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[THREAD] New at the store: signed editions of Becoming Alien, by @dodgyboffin. Sara sent me a copy of this book and I just fell in love with it. I’ve read

As a critic in Dallas 30 years ago, I saw Mr. Saturday night with the reels projected out of order. I still disliked the movie but I admired the unusual,

One thing that occurred to me as I was settling my father’s estate Is that Covid makes everything take longer. Under more ordinary circumstances, I would’ve had a ton of

[Thread] 1. Some discussion of auteur theory happening again. Quitea can of worms but I wanted to summarize my take on it here just in case anybody’s interested. I’m going

I’m hoping that Trump is making all of this noise about wanting the election to be settled by midnight, November 3, because he knows he’s probably a goner and wants

I don’t love Westerns in the way that I did when I was young. But I think I watch them now with a more attentive eye, and I find them

The idea that horror movies have to be “scary” broke people’s brains and led to the overvaluing of jump scares, which are mechanical, require no special talent, and quickly become

I don’t know if I should brace myself for the end of theaters. But I am seeing a lot of comments to the effect of “democracy is being able to

Not that I wasn’t sensitive to the issues before, but taking regular care of disabled people in the last few years — my dad; my mother-in-law; my wife at the

Making dinner for my mother-in-law Jan while killing a bottle of red wine and watching Snakes on a Plane. Jan: “This movie is taking a long time to get to

Oh my God. This man’s guitar licks were the background for so many of my childhood and adolescent experiences. Rest in peace, virtuoso entertainer.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/music/eddie-van-halen-dead.html One of the many thi

[Thread] My experiences dealing with my wife (cancer, died), father (cancer, terminal) and mother (diabetes, substance abuse, disability) have reinforced my belief that the government should pay for health care,