Welcome to February 2023. There are about five and a half million more people on the planet than a month ago, and feeding and housing and keeping them healthy is impossible, same as it’s impossible for the eight-billion of us who were already here.With … [read more]

 CRANKY OLD FART #269
leftovers & links
Monday, Jan. 30, 2023Early this morning, I came out of my room to get a package Amazon said they’d left on the porch. … [read more]

by Bruce AndersonOn a chilly January afternoon in San Francisco, at the top of a long flight of wooden stairs leading down to Baker Beach, the cold and rain having excluded the usual exhibitionists who destroy the stunning natural visuals, I look out at the Marin side of the Golden Gate and think of Weldon Kees, poet and original beatnik, who had driven to the Marin end of the bridge on Monday, July 18, 1955, parked in the view lot, walked out onto the bridge and jumped. … [read more]

Ghost World (2001)This is a brilliant comedy-drama about the terrors and errors of fitting in, or deciding that you don’t fit in at all.

THE NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #139 Saturday, Jan.

I’ve mentioned the decomposing rat
on the sidewalk, but today, jaywalking in front of my house, I noticed
another dead rat, flattened in the street. Dunno how long it’s been
there, because it’s close to invisible — just about the same color as
the asphalt, and the blood is long gone. … [read more]

On the #120 southbound to Burien, a young and too skinny white guy sat in the sideways seats ahead of me. An unlit cigarette was wedged in his lips, and he was mumbling to himself with a lot of yo mommas. … [read more]

Henry Fool (1997)Henry Fool is a
convicted pedophile who imagines himself a writer. He’s full of pompous
self-importance, with a habit of delivering long monologues, whispering
when he thinks he’s profound. … [read more]