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  • Woodstock, and six more movies

    THE
    NEVERENDING
    FILM FESTIVAL

    #127
    Tuesday,
    Jan. 3, 2023

    Today at the movies — Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges go joyriding across Montana, William Shatner goes looking for God, a
    safecracker goes for the diamonds, hundreds die in an accidental release of biological weapons, hundreds of thousands trip out and dance to high-quality rock’n’roll, millions are killed in a worldwide pandemic, and Bruce Lee’s legacy gets an incoherent high-kick in the face. … [read more]

  • What are we celebrating, really?

     

    CRANKY OLD FART #258
    leftovers & links
    Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023

    Oh what a glorious morning!

    On my way to the toilet, I saw Dean in the kitchen, for the first time since we sorta had it out a few days ago. … [read more]

  • Riding the water taxi, for free

    Hoping to minimize the number of drunk drivers on New Year’s Eve, public transit was free on 12/31 in Seattle, and probably in most big cities. … [read more]

  • “Nah.”

    When I opened my bedroom door and emerged into the kitchen, Dean was there. He looked at me and smiled and took a breath, and he would’ve started talking if I hadn’t held up my hand in a ‘stop’ gesture and hurried past him and into the john. … [read more]

  • Safety Not Guaranteed, and six more movies

    Watching a movie...

    THE
    NEVERENDING
    FILM FESTIVAL

    #126

    Today at the movies — Trey Parker and Matt Stone defeat terrorism, college kids drink beer, a teenage girl falls for her stepbrother, things get scary at the amusement park, Aubrey Plaza meets someone a wacky as Aubrey Plaza, a priest has a larger than usual crisis of faith, and Robert Duvall wants his money. … [read more]

  • The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and six more movies

    THE
    NEVERENDING
    FILM FESTIVAL

    #125

    Thursday,
    Dec. 29, 2022

    Today at the movies — a beatnik/feline murder mystery, a modern western done right, Mickey Spillane done wrong, a creepy clairvoyant, trolls and fairies in Michael Moriarty’s apartment complex, boarding school unpleasantness, and a sub-par apocalyptic sci-fi. … [read more]

  • My gift to Domino’s Pizza

    At Dean’s dogged insistence, I ate some of his roast beef last night, and his specialty green beans, left over from the Christmas dinner. I didn’t eat with him and my other flatmate, Robert, but I cooked with them. … [read more]

  • The wheelchair observation

    At the bus station, an old bum rolled himself around in a
    wheelchair, and as he rolled past me and
    onward, I could see the lettering on the back of his chair.
     … [read more]
  • It’s only wasted money.

    In late summer, when both my windows were open around the clock, lots of ‘shield bugs’ came in, and crawled and buzzed around in my room.They’re … [read more]

  • Pink Flamingos, and six more movies

    Today we’ll visit a prison with more escapees than inmates, the filthiest person in the world, high school kids singing about zombies and love, a family of thieves, an ex-POW pushed too far, an escaped prisoner who becomes a millionaire, and Martin Luther King and J Edgar’s FBI. … [read more]

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