, so I never walk naked out of my room, across the kitchen, down the hall, and into the bathroom to take a shower. … [read more]

Pete Seeger’s father taught music at Berkeley, but was squeezed out during World War I, when the family’s pacifism made him extremely unpopular. Mr and Mrs Seeger were later on the faculty at the Julliard School of Music, but they taught classical music, which never much interested little Petey. … [read more]

For a year, I’ve rented a room in a comfortable but semi-dilapidated shared house, in a neighborhood that’s too quiet for my tastes. I dream of moving someplace louder and more alive.Meanwhile, … [read more]

 

Occasionally I see articles with headlines like, “What you can do to stop climate change,” but they’re invariably nonsense. … [read more]

If you’re new to the saga of me and my mom, well, you can’t possibly catch up. Our backstory stretches across galaxies, so I’m not even going to bother with a pertinent link. … [read more]

I’m not a Christian, but I think Billy Graham was. He wasn’t a charlatan. His accounting was open to public scrutiny, he was never caught with a prostitute, he didn’t lead a lavish life, and he never built an amusement park for the Lord. … [read more]

 

“Hi, Doug.” Well, that’s my name and it’s nice to say hello as we’re passing in the hallway, but the only people I sorta know at Haugen & Dahl are my immediate co-workers, and my boss, and my boss’s boss. … [read more]

If I could do it all over again, I’d brush my teeth more often, all my life, as a habit and a rule.

The first thing people notice about me is that I’m overweight, but they notice my teeth, too, whenever I smile, or speak, or eat, or open my mouth. … [read more]