The Curious Female (1969)
This is technically a science fiction film set in some distant future where marriage and love are illegal. … [read more]
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Feels like a victory
There’s a rail strike looming, and many people think of railroads as a quaint colloquialism, but trains are still how a lot of things get from there to wherever you are. … [read more]
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Burgers about town
My flatmate Dean made me dinner a few weeks back, and I haven’t mentioned him since, but we’re still never gonna be buddies. We talk less and less, and we never talked much. … [read more]
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Well, smash my stereotypes.
CRANKY
OLD FART
#190
Monday,
Sept. 12, 2022I was waiting for a bus to take me home from shopping, when an old white man walked up, carrying a set of golf clubs on his shoulder. … [read more]
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Almost “Shut the hell up”
Long delayed because his adult-children had other things to do, today they’re finally holding the memorial service for Uncle Kyle, that deceased family friend I mentioned a while back. … [read more]
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A Report on the Party and Guests,
and six more moviesA Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Several couples go on a picnic together. The men are middle-aged and wearing suits, and the women are also overdressed and make silly small talk. … [read more]
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Strike etiquette
CRANKY OLD FART
#187
Friday,
Sept. 9, 2022Much of my writing in progress has evaporated. Word-stumps that might’ve become paragraphs or pages, and at least a dozen partially-written movie reviews — all gone. … [read more]
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Good girls
Mrs Rigby’s will always be #1 in my heart, but they don’t have air conditioning, so the place gets sweaty on sunny days, and even in the early morning hours the day after a sunny day. … [read more]
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Bezos and Mussolini
It probably sounds like a joke or an exaggeration when I say I’m a hermit. It’s not, though. It’s almost a disability, sometimes. I can handle being around people, but I seriously and very much do not like talking with people. … [read more]
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The Stunt Man, and six more movies
Cyborg (1989)
This is an early-career Jean-Claude Van Damme action flick. I’ve seen several JCVD movies of this era, and usually enjoyed them, so it’s surprising how dull this one is, and occasionally how gruesome. … [read more]
