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Hoarding

Not the Reality TV show, but my own discovery that I’m a hoarder. I’ll post a few pictures, maybe, at the end of the post. This originally started as a letter to my sister, but then I realized I was … Continue reading

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Crenel

The annual spelling bee for students was just concluded and it’s worth looking at the video of the young boy who won. Dev Shah. In the Times article, they had a list of words which knocked out the competition. But … Continue reading

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Stupid Post… Office

It’s so ridiculous, but some number of years ago the post office, strapped with ridiculous rules by congress to fund the retirement of employees that they hadn’t even hired, decided on a Forever stamp. Speculators and people that enjoy loopholes … Continue reading

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Wow

The end of Barry was literally the end of Barry. And the end of everyone except the one truly despicable character, Monroe. There’s not as much to discuss as there was with Succession. But one interesting story telling device is … Continue reading

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Thanks God

Succession has finally ended. It didn’t end EXACTLY as I predicted from the first time I wrote about this show, but it was close enough that I give myself 3 stars out of 4. I always believed that a story … Continue reading

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Succession Music

I’m so glad the composer for the Succession opening music and theme music is getting some recognition. I noticed how stunning it was in episode 3, the famous episode where Logan died on a plane. I just rewatched that episode … Continue reading

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Paul Newman’s “Memoir”

I put that in quotes because it was really a series of conversations he had with Stewart Stern, the screenwriter of “Rebel Without A Cause.” When they were discovered, one of his daughters worked with someone to compile, edit, clarify … Continue reading

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Master Gardener, by Paul Schrader

I went to one of the shows that Joel Edgerton appeared afterward for a Q&A, but it was not a Q&A from the audience, but a series of questions from an obnoxious and loud host of some radio station. Actually, … Continue reading

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The Eight Mountains by several writers.

The IMDB page That Guardian quote is a pretty exact description of this pretty amazing movie. The story is essentially about two friends that live in the alps north of Turin. They meet, initially, because the father of one, Pietro, … Continue reading

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Succession Episode 5

(I would have called this episode “In mourning,”) There’s a second period of time after the initial shock of someone’s death, and then all the preparations that have to happen to bury someone honorably (please re-read The Iliad to see … Continue reading

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