Geeks do not have pedigrees
This evening's weather was a miserable cold washout, so instead of running errands I made goat's milk cocoa. I feel this was a healthy decision on all fronts. Also, for the second week in a row, I have been able to purchase a sale-price steak from Market Basket and cook it for a dinner lasting several days; I am close to an obligate carnivore and it feels luxurious. I did not bake anything, but I got a significant amount of work unexcitingly but necessarily done. I have doctor's appointments tomorrow and the day after and I am not looking forward to either one of them.
1. It makes me very happy that the makers of In the Family (2011) liked my review. I am still not used to this thing where if I write about a movie, it can get back to the people responsible. This just doesn't happen with pre-Codes.
2. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moon_custafer: A Canterbury Tale (1944) and I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ich möchte kein Mann sein, 1918) are being offered in the tag set for Yuletide this year. I don't think I can flatter myself I was the zero patient for either, but I have my fingers really crossed for fic.
3. So it turns out that 45 was not only born with a multi-million-dollar spoon in his mouth but got most of it (a) in bailouts from Daddy (b) augmented and protected by tax fraud. For the first time in my life I responded to a friend's post with a gif. I was shocked that no one had beaten me to Captain Renault.
4. This is a pretty terrific article about 1968 in film.
5. The only thing I like about LED streetlight which otherwise feels like walking down a pleached alley of smartphones is the high contrast it gives to the parking lot across the street when it rains. Right now that wet colorless sheen of asphalt looks like something shot by John Alton or Gregg Toland. It's even better when there's ice.
I have to get up in a very few hours. I got caught by a movie. I'll say more if I can in the morning.
1. It makes me very happy that the makers of In the Family (2011) liked my review. I am still not used to this thing where if I write about a movie, it can get back to the people responsible. This just doesn't happen with pre-Codes.
2. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: A Canterbury Tale (1944) and I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ich möchte kein Mann sein, 1918) are being offered in the tag set for Yuletide this year. I don't think I can flatter myself I was the zero patient for either, but I have my fingers really crossed for fic.3. So it turns out that 45 was not only born with a multi-million-dollar spoon in his mouth but got most of it (a) in bailouts from Daddy (b) augmented and protected by tax fraud. For the first time in my life I responded to a friend's post with a gif. I was shocked that no one had beaten me to Captain Renault.
4. This is a pretty terrific article about 1968 in film.
5. The only thing I like about LED streetlight which otherwise feels like walking down a pleached alley of smartphones is the high contrast it gives to the parking lot across the street when it rains. Right now that wet colorless sheen of asphalt looks like something shot by John Alton or Gregg Toland. It's even better when there's ice.
I have to get up in a very few hours. I got caught by a movie. I'll say more if I can in the morning.
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Are you trying to tell us that you are stunned?
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I'd never seen that. That's excellent.
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Of all the elections, in all the world, he had to walk into America's.
ETA: It does explain the brattish entitlement complex.
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He is a trust-fund baby writ large as they come. I just don't think the totality of the trust fund had been sounded till now. The babyness has been inescapable for years.
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#1 & #2 You are just that awesome, what can we say? ;-p (And, hey, I've watched A Canterbury Tale now, thanks to you, so I'll be very curious to see what the actual request is, when and if it materialises.)
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Thank you! The first one went better than expected, which was really, really nice.
#1 & #2 You are just that awesome, what can we say?
Aw.
(And, hey, I've watched A Canterbury Tale now, thanks to you, so I'll be very curious to see what the actual request is, when and if it materialises.)
I would trust you to write those characters. You are good with relationships that don't cleave along lines as obvious as romance.
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Aw, thanks! NOt that that will help if what the requester is after is an explicit OT4 or something... ;-D
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Bravo!
(Seriously, that's beautiful.)
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Thank you.
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Yes. I don't think the numbers, the details, or the depth had been previously proven or perhaps even totally known. That makes it valuable to me. Just because the lineameants were no surprise to me didn't know I could have actually told you all the icky particulars.
I am thinking of buying a paper NYT today, supposedly the bulkiest news story ever (where did they get the extra press operators for a one-day gig?).
I'm glad they could make it in print.
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Collins gave away his huge inheritance, but he doesn't expect everyone to do that. He is pretty insistent on the necessity of having rich people pay their taxes, though.
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which otherwise feels like walking down a pleached alley of smartphones --I loved this ^_^
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Thank you! It really matters to me. I am glad that people feel seen by the way I write about their films.
--I loved this
Yay!
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That's fair.